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> "Russia felt threatened"

Are you Russian top military executive or a president of Russia?

No? Then don't speak what Russia did or did not feel.

> No. Nobody wants to invade Russia.

Then don't name Russia as the most probable enemy in your militaristic charts in your military alliance that keeps on expanding beyond reasonable limits.

And don't expand your military alliance that close to Russia's borders.

> The deal since the end of the cold war has been this: Russia can do whatever the hell it likes inside its own borders.

The other side of the deal was NATO not getting any expansions packs. But oh, shoot, it just slipped and happened to expand to... how many countries since Soviet Union got dissolved? ah?

Destroying Soviet Union was not enough for the West and so it wants a piece of Russia now? If you think so - then come and die in Ukraine, you are welcome there.

> So why did this current attack start? It's been 3 years and there's a dozen theories as to why exactly, there is no "strong reason" anywhere to be seen. > Again, why is Russia in Ukraine then?

The strong reason for this attack was Russia's security concerns got ignored and stepped on by a military alliance (NATO).

The military alliance that claims Russia to be their most probable enemy and thus a military alliance AGAINST Russia.

The military alliance first broke some spoken agreement with Russian of non-expansion of said military alliance. Then did that again and again to the point where NATO wanted to advance in its expansion so much far as to the neighboring country to Russia.

This is simply not acceptable for Russia, so it had to prevent that expansion, which it did. It could only be done by force, if the other side refused to drop possibilities of joining NATO. They didn't drop them - they got invaded for demilitarization. They resist - they die. The ones who don't resist (civilians) - aren't targeted at all (however, in a war there are always casualties among civilians).

> They went from being brethren to portraying Ukrainians as fascist scum that need to be exterminated. Why is that?

Because that's what Ukrainian officials policy was towards Russian natives living on their land and daring to speak their native Russian language.

> I really can't see how you can confidently say that if only Russia was let into NATO 30 years ago this current situation wouldn't have happened.

How is that not clear? If Russia would be part of NATO - it would have 0 security concerns of NATO expanding up to its borders. If there would be no security concerns - it wouldn't start the special operation, there simply would be no reason to, as Ukraine would probably in that case be a part of NATO as well (as well as Belarus and probably Kazakhstan and some other ex-USSR *stans)! Just that simple.

Crimea was a disputed region. Russia had claims for it right after the Soviet Union got dissolved, as Crimea was always a Russian territory, not Ukrainian. But secretary general of Soviet Union acting as an individual, without any referendums or something alike decided to just give Crimea as a present to Ukraine. That even happened in the times when it didn't mean much: Russia and Ukraine were the save country - Soviet Union, that's why no one bothered to correct him then and there. It was more of just a gesture. And how can it not be? There was a Russian military base on that peninsula! Who lives on that peninsula? like >90% are Russian nationals. It was Russian de-facto, but just not de-jure.

Granted by United Nations - every nation has a right for self-determination, so Russia did some not-so-legal actions by holding a referendum there, just so that the people of Crimea could exercise their right for self-determination. Which they then successfully did and overwhelming majority voted for being with Russia, rather than with Ukraine.

These were just the facts, not opinions.

Now there is the place for some opinions: you think (as far as I understand) that this is when Russia started a war.

And I say I don't see these events as Russia starting war, since the annexation of Crimea was voluntary and happened without a single shot.

I don't know of any examples of wars happening without a single shot.

I think the consequential actions of Ukraine (that got mad by the fact that it just lost some part of their country due to separatism) is when the war started.

That's when a few other regions claimed they'd like to join Russia as well and that's when Ukraine attacked them.

I'm sorry, but that makes no sense to me. An attack has to have very strong reasons, as any attack is very costly, no oligarch would spend money for no reason.

So they would seek some gain then, right?

What could an oligarch possibly gain from starting a war with an allied neighboring country?

And why doesn't U.S. attack other NATO members now?

