kornhole

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by kornhole 3y ago
Yes this is the option striking the best balance of function and security which I have been using for over three years. I have tried other custom operating systems and debloated carrier provided devices, but Graphene tops all the options IM
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by kornhole 3y ago
If you are saying that no assurances were made by Western leaders, I am not sure you read the source. I am unaware of assurances Russia made to Ukraine. I am familiar with the Minsk accords which were broken. If Russia or China built up Mex
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by kornhole 3y ago
We may be splitting hairs about signed agreements and assurances. Yes there are no signed agreements. One interview with the dead Gorbachev is a source, but assurances were given by Western leaders to other people in Russia as well which ar
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by kornhole 3y ago
It is all described here in greater detail. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017... The article you cite from the military think tank says clearly that Gorbachev was given assurances. Milit
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by kornhole 3y ago
Do you know anything about Jeffrey Sachs who wrote this article? He is a famous economist and US diplomat who was there when the Soviet Union was breaking up. He saw the agreements and helped their transition.
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by kornhole 3y ago
The point is very few people in Russia watch Fox News. It is targeted to an American audience. Fox News trying to convince people in Russia of anything is pointless.
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by kornhole 3y ago
The statement that the war was unprovoked is proving to be less durable by the day. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-war-in-ukraine-was-...
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by kornhole 3y ago
One thing to consider about your anecdotal encounters with people of those countries is that they were probably in your country. They were probably emigres. If you spoke to people within those countries who are happy with their country, the
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by kornhole 3y ago
Do not confuse Russia with the Soviet Union. When NATO formed, it's border was the partition of Germany and below. Now it includes many countries that were formally part of the Soviet Union. The US made assurances that NATO would not e
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by kornhole 3y ago
Your understanding supports this claim. If you go outside the mainstream media and this outlet, you might hear that the US is the only real empire with ~800 military bases around the world and their NATO that has expanded right up to Russia
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by kornhole 3y ago
This is a major problem for most people with a degoogled phone. Luckily I am using Graphene which provides a sandboxed Google Play services. This means that the only access you need to give it is network access rather than the promiscuous n
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by kornhole 3y ago
People of the US must support their leader to make war. Similarly people of Russia must support their leader for war. An American journal like the Intercept has near zero influence on people in Russia just as Komsomolskaya Pravda has near z
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by kornhole 3y ago
Imperial wars and the people who waged them in the past are horrible, but the current wars are just and worthy of our support. This type of reporting perpetuates war by putting us in a loop of kill, repent and repeat. This is generally the
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by kornhole 3y ago
These incremental steps are imperceptible by design. We already live in a dystopia, but most do not perceive what is happening on many fronts.
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by kornhole 3y ago
I think you missed the irony in the statement. The OP does not speak for EFF either.
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by kornhole 3y ago
If only our jobs were not so specialized and all consuming we could have better balance of the physical, social, and technical skills we desire. I like to tell this story which immediately gets a rise out of people. One of the things the [n
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by kornhole 3y ago
If what you heard is true, close to half of people read no books.
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by kornhole 3y ago
Refuting adopted positions on complex issues usually requires more than the five minutes allotted either in video programming format or in the conditioned mind you describe. Concision reinforces the conventional narrative as explained in th
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by kornhole 3y ago
As I understand it, the 5 eyes are not allowed to spy on their citizens nor on the citizens of the partner nations. How are we here then discussing these problems?
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by kornhole 3y ago
Accountability is something we are lacking in this country at this point in time. What good are laws and ethical codes of conduct if they are not enforced and bad actors are even promoted? It starts with the executive branch committing to e
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by kornhole 3y ago
Are you of this? I have seen examples to the contrary even though most of this activity is very secretive since they are not allowed to disclose activity to third parties per the five eyes agreements. The agreements are about sharing of inf
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by kornhole 3y ago
Sadly they have been squeezed out of many locations, and I can not always find one. I know where I can usually get them and try it as my first option. It depends on where you are.
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by kornhole 3y ago
If I can't bike or bus it, taxis paid with cash is still my first preference.
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by kornhole 3y ago
He is a colonel of the US military with much combat experience and a PHD in foreign relations. You are telling me not to listen to anyone questioning or disagreeing with neocon NATO propaganda. OK will do..
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by kornhole 3y ago
If you ask US Colonel Douglas MacGregor, who has been following this war vary closely, he puts Ukrainian deaths at over 315K with about 5 to 7 dead Ukrainians per every Russian. Russia can not lose this war and will throw everything at this
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by kornhole 3y ago
I did have a Jitsi instance, but when Nextcloud Talk fully developed, I shut down the Jitsi instance. The Nextcloud suite has so many features that makes it a winner for me. Nextcloud conversations can only be started by someone with an acc
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by kornhole 3y ago
I was speaking about handsets. You can install AOSP on an SBC connected to your TV which is what I would do rather than use whatever is built into a TV.
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by kornhole 3y ago
A bloated setup provided by the store or carrier might be an apt analogy, but a phone running AOSP or a fork of it such as Graphene is better compared to Linux.
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by kornhole 3y ago
There are loads of tools available to fix Android phones. The problem is that most people just use whatever is setup preinstalled. It would be a fun experiment for someone to document and post here: Buy the cheapest most bloated phone you c
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by kornhole 3y ago
Dataminr and others have been selling this service to corporate and government customers for years. Activists should all be well aware of this and use protocols not easy for Dataminr to buy, scrape, or identify persons of interest.

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