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mykhaylo

@mykhaylo@fosstodon.org

Reader and sometimes writer. Ukrainian. Also a programmer, among other things.

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mykhaylo, to privacy
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A few words about the new Microsoft Recall #privacy busting feature. People on Mastodon probably know about it already, but still — WTF? Just store everything in a local database that seems to be insecure even before release? #windows #microsoft #ai

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mykhaylo,
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Read the FAQ here:

https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall

kev, to random
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Bitcoin and their ilk really aren't my thing, but many talk about the need for a digital currency. But here's the thing - we already have one, don't we?
https://kevquirk.com/we-already-have-a-digital-currency

mykhaylo,
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@kev we don’t need a digital currency per se. We need a currency not issued by governments. It wasn’t always like this nor does it need to stay this way forever. Most of inflation comes from uncontrollable emissions of money by governments, and without getting rid of the government in this scheme it will never change. Read this book to understand why we actually need new forms of currency:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denationalization_of_Money

kravietz, to Russia
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“They should be in fear. They should go to bed unsure if they wake up” - state TV normalising terror as a state policy towards . Video in Russian, English subtitles.

Russian political expert speaking in state TV

mykhaylo,
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@kravietz nothing new since Soviet times. Just a small 20 year glitch between 1991 and 2001 in otherwise consistently shitty attitude.

kravietz, to Russia
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Yesterday’s #Russia air bombing of DIY supermarket in #Kharkiv #Ukraine from CCTV. Russian media explained the hits targeted a “military storage”…

mykhaylo,
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@kravietz daily bombings of Kharkiv clearly show they want to destroy the city and get the people to leave it. It’s heating infrastructure is completely destroyed so winter there will be unbearable. We can observe one of the largest city destructions ever. And it’s a beautiful city too.

Second photo shows one of the oldest concrete buildings in the world, built in 1920s.

#kharkiv #ukraine #war

randahl, to random
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If you cut through all the corporate BS, what is the real purpose of Threads on the Fediverse?

Whenever I hear an interview with Meta, they present their intention as “we are all about open source”. But realistically, we all know, they are all about capitalizing on human interaction. So what is the capitalization element in being here?

I get that they open Threads to more content, but as soon as they start poluting their own space with ads, have they not opened and exit door towards Mastodon?

mykhaylo,
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@randahl I’m afraid it’s the usual three Es. Embrace, extend, extinguish.

kravietz, to random
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It’s certainly not students of history faculty protesting there… 🤦

mykhaylo,
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@shekinahcancook @UT3UMS @kravietz oh, thanks! I haven’t

mykhaylo, to telegram
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So, today blocked all Ukrainian bots that were used to gather information about the movement of russian forces and also the sightings of drones. All of that because seemingly they breach the terms.

At the same time all the similar russian bots keep working as usual.

I'm afraid it's official — telegram is under . See the post where Durov announced this few days ago.

The world needs something as good as telegram, but independent, like mastodon.

mykhaylo, (edited )
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Unexpectedly, today Telegram unblocked officially Ukrainian bots. It might have been a result of pressure through diplomatic channels, but I’m glad they did.

Update: thinking about it a little more, it’s not that unexpected. This already happened when Durov wanted to ban Ukrainian news channels at the start of the war, but changed his mind from the public backlash.

Durov is a Kremlin asset for sure, but not 100% controllable.

mykhaylo, to emacs
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This is new version of the previous package. Context specific transient menus. This must be super-convenient.

https://github.com/licht1stein/context-transient.el

mykhaylo,
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Also check out this convenience:

https://github.com/licht1stein/context-transient.el/tree/master#better-way-for-clojure

mykhaylo, (edited ) to Ukraine
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You guys still didn’t get it. It’s not a choice between supporting or not supporting Ukraine.

It’s a choice between fighting Russia yourself or with money. And it’s not indefinite, if Ukraine loses you will have to fight.

