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talkingpumpkin

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  • Merz: Putin "may be the most serious war criminal of our time"

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  • Limited resources are a very underhanded, if quite popular, excuse to justify inaction.

    "We don't have infinite resources, so we can't do anything" is something that's been repeated over and over in all contexts (and, lately, especially by the right to justify sweeping the migration problem under the rug by paying off Libya/Turkey/etc instead of actually doing something about it).

    People (and countries) should be only allowed to complain about limited resources after they actually exhausted their resources and done all they could: first you do all you can, and only then you can complain that you couldn't do more.

  • Merz: Putin "may be the most serious war criminal of our time"

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  • Merz's questionable judgement aside, what would we gain from having a nice ranking of war criminals?

    Shouldn't our spineless politicians concentrate on trying to stop war criminals (all of them) instead of starting academic discussions on who's the "most serious"?

  • Israel received more funding from the European Innovation Fund than ⅔ of all EU countries combined

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  • I won't comment on the obviously partial title (OP's title, not the linked article's) and on the fact that the article's analyzes the investments done since 2021 (ie. when Israel didn't kill people willy-nilly, not as much as it does now at least), but I would love to know why on earth the UK and (especially) Israel are included in the program.

    I mean, the EIC Accelerator funds come from the EU (IIUC - does Israel actually contribute?)... even if one were to ignore the ongoing mass extermination of Gazaui, why would an EU institution invest in Israel?

  • EU rocked by Trump's attack on digital regulation

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  • The EU is gonna pay to avoid the same tariffs over and over... that's what you get when you negotiate with terrorists.

  • I'm "use NFS forfilesharing" old. what's the current optimal solution for shared drives if I have like 3 linux machines in the house?

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  • If it's for backup, zfs and btrfs can send incremental diffs quite efficiently (but of course you'll have to use those on both ends).

    Otherwise, both NFS and SMB are certainly viable.

    I tried both but TBH I ended up just using SSHFS because I don't care about becoming and NFS/SMB admin.

    NFS and SMB are easy enough to setup, but then when you try to do user-level authentication... they aren't as easy anymore.

    Since I'm already managing SSH keys all over my machines, I feel like SSHFS makes much more sense for me.

  • US Senator threatens Norway

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  • They have been threatened multiple times too (at least, I remember Russia and Israel - IDK about the others).

    TACO Trump may have not followed up on his threats towards those countries (I really don't know - I tend not to listen, as his words have little weight), but that's another story and... it's not like he followed up on all the threats to the EU and others.

    Threats are as integral to Trump administration's modus operandi as they are to organized crime's: strength and fear is just the way they see the world, and the way they think it should work.

    And it may very weel be that we have been wrong all along. We still yearn towards a sort of global utopia where countries respect each other and agree to reasonable and equitable treaties, but it might very well be that what of this utopia that was realized through he UN, WTO and other supranational organizations was just an illusion itself, one based on strength and that was destined to last only as long as the strongest actor was willing to back it.

    We'll have see if the US will really leave the western block as they seem to be doing, and if what remains of it will be enough to keep the dream going.

    BTW: IIUC Israeli exports too are subject to 15% tariff. Which I read as a sign that, friend or foe, 15% was Trump's baseline want and that whatever extra he managed through his "negotiations" was icing on the cake. He got lots of European icing on top of lots of European cake - I wonder if he gained a few kilos.

  • US Senator threatens Norway

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  • I mean... what country hasn't been threatened by the US this year?

  • Second set of eyes - DNS Nameservers

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  • AFAIU bluehost does not support the acme protocol, so you'll either have to manage your certificate manually or (recommended!) move to a different dns registrar.

    If you are wondering which provider you should switch to, basically all the serious ones will work... IDK if this is relevant for nginx, but here's a list of the supported ones for the client I use https://go-acme.github.io/lego/dns/

    If you are unsure and want to experiment before touching your current setup, you could register a new cheap domain (less than 1$, see https://tld-list.com/), use it for your tests, and then not renew it.

  • [Opinion] Europe is selling its soul to Trump

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  • That makes even less sense.

