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by severino 5y ago
So they basically say Russia can spy on you if using Kaspersky (but the German government, or its "allies", can't). Then, I guess that using Kaspersky is a wise decision unless you happen to live in Russia or Ukraine. Dowload
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by severino 5y ago
> and I hope the world can one day say "we did everything we could to help Ukraine", because at the moment they certainly can't. And what about you? Can you say your country, or your world, did everything it could to help
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by severino 5y ago
Actually, it looks like the official statement points towards the opposite direction. You can read it here, no need to believe my words: https://www.trtworld.com/europe/lavrov-russia-s-goal-is-to-d...
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by severino 5y ago
So, it is OK to invade a country, and cause losses among its civilians, if the president of that country does not qualify for the western definition of democracy? Also, both Chile or Guatemala were democracies when the US financed and organ
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by severino 5y ago
> These are not equal things. What Russia is doing is not related to how to US behaves. A war of permanent occupation, and oppression, under absolute rule, is not the same. How can we know what Russia is going to do in Ukraine? Did Putin
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by severino 5y ago
2003 invasion of Iraq, just to give a recent example?
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by severino 5y ago
Well, I asked because in the face of similar events, I never remember a reaction as strong as the one that we are adopting against Russia. So I think it indeed has something to do with Russia, and not with the event itself.
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by severino 5y ago
> the propaganda there would tell that west is using any chance to put russia down and here is another example Aren't we?
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by severino 5y ago
> Also, those so called "referenda" did not conform to Ukrainian laws. Yet Ukraine had no intention at all to organize a "real" referenda under their laws. Instead, they preferred to keep on bombing those rebel region
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by severino 5y ago
The same happens in the "free" and "democratic" EU too (which I belong to): https://www.la.lv/par-dezinformaciju-un-krievijas-agresijas-... Translation: https://www-la-lv.translate.goog/p
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by severino 5y ago
They can't. Going against Russia means supporting USA, which is currently China's number one enemy.
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by severino 5y ago
Oh, I now understand. Victims only matter if they belong to a "democratic" country, or if they live in a place called Europe.
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by severino 5y ago
Maybe a criticism against the hypocrisy of the western world and its moral superiority?
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by severino 5y ago
That's interesting. However, it's not like we're not reading faces all the time anyway, even if we use masks like we've been doing lately. Family, friends, internet, videocalls, remote meetings... I suppose the impact co
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by severino 5y ago
Of course this should be an individual choice. Nobody cares about decisions which only affect yourself. It's different from the use of masks for, e.g., covid, where you can harm other people by not wearing yours.
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by severino 5y ago
I get your point. But pollution is completely unnatural, too. We got to a point where few things are still natural in this world. I don't know if masks are effective against this kind of diseases, but I guess those 9M who die premature
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by severino 5y ago
Maybe we can keep using masks? Now that we already got used to them, we may reduce the effects of pollution with good filtering masks. Of course this doesn't mean we shouldn't address what's causing the pollution in the first
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by severino 5y ago
> Now, I know that I badly need some amount of in-person time with my coworkers on a weekly basis, or I go crazy. That's the problem with people that doesn't want WFH: they also want their coworkers to work at the office so the
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by severino 5y ago
> And you know nothing about me. I know you think the east side of Germany is not a good place today because what happened there more than 30 years ago. But you know what? GDR commies said in the late 80s their regime was not a good plac
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by severino 5y ago
> I lived in Germany for years, the former east, and it would be unfair to call Germany a "shithole" based on my own experience in the former Soviet bloc, which has struggled both pre and post reunification due to Communist rul
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by severino 5y ago
Well, Basque nationalism is still a thing, as they hold the 58% of the seats in their parliament. What we don't have now, fortunately, are armed Basque nationalist organizations.
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by severino 5y ago
Interesting. So if you want to have some kind of legal protection over your domain, the best bet is buying a .cc domain (from the country you currently live in, I suppose) but no chance when buying a .com, .org domain, right?
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by severino 5y ago
But I don't prefer WFH.
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by severino 5y ago
Prisoners in jail, in my country, or every other country you can imagine, can't leave either. It's called conviction. China invented a lot of things, but surely not this.
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by severino 5y ago
> It’s just unpopular to say as much online these days because the people who do prefer WFH are sensitive about any suggestions that it isn’t universally superior. Maybe it's because people WFH don't care at all if you want to
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by severino 5y ago
Problem with this is that you don't want to just work in an office, but also have other people from the company work with you at the office. It's different from people who prefer WFH because they don't care if the other guys
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by severino 5y ago
I found the article, and the linked one, about audio recognition on a Raspberry using ML, very interesting. Now, if only you could buy these microphones assembled... :-)
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by severino 5y ago
> So yes, I have been to China, I can place China on a map, and it is the most terrifying reincarnation of Nazi Germany - being defended by people who will say "we didn't know any better" after the concentration camps are
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by severino 5y ago
> It's code that I wrote to try to prevent other problems [...] Don't worry, man, nobody expects people from Microsoft to write code that behaves as intended. Merry Christmas.
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by severino 5y ago
Most people criticizing China and the CCP in those forums haven't spent time in China either. I suspect many wouldn't even be able to place China on a map.

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