It still works without proxy for my family (as of earlier today), except for calls. I don't know if this is telegram doing some block evasion or the block hasn't kicked in fully yet.
In any case, unless they ban like 80% of outside internet, there will still be a few obfuscated VPN servers & tor bridges working. Everyone who knows their stuff will be able to access the outside, same as in China.
Ok, so this makes the most sense to me. This would indeed need to be handled, I think the best solution is for EU to come up with a set of dispute resolution procedures and pass it as a law for everyone to follow. That way, disputes would be resolved the same way regardless of what network or bank you are using, which sounds the most reasonable to me.
USSR had a lot of issues, but was a lot better (for the working class) than what was before and what came after. The reason for red scare was to prevent the western working class from overthrowing the oligarchy.
Right now, China is surpassing western neoliberal nations by carefully mixing socialist and capitalist modes of production, guided by Marxism-Leninism with further theoretical developments.
Aha, interesting. I never had a credit card because it would be too stressful for me to take out micro-loans for stuff. Still weird that it's visa/MC money and not your bank's though.
Zurab Mikeladze is a Georgian name/surname, not Russian. Given both are fairly popular names in Georgia, I'm assuming there are way more than one person with such a name combo.
If anything, I suspect that "Leonic Leonov" is a typo or misreading of "Leonid Leonov", a common Russian name/surname, but there would also be hundreds/thousands of people with that exact name.
What the fuck, how is this the first time I'm hearing about this... I was thinking of deleting my account (with no phone or ID tied to it), I guess I'm keeping it for now.
Does Visa/Mastercard actually offer any protection themselves? When I've had to reverse debit card transactions due to fraud or otherwise, I always just called/reached out to my bank and they did it. I never communicated with Visa/MC. Since this system is pretty much SEPA in a trench coat, I'm pretty sure the same would work here.
in the aftermath of the US the question was how could this happen?
In the US the pattern is blindingly obvious and has been repeating for more than 50 years. One party makes life worse for the working class while making the rich richer, people get angry and vote for the other party, which then does the same thing but under different guises and with different policies. The exact policies in question (neoliberalism vs. neoconservatism) were not that relevant to these mechanics, except everything kept naturally shifting to the right (which is the ideology most convenient for the billionaires).
Now neocons are straight up fascists, and it's not clear there will be another election.
But in real life a huge majority of people are feeling poor and downtrodden.
So, yeah, there's an obvious solution to this: improve their economic status! There are dozens of "mechanically easy" policies that would lead to this: taxing the rich way more, reindustrializing the country, building and leasing out social housing, implementing strict rent control (or abolishing rent entirely), setting price caps on daily necessities, etc. Immigration is irrelevant to this.
Shifting your ideology to the right to appease nazis literally never works, it is a death spiral for any political organization, leading either to irrelevance or nazism. Instead you resolve the underlying grievances of the working class. However, most political parties in the west are beholden to billionaires and will not do this without significant organizing and pressure from the workers.
Ignoring the voices in the community comes at a peril.
So, what you're saying is literally "let's listen to nazis and compromise with them"?
Setting the moral repercussions aside, this never works out well politically. Nazis will not stop from voting for the nazi party just because you implemented a couple of their policies, and the rest will be disenfranchised because there's less incentive to vote when all parties are doing pretty much the same stuff.
Far right is not gaining votes due to immigration! This is just a scapegoat that they themselves designated to keep people's attention away from the worsening living conditions and deteriorating safety nets, and capitalize on anger stemming from that.
The only way to resolve this for good is to improve the lives of working class people through economic policies which benefit them. But that would require stepping on the toes of the oligarchy, so it's not going to happen without workers organizing and fighting for their rights.
That doesn't sound like a good system security-wise TBH. I'd prefer if the employee had to enter the answer successfully on their end for the system to grant them the necessary access, otherwise it feels like a big opportunity both for internal snooping and for social engineering.
Honestly it's fine. LSPs are nice but you don't need them per se. A combination of vim, tmux, entr, a fast incremental compiler, grep, and proper documentation can get you a long way there.
A lot of critically important code that's running the servers we're using to communicate was written this way. And, if capitalist decline continues long enough, we will all eventually be begging for vim while writing code with ed.
Personally I use helix with an LSP, because it helps speed up development quite a bit. I even have a local LLM for writing repetitive boilerplate bullshit. But I also understand that those are ultimately just tools that speed the process up, they do not fundamentally change what I'm doing.
It's nicer to develop anything on a beefy machine, I was rocking a 7950X until recently. The compile times are a huge boon, and for some modern bloated bullshit (looking at you, Android) you definitely need a beefy machine to build it in a realistic timeframe.
However, we can totally solve a lot of real-world problems with old cheap crappy hardware, we just never wanted to because it was "cheaper" for some poor soul in China to build a new PC every year than for a developer to spend an extra week thinking about efficiency. That appears to be changing now, especially if your code will be running on consumer hardware.
My dad used to "write" software for basic aerodynamic modelling on punchcards, on a mainframe that has about us much computing power as some modern microcontrollers. You wouldn't even consider it a potato by today's standards. I'm sure if we use our wit and combine it with arcane knowledge of efficient algorithms, we can optimize our stacks to compile code on a friggin 3.5GHz 10-core CPU (which are 10 year old now).
You can write code just fine on 20 or even 30 year old hardware. Basically if it runs Linux, chances are it can also run vim and compile code. If you spring for 10-15 year old hardware, you can even get an LSP + coc or helix, for error highlighting and goto definition and code actions. And you definitely don't need a beefy GPU for it (unless you're doing something GPU-specific of course).
Editing 720p videos (which, if you encode with a high enough bitrate, still looks alright) can be done on 10-15 year old hardware.
Research is where it gets complicated. It does indeed often require a lot of computing power to do modern computational research. But for some simpler stuff - especially outside STEM - you can sometimes get away with a LibreOffice spreadsheet on an old Dell or something.
From the looks of it we will have to get used to doing more with less when it comes to computers. And TBH I'm all for it. I just hope that either my job won't require compiling a lot more stuff, or they provide me with a modern machine at their expense.
It's funny you should say that, if you look at the living standards & human development before and after, it's pretty clear that the revolution was overall a really good thing.
But we can't really discount the energy source. An intercity bus service running fully on renewables is not feasible neither now nor for the foreseeable future. What we should do is have more efficient rail service between city, with more slower and cheaper options for when you don't mind the extra hour on your train.
an intercity bus is usually greener than a high-speed train, even discounting energy source - mainly because speed carries a major efficiency penalty
Are you sure? Where I live all high-speed trains are running on 100% renewable electricity, while intercity buses run on diesel. Also multiple carriages at the same time, traveling on rails, should be significantly more efficient than a single bus traveling on asphalt. I agree that there will be an increase in energy expenditure depending on speed, but it shouldn't be as significant as the combination of the other two.
air travel is an unmitigated disaster on the level of personal carbon footprints - there’s basically no way to make it sustainable
We would have to make it sustainable eventually, since it's the only practical way for passengers to travel between americas/australia/afroeurasia. I guess something hydrogen-based is the most likely candidate for reducing the carbon impact.
It still works without proxy for my family (as of earlier today), except for calls. I don't know if this is telegram doing some block evasion or the block hasn't kicked in fully yet.
In any case, unless they ban like 80% of outside internet, there will still be a few obfuscated VPN servers & tor bridges working. Everyone who knows their stuff will be able to access the outside, same as in China.