nivenkos

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by nivenkos 4y ago
The Georgian war was instigated by Georgia though, that authoritarian president wanted to reclaim South Ossetia - read the unresolved conflicts part of the article you linked yourself! Sure, Russia took advantage of the situation, but ther
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah, Russia is aggressive and opportunistic. Peacekeepers should be sent to carry that out (e.g. from the UN directly). But dragging out open war like this is just terrible for everyone.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I more meant that they didn't want to help, because they want an enemy, not an ally. Someone to point to and keep the military and intelligence agency funding flooding in.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
The Euro has also crashed 20% in a year though. That's a massive loss in purchasing power considering most things are sold in USD (including oil). We didn't intervene in Armenia or Georgia, there's not much difference here.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
This is a real problem - like how does this end? Even if Ukraine "wins"? Then what? What happens to the Russians in the Crimea? Do they just let Right Sector and the Azov Battalion carry out their persecution, and move Ukrainians
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by nivenkos 4y ago
And Crimea was in the RSFSR, both when it was Tatar (although autonomous then) and during Russification.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Well of course, they are at war. Especially as weapons and money flood in from both sides, escalating the conflict further (long-range missiles from the USA that can hit Sevastopol, the economic conscription of the Chechens and Daghestanis
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I'm not pro-Russian. But here in Europe we've had 25% of our savings and purchasing power destroyed almost overnight, for a conflict that really has nothing to do with us (CIS borders and nationalism after the USSR). Why can'
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah, like the Trail Of Tears in the USA, etc. But what do you do now? You can't just get the Tatars back, even if Crimea were made independent.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I'm not pro-Russia either, I just don't understand why we're completely destroying our economies for a conflict that has nothing to do with us (post-USSR border division and nationalism).
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by nivenkos 4y ago
No, I was referring to when Khrushchev just arbitrarily transferred the Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR. It had been independent / Tatar before, and Russification meant it was mainly populated by Russians. The issue is that Ukraine refuses
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by nivenkos 4y ago
The US actively supported Yeltsin and paved the way for Putin. This is what they wanted. And it's working wonders now - the US will make a fortune off of LNG and arms sales, whilst completely destroying competing European industry whic
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I'm literally in the process of porting my blog to Zola right now (from Octopress). One issue I hit is that taxonomies aren't available at the section-level (nor are they section-specific, in case you want to treat sections as sub
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by nivenkos 4y ago
And all Intel and AMD processors have "spy" capabilities too with the built-in black-box Intel Management Engine and AMD Platform Security Processor. And it's only becoming more powerful and commonplace with remote attestatio
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I'd rather lose an hour to dealing with the borrow checker and type safe design than spend weeks debugging an intermittent segfault.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It's a cool idea and I'd love to be able to use my phone as a full Linux desktop like the Steam Deck. But ultimately I mainly use my phone for the following: - Banking and government authentication - e.g. with BankID and Kivra in
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Exactly, maybe they could do a "gaming phone" like Nokia tried before. The Steam Deck is very impressive.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
To ensure a fair market, look at Spotify's complaints for example - https://timetoplayfair.com/ Right now Apple can pre-load Apple TV and Apple Music on all their devices, put it on the top of their store and search re
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Is it though? Not long ago many European countries required some form of digital COVID pass for travel. Likewise for doing taxes e.g. here in Sweden BankID and Kivra are practically required unless you want to be waiting weeks for letters a
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by nivenkos 4y ago
What do you use a small laptop? Seems there's nothing ultralight and small like the Asus Eee and Acer Aspire One these days (even though you'd think it'd be easier with ARM now).
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah, I think the main issue is getting support for WhatsApp and banking and ID services (that usually block even just rooted Android phones). I'm literally writing this comment from my Steam Deck.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
When I think of a Linux phone, I really want something that supports a full GNU/Linux desktop as convergence. The Steam Deck does this perfectly!
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by nivenkos 4y ago
This doesn't make sense though - Spotify doesn't pay per stream (no-one does) but by a revenue share. So they would still pay out the same more or less - i.e. your premium subscription is put into a big pool and then divided out,
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It's the same in the UK, junior doctors and nurses have had terrible compensation for years (the Conservatives even scrapped the student bursaries). And now they're surprised when they all leave for Australia and the USA where the
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Auto Traffic Control – A gRPC Programming Air Traffic Control Game(auto-traffic-control.com)
117 points by nivenkos 4y ago|25 comments
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by nivenkos 4y ago
"PRs welcome". If the source code is there they can do it themsleves.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
How would you use Linux when using it as a tablet though?
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by nivenkos 4y ago
> Ecovacs X1 Omni It costs $1400 here, literally $1000 more than the basic Roomba models, and still $400-600 more than buying a Roomba mop and vacuum separately.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
You can't run it on GPUs and IPUs/TPUs like C++ though? I like Rust but all the scientists I know work with C++/Python (PyTorch) nowadays due to that.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah, this sort of protectionist interference in the name of "security" isn't new - look at Boeing.

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