gerikson

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   by gerikson 5y ago

   > Minor nitpick, the correct translation isn't "resistance has ceased" but "resistance shall cease". Du har rätt :) I quoted and translated from memory, then googled for the correct quote. The current statement i
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   In Swedish telephone directories there used to be a section entitled "Om kriget kommer" (If there's war). Prominent among it was the phrase: > Varje meddelande att motsåndet ska uppges är falskt. (Every message stating tha
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   I use Antenna: => gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/ Note: anyone can submit an RSS/Atom feed to Antenna, but submissions from Techrights.org and Kiwi Farms are blocked by default.
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   Yes. It is a bit ”buzzy” but the external controls make up for it.
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   We have a Bertazzoni range with knobs (we live in Sweden). They are pricey though.
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   Blog author’s latest post makes copious use of formatting and colors: https://www.netmeister.org/blog/debugging-certificate-errors... Not saying that is wrong. Just maybe their views have evolved since 2015.
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   I can't judge if this Twitter thread is authoritive or not but it does raise some interesting points https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501360272442896388?s...
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   Except Ukraine has 10x the population of Tibet and a land border with EU countries...
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   by gerikson 5y ago

   "Alliansfrihet i fred syftande till neutralitet i krig"[1] has been a cornerstone of Sweden's foreign policy for generations. As a Swede, I'm all for reasoned, measured debate about the pros and cons of joining NATO. It&
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    I've found to be a good view, all front page stories in the last 24h https://orangesite.sneak.cloud/
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    The Soviet Union managed to hang on in Afghanistan for 10 years...
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    It is a serious question. Sanctions on the scale we are seeing now are basically unprecedented. An entire G20 nation is cut off from the global economy.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Is the investor from Russia?
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    That's another Antonov design , the An-225.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    What? The sanctions can be lifted when Russia withdraws from Ukraine, pays reparations, and is bound by international agreements not to do something like this again.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    IKEA has a bank in Sweden - Ikano Bank. It handles my branded car credit card, among a lot of other things.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Germany invaded Poland on 29 Aug 1939, and France and Great Britain declared war on Germany on 3 Sep 1939. If a major power declares war on Russia on Monday, we're in World War III.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Sweden was a participant in ISAF too.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    I never read the sequels to Gateway and now I'm glad I didn't. Gateway is such a great novel, but it's unsurprising Pohl wanted to investigate more of the universe.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    This site looks unbelievably scammy.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    <<Erst kommt das Gas, dann kommt die Moral>>
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    No, it was a lab in Stockolm filled with Sparcstations…
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Thanks a lot for expanding. I had no idea IBM was present at the creation, like some spirit of evil ;) Netscape Navigator handling images was also a Big Deal(tm). Of course, there could have been a graphical (X) gopher client that showed im
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    XHTML was quietly led behind the shed and shot a decade ago. I bumped into a site with that cute little XHTML approved logo, and checked if it verified. Of course it didn't.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    I still use it on my blog (as a filter).
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Check out Gemini, its format is even more limited than Markdown, and it's TLS-native unlike Gopher. Gopher might have won if students had ~/public_gopher directories, but it was not to be...
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    >Dropbox has adopted a policy of terminating the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyright or whose accounts are subject to multiple infringement allegations. If you repeatedly share files that infringe others’ copyrights, your
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    > But 200 years ago the idea of having a conversation with someone 1000 miles away seemed quite impossible In 1822 the Chappe optical telegraph had been in use since the Revolution, and the electric telegraph was ~20 years away. You&#x27
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Thanks for the tip, I just installed (via MELPA), added it as a secondary select method, and restarted Gnus. I can see the "groups" show up, but when I try to enter them I get > Symbol’s value as variable is void: t1 Open an is
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    The URL contains the term "leaders" which is UK English for an editorial piece.