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2025-04-30 20:58:28 UTC

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There is actually! They vouch for the adoption of cancer: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/10/google_linux_foundation_chromium/
They are really cool! 🤩

2025-02-21 09:26:38 UTC

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I have to admit, I'm a bit of a cheater: I have my olde Lumia, which I mostly use as a remote for TV, mpv, and cmus connected to the audio system — stuff like that. I sometimes pick it up to browse Gemini pointlessly, doomscroll the RSS feeds and hang out on Fedi — but it's hardly as intrusive, the browser it has is very old, with a little CSS face lift Bloat looks neat, but most websites don't work, and there are no notifications which make you pick up the phone again.
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/019/447/167/original/d60958f95bd5b55e.png
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2025-02-21 08:51:10 UTC

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Screen time? Which apps I use the most? 🤔
My smartphone usage patterns are something like this 🤪
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2025-02-20 23:41:08 UTC

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I'm unemployed and although I have a smartphone, it sometimes manages to collect several layers of dust over the course of weeks 😆

2025-02-20 01:58:21 UTC

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Yeah, precisely! On the surface it doesn't look that bad, it even has an obligatory point about not influencing the operation of federal agencies and departments, but AFAIK DOGE was created with a similar executive order and look!
And of course I'm no expert on US government and can't tell how this might unfold, but being Russian I know all too well where this "he means well, but they prevent him from acting, he just needs more power" line of thinking might take 😏

2025-02-20 01:36:08 UTC

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I won't call it a power grab per se, but it does look like a move to shift some power away from a well-established (albeit often criticised by Trump supporters) federal agency and to bring more loyal people on board. This means more relaxed checks and balances and more power to the president — those who do not support Trump are perfectly reasonable to be worried in this case IMO 🤷

2025-02-20 01:34:43 UTC

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One side sees batshit insane things, the other doesn't see past the careful wording of high-profile legal experts. That executive order has nothing to do with eugenics of course, but nothing about stopping the poisoning either — it's about creating a new body with functions similar to those of the FDA, and for come reason having the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (wut? 😲) on board.

2025-02-07 15:40:23 UTC

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> Но это я не подключал ее ещё, может там звук будет шляпа
Так если его не для записи брать, а для того, чтобы в охотку пальцами вечером поперебирать, то и… не похер ли? 😉

2025-01-23 18:10:55 UTC

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What CPU architecture/ISA does Gameboy use, is it 32-bit ARM or something more exotic?

2025-01-23 14:44:53 UTC

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I think I've seen something like that on @npub1kqg…a7t4 — a very good source for Fedi-related software.
But it was still in the early stages back then, I'm not sure if anything good came out of it or was the project abandoned 🤷

2025-01-22 20:57:10 UTC

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I agree, even an email or a website address would already be "too complicated" in this case 😔
I used to do that with electronic musicians in pre or early social media days — find out their name and then look them up, but sadly it's not what most people are up to these days.

2025-01-22 20:03:49 UTC

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There is a static website generator for musicians/bands in the vein of BandCamp: https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp
It's easy to use and the result looks quite nice, and the best part — it's static, you can just upload the files to any hosting.
But it's no replacement as a communication platform, PixelFed is nice as Insta replacement, but I think it takes some skill to self-host and it still requires your fans to have any Fedi account.

2025-01-21 21:14:12 UTC

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Well, if Aral has no problem using a laptop made by Apple running an OS made by Apple and building his web development kit on top of Node.js, for which V8 — a project headed by Google, is a hard dependency*, then there is indeed nothing wrong with them 😏
* — there were attempts to port it to other JS engines, but none stuck, all of them are abandoned, therefore Node is built on Google technology

2025-01-18 14:37:46 UTC

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А где кот на последнем фото? 😼
Боже! На ёлке! 🙀

2025-01-14 19:25:41 UTC

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Oh come on, it's just a faucet, at best you can use it to… view PDF files!
PDF files: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/14/0952226/developer-makes-doom-run-inside-a-pdf-file

2025-01-13 11:58:46 UTC

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The Jesus Lizard 😍

2025-01-13 06:39:32 UTC

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> онанизм
Автозамена? 🤭

2025-01-04 18:19:48 UTC

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Серьёзно, там их нет? 😲
На интуитивном уровне казалось, что вот именно там должны быть.

