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Blemgo

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  • Gorbachev surely loved capitalism

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  • Yes, after the reign of Stalin, where Khrushchev took over, the USSR deescalated the Cold War, yet it was the actions taken by Stalin's regime that let the conflict start to begin with, with the USSR not retreating from Iran as the other Allied Forces did, the threat of force in the Turkish Straits crisis, comparing Churchill to Adolf Hitler and breaking the Yalta Agreement by meddling with the 1947 Polish elections.

    Also, the article seems to be paywalled, so I have to see when I get around to reading it.

  • Gorbachev surely loved capitalism

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  • It might be that my comparison wasn't the most accurate, since my main insight in the USSR is through the DDR, which was mainly a pawn in the face off between the superpowers at that time, and thus was a hotspot for tensions around that time. And I do believe that the wealth disparity wasn't as extreme as in capitalist countries, yet it says little about what the actual average living conditions were compared to other countries. Also, corruption doesn't always have a wealth disparity as a result. After all, people can also get corrupt due to self-preservation, which I think is most evident under Stalin's later rule, after his wife committed suicide.

    Yet I can't really agree that it was "killed off" during its downfall, as I have my doubts that it would have survived much longer than it did without its subnations separating from it. The only way I could imagine it surviving would have been if they "licked their own wounds" after the war, so to speak, recuperate from their losses instead of its rapid militarisation that it gone through to keep up with the USA in order to win a dick measuring contest.

  • Gorbachev surely loved capitalism

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  • I am not so sure if the dissolution was really avoidable. I like to use the DDR as a comparison, as it does resemble the USSR post-war pretty well, due to the USSR pretty much dismantling factories in their occupation zone to compensate their own losses only to stop that as they realized the other occupation forces were strengthening their own zones and so reverting their course, leaving the then formed DDR in a similar state as the government that spawned in.

    During the time of its existence, the DDR suffered from supply shortages to the point where the Trabant, the most driven car in the DDR had a chassis made out cotton-based thermoset. Yet at the same time government paranoia was at it's peak, where the MfS (the East German equivalent of the KGB) coerced and blackmailed citizen to aid in the espionage and recruit them as informants against their neighbours, just to collect as much information on their citizen as possible in case they are suspected to be traitors as more and more people tried to flee the extreme poverty they had to live with. Yet the party was riddled with corruption, as the last generation of DDR politicians realized as the old ones resigned and allowed a new wave to take the lead, seeing the actual numbers of the debt of the government and the state of the country had to face with, even though the older generation of politicians were initially against Gorbachev's Perestroika plan.

    I think this level of hidden debt, corruption and paranoia/secrecy was the reason why Gorbachev claimed that the Chernobyl disaster caused the downfall of USSR, as it was the epitome of what plagued the whole nation ever since the war. Nobody wanted to speak out the truth for their fear of their status or even their lives, as they either get painted as a saboteur or gets silenced by those who would be targeted as well if the truth came out. Getting rid of that issue would be nothing less of a government dissolution, because no one could be really trusted.

  • Head like a sieve

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  • I generally just adopted the amount of words recommended for the EFF's "long" Diceware list, explained in the accompanied Deep Dive. I don't use that list anymore, as I just rely on the wordlists provided by password safes, though the habit stuck.

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    Selective Listening and Neurology

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  • I feel for me this gets worse with stress. When I'm very stressed I sometimes hear what is being said, but it just zips right past me without me understanding a thing. I guess it has to do with concentration? Usually when I ask again it seems easier, but that might be because I pay closer attention to the person, a sort of "lip reading". Though the less I can concentrate, the harder it becomes to guess what they are saying.

  • Head like a sieve

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  • That's one of the reasons why I don't use biometrics - you're kinda screwed if you can't use it anymore. Another would be that it isn't as secure as it seems.

    Generally I recommend memorable passwords, such as using 6 random words (e.g. generated with a wordlist) for accesses you have the risk of typing in yourself. After 10 or so times it's easy to remember if you sort of create a sentence out of it in your head.

    For passwords that will only be accessed from the password safe I'd just make it random, since you'd have your password safe. Usually the only time you'd want to change your password is there was an unauthorized login or there's been a breach.

  • When rich people can edit their kids DNA won't that just lock everyone else out and create a new class?

