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So I can just make a threat of life to my national leader and make an early election and that is not a coup?

What russia calls a "provocation" is no excuse for russia's invasion and subsequent 3rd genocide of Ukrainians (the 1st being the russian-perpetrated Holodomor starting in 1932, the 2nd being the russian deportation of Crimean Tatars starting in 1944).

Yeah the liberal use of genocide isn't going to help. Killing thousand civilians per day in east Ukraine by their own people is closer to that. And killing thousands of civilians was also a reason for the NATO to intervene in Serbia.

Had russia stayed within their borders and minded their own business, the current russian war of genocide against Ukraine would not exist.

The same could be said about the US in Ukraine, but also Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq - just in the recent time, otherwise I have to list most of the world. The difference with this and Russia is, that there was never a threat for the US, but it is an open threat to Russia if Ukraine is part of NATO.

Had russia historically not been evil to its neighbors (example: the Katyn Massacre in 1940), its neighbors wouldn't seek protection from russia.

1940? What time is it?

Calling this a coup indicates lack of knowledge or intentional maliciousness.

Elected president gets forcibly removed -> coup. It's the definition of the word.

edit: I am not even sure how this can be malicious in any context.

The "coup" narrative is a myth. It's just talking point you read somewhere, thought it sounded nifty, and never thought to fact-check or question the logic behind.

You never thought for yourself it seems and just throw fact-check around. Janukowytsch was elected president of the country and was forcibly removed from that function. If you like him or not, it's by definition a coup.

In any case political events in independent countries are none of Russia's business.

This is also true for the US and the EU. Why do we fund movements to overthrow foreign governments? It's not even a secret that the US does this all the time. It even got their own name: color revolutions.

It is not well received because it is a hollow Russian talking point that has no substance behind it. Might as well bring up the international Jewish conspiracy and lizard people while you're at it.

Not sure why you are talking about lizards and jews. At least you're not telling anything of substance I could even take as an argument.

You may tell me how it was Russia's fault the US/EU instigated the coup d'état in Ukraine for a change.

I think the GPS jamming is fairly clearly a Russian operation. Not sure if this is a good source, but just eyeballing where the disruptions are, they centre around Kaliningrad region:

But you can admit that the IKEA fire example is laughable, right? But even the GPS jamming is questionable when it comes to the motivation. Do they have military reasons for it or is it to "disrupt people’s everyday lives"?

Another one is hybrid warfare via artificial migration on Russia's Western borders. Poland, the Baltic states, and to a lesser extent also Finland, experience waves of aggressive migrants forcing these borders, often with clear help, or coercion, from Russian or Belarusian security forces. To be clear, I feel heavily for people escaping poverty and war, my point is they are being weaponised here.

This is actually a bit more nuanced than that. We are the ones that want (illegal) migration, it was only a problem when Belarus opened the borders and to be fair they have no obligation to keep them and they were upfront about it. It was a classic case of hypocrisy.

That Russia did the same thing is new to me, but if Baltic states/Finland have proper border control there is no problem.

It's a problem with our border control and creating unnecessary pull factors.

Whether other specific attacks are Russian or not is hard to know, but it seems beyond doubt that Russia is engaging in low level hostility against the West.

I see the exact opposite and mostly retaliation to be honest, but even if you do not agree you can probably agree that the west is also hostile towards Russia. It's obvious that this opinion is not well received, but the west/US started all of it, starting at least with 2008 NATO summit and making it obvious in 2014 Ukraine coup d'état. I don't know what Russia did to the US to warrant this kind of provocation.

IRC does not encrypt messages, only (optionally) the client<->server connection. Without E2EE, you have no privacy against the server/operator, which is an easily targeted SPOF.

Same as Discord.

Matrix (the protocol) is still in flux, and the implementations are lagging behind the spec. If you're not using Element, you're behind on features and security.

Discord also only has one reference client, but for me even with that client Matrix/Element was not as reliable. I still use and like it, but it's not a like for like in that regard.

XMPP is (similarly to IRC) relying on optional protocol add-ons for basic things, like E2EE, which clients may or may not support fully or correctly.

