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Comment Re:Interesting language ... (Score 1) 209

I sympathize a lot with BSD OSes (though OpenBSD is a bit too paranoid for me).

My perception, though, is that even FreeBSD has a more limited hardware support to the point it brings inconvenience for home usage.

I haven't tried FreeBSD for years, but I admit it crosses my mind every time I have to deal with issues caused brought by systemd.

Comment Re:How about sanctions now? (Score 1) 144

Ukraine prospering? Their GDP is shit. Their GDP/capita is one of the lowest in East Europe. It's lower than Russia. It's lower than Belarus even. LOL where have you been getting your news and info from?

I do remember when I was visiting relatives in Belarus back in 2002 (Lukashenko was in power for 8 years and all), and when asking about the relatives living in Ukraine (from the ones who travelled there).. The comments I heard always included something like "ohh, situation is difficult in Ukraine".

Economical situation Belarus was far, way far, from great. But it made me wonder how a country with so many natural resources like Ukraine could be worse than Belarus, which has almost nothing (peat? sand?).

Comment Re:Putin (Score 1) 21

Ukraine is broken and riddled with corruption, and Poland has no real intention of improving life of any of his pre-WW2 colonies (Ukraine and Belarus). In fact, Poland always treated anyone who uses cyrillic like garbage, and sees that people as candidates for polonization. They were doing exactly that, just before WW2.

And that's why it's currently swimming in Ukrainian immigrants. They are coming to Poland rather than Germany, despite the "horrific treatment of people who use cyryllic", umm... for better money? Higher living standards perhaps? You need to stop listening to Lukashenko's propaganda.

Yes, they come to Poland for money. Ukraine has been experiencing economic hardship, what did you expect?
Ukrainians also come to Portugal, and there they're also treated as 2nd class people. I've been there and I saw that before my eyes.

Poland loves cheap labor, just like the rest of the EU. Heck, you can even find people from India in southern Portugal.
Exploiting foreigners for cheap labour: that's how the EU gets cheap and abundant food.

Now about listening to Lukashenko, that's some ad hominem here. And a weird one, Lukashenko says many things, but I'm not aware of he describing what I just did.
Feel free to check the historical facts about Poland I wrote about.

Comment Re:Putin (Score -1) 21

Ukraine is broken and riddled with corruption, and Poland has no real intention of improving life of any of his pre-WW2 colonies (Ukraine and Belarus). In fact, Poland always treated anyone who uses cyrillic like garbage, and sees that people as candidates for polonization. They were doing exactly that, just before WW2.

Half of Poland's land is someone else's, before WW2 it was Ruthenia, the borders moved and they were given lands from Germany and expelled the locals so they could repopulate.

The last 20 years you see Poland inflating their chest and claiming being strong and great again, but the fact is that Poland always has been a dwarf beggar, for 1000 years always depending from a, proper, powerful country.
Poland depended on Italy in the middle ages, then France, then England.. and now Poland is a bitch of USA. Tomorrow, who knows, perhaps China.

My family came from Belarus, from the lands Poland called Kresy, and I'm no fan of Russia. But compared to Poland, Russia still has some decency as a state.

Comment Re:Yes this is grossly irresponsible (Score 2) 119

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Yes this run was grossly irresponsible, but so is every other Cannonball run. There is no real point in criticizing this run in particular.

These runs are typically done in the middle of the night when there are very few, if any people on the roads. During a time when the government is ordering people to stay home under threat of a 1k fine, there will be even fewer people. Yes, it's still dangerous but, this was pretty unique scenario where it was the least likely to result in bystanders being hurt or killed.

Comment Flash (Score 3, Interesting) 39

If I recall correctly the main reason for disallowing third-party browsers as the default in the early days was so that Adobe Flash couldn't take a foothold on the platform and bypass Security and Apple's revenue stream that derives from people developing apps in XCode. Flash is dead and Safari/Webkit has stagnated quite a bit compared to Blink & Gecko.

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