2024-12-25 09:10:34 UTC

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Having vodka when everyone's drinking beer? Bold move! 🥴

2024-12-19 17:33:13 UTC

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For movies DLNA is amazing, I didn't even realise how handy it is until a couple of years ago. I have another machine that is my torrent seedbox — it has transmission-daemon and minidlnad, I can download a movie or a show and immediately watch it of any TV (one has Xbox plugged into it and the other one has built-in DLNA client) — without going into the trouble of transfering anything. The comfort of Netflix without any subscription costs 😂
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2024-12-19 17:27:10 UTC

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And when I'm at home I use DLNA or Samba to access my collection, in addition to it, the machine hosting the music is plugged into the amp and I have cmus running on it and a tiny web interface, so I can control it from a phone without any special software, the remote is HTML with minimal JS so I can use any phone no matter how old — I have my old Windows phones scattered around the place and they do the job just fine 😁
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2024-12-19 17:24:54 UTC

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> did you ever go down the path of jellyfin or plex?
No, I've never tried Jellyfin. When I'm not home I assume I would be mostly offline so I have ~300 Gb of music on my phone with me — not enough to hold my complete collection, but more than enough for the things I listen to more or less often.
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2024-12-19 15:28:56 UTC

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Using one computer for everything but the kitchen sink makes sense to you — okay, not that I can make you not do it anyway.
Also "I don't want to bother — I use ZFS for everything" would be a valid point, "I'm storing music on ZFS because it has nice features" — nope! What are those features that would make sense for a digital music collection? Replication, snapshots? 🤭

2024-12-19 15:28:21 UTC

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> No, I can't
Queen? Yeah man, nobody but you has that in their collection.
> I should have two computers instead of one
You can even plug an USB hard drive into your router — it would be a poor file server, but still enough to listen to the music and watch 4k movie rips.
Don't have a router because power is cheap and you prefer using a computer with active cooling for that too? 😂
That was my original point, the role of this machine is unclear to me.

2024-12-19 14:28:23 UTC

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> ext4 doesn't support RAID
That's the point, why bother with RAID if you can grab that stuff from original media (or illegally p2p-download it if that is more your thing) — in case you ever lose it.
> I don't have other computers on the network
There are still good reasons to have those things available without having your main rig running — like power saving.
I also really appreciate being able to enjoy music and movies without having to keep any "real" computer running.

2024-12-19 14:03:27 UTC

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Of course it does, but none of them are relevant for storing stuff like music and movies that you can easily download again — I'd rather have stuff like that on a plain ext4 partition on a spinning rust hard drive that spins down to save power in half an hour of inactivity, plugged into an ARM machine like Raspberry Pi.
Run samba and minidlna on it and you can access your library from any machine on the network — watch movies directly from the TV, no need to keep your workstation running.

2024-12-19 06:18:49 UTC

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Having a GUI on a machine with a 30 Tb ZFS volume is indeed pretty homosexual 😏

2024-12-13 02:06:41 UTC

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Steal one from the office 😏
Oh, it doesn't work like that when you're self-employed 😩

2024-12-12 23:43:37 UTC

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Sure, there's always a possibility, but this seems too… low — even for a fraud, I refuse to believe these are getting mass-produced somewhere 😅
(I don't want my belief in the mankind to get ruined more than it already is🤭)
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2024-12-11 23:06:04 UTC

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I hope this isn't a real product and that it was custom printed by someone for fun 😅

2024-12-09 10:08:42 UTC

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(Not agreeing either, but as it was already done — nothing I can do😿)
Was that your mom's cat?

2024-12-09 10:00:48 UTC

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What happened to your cat that didn't have claws? 🤔

2024-12-08 04:39:19 UTC

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Then ChatGPT came along and blown them out of their water — it's like they had no research in that field at all. With Microsoft it's particularly surprising — they have completely shutdown Cortana and replaced it with GPT-based COPilot despite having been experimenting with neural networks for nearly two decades — they've had NN-based image recognition services you could subscribe to, but somehow not LLMs 🤷

2024-12-08 04:38:14 UTC

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AFAIR there were some easter eggs like that, but normally it wouldn't — it wasn't even THAT good yet, couldn't even hold conversation on ChatGPT level.
I'm kinda surprised even: MS with Cortana, Apple with Siri and Amazon with Alexa — they already had things to work with, people liked those assistants, but after some time they've stopped developing this direction entirely.