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  • And even then, editing out unwanted mutations can still stifle society as a whole and may be morally the wrong choice. For example, what about eradicating autism due to the immense pain these individuals receive due to our society? Is it better to change our society to accommodate people afflicted with it or wipe out the genes responsible for it if it is easier? And if we choose the latter, where is the cutoff point? Can we even tell when we crossed that line, where our drive to improve ourselves ended being done out of mercy and began to be about creating the model citizen?

  • I really dont...

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  • Yeah, I sort of agree that networked password safes nowadays are objectively better than offline ones like KeePass. However, KeePass isn't fully obsolete due to them, as it still offers an additional layer of security compared to online ones, as you effectively put their trust into these services. With an offline database however you aren't subjected to the whims of the provider you put your trust in, but rather the software you use. And of course, your system can also be compromised, rendering this advantage null and void, but an online database wouldn't help with that either.

    Overall, this advantage is overkill for most users, granted. Still, it's pretty important tool for those who are under threat of surveillance, or those who don't like to trust online systems.

  • I really dont...

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  • Alternatively, KeePass is a good offline solution, if you have a way to sync the password database.

    It even allows usernames and passwords as references, in case one login is required for multiple services.

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  • Though this solution also seems to be very flawed, doesn't it? You basically trust another company to manage your child's smartphone and granting it full access to it. Furthermore, that doesn't stop predators, as they could still arrange meetups with their unknowing victims. And even if it captures text messages, kids would be discouraged to use their phone due to their fear of their parents disproving of their friends or their communication to them. Instead, they'd more likely learn the use of "burner phones" by getting a factory-reset phone and using that one instead.

    It's the sort of ham-fisted attempt expected by parents that blame their kids for their mistakes instead of their parenting.

  • Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

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  • Could you explain how it doesn't undermine your argument?

  • Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

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  • I think the term you are looking for is "Deep Net", although it originally meant websites that weren't indexed by web searches.

  • /e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.

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  • Retouren-Wende: Amazon bietet Preisnachlass statt Rücksendung

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  • Bieten nicht einige Händler bereits eh an, das keine Retoure erledigt und einfach der Kaufpreis erstattet wird?

    Ich finde das Konzept eh etwas schräg. Ich meine, in den meisten Fällen, wo ich etwas zurücksenden, ist es aus guten Grund, meistens weil das Produkt defekt oder nicjt das ist was ich brauche.

    Das einzige Bewegung, die ich aus der Aktion sehe, ist dass sich einige dadurch einen garantierten Rabatt auf etwas holen können, statt die Retourefunktion zu benutzen. Es gibt ja schon ein paar, die hinter den Trick gekommen sind, Steine oder ähnliches im Karton zu schicken, da besonders bei billigerer Ware der Inhalt oftmals nicht überprüft wird wenn diese zurückkommt. Dieser offizielle "Trick" wird wahrscheinlich nur mehr Leute dazu bewegen, das Retouresystem auszutricksen.

  • After 2 years on Lemmy, I finally installed it this weekend.

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  • The only issues I had with Laptops so far were the WIFI drivers, as some distros, such as Debian, don't have them OOTB. I think especially the major players with a focus on recent patches however, such as fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch and many others can install them rather easily during the installation.

  • UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

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  • Not only that, but they are crucial for network security. VPNs allow all network traffic (with a few necessary exceptions) to be routed through the company's network and benefit from its security measures, mainly monitoring traffic for suspicious and malicious behaviour. Without it, finding compromised PCs is much harder and enforcing company policies regarding web use would be impossible outside the office.

  • When tech hardware becomes paperweights

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  • One company that I can recommend is Withings. They do have an companion app, but a lot of devices do work on their own, and when not, they work with Google Fit or HomeAssistant, though probably due to that fact the products are pricier.

  • 🐧> 🪟

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  • I had this problem at work a week ago or so, at least with Fujitsu PCs. For them, the main cause isn't an empty CMOS battery, but rather that Fujitsu generally had too little BIOS cache, since there is nothing about it in the UEFI standard. The update basically overfilled that cache, rendering the BIOS completely unusable. The POST doesn't even go through fully.

    The PC are sort of bricked, you gotta put the mainboard into recovery mode, put the ROM file on a freeBSD formatted stick and wait until you see instructions on the screen. Follow them, restart the PC. I recommend setting the BIOS to the optimized default settings, as not doing that might make the boot of Windows pretty slow in some cases. I did hear that it can delete the keys from the TPM, but I haven't seen that with my PCs at work.

  • idk man

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  • Ah, wonderful Poulaines.