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by selivanovp 2y ago
I do not know if Musk tweaked the algorithm in favor of Trump as I've left Twitter several years ago due to getting tired of propaganda bots. But what I do know is that Google and Facebook (as well as previous Twitter owners) practicin
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by selivanovp 2y ago
Putin has nothing to do with it, pretty sure he doesn’t even know who they are. JetBrains founders are Russians, but they registered the company in Prague as their goal was foreign markets from the beginning and it was much safer to do busi
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by selivanovp 2y ago
They’re barely profitable, balancing on the edge for years. Paying a cut to Steam is one of the last things they want to do.
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by selivanovp 2y ago
Twitter is full of propaganda bots for years, pushing real people away from it. Musk's recent attempts to get rid of bots just result in a hollow shell to become even more hollow, because normal people don't want to have anything
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by selivanovp 2y ago
>Why does it matter where I'm observing this from? Because the processes that are happening in Ukraine has nothing to do with democracy, human rights, religious freedoms, rights for private property, courts independence etc. And yes
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by selivanovp 2y ago
Justifies? Of course not. But it's what governments did for centuries and do up to this day. We can forget about history for a second, but just look at what's going on with China, for example. They've never attacked USA or an
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by selivanovp 2y ago
You can go to youtube and search for "prof.Mearsheimer about history of Ukraine conflict" or something like this. This guy is a USA professor that specializes in international relations. He was warning for years that USA course of
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by selivanovp 2y ago
It has nothing to do with culture. Reading USA news you can find all kinds of "Russians did it" to explain any kind of fuck up.
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by selivanovp 2y ago
>So let me make sure I understand your story perfectly. Russia was so concerned about Ukrainian sovereignty that they sent their military into Crimea. Not really. Russian military was already in Crimea. If you're unaware, Sevastopol
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by selivanovp 2y ago
>Russia is trying to eradicate the Ukrainian culture. You're lying yourself. It's Russian culture that's getting eradicated in Ukraine by renaming cities, streets, destroying monuments, burning books, prohibiting Russian l
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by selivanovp 2y ago
I'm in programming, not hardware, but people who's business is selling PC's told me that the main reason of continuing Intel dominance in long term manufacturers contracts, so laptops and prebuilt PC's are still dominant
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by selivanovp 2y ago
>Look at the process Ukraine is going through to join the EU. Let me guess, you're observing this marvelous process outside of Ukraine borders?
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by selivanovp 2y ago
Ukraine never had any glimpse of regular democracy. For 30 years it was just a state when one or the other oligarchical clan was able to install its puppet on the throne to decide who's looting the majority of profits in their pockets.
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by selivanovp 2y ago
>RT is a propaganda organization. RT is no more propaganda than CNN or any other Western mainstream media. It's just different people who set the narratives. >And the US didn't shy away from calling it a war in their media w
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by selivanovp 2y ago
Well, stats are dubious as it's from a specific shop, but in general, Intel has to be punished for their marketing practices of the last several decades based on market dominance. Every generation of processor requiring unique slot, re
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by selivanovp 2y ago
>But what is the official Russian position on it? Can it be called a war there? Of course it can and is called war in Russia. You just missing the point: war is a juridical term. Technically neither Russia nor Ukraine are in war with eac
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by selivanovp 2y ago
>Yeah but. Why the USA? Because 1. It's an easy and the most glaring example of lecturing people to do one thing, but doing the opposite themselves. 2. It was actually the country, that Russia wanted to be like during 80s and 90s, U
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by selivanovp 2y ago
Russia is not imperialistic, Russia was fine with Ukraine as a sovereign state. More of it, due to current geopolitical shift, Russia is even more interested in Ukraine being a sovereign state, a buffer between Russia and NATO. The problem
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by selivanovp 2y ago
It's happening already. Like significant part of recent JetBrains struggles with lower quality of their products is due to they had to relocate people out of Russia, and some people just don't like to live abroad. Their Kotlin lea
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by selivanovp 2y ago
They're aware, that's why they presented him as a "German programmer" and completely avoided his flibusta endeavour. The author from JetBrains is Russian himself.
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by selivanovp 2y ago
Good alternatives exist, like Yandex. But it's close to impossible to compete with google's resources and platform lock in Android and chrome.
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by selivanovp 2y ago
It's kinda nuanced. Opera devs in late 90's and early 00's were truly innovative. Tabs is just one of the things introduced by Opera and later adopted by every other browser. But they also introduced a lot of under the hood t
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by selivanovp 2y ago
You think that just because you never saw the other side of the coin. Russian "troll farms" were created as a response to the same activity commited by USA and UK in Russian speaking side of internet for years. It took more than a
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by selivanovp 2y ago
It was not very popular on Firefox though, because uBO works very well for years and there is no need to migrate to manifest v3 either.
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by selivanovp 2y ago
Governments will just force user tracking and collecting data, and if you won't comply, you'll go to jail. If you're a legal business, there's no way to avoid three letter agencies messing with you and your users.
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by selivanovp 2y ago
Yeah, and looking at what happened to Durov in France you know why.
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by selivanovp 2y ago
The problem is not with communication with the outer world. The problem with other messengers is that everything you type there is monitored by CIA/NSA and Ukraine has access to this information. Telegram right now is the only secure m
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by selivanovp 2y ago
Allowing adult content will move them to a state wide ban list in many countries.
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by selivanovp 2y ago
Because it makes harder for USA NGO's to manipulate countries like Georgia. And those protests is a clear example of the power those NGO's have.
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by selivanovp 2y ago
No, unless flatpak will be able to do what snap does for Canonical for years.

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