Surely it has (and had) as much oligarchy (if not more) as Russia has. (I hope you won't argue it doesn't? Since even something as ridiculous as the fact of having lobbying being absolutely legal - just can't coexist with the lack of oligarchs quite by nature/definition).

Because extrapolating with little data is stupid.

https://xkcd.com/605/

You make no sense: why would Russia do it then?

It does now for the very clear reasons:

1. NATO, while being openly hostile towards Russia (you may read the current NATO's doctrine where Russia is named as the #1 probable enemy of NATO), attempted to expand to Ukraine, which is just not acceptable (to Russia) at all.

2. Russian nationals (and Russian speaking Ukrainian nationals) got oppressed in Ukraine, but that happened mostly as a result of the division of country into two parts where one was pro-Russian and the other was pro-West (EU, NATO).

I don't think the 2nd reason would even occur, since if Russia was in NATO - it would rather even seek Ukraine then joining it too. There would be no 'maidans' (coups) in Ukraine, there would be no division of the country and thus the oppression of Russian nationals (and Russian speaking Ukrainian nationals) just wouldn't have taken place then.

I think the conflicts concerning Russia then would rather shift towards Middle East (like Turkey having some beef with Russia over who supports whom in Iran, Palestine, Israel and so on) and maybe towards China/India.

I love this blog even though I usually get nothing from the articles that I didn't know before. Still read it and still love it.

You have to think from time to time.

If there are even NDAs that forbid mentioning their existence - how would you cite them?

And here we're talking about 3-letter agencies in U.S.

Of course they have the access and of course you can't ever prove it. One could even argue that Julian Assange didn't leak anything and it's all lies and he can't prove it, lol.

The law? Not even US president cares about the law, then why would 3 letter agencies do?

Thank you for the change then. I liked the video with narration.

What do you mean by "a video that changes"?

I liked the video-example, it's way better than examples in many projects that use just text, when the tool does something quite complex that better be demonstrated in a video with a narrator explaining what's happening and why.

Just use an older branch of drivers (like 535).

Or maybe even GAELN.

How to link (or even just obtain) the gif/video from that page?

It is not showing up on the 'Network' tab in Chromium's Developer tools.

Do I get it right that they have 0 (zero, nada) visualization of what the keys of the current layout would do?

If so - then it sounds even worse than learning vim arcane spells / motions and bindings.

Or are there any h/w alternatives to Optimus Maximus [0]?

[0] - https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/

Torvalds lost respect of a lot of people, that's the most important thing.

No need for sarcasm, maybe target auditory already knows what 'rope' is.

Sentry is not horizontally scalable, thus ~ not-scalable at all, if your company is big.

To be a smart-ass, one has to be smart first. Quit this.

You missed some.

- SSH: Secure SHell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell)

- PKI: Public Key Infrastructure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_infrastructure)

- US: United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States)

How does its functionality differ from the logiops package?

Oh, I didn't mean you personally, I hoped you acted as a team and you were part of the team making this decision.

This is whataboutism. Let me mirror that back: did this new all so lgbtqzxc-friendly Mozilla get any browser market gains with their Firefox lately?

hCaptcha is worse, than reCaptcha.

I pass the captcha (I am not blind and not using accessibility account) and get response like

Your response to the CAPTCHA appears to be invalid. Please re-verify that you're not a robot below. (Reference ID: 4035128747213959)

And you are given captcha again (passing which will have the same result).

reCaptcha had similar issue, but choosing 'accessibility' would transform the captcha from visual to auditory one and passing it had no such problems.

In the end I just gave up.

I think your project needs a 'Comparison to Kibana' section. Sell your project to me: I am currently using Kibana, why should I switch?

What do we say in such cases? It was good while it lasted!

Once that happens - eventually some new kids would appear on the block.

Such is the life.

This is just pure gold of an anecdote :-)

A program is either opensourced or not. When its sources aren't available - one should never trust "it doesn't phone home" claims.

Only if you work on your hobbies.

Why do you think so? I think it's an achievement and I'd welcome more similar ones for other over-hyped web techs.