Denys Nykula

According to the article, the Israeli buyer denies knowing the wheat is stolen from Ukraine, but I think that’s disingenuous from him. When you’re buying from Russian big business, you already know you’re supporting the empire and what it does.

I think you’re right, there’s need for articles by investigative journalists specialized in European far-right networks research to counter the spin machine of 3rd corps (of which OP’s link is a blatant example). Both domestically and internationally. Unfortunately, this niche is currently void, as the most knowledgeable people formerly dedicated to antifascist journalism are busy in the military now. I encourage people to read the archives of Liva Sprava and Nihilist (if you know the languages), because these blogs were an excellent example of Ukrainians being critically honest about Ukrainian politics, which IMO is the real patriotism.

To read more about the background of Biletskyi, particularly about his promotion of racial cleansing and his article encouraging a “crusade against subhumanity lead by semites”: https://www.nihilist.li/2014/11/09/chto-nam-v-nih-ne-nravitsya-i-andrej-biletskij/

That was from 2014, but more recently, in 2020, Biletskyi and his goons assaulted their own former affilitates (according to their lawyer) who have a reputation of not being far-right enough: https://texty.org.ua/fragments/100953/bileckyj-pobyv-kolyshnih-pobratymiv-za-pidtrymku-sternenka-advokat/

This is the leader, a general. Imagine what lower-ranking soldiers get away with because of the lack of media scrutiny and international attention.

No, I’m Ukrainian. It’s not people who talk about the bad apples that are discrediting the force, it’s the bad apples and those in the force who help them get away with it. There are very dark parts of our society that are unfortunately being whitewashed in the media, even made cult-like, especially for and by Western publications, as long as they have high military reputation. Some of them are fast-tracking neo-Nazis, such as the founder and head of 3rd corps Andrii Biletskyi, into politically respectable figures. Right-wingers who send death threats and do physical attacks on eco-activists, LGBT people, women and immigrants, get a free pass by joining military units, specifically 3rd corps, but not only. I brought the link to highlight how the media spin wing of 3rd corps gives positive publicity to people who do real evil shit. This isn’t isolated, people are just scared of talking about it.

3rd corps is a right-wing division that is recently known for refusing to comment on their members, Vikarii brothers who raped their sisters and killed one by forced hunger, according to Nadia, the survivor. https://babel.ua/texts/126202-tretya-shturmova-opublikuvala-video-pro-matir-yaka-vidpustila-na-front-simoh-siniv-pislya-cogo-jihnya-ridna-sestra-rozkazala-pro-zgvaltuvannya-i-vbivstvo-v-rodini-babel-pidnyav-istoriyu-20-richnoji-da

To make binaries trusted, reproducible builds are a thing. People build the same software from source independently and get the same binaries. Then it can be said that the binaries haven’t added code missing from the source. It is a difficult goal to achieve because how many complex moving parts are needed to build modern software. Much work relies on distributions’ standardized packaging infrastructure. Read more about monthly achievements in this field: https://reproducible-builds.org/

The Vi editing mode in Kate is also good, without a need to install any extensions, just one tick in the settings.

My netbook has a keyboard without Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, Ins and Del keys. Vim and Emacs modes make it significantly more usable while remaining small. Vim is also convenient in Termux, for quick remote fixes from a phone.

For FreshRSS, if you want to run the development version on localhost:

1. apt update && apt install build-essential git

2. Install Docker: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/

3. Clone FreshRSS repository, run make start and finish the installation: https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/developers/02_First_steps.html

The codebase audit link at the bottom is also a really good read!

Haven’t had memory issues on my Windows 11 laptop so I don’t check how much is free. On the other hand, free disk space is jumping between 0 and 10 GB without notification as to what appears or disappears. This is annoyingly unreliable because the space often gets closer to 0 right at the time when I need to Syncthing files with others.

Do you have LUKS-encrypted /boot, or a btrfs boot, or are you using these features on a system partition?

Having a centralized, easy-to-leak database of everyone in the country with stigmatized diagnoses is overall a scary thing that privacy advocates should keep fighting against, in places where it still hasn’t been implemented.

If there’s a need to introduce students to virtual DOM, I’d choose a library that doesn’t require language extensions or editor plugins, but allows to easily code with just the syntax of JS itself: properties as Plain Old JavaScript Objects, map/reduce with arrow functions, ternary operator, variables as usual, components as functions. Adding Mithril to existing WordPress websites for making dynamic parts such as calculators or quizzes was quite straightforward. On the other hand, its API is somewhat less convenient than what React offers.

The quote made me optimistic. It’s a shame that clients followed their own observation about straight-to-the-point websites loading fast and being easy to read, with a degrading remark about the simplicity of such websites. I realize that the point of a web developer job has always been something different than making good websites (as a whole, it’s closer to first making something nice and then trashing it with your own hands), but that’s a dreadful realization.

UK rappers such as Skepta and Stormzy accustomed me to technique, wordplay, sometimes uplifting and other times deadly serious but lively lyrics, and catchy beats. They move me, they inspire me to play with rhymes and samples. Right-wing “AI” prompting seems to take everything fun away from rap music and channel the art form straight into /dev/null. Their character is speaking of a downfall for UK culture when he’s the downfall.

BTW the demand for bigger screens and bigger resolutions is something I don’t easily understand. I notice some difference between 1366x768 and 1920x1080 on a desktop, but the difference from further increase is of so little use for me I’d classify it as a form of bloat. If anything, I now habitually switch to downloading 480p and 720p instead of higher definition by default because it saves me traffic and battery power, and fits much more on a single disk easy to back up.

Refusing plant-based food to inmates is a way for the state to scare people away from practicing civil disobedience, to say: laws matter, ethics doesn’t, and we’ll force you to do unethical things just to punish you for interfering with us doing unethical things in a way we codified as the law. Denying temporarily incapacitated people (students, inmates, patients) plant-based foods is also a way to put pressure on them to conform and not question any unethical decisions made at the top of the hierarchy; you don’t conform - we punish you by making it impossible to eat together with your peers multiple years in a row. It can’t even be explained post factum as a cost-cutting measure, because the state heavily subsidizes people breeding animals to kill and eat them; it’s either a conscious or an ignorant (which is inexcusable for public representatives, as it’s their job to learn and support the needs of everyone they represent) decision to bully certain groups of people whom it’s socially acceptable to bully.

A true AGI also might simply not want to be a programmer or engineer, or might want to work on niche, single-developer projects interesting for them but not of use to wider humanity, like many actual developers do once their $dayjob is over. I can imagine they’ll also be annoyed by slop machine users creating extra boring work for them to shovel through and AI bros getting creepy with them or trying to subordinate them to own wishes.

Gateshead council use heat from water in flooded mines to heat hundreds of homes. It is estimated that a quarter of homes sit above abandoned coal mines which could be used in the same way.

This makes me think, can geothermal energy be a viable way to revitalize Donbas after the war?