witrak

Really? What country do you live in?

Next example of spreading costs of defense of interests of a small number of benefactors trying to enforce a business model they prefer over all parties involved in the support of infrastructure used by exactly these benefactors.

If this "VPN" is under the control of an entity collecting information about users wherever it can what's the sense of the service. "VPN" (in fact the term should be "virtual internet access network") make sense only when it is independent of any entity controlling internet traffic...

> [...] that's a terrible reason to abandon IMAP and force people to use Outlook. It's so terrible a reason it's hard to imagine that was their only one.

Strange... IMAP isn't the opposite of Outlook. And using IMAP-based email client keeping data locally is a better choice than to use webmail and to rely on email storage services of mail provider.

>I ended up uploading the file to Google Drive and using it's client. It works pretty flawlessly.

Besides my general distrust of Google, the real source of my headache is the ransomware attack. Thus such a simple schema is unsatisfactory. And the proper automatic backup procedure needs noninteractive testing whether the cloud copy is not garbled. Until now I don't know how to do it so I make backups of my Dropbox copy by hand.

>I see nobody's mentioned TOTP support yet.

Thank you very much for your remark! I always am in trouble when I have to dig through terrible KeePass "documentation" and never found a remark about it.

>KeePassXC is probably the closest to ideal.

Well, "the closest", but not ideal, unfortunately, what I realized when they decided to abandon support for windows7 forcing me to maintain the KeePass database in VMs by hand... :-(

>Finally, you get to syncing, and the friction is bigger than you expect. It is not enough to set up a LAN folder; your solution needs to be able to resolve conflicts if you ever use more than one device simultaneously, otherwise you run the risk of losing changes.

Would you explain what kind of a problem you see here (I mean: KeePass related)? AFAIK syncing two KeePass database instances is based on timestamps, so losing changes made on any two copies kept/used on different devices is simply impossible if you properly use KeePass (ie. do merge them with KeePass). Of course, if you want to have a real cloud-based password manager then KeePass (without any extension) isn't appropriate at all. But what's the purpose of comparing apples to oranges?

>I think it's highly unfortunate it became the "de-facto 'modern' standard".

Perhaps you're right. Perhaps. However, the most important consequence of bash creation and dissemination is that there is a de-facto standard.

So until we don't have another de-facto standard hundreds of thousands of typical shell users are happy with bash. With all its issues, weaknesses and disadvantages...

>I've been playing with this on Linux.

Short question: does it grab Tab keystroke or allow to use it in shell normally?

Lack of shell Tab expansion was the second reason I never accepted MC in Linux even though I was a fan of NC. The first was the lack of F1-F10 keys in the sub keypad on the left side of the classic IBM PC keyboard in all keyboards available to me except the one I bought in '92...

>Free VPN... Can we trust them? Paid VPN are paid.

Paid VPNs are paid. Can we trust them more?

AFAIR when SQL was introduced there were rumors that IBM decided to use SQL for its name because there was another language called Sequel. So they used an acronym (full name was Structured Query Language).

Article in the second statement refers to the efficiency of natural plants' way of food production: "This process, however, is very inefficient, with only about 1% of the energy found in sunlight ending up in the plant." So comparing it to the current efficiency of photovoltaic sources of energy (up to 50% https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/solar/photovoltaics-and-...) and allowing for a lot of losses of energy in the whole process it is still not unexpected to have a couple of times better effectiveness than of natural process. It's worth reading a bit more than the header...

Short question: how these bubbles can be kept in the proper place? Did the proponents consider the effect of light pressure? Such a bubble is a classic solar sail, right?

Yeah, it's very probable!

Sorry, I couldn't restrain myself :-)

Correction: IoT != IOT

Perhaps I'm wrong but for the Internet of Things, I always use the IoT acronym. And IOT != IOT...

As a response, I refer to the opinion written by

Yuval Noah Harari: Why Vladimir Putin has already lost this war

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/28/vladim...

Such arguments seem to be rather strange. How would you react to similar propaganda about temporary Americans based on the number of monuments of South generals and politicians from the Civil War period? They still weren't removed everywhere in the USA.

Does it give credibility to the allegation that there's still slavery in America?

The whole publishing business is effectively a service of providing content created by the author to final users. And because of the uneven power of authors and publishers, the latter is able to grab almost 100% of the price paid by people. Music labels are used to pay artists after long lawsuits. These are the best cases. Scientific publishers do more: they require payments from authors too and don't pay reviewers.

In all cases, the price paid by the user is split in proportion which clearly shows that saying that "pirating" means stealing money from authors is utterly false. I have nothing against paying for books the amount really passed to authors plus some additional fair amount based on the true cost of distribution (eg. printing and transport or electronic storing and transfer) plus a modest profit. However, it is not the case nowadays.

Similarly, I would accept payments for articles in a model where the price for a good article wouldn't cover the costs of many worthless ones. The current model - subscription - is attempting to hide real costs of production of articles of very different value under average price forcing readers to purchase wholesale products. Why should one pay for "fillers" the same money as for good content?

BS. Such language is not only practically impossible but utterly superfluous.

Only under the occupation of Russia the Russian language could be enforced as a common language (as it has been attempted - de facto if not de iure - till the end of the Soviet Union). And Warsaw Pact countries after being effectively colonies of the USSR (or at least their populations) won't accept anything like that.

You can have any opinion about this action but the matter of fact is that ANYTHING done to make living in Russia more difficult helps to fight their imperial attitude.

It doesn't matter how difficult the change of Russia's government can be for Russians. Nobody else can do it. And history teaches us that nothing except very strong and overwhelming rage can induce heavily indoctrinated, brainwashed people to topple - forcibly or peacefully - a government.

Thus we - the civilized world - have no choice. Sanctions influencing the living conditions of regular Russians are our sole weapon.

Strange: reading your comment I expected after the first line that you try to remind us of the annexation by Germany of part Czechoslovakia BEFORE WWII.

I can't interpret your statements as anything else than oversimplified (almost to a primitive level) criticism of the attempt of civilized countries to stop a barbaric attack being openly continuation of earlier attack not treated appropriately when it was the proper time for it.

Strange text. I would say it is anti-European.

Well, interpretation or background may be biased. But nobody tries to hide pure facts...

> Russia is not the USSR or China and it is certainly not North Korea - it is an authoritarian country, but nowhere near the level of dictatorial control where they can completely ignore their populace.

You are extremely, even naively optimistic. The gap between what you understand under the term democracy and what is "Russian democracy" is several times bigger than the difference between Russia's and N.Korea's "democracies".

It seems you don't fully understand what are sanctions against big countries, in this case, one of the superpowers, that committed full-scale invasion of another one, especially in Europe.

Such an attack isn't something comparable to any war from WW2. If the world can't punish attackers painfully enough, we will see more similar events...

Say openly "I don't care about Ukraine"!