USSR Enjoyer

It was virtually nothing but ignorant and hysterical ukraine hawks when I left. I’m sure it’s so much worse now that I really don’t even want to look.

Just in the last few years, looking at the deliberate efforts of cutting off all diplomatic relations with Russia. Banning and smearing all foreign opposition media. Assassination of diplomats. Rampant militarized racism. Trade wars. Mass sanctioning and coups of any nation who opposes US war interests. Endlessly blocking UN efforts. Endlessly blocking hostage negotiations. Constant escalations… It really establishes that the US and it’s allies have completely lost interest in any form of diplomacy and seem to be preemptively closing those exits just to keep any form of diplomatic resolution off the table, thus ensuring a hot world war to keep the military economy running.

Interesting choice to omit Isntreal as the original source for these claims. Is CNBC admitting that creates a credibility problem?

Oh no! The illusion of amerikkkan democracy will end! Anyway…

Can we please stop saying “left wing liberal” or implying in any way whatsoever that such a thing does or could exist? Liberalism is a hard-right ideology down to the core and slapping vacuous identity politics stickers on it to get more votes does not move the needle a nanometer. At bare minimum, the left begins at anti-capitalism, otherwise it’s just right-wing infighting.

Cool, now do Iraq.

Because it expands google’s monopoly and mass surveillance network.

On the other hand, if Zelenskyy negotiates peace directly, the next NATO-proxy government will just throw it out because his presidency is illegitimate. Which could be used to buy the time the Kiev regime has been looking for. Seems to be why Russia recently said they are open to peace talks, but consider trusting Ukraine to be impossible.

Azovites have been conducting plenty of non-military terrorist operations for the last decade. Picking an airport for joint exercises doesn’t necessarily mean the airport is known to be a target, either.

I feel ya. I’ve had pretty limited success getting companies to get rid of bad software.

“Can’t you… just… umm… patch it or something???”

So glad windows isn’t my problem. But I’m sorry for your stress and loss of sleep, mate.

I love how these dudes always say “white genocide” instead of “american genocide”. Seems to imply they know

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=fYmrtvsyDS0

That’s what I keep hearing. He does slur the “but” a somewhat. He also might be saying “so”?

“What concerns do you have about Vice President Harris’ ability to beat Donald Trump if she were at the top of the ticket?”

“Look, I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President, but I think she’s not qualified to be president, so let’s start there. Number one.”

Tweet: https://x.com/joebiden/status/1815080881981190320

LMAO

Didn’t he just tell everyone that Coconut Lady was unqualified to be president?

You can also layer encryption on top of xmpp like omemo and openpgp

Signal has always looked like a honeypot operation to me. Keep in mind, too that if you run a CIAware operating system, the key can be remotely pulled off of the filesystem or extracted from memory. It’s not possible to have any secure piece of software on an unsecurable OS.

yeah, there’s a lot of shit that should never have been allowed in the kernel and rust is definitely up there. May as well add npm dependencies to the kernel next.

I’ve never had much of an opinion on micro vs monolithic. I think either can be fine, but I will say that 99% of the reason I compile my own kernels is to take stuff out lol

Both openrc and runit are great; simple, stable, secure and fast. I had some huge problems with systemd even before it was considered usable. Since then, watching it becoming a bloated CVE monster by needlessly sucking up dozens of userspace components has really made me lose a lot of faith in the direction of GNU/Linux. Linux was supposed to be a free and open version of unix for desktop users, but it’s being reshaped into a cheap tool for capital and prone to all the pitfalls of corporate / techbro thinking.

I’ve worked on Linux for decades, but I might ditch Linux altogether if FreeBSD had better hardware support. There’s only so much I can write and maintain, myself. I love OpenBSD for servers and network appliances since it’s very hardened, straightforward and very well documented.

I’m the same with booting into a tty. Starting up with easy to read shell scripts (like just being able to edit .xinitrc) is exactly how I want everything to work :)

I’d hope “linux” users might have a little better awareness of the attack surface of systemd after xz, but I’m usually disappointed. Tech bros and big tech are absolutely ruining Linux to the point that you have to go pretty far out of the circle now to get a good distro that understands unix philosophy and KISS principals. Void and Gentoo are pretty much my go-to’s, even then I blacklist a good number of packages.

Again, you really don’t know what the fuck you are talking about.