Yeah snap firefox always took a while to launch for me. My real problem though was that it just seemed to ignore my systems DNS settings so I couldn’t use it to access internal websites in my VPN, and there was no simple fix for that. Just installed native firefox from some sketchy repo instead

Or it was yet another pump and dump

Just tried finding some lemmy posts in DuckDuckGo. Doesn’t seem like they’re indexed

Yes, it leads to a lot of good art criticizing censorship

The git urls are always ssh and always require authentication. The https urls don’t require authentication (if the repo is public)

This has unfortunately been going on for decades. They bulldozed many many places. There’s a Wikipedia list. It also says over one hundred thousand people have been displaced just for brown coal mining in Germany. Here’s a map of the largest brown coal mining area. The grey villages have been destroyed and the orange ones will be next. It’s sad how this destruction can go on while everyone else is much more concerned about luxury issues like speed limits

Someone should make a ProtonMail<->IMAP proxy that works for free users

They’ll possibly even need two tons :P

If I click on “Announcements”, “News”, “About Us”, or “Donate”, the links back to “Home” and “Get Started” lead to a 404 page.

Cool project though, could be really useful to indie game devs and animation studios

Thunderbird does it too

NATO overthrew the legitimate democratically elected government in Ukraine and replaced it with a right wing regime

NATO? You think Euromaidan is a creation of NATO? If anything you might mean the US here. Right wing regime? Yeah there were right wing groups involved, but they didn’t exactly make it into the government. Poroshenko wasn’t good either, but he was democratically elected and certainly not worse than Janukowytsch. I can’t attest to the validity of those elections though, I wasn’t there. Also Zelenskyy is of jewish heritage and no far right party gained a seat in the 2019 government, you can hardly call that a right wing regime.

Russia was perfectly fine with Ukraine doing its own thing

You’re aware Janukowytsch was basically Putins puppet right? That’s not Ukraine doing its own thing. I’m still convinced Putin enabled this whole mess in eastern Ukraine because he lost his puppet and wants to bring it back. If Ukraine joined NATO, that would become impossible. This is why Putin is so scared of NATO

Russian invasion of Ukraine is not justifiable, however it’s reductionist to ignore the reasons behind why the invasion happened.

Agreed

The war is a result of tensions that were largely escalated by NATO

Disagreed. I believe if NATO didn’t expand to the east (those countries joined voluntarily by the way), Russia would have caused much more chaos there in the past 30 years. Or maybe it could have worked out better, we will never know since it didn’t happen.

plenty of experts in the west have been warning about this

It’s easy to find people who predicted the future when it’s already in the past. But in the present things are not as obvious

That’s it from me

Russia literally spent 8 years trying to get meaningful security guarantees from NATO, and it was stonewalled. Stop trying to rewrite history.

Do you know why NATO troops are deployed at their eastern borders (“enhanced forward presence”)? Because of the annexation of Crimea and the Donbas war. Of course Ukraine wants to be in NATO when their neighbor does stuff like that. Russia brought this to themselves. And with that they’re trying to play the victim in this story. They want security guarantees? How about they guarantee the security of their neighbor first and get out of there, then there might be a chance to talk

Why is the second statement absurd? Okay I overdid it a little, but placing tens of thousands of troops at a border for months is a huge logistical undertaking and certainly not something someone would do just like that. I don’t know a reason to do this other than to invade a neighbor

It’s not hindsightish

Germany could have vetoed this two weeks ago. All they had to do was …

Thanks Captain Hindsight.

But I doubt Germany could have done anything at this point anyway. Putin wants to get rid of the current Ukrainian government, and his demands to NATO before the invasion were probably just an attempt to get NATO further away from Ukraine to have an easier time invading it. At worst for Putin NATO would ignore the demands (which they did) and give him another alleged reason to invade. Remember they say they’re only there to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine, and it’s totally not a war. If Putin really felt forced by NATO to invade, he would probably just be honest about it. But he would invade either way, because you don’t just accidentally build up thousands of troops along a border with a country where you’ve wreaked havoc for the past eight years, and then blame Germany when all of NATO didn’t bend over to your demands mere days before you invade.

Refurbished standalone batteries would be great too.

I generally wouldn’t want to do high power applications when running on battery. In an optimal case the use of washing machines and other heavy stuff could be timed so they mostly run while the solar panels are overproducing

Yeah feeding back into the grid has the least conversion losses and doesn’t take additional material.

Local energy storage can be useful though for complete self-sufficiency (at least in summer), but with the currently available options there will be no return of investment, both financially and environmentally, or they just don’t have enough capacity/power to keep a family powered over night. I hope EV manufacturers will continue experimenting with using EV batteries as storage for solar power, it could be a nice combo for people who need a car.

That picture is not from Mariupol. It’s in Irpin next to Kiev. And I have seen it before in the context of civilians using the bridge to hide from shelling. There’s a video of it too from some reporter in a language I don’t understand: https://twitter.com/La_SER/status/1500053681273724931
This does not look like civilians being held hostage at all.

As for the telegram video, it’s hard to verify. It’s not terribly hard to let some random woman say something in front of a camera. And looking at the rest of the channel, it seems to be an extremely pro-invasion channel as well. I guess we will have to wait until there are more details, but I highly doubt nobody was informed of the corridor.

And let’s not forget the most important part: If Russia simply didn’t invade, all of these humanitarian crises wouldn’t have existed in the first place

What’s SFU? E2EE has been working for a long time

I haven’t tried it personally, but for content requests you can host Ombi. People can then request content through Ombi, which then instructs your *arr stack to get the content. It would basically be fully automated

Everyone talking about notes and reminders. Another aspect of organizing life (to me) is organizing all the documents I accumulate over the years. I run paperless-ng in my home network. Every physical letter I receive is immediately scanned and added to paperless, which then OCRs it for easy text search. It automatically tries to find out the date, who the correspondent is (you can set detection patterns or let it learn), and you can give tags to documents (which can also be auto-added by simple patterns or learning). After scanning a document I can put it in a binder (if it’s worth keeping), and paperless stores the page number of it. When the binder is full, I use a new binder and continue the page count. I can find any document within seconds, no more searching through piles of paper for hours. Of course it also handles any digital documents I find important and it can also monitor E-Mail Accounts for attachments to automatically ingest. I believe everyone should use this or similar software

A label printer. I put a label on every drawer and every jar with self made marmalade, it’s very useful to keep stuff organized