Not because you want to. But because there’s only one kind of invitation you cannot say no to: “let’s go outside”.

France is smart: they are already discussing reinstating general military service. They are preparing. You should too. 1/2

#ukraine #war #nato #us #ww3 #eu

mykhaylo,
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2/2

We have a joke in Ukraine: remember there was a time when we worried about #covid?

It’s a very deep and a very Ukrainian joke. Yours is gonna be “remember there was a time we worried about #gas prices”.

mykhaylo,
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@petrescatraian @VoordeMus @elCelio @petit_suisse I agree with everything you said except the part about the great Russian culture. And this is coming from a native speaker of Russian.

As Professor Epstein correctly noted, Russian culture has been disqualified. It has consistently produced monsters that jeopardize everything good in this world.

It is not by accident.

mykhaylo,
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@VoordeMus there are 100 patriot systems in EU, we need 7. Just saying.

randahl, to random
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Hezbollah is now launching it's second wave of missiles towards Israel tonight.

I will not be surprised if these waves are meant to exhaust the Israeli air defences before the really dangerous Iranian strike comes later tonight.

Iran has the 14th most powerful army in the world, and some sources compare their military strength to Australia.

https://youtu.be/_mTYtZ3oiWQ?si=--OkOYVQkduF6PIZ

mykhaylo, (edited )
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@randahl I wouldn’t trust these rankings since seeing what happened to the second army in the world.

The really important question is this: did indecisiveness of the US make Iran so bold? Letting them partner up with Russia does seem to be a screw up.

But there’s a silver lining. We could observe first-hand how Germany-Japan axis was formed during WW2.

Those who don’t know history are bound to repeat it. Those who know history are bound to watch helplessly as it happens.

noelreports, to random
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No comment needed.

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mykhaylo,
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@noelreports apparently, according to her, being a “European democracy” means having no balls.

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mykhaylo,
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@otfrom @simon_brooke this. Try clerk.

mykhaylo, to poland
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Oh, cool. So it's ok if an enemy rocket is flying through airspace, as long as it's flying to . "We could have taken the rocket, but we decided not to, cause it was not threatening Poland". I thought the fact that an enemy rocket is flying through your airspace is enough reason to hit it, but no. Poland is ready to let use it to bomb us. As long as it's not Ukrainian grain coming into Poland — they're fine.

https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/rosyjska-rakieta-byla-nad-polska-kosiniak-kamysz-zabral-glos-7009352380488608a

mykhaylo,
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@kravietz interesting, thanks. There’s also this: https://www.rmf24.pl/tylko-w-rmf24/rozmowa-o-7/news-szejna-ambasador-andriejew-wykazal-sie-dezercja-dyplomatyczn,nId,7411894#crp_state=1

kev, to random
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Catching up on some emails at the kitchen table, while my oldest son eats breakfast…

Him: (pointing to my laptop) That Rubik’s Cube and DVD player have been in the water and gone mouldy.

Me: That’s not a DVD player, mate.

Him: Oh yeah, it’s a radio.

…I feel so old.

mykhaylo,
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@kev show him a rotary phone

jasongorman, to random
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"The private sector is where all the innovation happens", he posted using a protocol developed at CERN built on top of communications technology developed by ARPA, on a device powered by technology created for the US Air Force and NASA in the 1960s.

mykhaylo, (edited )
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@Tallish_Tom @jasongorman that question is too simple to describe my position. Purely factually if we can find at least one case of innovation outside of private sector — the point seems to be factually correct. Furthermore, there was innovation before the concept of private property was even discovered, innovation is inherent to humans no matter where and what they do. BUT the original statement was not factual, it had political implications to it. And I strongly disagree with these.

mykhaylo,
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@jasongorman that actually proves this point. You can easily compare Russia and US. They had roughly same military technologies developed at about the same time. In russia thats what they stayed — military. And in US private companies turned them into iphones and laptops. State funding seems to work for fundamental research but is totally unable to turn research into anything but bombs.

kravietz, to Biotechnology
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There’s a strong movement in support of in upcoming European Parliament vote. Interestingly, the support is coming from scientific and environmental experts, including some farmers:

Nearly three dozen Nobel laureates have joined more than 1,000 scientists in urging members of the European Parliament to embrace science-based gene editing technology. New Genomic Techniques, they write in a petition, “hold immense promise for sustainable agriculture, enhanced food security, and innovative medical solutions.”