    The parliament had a chance to say if they approved of von der Leyen or not and they said yes.

    That gives von der Leyen much more democratic legitimacy than whoever the Spitzenkandidat of the biggest party happened to have (also... is picking the nominee of the biggest party, regardless of alliances, democratic?).

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  • [Opinion] Europe is selling its soul to Trump

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  • Von der Leyen isn't the problem here. Also, implying that she may be apponted undemocratically because we didn't elect her directly is naive at best and outright dishonest at worst... if you go by that rule you'll find loads of "undemocratic" positions (including, eg. for Italy, the head of state, the prime minister and all other ministers, the heads of the two branches of the parliament, etc..)

    Anyway, the problem is that EU countries keep trying to one-up each other: it's divide et impera, but, since we are already divided, foreign powers can leisurely skip to the "impera" part (TBH Putin has been quite effective on the "divide" part too).

  • [Opinion] Europe is selling its soul to Trump

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  • "Europe is selling its soul" would imply that we are getting something in exchange for our soul, which is... debatable at best.

    Truth is... we (well, the politicians we voted for) are just generally spineless and much more eager to play against one another that to team up against a common enemy.

  • Dutch foreign minister resigns after failing to secure sanctions against Israel

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  • Trump blames Ukraine for ‘taking on nation 10 times your size’ despite Russia’s blitz

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  • While it's true that "taking on" doesn't necessarily mean Ukraine started the conflict, if you just read the article it's clear that Trump believes Ukraine to be the aggressor (IIRC it's not even the first time he's said that?).

    “It's not a war that should have been started. You don't do that. You don't take on a nation that's 10 times your size"

  • France slams Netanyahu's 'abject' claim that recognising Palestinian state is fuelling anti-Semitism

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  • If anything were to cause antisemitism, it’d be the frequent gaslighting about antisemitism.

    I guess that would be one of the main causes, if you just ignore the actual mass-slaughtering of civilians...

    Of course antisemitism (ie. hatred towards Jews) has absolutely nothing to do with either supporting or opposing the nation of Israel (its existence in general, and the crimes perpetrated by its current government in particular), and even less has antisemitism to do with recognizing Palestine or not.

    Those poor neo-nazis whose delicate sensibilities are torn between their antisemitism and their sympathy for the Israeli government (which I guess are the only ones who still listen to Netanyahu's lies?) can rest easy: the two sentiments are perfectly compatible.

  • Trump blames Ukraine for ‘taking on nation 10 times your size’ despite Russia’s blitz

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  • I wish people stopped voting complete morons into power.

  • Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

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  • Previously, this claim was rejected by a lower-level court in Hamburg, but a new ruling by the BGH found the earlier dismissal flawed and overturned part of the appeal, sending the case back for examination.

    To me it sounds like there was some formal mishap and that the case is back to square one, from where it is likely to be rejected again. I don't see evidence of any crazy judge this time :)

  • Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

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  • Axel Springer says that ad blockers threaten its revenue generation model and frames website execution inside web browsers as a copyright violation.

    This is grounded in the assertion that a website’s HTML/CSS is a protected computer program that an ad blocker intervenes in the in-memory execution structures (DOM, CSSOM, rendering tree), this constituting unlawful reproduction and modification.

    I wouldn't worry if that's their argument: you can modify whatever copyright-protected work you wish as long as you don't redistribute it, otherwise taking notes in books or using an equalizer when listening to music would be copyright violations. Surely you can do the same with the programs you run on your computer (also regarding computer programs, live patching is a thing).

    That said, copyright law has been so absurdly twisted and stretched (suffice to say it was born to protect authors and it now protects megacorporations' profits) that it's worth to keep an eye on this.

    PS: You may want to take a look at Axel Springer's newspapers/brands

  • Ukraine: US envoy 'hopeful' ahead of Trump-Zelenskyy talks

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  • Words spoken (and written!) from Trump, Putin, or their associates have repeatedly been shown to have very little basis on factual reality, and oftentimes even less consequence on it.

    I understand the excitement around the meetings in Washington, but... let's wait and see?