m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@doctor_zoidberg @kravietz
Few remember that now, but before invading Ukraine, Russian troops were deployed in Kazakhstan in 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Kazakh_unrest
> Putin described the intervention as a concerted effort to protect regional allies from what he described as colour revolutions instigated by foreign interference"
Annexing a part of KZ was the alternative, but China told him to get out. He knew that at least some people would support another conflict with UA — so he went that route.

@doctor_zoidberg @kravietz
As sad as it is to admit, but a lot of people genuinely welcomed the Crimea annexation. Besides — now poor economic performance could be pinned on sanctions! Which as we know weren't even remotely effective.
He tried to repeat the success with Syria, but few were interested in that conflict. At that point people have readjusted to the new economic realities, but suddenly a pandemic broke out, this was a serious problem.
Time for another victorious war?

@doctor_zoidberg @kravietz
Exactly!
> they can accept any misery, as long as their closest neighbours are as poor as themselves
Not only that — the economy was doing more or less fine till 2013, but oil prices started dropping and this would've slowed down the economic growth drastically. At the same time in 2011-2013 people were protesting.
Seeing poor economic performance more people could've joined the protesters, so he had to respond — and short victorious war isn't exactly a new trick.

@annika
You're lucky you never had an opportunity to take a cab somewhere in Eastern Europe or like… Turkey, being Russian a few years ago.
"Oh! Pooteen!!! YES!!!" 🤩
In most cases they knew nothing about Russian politics, and just wanted to act friendly, assuming you belong to the majority — but it always felt awkward 😬

@kaia
So, in a way, you're following her footsteps?

@kaia
Patients?

@doctor_zoidberg
Not too different I'd say, our "used car salesman" just managed to make it big — Russia is a rich country. Well, it could be were it not for him 🤭

@kravietz @elpolacodesplegado

@ThatCrazyDude
No, I don't think allowing them preach is what they mean — he called AfD the only hope for Germany. Still not enough to call it election interference, but endorsing a party is a far shot from not censoring them.

@slashdot
OK

@mirabilos
> with an attempt at a fallback licence
I see where your scepticism is coming from, but I doubt it would ever happen in this case — it's a single-person hobby project unlikely to ever grow into something bigger.

Again, I do not insist, it's certainly not that kinda thing you can't live without, it's just "interesting" and that's it.

@swaggboi
I use ProtonMail for my domains, I was thinking of self-hosting, but I don't want to do it at home — power outages and email servers aren't best friends 😅
And paying for VPS turned out more expensive, and I need Proton's VPN anyway.
If you want Outlook/Hotmail without OAuth2, check this out: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy
I couldn't get SMTP to work, but IMAP access works fine.

@mirabilos
Not that I insist, it just seemed interesting to me 🤷
It's very capable despite being in the early stages — so it's just not old enough to be in Debian repos, besides it's in Nim and I'm not sure Debian even ships software like that.
What license does it use? 🤔

@swaggboi
Well, no big deal — I've used fetchmail to download it all.
And I still have my Outlook account. They don't make it easy to use it, now they have introduced that OAuth2 shit, but there are still ways around it. I keep it because I think I have Windows and maybe some other licenses on it.

@swaggboi
I've lost one of my very old email accounts on Yandex when they introduced app passwords last year, and I couldn't get in via web interface to generate one — obviously I didn't use my real identity so I could not answer any questions.
And I have deleted my Gmail account myself, they kept insisting on having my phone number so I couldn't get in 9 times out of 10. Funny enough, they didn't let me download the archive without giving them phone number, but let me delete the account 🤦

@mirabilos
There is a new (and really good) TUI browser — chawan, it has decent CSS support and also supports Gemini, it can display images if your terminal emulator supports sixel — and for some reason it even supports WebPee. Yeah, I know… I should patch it out.

Sorry for not providing a link, I'm on my phone, you can look it up on SourceHut. The browser itself is defitely worth checking out, among terminal browsers I think it's as good as elinks if not better.

@swaggboi
I'm thinking of deleting my Deviant Art account, but I'm not sure its recovery email account still exists 😂