Thanks a million, I'll read that https://voxukraine.org/en/open... as soon as I find the time (bedtime now).

Thank you for answering. I need a bit more, I don't follow this: "seeing him misconstrue those two points", I'd be grateful in how his view is wrong. And please do look into who the guy is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... should help out. He's been inside loads of discussions with/ between East and West ...

I'm not saying you're wrong, I also think there's many points that don't make sense or get painted in a different light. I also wasn't going to watch 1h30+ of that guy's speech. Until I did and found it eye opening. Luckily there's the transcript, which I only found later...

Hear hear!

Yeah, but then you'd be using Emacs....

Just posted this to the post you're replying to, but I figured you might be interested to hear/ read this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

transcript: https://braveneweurope.com/jef...

Check out who the speaker is. For half his points, I'd think they're Russian propaganda.... Considering who's saying this, it's a completely different story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

transcript: https://braveneweurope.com/jef...

Check out who the speaker is. For half his points, I'd think they've Russian propaganda.... Considering who's saying this, it's a completely different story.

And the two phrases "I've found it" and "that's funny" tie for least desirable to hear during intimate interactions...

Thing is, the management layer got replaced by "AI" a long long time ago. So when the editors go: "readers at Slashdot go 'that headline is crap', what should I do?" their boss goes "why do you say: readers at Slashdot go 'that headline is crap', what should I do?"...

I thought that the am5 motherboard series and similar all allowed to update the bios / UEFI without CPU installed...?

Apple alone sold 35 million phones in Europe in 2024. Yes, the EU is smaller, but still a big part of that. https://www.canalys.com/newsro...

Indeed, I found out through the net that some words can be translated, but the load can be very different. And yes, there's history that caused the load. Similarly master slave in computer engineering used to be perfectly acceptable, but it's been rightly or wrongly loaded towards black slaves and white masters. Which for me in Europe is bonkers, because up to a few 100 years ago, practically all regular folks were serfs. Greek have taken slaves from conquered villages nextdoor for centuries. Colour rarely played into it... Anyway, thank you for the relaxed discussion.

What's in a word, eh.... In French, my work colleagues at the time did call for more socialism. The word got tainted in English, but not so in many Western European countries, or not so much so. In other words, those languages differentiate between the Russian make believe version and the genuine/ utopic but inexistent socialism. Which isn't a form of state to strive for, but which has ideas that are worthwhile. So I'd put it like this: some parts of Europe integrated some ideas of socialism and people in some of those areas score high on the world happiness index. The correlation isn't a coincidence. Aside that, yes, surely those countries are democratic, and capitalist.

You're not wrong on the improvements and changes. What I find astonishing is the allergic reaction to anything that sounds like social, even by people who would need the country/rules to be more social and lift up the poorest...

The United States are quite ahead, but the spread is so large, that loads of people are at the bottom end. So yeah, running at the very front, but last across the finish line too. Aside that, please read up on Martin Luther King, who almost got blocked. How can you be really sure this kind of stuff isn't currently happening to that kind of people? With social media and Trust going on, the public have their bread and games, and nobody is looking at the other hand....