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by Ourgon 5y ago
OK, add some rocket launchers or drone-bombs to the equipment to take care of those. Manned tanks will go the way of the dodo, they are too vulnerable. The same will probably happen to carrier groups once hypersonic projectiles are common a
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by Ourgon 5y ago
An updated version of that section in the form of a booklet was distributed to every household a few years ago, the advice is mostly the same. Stay Alert! Trust no one! Keep your laser handy! (OK, that last one came from somewhere else).
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I host a number of Peertube instances next to Invidious. There is a reason for having both of these: Peertube can not access Youtube-hosted material . Thus, to publish your own material use Peertube, to access Youtube-hosted material use s
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by Ourgon 5y ago
The solution to the Youtube-problem is to use a Youtube-frontend like Invidious [1] in combination with an extension like Privacy Redirect [2] of libredirect [3] so you don't need to touch the Youtube site at all. The same works for th
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Hm, yes, Wayland. It has not convinced me so I'm using X11 everywhere, that network transparency (through NX/X2go) is just too useful to let go. It is how my mother uses a Mate desktop running on the server-under-the-stairs here i
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by Ourgon 5y ago
You're not too old for the internet, just for that patch of it. I'm somewhere around 56 - never can remember my actual age and I don't feel like calculating it - so I've seen the 'net grow from that alternative to F
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by Ourgon 5y ago
1996 was the year for Linux on the desktop. FVWM, then Windomaker, then Sawmill/Sawfish, now Xmonad. Never looked back. From working at a publisher to doing development work at several companies to freelancing as hacker for hire to giv
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> Problem is most of the good induction units in the US are built in cooktops. Good ranges (combined cooktop+oven) are $$$$. Build one yourself, that's what I did when I bought my house in the Netherlands somewhere in the 90's.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I never rued the day when I switched off the last "appliance" router after switching to a virtual router - OpenWRT running in a container on a Proxmox-managed host. I use a number of repurposed "appliance" routers (also
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> Much more damming, for Russia anyway, is that they apparently don’t have a single factory producing ballbarings They'll just get them from Ukraine which has plenty of such factories.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> Aviation... Well who can still afford it... Oddly enough (but not really that odd) it seems to be affordable to a lot of people who jet around the globe to tell each-other and the media that people need to fly less, for the climate .
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by Ourgon 5y ago
China has access to the world's oceans and as such is not in dire need of fishing grounds.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
China needs oil, minerals, wood and food. Russia has all of these so a good relationship to Russia is a guarantee for access to those things. A weakened Russia might even need "assistance" to keep Siberia - where all those mention
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Is it possible for any large organisation in China to be truly independent from the CCP? I have my severe doubts.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Because the general public is supposed to be the people who get to vote for your president? The US is, after all, supposed to be a representative republic - that "representative" stands for "representing the general public&qu
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by Ourgon 5y ago
You might want to have a look at Spodcast which does just that, create an RSS feed off Spotify "(s)podcasts": Spodcast is a caching Spotify podcast to RSS proxy. Using Spodcast you can follow Spotify-hosted netcasts/podcas
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Radio Moscow was available in a lot of languages (64 come the 1970's) back in the days of the Soviet Union. I came across it regularly when "surfing the waves" on my old tube radio back in high school (1980's), the signa
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> I think you are considering RT journalism, it's not. It is not free to report fact. They are probably as free as Pravda and Izvestia were, i.e. not at all. Life as a journalist worthy of that claim in the new Russian Empire seems
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by Ourgon 5y ago
There's just that thing that had your previous president still been in charge we would most likely not be facing these problems right now. Most of your compatriots seem to agree with this statement [1], what do you think? Were the mean
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by Ourgon 5y ago
The really obnoxious thing is that Sweden does not use gas nor much oil for electricity production. Hydropower and nuclear form the base load, wind and solar add when available, the peak load is mostly covered through oil but this was only
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Here in Sweden Diesel has always been more expensive than petrol. Diesel is now over 25kr (€2.30), petrol around 22kr (€2.00). Electricity was €1/kWh this morning 07.00 - prices are set hourly.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Because you're reading and writing this on a western site? Of course we have our narrative, and of course it contains embellishments and skips over the cracks, it is meant to show us in the best light. Take away all embellishments and
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Just skip the front page altogether and use the RSS feed [1] instead, that way you're not influenced so much by either the group think or the moderator's choice. You'll get all stories which made it to HN, some of them withou
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Putin is among the richest people in the world with an estimated worth of ~200 billion USD. His salary is half than that of the Swedish PM so if this law takes power they'll have to arrest him.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
The answer to this is the same as to all similar questions: why are you not blocking third-party content by default ? To which the reaction tends to be that this is too difficult/too much hassle/should not be necessary. No, it sh
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Sweden has some good examples of how these laws are counterproductive. When the "party for the environment" was in the government (they stepped out of it a number of months ago) they pushed through a high tax on plastic bags ($1 o
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> Or how many micro chips would be made without German machinery? More than would be made without Dutch machinery, seeing how as ASML is a Dutch company, spun off from Philips, another Dutch company.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
We're still living in the tail-end of the second world war, which was a continuation of the first world war. Let's hope this does not end up being known as "the second interbellum" [1] and that Europe learns to stand on
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by Ourgon 5y ago
And? The BMP-1 is from 1965. Given that the BFV (Bradley) is from 1981 and the F-15 Eagle from 1972 the latter should be cheaper than the former, yes?
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Please be more critical in accepting excuses for misdirected attempts at supporting a cause. I read that "excuse" as well and was not convinced - it is not hard to find someone to volunteer to read stories to children.

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