But if you use current clients like Conversations or Dino or the likes it does work. There is no point in counting the clients that don't support it if these aren't the reference or biggest ones. The problem here is more that it's not meant to be used like Discord in any way. Not for big group chats/channels nor for big voice chats (not even sure this possible).

This is motte and bailey. Currently you go into your motte and talk about human rights and racism (apparently queer is a race), and people get removed from projects (or jobs) because they didn't get the pronoun of the unicorn right. Oh, and the hundreds of workshops that explain you how to check your privilege. It has usually not much to do with human rights in the western world.

The case with the convention is slightly different, but again one has to ask why they actually defunded it. Because the country they live in is bad? They were not asked to fund Tanzania.

PS.:

might not care about racism against people of color because you're white

You may of course assume whatever you want, but why do you get so specific instead of just mentioning racism. That does indeed sound racist to me.

Fedora Silverblue 40 (updated)

I keep SELinux enabled at all times, but it does break quite often. For the sake of sticking to Fedora, wg-quick (wireguard) does not work out of the box.

On OpenSUSE/MicroOS who is employing SELinux boot takes about 5 minutes on every kernel change, because of home-relabel. I hear you, that they probably do it wrong, but that's what you get with SELinux. Not enough to push me to disable SELinux, but maybe to avoid SELinux distributions in the future.

I don’t think there’s any evidence to this whatsoever. Humans are susceptible to advertising full stop, being a software engineer does not give you magical brain powers and frankly it’s just textbook Dunning-Kruger.

I am not OP, but my interpretation was, that he knows how to remove injected ads. Not that he is invulnerable to ads. I might be wrong tho.

For myself I can definitely say that I am susceptible to advertisement, but I fulfill mostly the engineer cliché - for better or for worse.

Some examples are:

- technical details from manufacturers themselves (which are by definition advertisement)

- someone presenting a use case and solving it with a specific tool. If that use case sounds interesting to me I might actually try that tool. I cannot know if it is "real" advertisement or a genuine user in this case.

- looking for reputation on Reddit; again I cannot know if it is genuine users or advertisement - at least most of the time I can't

edit: formatting

As I said. It is technically possible, but it is relatively elaborated (for the provider of these patches). As far as I know you don't get them without having an online account at the provider of these patches.

But the questions was: Does SerpentOS have the ability to change the kernel without reboot?

Edit:

This will mean that the /lib/modules tree may not have the current kernel version, but the OS will still be usable while having had a live atomic update. Of course, to use the new kernel you must reboot. Unlike other atomic OS implementations, it will be up to you when you do so: no more deferred updates!

https://serpentos.com/blog/2024/04/30/calm-before-the-storm/...

Rebootless atomic updates - no more interruptions

Does it mean the same as in all other distros when you install packages and they restart the services? Or does it actually replace the kernel as well? Maybe a stupid question, but the latter would be revolutionary, even if it is technically already possible, but very elaborated.

If the latter is not true, you should still reboot after a kernel update and there is not much difference to most other distributions.

IANAL and not easy to generalize, but it seems they do not like to cooperate. They have an IP and tell you they act on that info, but that info is not necessarily enough i.e. you're not the only user of that network. You can probably flip a coin what the court's opinion is on that, but I would not sign their documents anyway. And they do not necessarily go to court.

Hallo, fellow German here.

The federal authorities knowingly approved the fraudulent UER projects. What's spicy is that the secretary is a green party member.

I am not under the impression that anyone has illusions about the Green party here. It is evident they are greenwashing and destroying environment (for the climate of course) among other things they supposedly "don't stand for". The reasons they get votes still is likely due to choosing the lesser evil, even if that is also untrue, or conscience. I have seen the sentiment here too, so I have no illusions that this is going to change either no matter what the Green party does.

Über Satellitenbilder wäre einfach zu erkennen gewesen, dass einige der eingereichten chinesischen Vorhaben schon vor dem eigentlichen Baustart existiert haben.

IANAL, but getting money for projects that existed prior sounds legally actionable as fraud even. Tho the plaintiff would be the government in the end, so it might not happen anyway.

