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"There can be no peace with Russia, just as there could have been no peace with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945," says researcher (cepa.org)

“There can be no pax russica. This is what would result from a surrender to the self-described peace lobby, a disparate grouping that never specifies just how many Ukrainian concessions would be possible and acceptable,” says Nicolas Tenzer, Chairman of the Center for Studies and Research on Political Decision (CERAP) and...

Rose,

You don’t have to be a researcher to understand that. Just don’t be Elon Musk.

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Mirage seems to be doing a great job at being respectful to the culture but I hope for a major game that gets people to change their view of Islam as inherently militant or in any way inferior to Christianity.

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His grandfather J. N. Haldeman was a staunch anti-Communist from Canada who in the nineteen-thirties and forties had been a leader of the anti-democratic and quasi-fascist Technocracy movement. (Technocrats believed that scientists and engineers should rule.) “In 1950, he decided to move to South Africa,” Isaacson writes, “which was still ruled by a white apartheid regime.” In fact, apartheid had been declared only in 1948, and the regime was soon recruiting white settlers from North America, promising restless men such as Haldeman that they could live like princes. Isaacson calls Haldeman’s politics “quirky.” In 1960, Haldeman self-published a tract, “The International Conspiracy to Establish a World Dictatorship & the Menace to South Africa,” that blamed the two World Wars on the machinations of Jewish financiers.

Rose,

Some people previously saw Vladimir Putin as being an incrementalist, certainly aggressive, but careful within that. And you could say that the invasion of Ukraine was certainly not incremental, except perhaps by some crazy logic

It was incremental in that he first tested his strength inside Russia, in Chechnya. Then he moved on to Georgia, then Syria, then Crimea and the Donbas, and finally the rest of Ukraine.

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Epic actually invested in Godot with their MegaGrant. Godot is also available on the Epic store.

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It’s very rare that those who hate Epic also hate Valve though, so it’s not about standing against a corporation. People just defend what they are used to and Epic disrupts that.

Rose,

GOG has 0.5 to 2% of the market share, so I see no contradiction in my point on the scenario being rare.

Rose,

Opposing it? EOS supports Linux, EAC works on the Deck, and Epic regularly invest in things like Lutris. Sure, there are no native Linux ports on the Epic store, but that’s not been the general direction of the industry either. Proton/Wine can still be used to run the games sold by Epic.

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Rocket League also dropped Mac support, which would be perfectly compatible with the store, so you can’t argue it was about Linux. The actual reason was the need to upgrade to DX11.

Payday 2 has no connection to Epic, but it’s common for developers to revisit and update games when releasing on a new platform. For example, the upcoming Steam port of THPS 1+2 even has a new developer behind it, and set to include achievements and potentially other perks.

There are also games like Rust that have dropped native Linux support without any ties to Epic.

Edit: Fixed an improperly formatted link.

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PIA removed their Russian servers for this very reason.

Rose,

Sure, there are neo-Nazis in Ukraine and there’s no denying that Azov has that past. The Russian Volunteer Corps fighting for Ukraine is composed of neo-Nazis and there are multiple other Russian neo-Nazis now on the side of Ukraine.

There are also neo-Nazis fighting for Russia. The Wagner and Rusich groups for example.

More importantly, at the helm of Russia, there is a real fascist with a track record of countless acts of murder committed to further his idea of a great nation. Any ideological Nazi is like child’s play in comparison, so I see no issue with Ukraine choosing the lesser evil and using those dreamers to fight another Hitler wannabe, just as they did Stalin in the years of Bandera.

Rose,

The closer equivalent existed since 2005 and did a lot to prepare the Russians to the invasion, as they would often paint Putin’s opponents as Nazis controlled by the West and attack them.

Rose,

According to Wikipedia, Steam made over 3 billion in 2017, but they also earn from microtransactions primarily in Dota 2 and CS:GO, which continue to be some of the most played games on Steam.

Rose,

Even long before the war, it was clear that Russia would stand no chance in a serious conflict. It’s a country of greedy and corrupt leaders, with the regular people turned to alcohol to make up for their poverty and low quality of life. For decades, even Russia’s cars were remnants of the models from the 60s. Why would the military equipment be any better? As always, the only reason anything holds is that the Russians are willing to sacrifice any number of people just to win a war.

