Napoleon and Hitler found their armies drowning in the mud and now the russian had a go at it.

https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK...

woosh...

I had been running debian on the lan server since 2k or so and a multitude of distros in virtual machines, curiosity mostly, SuSE, Ubuntu, then debian. KDE, never liked Gnome. Then, somewhen after 2005 I began moving towards linux on the desktop, in a dual machine setup at first and moving win apps into virtual machines from there.
It was debian and after a while I realised that some things about KDE that never really worked weren't a KDE problem but debian specific.
I had already met that incredibly useful knowledgebase of wiki pages with that funny A logo but it took me rather long to realise that Arch wasn't an archive of useful info but in fact a distro.
So the day came when I got really angry with debian keeping the PIM part of KDE on some ancient version to not interfere with some other part held back as well and decided to try a distro that would be more up to date. That's when I learned what Arch really was.
I installed it in a vm, KDE suddenly showed none of the quirks that had been bothering me and when I built my next machine in 2010 it was Arch from the ground up.
The install, ok, it made me feel like I really had done some work when it was done but as long as there is a second computer available to read the wiki pages it is not too hard.
Had to do it again 4 years later when I switched from hd to sdd but it's been the very same install for 8 years now, and always most current.
It's arch on the desktop and debian on servers for me (and win* in vm but I hardly ever use it any more)

https://twitter.com/snsnarky/s...

this shows a second part with the tank hauled through a village, worth for the sound of their laughter

South Korea, did you notice? Not USA.

You may not believe it but there is hardly any other place as silly on weapons and shooting as the US of A appears to be. Bullet holes in signs a normal sight? Only for you guys.

I notice it on sites like Thingiverse, collections of guns and tanks and fighter planes and war ships and knightsswith fantasy armors? That's how you know it's an USian
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An USian male, to be precise, the women don't seem to share that defect.

parent's link is sort of offtopic but interesting nonetheless. Bamboo and it's potential for reforestation and CO2 capturing.

> Take heart that we'd never see our Sun die. We'd be flung far out of the Solar System before that came to pass.

Now that's reassuring. Shot out of the solar system in some random direction, a rogue planet wandering into the great emptiness. The only possible energy source fusion but that will be just 20 years from getting ready like it ever was...

So what are the odds of one of them wandering close enough to our solar system to cause some sort of punk? And would we have a warning? And nothing we could do about it...

people may take it with the feeling that with all the tracking and targeted ads finally they are noticed, something takes care

Gets the job done in a few minutes. Just saying.

like a trojan bird?

Chile, Argentinia, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guayana (both) Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico, Canada, Greenland, 24 Caribbean Countries - 47 plus 1.

No, when talking about America, 47 of the 48 countries don't count. Like they simply do not exist. Cause they don't really, it's all Banana Countries, US backyard, shithole nations, "working for the Yankee dollar".

That race is like 47 laughing and 1 swearing and sweating..

like radio beam fucking them?

oh, the post contains a number of typos and spelling errors, message and messenger etcetc.

> And whatever technology replaces Telegram, if it is killed, will not solve the problem

True. Just remember, while the summary says 'Germany' will close Telegram it is in fact a thought among parts of the government and politicians often are not on the fore front of having experience with internet. Angela Merkel famously remarked the internet was Neuland (virgin territory) in the 2010s.

That old form popular in usenet times comes to mind, a form with checkboxes at lines like:
  "Your suggestion will not work because [] you try to solve a social problem by means of technology"

The problem is that parts of society, something like 10 to 15 percent are drifting away or have already drowned in an alternative argumentative universe with the echo chambers of social media and prominently among them Telegram channels and closed groups allowing them to self - ignite more and more. Spiralling in a maelstrom of bizarre nonsenses and aggressivity now plausible death threads against scientists, public servants and scientists emanate from there. It is also a playground for several right extremists and openly nazi organisations to build contacts and structures, definately a growing danger. And Germany is a burned child when it domes to bizarr crazyies suddenly organizing and gaining influence.

It is in this context that many of the relevant politicians hear about Telegram for the first time. So, no surprise, the idea is to simply get rid of that new thing and - poof! - problem solved.

It is at that stage, reality check and a sound calculation of means and chances is still ahead of them.
So don't give too much on news like that. Meanwhile, parts of the press and probably some agencies are doing the obvious: infiltrating those grous and channels, identifying messanges and messangers that actually are prosecutable and getting the slow mills of justice running on it. You won't see big announcements from those, though, but at times substantial results have been published.