It is reasonable to assume that they are in on it. At the very least they got out of their way not to change it, even when they were being notified about potential fraud.

My guess would be Ubuntu or Fedora and Unity/Gnome 3 respectively. Not that I share the hate, but Gnome 3 is certainly closely designed around some distinct Mac OSX design elements (app overview, handling of workspaces, and such).

I wonder if the "new" Firefox is about as good on old PCs as Chrome as it improved quite a lot with Quantum/Photon. For me the switch to Chrome was also caused by the abysmal performance of Firefox at the time, but I immediately switched back when the performance was at least tolerable. Granted Chrome is still the faster browser from what I've seen in benchmarks and reviews.

I must assume that the quotes presented are the best they have on them and the word fascist comes from the author(s). It's just very involved and the author(s) look therefore very bad to be honest.

It's always good to see such statements with a poisoned well from the start. I have no investment in any of this, but this looks really like the authors of this are the root issue here.

And I also agree with - what they call - the opponent, that politics should not be forced upon an open-source project. Proclaiming these are fascists, identitarians or otherwise using the Nazi stamp doesn't really help the author's position either.

I'd say this document doesn't belong on HN.

What is it exactly for?

I wanna add Xiaomi, however with the caveat that I like neither bootloader unlock procedure. Xiaomi wants to install their software on the host (I recommend a VM), you need a SIM installed, and you have to wait 7 or 14 days for the unlock to work (on MIUI at least, Android One does not have that). On Motorola you have to connect to the internet for 3 days at least and you may not interrupt it otherwise it resets (I heard 7 days max, but not sure if it resets indefinitely). You need an account on both of them btw.

The best experience is probably with Google and maybe OnePlus, but I did not have any myself recently.

I also made the observation that more expensive laptops tend to have fewer replaceable parts vs the cheaper models. There is clearly also a manufacturer difference. Out of all the OEMs it's HP that often offers laptop with replaceable memory (especially on the low end).

Playing devil's advocate it might be that the more compact you try to make a laptop the less servicable it gets. I don't buy it tho.

its a very interesting design. What I do find interesting is that there is no extra slot for more ram. so if /when i decide i want more than the 16GB I need to remove the existing. which is only slightly better than soldered ram in my opinion.

Changing only the memory vs changing the whole laptop with battery, motherboard (incl. CPU/GPU), display, chassis seems at least an order of magnitude better. It was maybe meant hyperbolic, but I want to make clear that having the option to replace memory is really a lot better than soldered memory.

It's mind blowing to me how there is so much focus on whatever -ism, but no one talks about "looksism". Regardless of your gender or race, if you look good, people will default treat you well. If you look bad, every encounter is an uphill battle.

This is the equivalent of the universal standard in xkcd¹. Situation: We have 13 -isms, but nobody talks about the real ism, so we need to promote it. Situation: We have 14 -isms.

All these isms were reduced to buzzwords and have no meaning anymore.

¹: https://xkcd.com/927/

Yeah the articles premise is already speculation, but phrased as a fact.

Most people seem to view electricity pylons as a blight - ugly landmarks towering over the landscape.

I don't view them as ugly either. There is some beauty in truly functional design imo.

Huh, that was it. Changing to NextDNS already works. That's a weird one. Thank you for your suggestion!

Has anyone else the problem that they get endless captchas and no way to use archive.ph? Or maybe knows a solution.

Edit: This is on Firefox and with uBlock Origin only. It works with the same setup in my VM however.

Edit2: Changing DNS (to NextDNS in my case) worked.

The end goal of this can only be to outlaw all secrets (for all citizens) if you think it through. First they say messenger may not E2EE, next they outlaw circumvention (i.e. using GPG encryption inside the messenger, side channels) and after that comes steganography. Don't be fooled, encryption is almost impossible to hide if you want to do it casually.

What is going to remain?

“If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.” ― Philip Zimmermann

It's simply about totalitarian control at this point.

I find that those who are chronic workers have very little going for them in their personal lives.

Isn't that a truism? If you only work, there is not much time for anything else, I think.