Rose,

Yes, those are from the dev. For the rest, try


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Rose,

We don’t. My ultrawide mods get thousands of downloads and I haven’t uploaded a single one to Nexus.

Rose,

Look up the paradox of tolerance.

Rose,

Are you a centrist by any chance?

The War Is Coming For Women Too: Abortion Increasingly Restricted In Russia (russiapost.info)

On numerous occasions in post-Soviet Russia, conservative politicians and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) have called for anti-abortion measures and the return of traditional gender roles. However, medical experts have defended accessible abortions, and no health minister has previously argued that women should prioritize...

Rose,

Not if you conscript them to force that dissatisfaction to be lashed out at your political enemy.

Rose,

Why is your username so political?

Rose,

The website is run by an employee of Brave, but if you look past the order, even by their criteria Mullvad is ahead.

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I just have it pinned in the browser. Not installing the app means they get less to collect.

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Its flag is red

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The Teslas are powered by Linux as far as I know.

Rose,

Can you link to a few game modders who don’t paywall but get enough in donations to make a living?

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Not only keeping but returning en masse.

Rose,

Calling your opponents fascists is a weak argument. /s

Rose,

I uninstalled it after that initial change, but after they backtracked, I found the reaction to be good enough to reinstall it. Otherwise I’d consider using an older version.

Rose,

It’s also worth noting that the original Chinese Room was composed of eight employees, who ended up laid off around 2017. One of the two original directors quit this year, but the team is reportedly composed of over 100 people now.

voxel, to privacyguides
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So, I'm interested how the implementation of "Perfect Forward Secrecy" in Signal looks like, like does every messages has a different encryption key? or does it change over time like does? I tried to find any official documention of this, sadly did not find anything.

Thats why I'm asking, does anyone of you know smth about this and maybe can provide a link to a official source?

@signalapp @SignalUpdateInfo @privacy

Rose,

WhatsApp uses the encryption protocol developed for Signal, so I’d not expect them to be significantly different.

Rose,

Many were forced to by the sanctions. Some by proxy when they affected the banks, making it tough to transfer the profits.

Rose,

It wasn’t published by some rogue and inexperienced entity. Accepting Epic’s offer meant that it beat the projected sales figures. The game also ended up being a top seller on Epic, possibly adding to that revenue. On Steam, a negative score would likely bury the game, though we can only speculate.

Rose,

*Kyiv

Rose,

There’s no bI in Ukrainian.

I'm convinced Google uses its reCAPTCHA to promote Chrome

I use Firefox and Firefox Mobile on the desktop and Android respectively, Chromium with Bromite patches on Android, and infrequently Brave on the desktop to get to sites that only work properly with Chromium (more and more often - another whole separate can of worms too, this…) And I always pay attention to disable google.com...

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Have you reviewed each line of the code and do you make sure to review each commit before updating?

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Would it? Because it happened.

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It’s not even a matter of when. I was recently given an i7 6700K, and no game, old or new, comes close to fully using it, and it’s not even overclocked. If anyone is in doubt about the requirement being artificial, try this CPU.

Rose,

It’s a requirement both on paper and in that, even though Microsoft document an official way to bypass it, they will warn you that they do not even guarantee security updates unless your CPU is supported. Moreover, we know of at least one game, Valorant, that will not work on Windows 11 unless you are meeting its hardware requirements. The bottom line is that installing Windows 11 is a risk.

Rose,

Could you explain how it’s pennies, rather than over $100 a year for the domain and the server?

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Thanks. Whenever I raised the issue of homophobia or his general support of right-wing causes that threaten people’s privacy (see the aftermath of Roe v. Wade for example), I got downvoted, be it on the PrivacyGuides sub where they adore the browser, or right here just weeks ago.

Rose,

You can disassemble any kind of closed source software and fully analyze it.

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The problem is that quite often everything rests on that belief in someone else being there to check. Most of the time, even if some of the users are qualified to do it, they don’t have the time to go through all of the code and then be on it through each update.

Rose,

I think it’s a gray area in that if you merely instruct people on it or distribute it as a patcher that contains none of the original code or assets, few would take issue with it, and if they do, their legal position would be much shakier compared to fighting piracy.

Rose,

How was your day?

Rose,

I have the 10 years trophy and nearly 30K karma but I barely use reddit anymore except to moderate a community. I’ve been using Lemmy to some extent.

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