Elias @eliasr@librem.one

@giffengrabber

Hej hej. För min del är det meningen att jag ska jobba idag, så gott det nu går. Trött, borde ha gått och lagt mig tidigare igår.

@niclas

Second, it's not so much that a democracy never goes to war, it's more that democracies tend to not go to war against each other. It is possible for a democracy, even a well functioning democracy, to go to war. But it will not happen without very strong reasons, and it will not be about attacking another democracy. People will never think that attacking another democracy is justified, and therefore a democracy (if it works well) will not do that.

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@otso @alexl@mstdn.io

@niclas

A better functioning democratic system (than the current situation in USA) would mean more power to people and less power to huge companies. (Please note that USA is a pretty damn good democracy if we compare it to Russia which is not a democracy at all. For example, USA has real political opposition, you do not know in advance who will win elections, and people have freedom of speech.)

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@otso @alexl@mstdn.io

@niclas

I have two answers to that:

First, the democracy in USA is far from perfect. In particular it seems like companies wanting to make money have too much influence, which I think has contributed to USA being at war more than what would have been the case otherwise. Simply put, the military industry has a lot of power, they want business and for them, war means more business.

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@otso @alexl@mstdn.io

@ruffni@mstdn.io have a look at MNT Reform, although you may have to wait a long time for it, in my experience you cannot trust the shipping dates they give.

@mntmn any news on when mine might get delivered? Ordered in Oct 2020. Still hoping it will eventually arrive.

@otso @alexl@mstdn.io

Please don't help Putin spread his lies. Instead, support freedom and democracy.

Note that supporting freedom and democracy is not necessarily the same thing as supporting the US.

Can we agree that freedom is good and that Putin's regime is bad?

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@otso @alexl@mstdn.io

Unfortunately, people in Russia do not have democracy and they do not have free speech. That seems to me like the fundamental problem that lead to war. If Russia had been more democratic then this war would not be happening. People generally don't want war. (I call it war although in Russia saying that is apparently not allowed, no freedom of speech there.)

As for Ukraine, you might not like its leaders but it's clearly a more democratic country compared to Russia.

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@otso @alexl@mstdn.io

I get the impression that you dislike the US and Israel. Fine, but if you let that drive you all the way to supporting Putin then I urge you to stop and think for a moment.

Here are things I want, things I care about:

- Freedom
- Democracy
- Human rights
- Free speech
- Peace

I want this for everyone.

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@alexl@mstdn.io Well, reddit sucks, sure.

> Russia is trying to free Ukraine from #Nazists

Are you seriously going to contribute to spreading that ridiculous claim? Why?

How about sticking to facts?

@redstarfish

It was just some hours ago:

https://hostux.social/@fsf/107881890610476326

https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-announces-new-executive-director-zoe-kooyman

@eastcoastweb

More things to test:

ping4 analytics.google.com

ping6 analytics.google.com

Both should work, if you have both ipv4 and ipv6 working. You could also check:

nslookup analytics.google.com

and compare to what you get on a computer where you can connect, to see if it's DNS issue.

@eastcoastweb I can connect to analytics.google.com but I don't want to 😉

You could check with telnet to port 80 and/or 443 ?

@libreleah

I really appreciate the clear explanation in this graphic, but I don't understand why you would include the trash-talking of linux-libre at the bottom.

If you cut out the unnecessary part about linux-libre/BSD/Alpine, then I think you have a very nice graphic that might help more people understand the issue.

Don't say that linux-libre is garbage, that is simply not true: linux-libre is what it is, and depending on what someone wants it may or may not be useful for them.

@redstarfish You should have written the test first, before the feature existed. ;-)

Unimpressed by the planning of the current winter #olympics for several reasons:

- Major mistake #1: hosted in a dictatorship
- Major mistake #2: hosted on dates colliding with #fosdem

@kop316

You deserve credit for sure, many thanks for all your work on getting MMS working!

@purism