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Insimwytim··on Xsnow "protestware" in Debian
So, if someone were to modify a Debian package to show Palestinian flag for Hebrew speakers or Iranian flag for ...Enligsh speakers, the change won't be instantly reverted and the user won't be restricted, right?
Insimwytim··on British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
DST works fine with Unix timestamps.

It's the scheduling changes that disrupt DST switch (or something else) need adjusting to. But this is usually planned in advance and everyone would (or at least should...) update their tzdata.

The amount of issues you'll have due to those (comparatively rare) changes cannot even begin to compare to the amount issues you'll have with datetime stored in timezones.

Insimwytim··on I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M
Wouldn't you have to "consent" first?

What if you didn't and did not proceed with the process? Can you complain still?

As in - if you didn't give your consent there's no violation has occurred and they don't have your data, so nothing to ask for?

Insimwytim··on Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems
Whole lot of nothing.

This isn't about payment technologies, it's not about isolating transactions, it's about scaling the middle layer. What's worse it's not even explained what middle layer does.

No info on how routing works, no info on data synchronization.

Folks just learning Kubernetes and write extremely abstract stuff.

Insimwytim··on I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M
There's also issue with EU companies forcing candidates to agree to their anti-privacy policies (confusingly named "privacy policies") as a requirement before the job interview.

Those anti-privacy policies will state, that you grant the company and third-parties (so, anyone) permissions to use your data (including voice and image) for any purpose. (Of course, it is stated in a slightly obscure fashion, so a layman may not comprehend it.)

I wonder if there has been any similar action taken against those.

Insimwytim··on The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat
"Potemkin village" - a fake propaganda narrative, created by Saxony's embassy clerk Helbig. He conveniently told that story in Hamburg, a decade later after the trip (which he wasn't a part of).

Charles-Joseph de Ligne (who has been part of said journey) regarded such tales as preposterous.

Insimwytim··on Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
Iran is blocking internet for months, US ...bans creation of secure connections - that'll show 'em!

Russian quasi-government structures are spending quadrillion of rubles on a TSPU (censorship system) to spy on Russian residents, US ...helps them by making snooping on what is currently encrypted traffic possible by banning accessible encryption!

Insimwytim··on Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows

  Enable JavaScript

  This site requires JavaScript to function properly. Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. 
The way I see it, if you go for keyboard-only approach you aim for efficiency. And then you build a site, that doesn't work without javascript at all. Which is a contradiction if you ask me.
Insimwytim··on Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers
> toxic "so smart I can't communicate" superstars

This is your framing, which is openly hostile to people, that you chose as your enemies. And that framing itself is a great demonstration of toxicity.

The whole narrative is just an attack on engineers, who do the job, coming from the side of the so-called "communicators".

Insimwytim··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
Those new obfuscated links prevent old.reddit to work.

Is there a way for you to post proper direct links?

Insimwytim··on Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout
Fascinating.

I use NoScript, not 'javascript.enabled' setting.

I checked more closely and here is what appears to be missing:

  Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://static.ietf.org/dt/12.65.2/ietf/bootstrap-icons.5b9cac4e.woff. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null).
Bootstrap icons.

  Block javascript - icons won't load.
  Allow javascript - icons load.
  Block javascript again - icons load, unless tab is closed and then opened again.
This behavior has been observed previously.

I tried to selectively block css to see how it's tied to javascript.

  Block javascript, block css from static.ietf.org - icons won't load, page layout is broken.
  Allow javascript, block css from static.ietf.org - the icons won't load, layout is fine.
Evidently, with javascript blocked, layout css loads fine, but bootstrap icons only able to load when javascript is not blocked.

'javascript.enabled' setting seem to has no effect on icons. However, unlike NoScript, it does not provide any domain separation/granularity.

Insimwytim··on Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter
> Sergei Korolev, the literal architect of the Soviet space program, was sent to the Gulag, where he lost his teeth to scurvy and survived a broken jaw

That's just a scary tale, that was created long after he died.

> Trofim Lysenko’s fraudulent agricultural theories were deemed "more communist."

Not exactly. His "fraudulent" theories delivered real value, and saved millions of people from starving. But he didn't belong to fancy scientific establishment (which traveled to conferences abroad while studying things with no impact to the people). He was a regular man, with experience working on land and with an aim for a practical results. He was not from "the club". So said establishment hated him and seized the first opportunity to attack him. Said establishment in all forms and shapes still hates him and other talented outsiders.