2024-12-08 04:24:09 UTC

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You could have "Cortona GF" in Windows 8 — but then they got it removed as with every other good thing there ever was in Windows.
And with Windows 11, they've come full circle — it's Windows XP again, but with more stupid ads, more shit being forced on you and now with "AI" shit too 😩

2024-12-03 06:01:16 UTC

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LOL, where did you get the censored version? I didn't even know there is one 😂

2024-11-28 21:05:55 UTC

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Why would you? We can always just unmute you when you sober up 😏

2024-11-26 06:34:42 UTC

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Indeed she doesn't 🤭
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/018/694/994/original/b15f9fead4555014.jpg

2024-11-26 05:59:03 UTC

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Man, this shit is not supposed to discourage you — it's supposed to be fun, if you ain't having fun just stop, you don't have any obligations to do it 😄

2024-11-24 20:03:06 UTC

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I was always wondering about the etymology: the relation between UI customisation and rice is as far from obvious as it can possibly be, and as a non-American I wasn't aware of that. The etymology is indeed… questionable, but is it still racist when it got adopted in an unrelated field by wider audience, not used in a derogatory manner and not targeted at particular ethnicity? 🤔

2024-11-24 05:15:33 UTC

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I'll take it — will stack nicely with my flat Earth globe!

2024-11-22 18:51:38 UTC

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At some point they've added recovery from the Internet.
I can in theory make a image of bootable recovery flash drive with dd — not much, but at least that would enable you to restore a .dmg image (presumably downloaded to another flash drive) to the third flash drive. You have to have at least 3 USB ports though 😂

2024-11-21 21:29:12 UTC

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I hope it's a knife fight… 🤔
And I wish you the best of luck of course!
Do you accept bets perhaps? 😏

2024-11-14 10:40:30 UTC

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I just tried stopping it (instead of restarting) and killing all instances of dbus-daemon running as user — again, nothing special happened, except for… yeah, Firefox — it didn't segfault though, terminated gracefully with something like "channel closed".
Ironically, I can start Firefox again without dbus running, dbus doesn't get spawned and FF works fine.
Well, what can I say… It's odd, it's lame, but so is its developers design decision.

2024-11-14 09:35:41 UTC

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> If I kill dbus, a bunch of shit crashes.
I suppose it depends on the distro, how deeply it integrates it and how modular it assumes it to be.
I have just restarted dbus in my Void system (where I even have elogind) — literally nothing started falling apart, no user-facing software crashed or got terminated, bluetoothd got restarted — that's it 🤷

2024-11-14 09:01:06 UTC

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> It's like a DE. I don't want a DE. People ask how you can have a widget tray without a DE. I don't want a widget tray.
Same here, I have machines that do not have dbus, but I have no problem running it on the ones where I can benefit from it — seriously, among these things it's the only one I have zero problems with. Overengineered — sure, but it's nowhere near as buggy as systemd and it's fully modular: you can easily replace it with another thing and you can even not have it at all.

2024-11-14 07:34:44 UTC

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What's wrong with dbus though? Something has to fill the role of IPC to pass messages between daemons and other software that isn't… you know, a named socket — something higher level 😅
Even OpenWRT — which doesn't have all the luxuries of a full-blown system, has ubus.
@npub1vmu…csp7

2024-11-11 03:02:49 UTC

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Kinky Elephant is a fun name 😄

2024-11-09 04:03:44 UTC

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NASTYclew.analog 🤣

2024-11-09 02:26:24 UTC

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I'd be worried for my neck if I were doing backflips off the wall while drunk like that, lol 😅

2024-11-01 03:08:18 UTC

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Kinda sad every time when you had other plans, but you end up just getting drunk.
But hey, it's still not THAT bad 🤪

