Because unlike Snowden you can somewhat trace him before the big story which made him known, and that trace is connected with, as I said, NetBSD and cypherpunk culture, the good stuff.

While Snowden is some messiah which came out of nowhere and is still free and well. It’s just suspicious for me.

I’d say since the first full year of him living in an embassy ended, we can’t be justified to call him a scumbag.

Other than that - his sense of humor in the NetBSD fortune files and other traces in the Internet maybe sucks, but he’s a better role model than Snowden (whose life is somehow much easier, which is suspicious really).

There’s no such thing as bad or good taste, when it’s limited to one’s choices.

When you are calling your own taste good, or some other person’s taste good just because, and make it something social - that’ll always be bad taste.

Yeah, and market doesn’t have anything to do with taste.

About the photo - if not for that horrible floor, I’d like it. Should have made it solid dark gray.

EDIT: LOL, I see a few people strongly disagree with the fact that it’s really bad taste to pretend that taste is not subjective.

That’s actually the only thing determining “bad” and “good” taste - when the thing’s appearance clearly shows that the author thought their taste is “good” by association alone, like Disney Star Wars or maybe by imitating a style which is “good”.

There are, of course, things like laws of composition and colors chosen etc, but these are still not objective and differ for various kinds of art.

Aw. Nice.

How big would the “book” storing one Rogue Squadron novel would be with that method?

I actually love imagining ways in which one can build a digital library in its core meaning.

A system reliable enough to survive centuries and maybe millennia, many times redundant and verifiable and self-repairing, allowing exhaustive search.

This fascination is maybe the reason I love systems intended for “piracy”. Because frankly paying for media is not such a big deal - I download things not too often and most of the time download things I’ve downloaded before. I even have a few bought games in Steam which I haven’t played.

But I love to feel that there’s no company, no organization behind that exchange.

Getting back to libraries - in early 00s people would think of the Web like of a layer upon which such a thing can be built. It turns out that this didn’t work, but let’s please don’t stop with the optimism, and let’s please discard the approach which hasn’t worked instead of clinging to it.

The issue is obligations for you, but not for them.

Of course it was controlled. Now, I don’t know much of GDR, so this is basically “I’ve read something and I repeat that”, but seems valid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Party_of_Germany_(East_Germany)

Yes, that thing was particular to West Germany.

East Germany had lots of the same in its bureaucratic and generally not very “political” parts. Its politicians, yes, didn’t include that kind of people. But unlike mother USSR it had a facade of pluralism, where one of the allowed parties was, again, very close to moderate Nazis.

How different was East Germany in your opinion?

Their 4 “allowed” political parties included 1 moderately Nazi.

Also USSR supported the so-called Socialist Imperial Party in West Germany, until it was banned there. Well, that’s only few years, so.

It is still a cool thing, from reading about it. Could have some advantages of ZFS without performance penalties and complexity, if the project wouldn’t die.

EDIT: Oh, there’s Reiser5 .

Lack of planning - getting caught by police because of chopping your wife up in a place connected to you - social mistake.

I know that’s not what the title means, just all the “killer feature” jokes are afloat in my skull.

Well, they are entirely on the side of the victims in one other small event.

It’s highly unlikely that one side happens to be entirely on the side of genocide in one issue and entirely on the side of the victims in another issue.

Could you please provide some actual arguments? Because this is horse shit.

Of course it’s likely and it often happens.

Actually IRL it’s more often that not like this. Israel supporting Azerbaijan against Armenians, for example.

Either the Palestinian genocide or the Uyghur genocide are happening, but not both.

Oh, you are simply a troll.

I guess people killed under bombs in the last few months deserved it then? Or what’s your point?

USSR sometimes took pretty valid positions too.

The only thing worse than a Cold War mindset is an uncritical Cold War mindset, where we just accept that one side was making trouble and the other side was galactic good. Pinochet doesn’t seem that for me, for example.

I mean, the last line has a grain of truth in it.

In 2009 there was such a provider (talking about Moscow region in Russia) as Skylink, which gave good connectivity in rural areas and Skype traffic was unlimited (I’m not making it up). It was good enough for Skype voice calls.

Disco Elysium:

Ah. I had KotORII:TSL in the same role. While the game you’re talking about was apparently that for one girl with which we didn’t understand each other. But the game is good and I think it did help me get to the better condition I’m in now.

Well, there are many interesting things in antique literature in general. This particular text is, I agree, amazing, but it’s a piece of religious writing.

Centuries I-IV AD were a more pluralistic time for the Mediterranean.

For me personally reading Lucian of Samosata was such a change.

I happen to be a Firefox user

I happen to be a former conkeror user, which was based on XULRunner, which Mozilla dropped, just like other ways to use their engine for other browsers.

But I could use pre-Australis Firefox.

Only then their experiments on people with UI design happened.

And yes, Mozilla as an organization has objective flaws. Their treatment of the SeaMonkey project (now separate) has not been good as well.