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by mopsi 10mo ago
The other day I saw Judge Napolitano calling for Hegseth to be prosecuted as a war criminal for ordering a second strike on the survivors of a boat strike. This happened on Newsmax, which is ultra partisan and very pro-Trump. And even they
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by mopsi 10mo ago
Putin's approval rating is genuinely that high, around 80%. Nobody cares about opposing candidates, because Russia has had one or two free elections in its entire history. Far more important is that Putin has flooded the lower classes
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by mopsi 10mo ago
> This is standard European censorship of Russian media and news. There is not a single media outlet left in Russia anymore. The media crackdown is complete. They are all government propaganda now, repeating the same narratives d
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by mopsi 10mo ago
The idea of an invasion of Russia from Europe is utter nonsense and completely detached from reality. Tell it to Russian military experts and you will get sighs and eyerolls in response. Not even Russian military exercises like Zapad simula
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by mopsi 11mo ago
There's a huge problem with this narrative. The Russian government's public tender database shows that they ordered the production of campaign medals for the invasion of Crimea months before any of this happened. Oops.
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by mopsi 11mo ago
That is indeed the case. It becomes very obvious with lesser-known vendor-specific scripting languages that don't have much training data available. LLMs try to map them onto the training data they do have and start hallucinating funct
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by mopsi 11mo ago
> Imagine Russia decided to form a military alliance with Mexico with the expected intention of deploying weapons on the Mexican border. It would be a very foolish idea, because it's no longer the Napoleonic era. Concentrat
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by mopsi 11mo ago
> When was this law enacted? Many decades ago. Finland now serves as a blueprint for civil defense. Estonia and Latvia have begun to introduce similar provisions, and Norway announced restoration of theirs that were abolished in
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by mopsi 11mo ago
> The military and intelligence chiefs of all these countries will of course act this way, the other side of the answer for this question is "No worries, Russia's not a threat, we'll keep everything as is". Imagi
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by mopsi 11mo ago
> There is absolutely 0% chance or even any rational thought or discussion that has happened by the leadership in Russia on this topic. All military and intelligence chiefs of the European nations that share a border with Russia
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by mopsi 11mo ago
> ... from a small prize from a Russian internet forum. The Valdai forum[1] is not "a small internet forum" but the most prominent event run by the Russian government to bring Western politicians, scholars and other not
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by mopsi 11mo ago
> My argument is that Russia was compelled to attack both Georgia and Ukraine because of NATO expansion, or rather preventing NATO expansion, not because of "Putin is crazy, wants to be a Tsar". This fails to explain wh
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by mopsi 11mo ago
Downtimes happen one way or another. The upside of using Cloudflare is that bringing things back online is their problem and not mine like when I self-host. :] Their infrastructure went down for a pretty good reason (let the one who has nev
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by mopsi 11mo ago
> First off, what I stated is a view held by reputable scholars such as Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Sachs, and John Mearsheimer, not just a view you (also) can find in Russian propaganda. They are Russian propaganda, Mearsheimer most
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by mopsi 11mo ago
> What would Russia hope to gain? Reversal of what Russia sees as a great injustice. The 2021 ultimatum[1] issued on the eve of the war can be summed up as a return to the Europe of 1989 with everything that it entails. [1] https:/
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by mopsi 11mo ago
The Kherson human safari leaves no other option to anyone. When Russian drone pilots have nothing better to show to their fans on the social media to raise funds, they are attacking men fixing a roof of a small home, elderly women returning
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by mopsi 11mo ago
The idea that Active Directory is merely a user directory is one of the great misconceptions. Windows Server with AD offers incredible amount of things out of the box, from Windows Deployment Services to capture, manage and deploy PC images
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by mopsi 11mo ago
Windows itself is only a small part of the business ecosystem. The real behemoth is Active Directory and everything that integrates with it. Creating something that powerful, complex and user-configurable is not in Apple's DNA.
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by mopsi 11mo ago
> "Hey this test is failing", LLM deletes test, "FIXED!" A nice continuation of the tradition of folk stories about supernatural entities like teapots or lamps that grant wishes and take them literally. "
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by mopsi 11mo ago
I don't want to see Romanian men (which would include me) leaving their (our, in fact) bones on the Ukrainian steppe up to the Volga, once was enough. How have the men from the parts of Ukraine that surrendered with minimal res
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by mopsi 1y ago
> We want to make Affinity, and professional design, the default tool. And a huge part of that is free, forever. Then please release it without any DRM or mandatory accounts, so that the binary will remain usable even when all the networ
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by mopsi 1y ago
How many divisions does Zuck have?
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by mopsi 1y ago
> They attacked Finland for the same reason the British invaded Iceland Demonstrably false. The British aim was never to annex Iceland into the UK. The British did not establish a puppet government like the Soviets tried with the Finnish
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by mopsi 1y ago
The Soviets started with genocide before the Nazis even arrived: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_deportation And continued after the war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Priboi Not to m
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by mopsi 1y ago
One-sided avoidance of war can be counterproductive and make everything worse. Hundreds of thousands of people have died in Ukraine since 2022 because the response to the initial invasion in 2014 focused too much on avoiding confrontation,
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by mopsi 1y ago
There's a problem with this narrative. Everyone links the "What Gorbachev Heard" article from the NSU, but there was no reason to speculate, because Gorbachev and his team were still alive when the article was written in 2017
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by mopsi 1y ago
You might want to take your own advice, because Cuba is the opposite of the example you're trying to make. The Cuban missile crisis was about nuclear weapons only. Cuba continued to host Soviet fighters, bombers, missile cruisers and m
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by mopsi 1y ago
Let's assume for a moment that this is true. In 2014, when Russia first invaded Ukraine, European militaries were in the process of unilateral disarmament. Military units were being disbanded, bases were being shut down, equipment like
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by mopsi 1y ago
Couldn't be further from the truth. Just look at how NATO countries have tiptoed around supporting Ukraine. Every major step (artillery shells, tanks, rocket artillery, air defense systems, and fighter jets) took ages of largely pointl
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by mopsi 1y ago
> Consider what Russia could possibly have to gain by randomly flying drones near civilian airports... nothing? What could Russian military intelligence possibly have to gain from an arson attack on a COOP grocery store in rural

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