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by throwaway74354 2y ago
Firefox 135 is expected to be released on February 4.
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
>There were no oligarchs in St. Petersburg when Putin got into politics How do you call people like Gennady Timchenko? There's a nuanced difference between "Successful fossil fuel mogul" and "Member of a crime syndica
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
>You're leaving out Putin's role Putin was a figurehead of the oligarch clan from Saint-Petersburg, who happened to have KGB connections as well. Russia had moved from the Western-like democratic path already. They could'v
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
My pet theory is that Medvedev inherited Vladimir Zhirinovsky's speechwriters. Even if it's not the case, he's filling that niche of a warmongering clown. A lightning rod role, compared to whom Putin looks like a restrained s
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
It wasn't predetermined, but there was a chain of events that helped. 1) 1993 constitution crisis. Role of the president had gained more power compared to the State Duma (lower legislative house). 2) Privatization in Russia was a mess.
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
Correct, its usefulness depends on software working as expected (and not being tampered with) echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/leds/platform\:\:micmute/brightness is enough t
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
>These usually get neither an LED nor a switch Lots of ThinkPads have «Microphone is muted» LED. Not exactly what's requested (and is bound to a software mute/unmute shortcut), but it's better than nothing regarding state
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
LXD/Incus for hypervisor-for-containers use-case. Podman for "like Docker, but made by Linux people". It supports both application containers and system containers (which have systemd as PID 1).
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
You'll be able to know for sure, whether headphone burn-in is a placebo or not.
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
It has stories, therefore it's a "social media" /s Anyway, Signal doesn't approve use of the third-party clients. Tough luck. Dumb-phone-with-Signal has to be a collaboration with Signal-the-company.
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
https://www.forbes.ru/newsroom/biznes/424315-rfpi-investirov... https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-56501991
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
Telegram was using Singer House office long after VK had been sold. He definitely didn't "flee Russia". Durov family and close-to-the-oligarchs-and/or-siloviki parts of the Russian elites had parted ways on good terms.
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
That's a nice cover story, but Telegram had operated for years from the same Singer House in Saint Petersburg where VK headquarters are situated. Russian Direct Investment Fund had invested in Telegram. Nikolai Durov works at Russian
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
RIP Onivim 2, it was so close to this niche.
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
These are Planify[1] and Contrast[2] [1] https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.alainm23.planify [2] https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.design.Contrast
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
Do they happen to use the Russian App Store? If so, the app hadn't been updated to utilize the new protocol because Apple had delisted[1] ProtonVPN in mid July. [1] https://apps.apple.com/ru/app/proton-vpn-fas
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
>Arson attacks are actually an extremely French phenomenon Thanks to the power of art, it can be Russian and French at the same time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Pavlensky#Lighting_(2017)
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
It's 4.9.3 for Ubuntu 24.04. Close enough, but it won't be updated in the forseeable future, so the gap will grow. There are https://build.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:kubic:libconta... repos, but it'
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
They did. For about 3-5 days there were some major service outages. Some of which were ugly and not very smart in hindsight. In case of my ex-employers, this DDoS was serious enough to break availability of multiple transportation-related s
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
The Snapdragon 3xc Gen 3 one needed a downstream kernel and community effort: https://github.com/merckhung/linux_on_arm64_laptop#microsoft... (initially there was some bring-up trickery that led to Linux not booting pa
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
Durov, bring back the wall!
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
wiki article on the subject isn't bad. 1) Formalism was called Bourgeois Formalism by the state critics. Elitist art, opposite of what would become Socialist Realism. 2) If you click the names at https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
In the USSR, being unreliable (неблагонадёжный, look into Great Terror of the 30s history) and capable of some useful to the regime skills could land you into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka . Poland in the 40-
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
Uhm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Civil_War ? I get "Russia bad" point of view, but border issues in the Caucasus region are way more nuanced than that. Abkhaz people are not equivalent of "Pe
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
>I'm surprised Russians aren't all over this. Mind share issue. Russia, as most of Ex-USSR, is a PC gaming country. To have an active emulation community, there has to be a massive following around the certain console in the fi
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
Handspring documentary by the Verge had an interesting perspective on the matter: https://youtu.be/b9_Vh9h3Ohw?start=773 (I'm bad at cropping YouTube videos. The part in question is [12:53 - 14:30])
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
>Sony had some nifty name which is eluding me Jog Dial
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by throwaway74354 2y ago
>He was a part-time propaganda poet of the Soviet regime Also a prominent futurist and a self-proclaimed proletarian poet. Historical figures such as Mayakovsky shouldn't be perceived as black or white. By 1925, it still wasn't
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by throwaway74354 3y ago
That Russian dude has -ko in his surname. And the project hadn't been updated since 2020. While your suspicions are fairly justified, this player doesn't look like a nation-state attack vector.
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by throwaway74354 3y ago
It doesn't have a file creation dialog (nor global setting for this behavior), hence "promotes". New files are docx/xlsx/pptx. You have to manually use a "Save as" dialog to choose a corresponding LibreOff

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