@gemlog
Yep, sure, I'm keeping my addresses on Proton domains — protonmail.ch and others, but I'm thinking of switching to self-hosting for my own ones: m0xEE.Net .Org and .Com
I'll look into Contabo, thank you!
@gemlog
Does it come with a dedicated IPv4 address?🤔
Maybe it's time to ditch Proton and self-host my e-mail?
@Mek101
Yeah, true in many cases — could probably be mitigated with proper design. I mean at least something like exception within exception handler leading to runtime abort won't happen, which, again, depending on design, might be okay or a total disaster 😂
@Mek101
In C that would probably be okay though: no exceptions (on programming language level) and no destructors 🤔
@pmwisse
I've switched away from Macs to sway and dwm to not have any fancy effects at all 😂
Starting with OS X 10.10 when Apple doubled down on transparency it became too heavy on the eyes for me to use comfortably — what maybe looked nice on a 15" laptop screen was absolutely unbearable on two 30" displays, it was giving me headaches. They have since backed down on it a bit — but I'm not looking back.
@j @Turkleton
He sure enjoys being near the water — not the first time I see you taking him for walkies and he always enjoys exploring this small pond/canal 😸
Does he always stay nearby when you take him outside like that?
@notsoloud
There's no need to go for any higher-level concepts — for Russia it's middle ages all over again.
Even USSR wasn't much different — I have a long post in which I elaborate on that, but it's on my instance, which is currently under heavy load, I don't think you would be able to access it, I can send you a link later.
@notsoloud
Neither colonial, nor anti-colonial fits Russia, but feudal — these describes the nature of processes perfectly.
This also explains why Russia can maintain ties to other autocratic states, but can't tolerate democracies — because that is unacceptable in feudal system: serfs weren't allowed to choose their lords. Russia itself is becoming a vassal state of China — this also works in feudal system.
@notsoloud
A good example of this is the news from two weeks ago: Pooteen have written off 20 billions (!) of debts of African states. To a left-leaning western person it might even seem that Russia is anti-colonial, but let's look at this closely: would most people in these African countries get any of that? I seriously doubt that, this money was taken from Russians by Pooteen and given to the groups in power in these African countries — he's buying himself vassals in Africa.
@notsoloud
I can only recall one period from Russian history when just being Russian granted you any privileges — right after the fall of Kazan, over Tatars.
Otherwise political and social system in Russia predates that of nation states (I think using the word "nationalism" to describe anything happening in Russia is misusing the term) and even empires. So what is it then? I think it's something from earlier ages — feudalism!
@notsoloud
Well, I think it makes sense to discuss every particular case separately, but I do think that Russian Empire was empire in name only — Peter the Great liked the idea being an emperor, that is why he slapped the word over without any underlying meaning. Were citizens of "metropole" ever benefitting from "colonies" — no, most of them weren't even citizens legally.
@kravietz
Russian propaganda and disinformation campaigns use words having completely different meanings in Russia and to the audience in developed countries, and I think this is being done on purpose.
@kravietz
Russians from poorer regions die in this was just as Buryats do — with nothing to gain from it. Whose fault is that is a different question.
Just as US conservatives seem to believe that Pooteen claiming Russia having "traditional" society implies that being male means having some privileges, and they don't seem to realise that you can't… e.g. have divorce rates like that in any traditional society (in their sense).
@kravietz
I'm against using it not because I want to present Russians as victims, but because it doesn't describe the true nature of what's going on, once you start using anti-colonial vocabulary familiar to the western audience, their line of thinking falls into that groove that it can't get out of: they start thinking that being Russian means being privileged, as if Chechens or Buryats fight in this was for their Russian masters — but it's not even remotely like that.
@kravietz
That is precisely why I've been telling you that you should never let them apply anti-colonial agenda to Russia as is — they don't seem to realise that "priviledged" Russian man is just as disenfranchised in his own country as any member of a minority — unless he's a cop or a government official. Yep, there are ethnic minorities in Russia — and yes, their culture is often being erased, but this doesn't mean that most Russians ever benefited from it as serfdom pre-dates all that.
@kevinrothrock
I think he wanted to note that people should distinguish tactical missiles from e.g. ICBMs, for tactical missiles ATACMS indeed have long range, but by range class they still are SRBMs — short-range ballistic missiles 🤷
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-range_ballistic_missile
@Kancept
I'm not against having this built-in by any means, but check out this CSS file: https://m0xEE.Net/pub/night.css
It dims all images except the ones you hover your cursor over. You can alter it to suit your needs and inject it into CSS of your instance with uBO.
@kevinrothrock
No, that's against our traditional values! Using Tarot card reading would've been perfect! 😏
@smallcircles @pixelcode
Oh… Yep, I remember the term back from the days when Guido van Rossum was appointed as one (and didn't mind much), I suppose much of this theory didn't exist at the time (yet).
Thanks for the link, I'll look into it!
@TomSeppert @fulelo
Oh! This instance uses a fork of old version of Masto, it didn't support editing posts at the time 😅
Thanks for the update!
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Just in case: DMs/PMs simply don't exist on this instance as concept — don't use them, use the other instance if you absolutely have to, or send an email to any address at m0xEE.Net or .Com or .Org, but I prefer keep most communication public.