Discussion between Trofim Lysenko and his challengers actually public - you can read it yourself, not distorted conclusion-ready version presented by his haters.

I'm not saying you are wrong on all counts, but at least with those two examples you seem to just follow the usual narrative.

Insimwytim··on Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter
> overly-centralized nature of national resource and economic strategy and planning.

This is a common misconception. Supported by the Soviet Union government in the 80s.

The fact is, that the efforts to sabotage and disband central planning started as early as 1954.

In 1954 an executive order of 14 Oct 1954 reduced the amount of administrative personnel by 450 thousands.

The amount of metrics went down from 9 940 to 6 308 in 1954, to 3 081 in 1955, and to 1 780 in 1958.

Khrushchev moved most of the planning power from central planning institution to the regions and down to the factories and enterprises. What previously was strict targets from the center now became soft suggestions.

Imagine you are a CTO and your workforce is heavily reduces and the goals you set are considered to be a mere suggestions. Not a very efficient instrument indeed. But not because it is overly-centralized.

Insimwytim··on Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout
> I set the "javascript.enabled" preference in Firefox 151 to "false" and reload the page

Do it the other way around - disable javascript first, clear cache/open incognito (maybe close/open browser after that just for good measure), then go to the page.

If you load it with javascript first - buttons icons stay loaded after you disable it.

Insimwytim··on A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft
> At that elevation at Mach‑5, air around the nose and leading edges can reach temperatures exceeding 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832°F), a challenge the U.S. Air Force has struggled to overcome with its own hypersonic jets.

> To handle that level of heat, engineers constructed an advanced thermal‑protection system that maintained the aircraft's interior near normal operating temperature, allowing the onboard avionics and control electronics to function normally.

Hindenburg 2.0 waiting to happen

Insimwytim··on Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout
On a side note, buttons icons on this page won't load without javascript. I cannot comprehend what would justify such decision.
Insimwytim··on I manage teams without a single call
Yeah, one side is using phones, the other - signal detection system to launch drone strikes[1].

[1] https://calebhearth.com/dont-get-distracted

Insimwytim··on I manage teams without a single call
If you don't care about privacy, consent and other ethical implications.
Insimwytim··on Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages
My LTS Firefox deemed too old by this page. (302 to https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/cspace-bad/cspace-old-browser....)

Hasn't happened just a month ago or so.

Funnily enough, curl (not a recent version, I might add) works fine.

P.S. Downvote all you want, but provide a reason. My message just stated facts, not an opinion.

Insimwytim··on Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox
The design of this webpage is horrendous.
Insimwytim··on When Rails-way does not work anymore?
HTTP 406 "Your browser is not supported" (whatever that means) seems like a misuse of a response code, no?

In any case, I would not advise anyone to take any advice in web-development from someone who does this.

P.S. My browser is quite fine, release age wise, not that it should matter.

Insimwytim··on Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
Somebody said "alien" she thought they said "illegal alien" and signed up!

P.S. I just couldn't resist, sorry

Insimwytim··on Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
This wikipedia article is a great example of degenerate propaganda, that permeates anything historical/political on wikipedia.

It doesn't even worth trying to correct, since correcting would imply that it has some worthy material, which it doesn't.

Insimwytim··on Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

  > restaurant menus
Well, that's easy to deal with - don't go the restaurants that openly disrespect you.

Out of all the examples you have presented everything had worked somehow without phones not so long ago.

Maybe, with the exception of online public transit status streaming. And public transit still works without it.

Insimwytim··on Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks
> USSR nearly made whales extinct

USSR barely accounted for 15% of the world caught amount (with Japan as the leader).

> that nobody wanted to eat

unsubstantiated.

Insimwytim··on Software Internals Book Club
It requires javascript as well.
Insimwytim··on EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
> attributed to Felix Dzerzhinsky

You can attribute it to George Washington or Louis XIV with the same level of verifiability/veracity.

Insimwytim··on OP's script shuts down every single computer in the company
With auto redirect to old.reddit I can't access that.

Went to hot post on the sub, and it's [1], apparently

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1ta0h9u/i_am_goin...

Insimwytim··on Our newsroom AI policy
First, they broke page loading without javascript, now they slopifying reporting.
Insimwytim··on Mozilla Thunderbolt
On the bright side - it doesn't load without javascript ...in Firefox...
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