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  • Activist Yves Engler wants to run for NPD Leadership, but some are trying to block his approval. Show your support here.

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  • This guy sounds like a fucking tankie to me. From this article on his blog:

    Additionally, Ottawa’s unnecessarily aggressive posture has stoked tensions with Russia. Despite knowing that NATO enlargement eastward and into Ukraine threatened Russia and risked a conflict, Canada promoted it. With 100,000 Russian troops amassed on the border, Canada’s then foreign minister Mélanie Joly went to Kyiv in mid-January 2022 reiterating that “We believe that Ukraine should be able to join NATO.”

    Blaming the expansion of NATO for Russia's invasion of Ukraine is just parroting Kremlin propaganda. Countries in Eastern Europe want to join NATO due to the extremely justified threat of being attacked by Russia.

    In 2014 Canada also backed the ousting of the democratically elected Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, who sought neutrality and good relations with both Europe and Russia. As Owen Schalk and I detail in Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy, Ottawa played a significant role in destabilizing Yanukovich and pushing him out. At the height of the anti-government Maidan protests, opposition forces, including the far-right C14, used the Canadian Embassy in Kyiv, which was immediately adjacent to Maidan square, as a staging ground for a week in their bid to topple Yanukovych.

    It's called the Maidan Revolution, and it was the Ukrainian people exercising their collective power to prevent their country from falling back into Russia's orbit. I would recommend reading about the event from people who actually lived through it: EuroMaidan Revolution.

    The coup spurred right wing violence, Russia’s intervention in Crimea and a war that left 14,000 dead in the east.

    Calling the illegal invasion and occupation of Crimea "Russia’s intervention in Crimea" tells you everything you need to know about this guy. If he cannot call unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country what it is, then he is not fit to run the NDP or have any role in the Canadian government. Having a Kremlin bootlicker lead the NDP would be a complete embarrassment and would ensure their failure in the next election.

    I encourage anyone who's interested to read about these events from the perspective of Ukrainians: The 2014 annexation of Crimea — How Russia stole Ukraine's peninsula

  • AMD Officially Confirms The End Of The AMDVLK Driver - Phoronix

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  • Finally! It's crazy that RADV has gone without AMD's official backing this entire time. This should have happened a long time ago.

  • Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine (Kagi)

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  • I didn't know about that, thanks for sharing.

  • Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine (Kagi)

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  • No fucking way I am clicking that URL.

  • Physical Collectors "Should Plug In" Switch, 3DS And Vita Game Cards "Every 5-10 Years" To Avoid Data Loss

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  • Games in that era used mask ROM for the game data, so they don't lose state over time as quickly as NAND flash does without power.

    I say "as quickly" because I'm sure mask ROM still degrades eventually, but I'm not sure how long it takes.

    The batteries in Game Boy carts were for keeping the save data SRAM powered. If that battery dies you'll lose any data on the save RAM, but it doesn't affect the mask ROM.

  • Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam

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  • Wow, this is an awesome move! We are honestly so lucky that Valve hasn't enshittified like so many other gaming companies out there.

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  • Wait, really? I've found the new outlook opens emails faster than the old one, especially the HTML-heavy ones that my work loves to send me.

    The refactor to the rules UI is really nice too, the old one was so crusty. Can't comment on the timezone issue though.

  • Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure | The Mozilla Blog

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  • I'm honestly not against this. I know a lot of people will be furious with Mozilla about doing anything related to advertising, but as the article says:

    And, for the foreseeable future at least, advertising is a key commercial engine of the internet, and the most efficient way to ensure the majority of content remains free and accessible to as many people as possible.

    We may dislike ads, but the vast majority of internet users are not going to engage with content that requires you to pay up front. Creators and journalists need money to survive, and currently, ad-supported viewing is necessary for that to happen.

    Instead of just hoping that advertising somehow goes away, I'm glad that Mozilla is working on ways for ads to exist without mass individual user tracking. I wish it wasn't necessary, but wishing won't change the world.

  • backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

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  • Damn, it is actually scary that they managed to pull this off. The backdoor came from the second-largest contributor to xz too, not some random drive-by.