2024-11-01 02:13:54 UTC

My cat is sleeping beside me on the bed, he's not as intrusive as he often is, he's just curled up among the pillows nearby, I dig it!
My other cat:
And she's not in it for the mouse cursor as I originally thought — there's no action there, but she's been sitting like that for 10 minutes or so straight, just watching the log lines scroll by… Do #cats actually enjoy the console? 😹
#fediCats
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2024-10-30 00:56:00 UTC

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From the sidelines it looks incredibly silly, but I expect it to be great fun when you take part 😄

2024-09-25 08:06:53 UTC

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I have a "backup" #cat too, and likewise — it's existence was first revealed to me in a dream: I had two identical cats and they were in danger. I hope I've interpreted that dream right: you have to make backups 😹
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/018/167/762/original/1b87fe9495dcac56.jpg
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2024-09-24 13:17:46 UTC

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Alcohol 🥴

2024-09-15 12:53:19 UTC

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"for maintenance" 😂

2024-09-10 17:34:03 UTC

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Not entirely… hehe, pun intended🤭, true : https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/true.html
"Whereas colon is required to accept, and do nothing with, any number of arguments, true is only required to accept, and discard, a first argument of "--". Passing any other argument(s) to true may cause its behavior to differ from that described in this standard"

2024-09-10 17:01:22 UTC

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Can you explain what's weird? I'm probably simplifying things here, but the program got passed an open file descriptor as stderr, it attempted writing into it, that call returned an error, the program aborted with a non-zero exit code, what is wrong with this?

2024-09-09 21:48:20 UTC

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> Drawing conclusions
On a whiteboard?! 😲

2024-09-09 15:25:49 UTC

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Мда-а! А просто сдать/поменять её нельзя? У меня есть Logitech Pebble, которая это точно умеет. Это такая мини-мышь для ноута — в сумку кинуть — самое то, но для постоянного комфортного использования она конечно маловата.
Пишут, что у них колесо прокрутки умирает, но у меня спустя три года всё окей — с другой стороны, я ей не так часто пользуюсь, а может и просто повезло.
Сейчас какая-то Pebble 2 появилась, но у меня первая.

2024-09-09 13:36:54 UTC

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On one hand, Gemini might change this tradition — or rather create its own tradition, but on the other — in Gemini you simply don't have to deal with the same problems simply because of smaller user base and greater decentralisation. No government to my knowledge is willing it be MITMing Station, but I'm pretty sure there are quite a few willing to do that to Twitter or YouTube 😏

2024-09-09 13:34:24 UTC

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Another problem with HTTPS and self-signed certs is that while Firefox was created in the days when self-signed certificates weren't considered bad. However, relying on centralised authorities became a tradition since, so newer software might be designed differently, e.g. rustls which has become the dominant Rust crate for TLS stuff, doesn't allow handling TOFU and self-signed certs cleanly: https://github.com/rustls/rustls/issues/435 for them it's "dangerous_configuration" 😩

2024-09-09 04:40:22 UTC

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Self-signed certs do not provide the capability to revoke them. Imagine that a malicious actor isn't just spoofing the site you trust with their own self-signed cert, but that the private key got compromised. With self-signed certs you have no way of telling users that the already trusted certificate is no longer valid, such a capability implies some sort of infrastructure and infrastructure implies hierarchy as someone has to operate it🤷

2024-09-08 18:09:06 UTC

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It also keeps the fingerprints so if you get a different cert on a later visit, it will give you a warning again.
To simplify adding an exception on the first visit you might want to consider this: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert

2024-09-08 18:08:58 UTC

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It almost works like that already.
When you open a page on a server with self-signed cert, it gives you a warning, if you accept it, it adds an exception for that cert — you can see the list in preferences under Privacy & Security → Certificates → View certificates → Servers

2024-09-08 06:47:26 UTC

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> thus the name: “Yellowdog Updater, Modified.”
I think I still have YellowDog on DVD somewhere, a DVD that I have never used. But even I didn't know where yum name came from 😂
I have a good excuse though — I haven't used rpm-based distros since the very early 2000s.

2024-09-03 17:01:44 UTC

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Indeed, there are ways to keep Perl code maintainable, but when everyone is stressed out, when you're under peer-pressure to have a quick'n'dirty fix pass the code review because other people depend on it… I know that in real world these things would happen — this was a rather harsh eye-opener — it was then when I was seeing hashes passed as parameters grow indefinitely.

