Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability

Student union bar 1994 40p

I’ll see how the $50 AliExpress knock-off version works in a year or two

NT is (was?) a trademark of Canada’s Northern Telecom.

One was destroyed by GM, the other belongs to Geely.

Virtualize fun things for projects

You’re right and it’s a pragmatic approach to the problem. They only need broad technical effectiveness to change user behaviour.

I’d argue that it’s not strictly cost cutting but cost transferring. The total client resources most likely exceed that which would be needed on servers.

I wish reporting would challenge the lords and peasants assertion. Workplaces with collective agreements don’t require union membership, but all workers benefit from the collectively bargained terms of employment.

If your security relies on software in the control of the end user you have a problem.

Probably. It’s in f-droid but increasingly looking not quite unmaintained, but not developed actively enough.

I had to create one this year after discovering that connectbot (ssh client on Android) didn’t support agent forwarding otherwise.

Thanks. Sorry for paywall, the article was readable linked from a search as is often the way. Archive.today will open it.

The economic codependency is surprising to some but logical I suppose.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/03/30/why-russian-oil-and-gas-is-still-flowing-through-ukraine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Ukraine

It took me less than a minute. I don’t know about Ukraine’s happiness, I suppose someone else could look that up.

I think it’ll be a bit of both. The USSR collapse was partly due to economic factors caused outside itself. Russia relies on exporting resources to support itself economically. Even China might see the advantage in the dissolution of the federation allowing it to enhance influence in regional republics in the East. Russia is not self-sufficient in many aspects and sanctions are gradually squeezing.

Its predecessor collapsed because of various factors. It doesn’t have to be a special military operation.

Россия delenda est

Never played the game but I was once into sims and recognized the explosive canopy. I’d also heard of helicopters with ejection systems and a quick search confirmed the ka-52 is one of them.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=H9Qt5CCVqP8

Planned in less than a day, you think?

If he wanted it to work he could make cigarettes more lethal. Kill you in a couple of months type of thing.

(Clearly not a serious suggestion in case you wonder)