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@Hyolobrika @kravietz @tml

Sorry for this mess, friends 😣
I should making an account on an instance that doesn't have such a short character limit.

@Hyolobrika
But there sure were earlier precedents — such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky's case in the very beginning of Putin's rise to power. I wanted to elaborate on it further in our other thread — the one about Lithium in Mexico, but my reply got too long and I wasn't even close to finishing my thought,, so I decided not to post it 🤭

@kravietz @tml

@Hyolobrika
Back to our days — it *used* to be an overstatement, although companies leaving Russia being forced to transfer their assets to new owners for a morsel of their real value was close enough to that already, but now we have an excellent case in point: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-exiled-journalist-his-wife-are-extremist-group-2024-07-03/
Your family gets declared an extremist group and gets stripped of all property, pretty neat, huh?

@kravietz @tml

@Hyolobrika
In any case — this is why the Soviet "socialist" system fell into the right soil: people weren't used to owning anything, no such *tradition* — and now they didn't own a thing again, not much changed. Those who did — wealthy peasants "kulaks" and remnants of old noblety were declared enemies and were stripped of all property, either jailed or exiled (sounds familiar? 😅).

@kravietz @tml

@Hyolobrika
Richard Pipes (who is considered a major Russophobe by Russian authorities) has a theory about why Russia is this way and lack of private property is the core problem.
Sure — not only Russia had absolute monarchy, but it didn't last that long anywhere in Europe. In part, it was the reason why Russian Empire ceased to exist: these reforms were long overdue and it, among other things, was the reason for serious political crisis.

@kravietz @tml

@Hyolobrika
It's not about socialism — it never really existed in Russia… ever. Not for everyone, but even for the privileged class, part of what the Decembrists were fighting for was constitution — to limit the absolute monarchy. You go against the Tsar (state) — you lose everything. Even physical punishment for the nobles wasn't out of the question in those times.

@kravietz @tml

@iska
Sterilising strays is humane — cellar of an average block of flats in big cities is littered with dead kittens who never manage to get out, some die of wounds they get from encounters with other animals such as stray dogs — before they learn to fight or evade them by climbing trees, some become roadkill… 😿
I find them never getting born preferrable to dying this way.

@kravietz @maniamakash @tml
Whether those are formally private enterprises or controlled by a state-approved officials, only matters to those who care about semantics more than they do about the essence — they are the ones who are supposed to get fooled by the newspeak. War isn't as bad if we call it "special military operation", right? 😉

@kravietz @maniamakash @tml
There was a time of turbulence, but now it's back to the way it was before, I find the term "state capitalism" itself part of the newspeak that was common in USSR. We all know that these "private" companies aren't independent entities — go against the state and you might get exiled, jailed or even assassinated. There are no economic liberties and as we can clearly see now — no private property either (which never really existed in Russia).

@kravietz @maniamakash @tml
I sometimes use the term "former Eastern Bloc countries": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc
Which is I think correct and I find it useful — to indicate that the countries economic system transitioned away from what it was in times of the USSR.
And I use ex-Soviet sometimes when speaking about countries which were part of USSR formerly.
Neither can be applied to Yugoslavia though.
And yes, of course you can't say "post" about Russia itself — as it never transitioned away.

@gabrielesvelto
That was a joke — I may not always like the architectural changes in FF, but I have to admit, it's really well optimized the way it is now — to the point that it performs better than Palemoon, which was forked before FF got Electrolysis (I think🤔), even on anemic machines with single-core 32-bit CPUs, such as old Thinkpad T43 with Pentium-M that I have.
Even with no SMP or SMT Firefox might get slow, but remains responsive, while Palemoon fails to even redraw its UI at times.

@adiz @newt
And I'm pretty sure that's exactly what would have happened — trivial to implement, had he not taken his usual "bullying the one I don't agree with into submission stance".
He's not wrong about a lot of things — he's just poor at handling real people and sadly, he's not the only one like that 😩

@adiz @newt
It's not about favicons per se — I can see what he's coming at, getting an extra request with every page request when it comes to something as minimal as Gemini does make a difference and this is a valid concern.
It could've be handled differently, e.g. requesting favicon.txt only when you're adding the page to bookmarks — makes perfect sense as you don't see the favicon anywhere else.

@gabrielesvelto
> Firefox can easily reach 150 active threads
Bring back the option to turn e10s off 😂

@theorytoe
For fucks sake, why did the phone replace "right" with "didn't"?! 🤬

@theorytoe
Nah, they only do it when it's some dev, who might hold opinions hostile to them, but who otherwise has zero impact over their lives, and whom they can safely pick on.
They will keep using Node.js even if Google starts gassing them: "What choice do I have?"
So pathetic! 🤦
They seem to have also forgotten that cancel culture wasn't about harassing the one they don't like days on end. Bullying is only bad when bad people do it, didn't? 😏

@santiago
> from internal IDE drive (fast enough really)
When I boot an old Mac from its internal "spinning rust" drive, I get the vibes that it has an SSD — simply because having bazillion things running in the background simply wasn't common back in the days, so starting them up didn't take forever 😂

@tennoseremel
Ну, «говно» там судя по всему давно уже варили — в славном городе Тосно, а вот пицца — действительно что-то новое 😂
@neural_meduza