2024-09-03 17:01:11 UTC

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Yep! Early in my career I was like many on Fedi — hated the idea of programming language forcing coding style on me, having wrote some Perl and having near no experience in Python, I've seen a well-maintained framework in Perl turn into an absolute mess when being actively worked on by a team under a time constraint.

2024-09-03 13:44:08 UTC

Damn! Perl isn't a part of the base system? I should definitely give FreeBSD another shot! 😁
https://social.librem.one/system/media_attachments/files/017/985/367/original/3abb65dced1b3ef1.png

2024-09-01 20:48:47 UTC

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> a pop-up notification
Is that a thing now, I thought it just stops booting when the new release comes out 😜

2024-08-24 13:06:28 UTC

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Yes, NK have been holding summits on cryptocurrencies — governments see it as a viable options to circumvent sanctions.
At the same time these countries might be banning mining by individuals domestically — not hard, since they control the power grid, and yes, sadly, they CAN decide what you spend your electricity on even if you pay for it!
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2024-08-24 13:06:09 UTC

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And again — that's it! They are both allowed to circulate on paper, but are de-facto under government control.
I've been staying out of the loop, but both Russia and… say North Korea have been actively encouraging cryptocurrencies — there were a plethora of cases such as this: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/28/virgil_griffith_guilty_north_korea/
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2024-08-24 13:05:43 UTC

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Taking them under control involves extra steps, like creating your own cryptocurrency and banning all the "wrong" ones, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_ruble
This effectively shifts the perception of the general public: "It's not that these cryptocurrencies thingies that everyone's talking about are banned — it's just the bad ones, ones that are probably used by our enemies anyway"
@npub1l73…wd6d

2024-08-24 12:57:21 UTC

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You can just impose fines on organisations for accepting payments in cryptocurrencies — that's it, problem effectively solved! Paying in cryptocurrency becomes as "easy" as buying illicit drugs or guns.
In countries with freedoms and rule of law you can exclaim: "But muh rights, you can't do that!",— doesn't work in the non-free regimes, they do whatever they deem fit and don't ask you about your rights.
@npub1l73…wd6d

2024-08-24 12:06:06 UTC

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This alone makes me think that they do not solve the problem they claim to solve: taking cryptocurrencies under control seems to be relatively easy, and they are merely being tolerated in countries where people already have greater independence from the government.
@npub1l73…wd6d

2024-08-24 12:05:25 UTC

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> In general, we need more independence from government, not less, given the way the world is going.
Isn't it odd though that cryptocurrencies are more actively used in counties with greater economic and political freedoms and such activities are nearly non-existent, heavily regulated or embraced by governments themselves in non-free regimes?
@npub1l73…wd6d

2024-08-24 10:43:16 UTC

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На фото попал также секретный летающий кот 😂

2024-08-22 02:07:49 UTC

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Pantone deck for determining different shades of metallic 🤪

2024-08-20 20:22:19 UTC

In Russia sales of the more expensive routers with built-in VPN capabilities saw a noticeable hike since YouTube ban was introduced.
Men^W Russians will do literally anything to avoid going to therapy^W^W^W preventing their country from turning into a dysfunctional mess 😩

2024-08-18 23:45:48 UTC

Looks like a nice tutorial, complete with bringing the dependencies in, of how to do things (making a chess engine in this case) in Zig: https://johns.codes/blog/making-a-chess-engine-in-zig

2024-08-18 01:30:50 UTC

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"Ow! My balls!" sounds like a name of a highbrow show compared to these 😏

2024-08-05 22:58:14 UTC

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Is this Nadeko Sengoku?
Is this something new? I don't remember her in this outfit 🤔

2024-08-04 12:11:40 UTC

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Hey, Russian "traditional values" were made up about a decade ago and US conservatives are still buying it 🤭

2024-06-15 11:16:54 UTC

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But I don't think any analogies would help solve the international conflicts once and for all — it might seem like leaving everyone to their own devices is a good idea, but in reality, conflicts don't get resolved in a good-mannered fist-fight, they tend to escalate and spread like wildfire. Taking a side early on might help minimise expenses resolving them later. It doesn't always work of course and it still becomes a clusterfuck.