Surprising? But if you start with the definition of “organic farming” as farming that attempts to minimize negative impact on environment, it makes perfect sense. Genetically organic plant varieties require less herbicides and pesticides and less land, which means they actually do support biodiversity more than traditionally cultivated varieties.

Source: https://globalfarmernetwork.org/a-global-farmer-perspective-on-the-opportunity-offered-with-new-plant-breeding-technology/

mykhaylo,
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@kravietz finally!

louis, to emacs
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From Zero To IDE with Emacs and LSP

https://justinbarclay.ca/posts/from-zero-to-ide-with-emacs-and-lsp/

mykhaylo,
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@louis you can do collaborative coding with Emacs in several different ways. For example: https://code.librehq.com/qhong/crdt.el/

kravietz, to Israel
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MP Zeev Elkin said that acquired its weapons, among others, from and he added that:

> There are some very complicated things going on with Russia, including some statements by the Russian president comparing what is happening in Gaza to World War II, including Russia's decision to send Russia's deputy foreign minister to meet with Hamas leaders after the horrific massacre of women and children.

Source: https://newsisrael.co.il/1850

mykhaylo,
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@joaocosta @kravietz trust me, Putin is supporting every lunatic and scumbag everywhere. That's their foreign policy — destabilize as many regions as possible. Look what we're seeing now: LePen's party in Francs, AfD neo-nazis in Germany, radicals in Spain — all financed by Russia, visited Moscow etc. And this policy isn't even Putin's invention, it comes straight out of the Soviet textbooks.

kravietz, to Russia
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Memoirs of soldier who participated in war in 1979-1989 indicate not much has changed in Russian army culture since:

> In the village one of the sergeants remarked, without hiding his emotion, that 'the young women are good'. The sergeant's words set all the others on fire like a spark, and then he threw off his overcoat and moved on one of the women: — Row, lads! In front of the aksakals and the children, our internationalists had their way with the women. The rape went on for two hours. The children huddled in a corner, screaming and shrieking, trying to help their mothers somehow. The old men, trembling, prayed to their God for mercy and salvation. Then the sergeant commanded, "Fire!" - and was the first to shoot the woman he had just raped. Quickly they finished off all the others as well. Then they poured fuel from the tank of the infantry fighting vehicle, poured it all over the dead bodies, covered them with some clothes, rags and even the scanty wooden furniture and set them on fire. The flames flared up inside the adobe...".

Source: http://afghan-war-soldiers.ru/s00.html

The book documents plenty of cases of rape, indiscriminate killing of civilians, torture and targeted destruction of basic food sources such as orchards or food storages by Soviet army.

As the author of Russian "Be TV" channel notes, in November 1989 USSR enacted an amnesty for all war crimes committed by Soviet troops in course of its invasion in Afghanistan.

Source: https://t.me/Netvru/23501

mykhaylo,
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@kravietz my friend, nothing changed in the centuries since the war described by Tolstoy in Hadji Murat. Russian army always was just a pack of filthy cruel animals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadji_Murat_(novella)

mykhaylo,
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@kravietz read Chapter 17, it's just one page: https://mthoyibi.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/hadji-murad_leo-tolstoy.pdf

mykhaylo, to random
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Launching tasks from . Took about 20 minutes to code. Let me know if you need this as a library. @borkdude

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mykhaylo, to random
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made an library to easily define in-repo@hydra menus: https://github.com/licht1stein/repo-hydra.el

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