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- Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal? 10 hours ago:
‘Don’t Talk to the Police’ has a good section about that. Not only there are ten thousand laws, but US laws incorporate foreign laws by reference.
- Comment on YSK that Elena Kostyuchenko is an extraordinarily brave woman. 11 hours ago:
Several people from Novaya Gazeta founded the offshoot Novaya Gazeta Europe, which continues to work from Latvia, in both Russian and English.
I recommend donating to them if you’d like to support independent reporting in Russia, seeing as Russians and Russian advertisers can’t do that anymore.
Meduza is another outlet that could use your support. They were previously known as Gazeta.ru and Lenta.ru, both of which were captured by pro-government oligarchs. Meduza, in contrast, is owned by its journalists. They were likewise persecuted by the government and had to move out sometime before 2022, so now also can’t take money from Russia despite living on donations and grants.
A couple others are Mediazona and Important Stories.
The original Novaya Gazeta also seems to be current and uncensored, even though they previously stopped in 2022 and apparently work from Russia according to the site’s footer. Dunno anything about that.
- Comment on YSK that Elena Kostyuchenko is an extraordinarily brave woman. 11 hours ago:
The ‘ka’ takes into account that ‘o’ tends to be pronounced as ‘ah’ when not in a stressed syllable. But it’s not necessary, ‘ko’ would be more correct to the spelling and so better for international speakers.
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 1 day ago:
Yeah, so ignorant, we even know how to cook. Unlike the enlightened USians who just have someone else cook for them every day and have yet another guy bring it.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 day ago:
I’m not familiar with the culture of those folks, but to my understanding nomadic culture is not really fit for modern urban living. So one can still have local dances and such, but generally life is gonna be the same as in European parts of Russia (or perhaps like in China, in the case of Mongolia). That’s why, for example, Kazakh apartments are pretty much indistinguishable from Russian ones, since both countries were urbanized together during the twentieth century. But different from Europe proper, which built towns since the Middle Ages.
As for bread, since they only got it somewhat recently, I’d expect they just borrowed Russian varieties. Plus the region seems to have influence from Central Asian and Chinese cuisine.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 day ago:
Central Asia is defined as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Mongolia is in East Asia.
Anyway, I don’t know much about Mongolia and can’t say anything about its food, except that they were historically also nomadic, so I wouldn’t expect much agricultural cuisine. Wikipedia seems to agree, saying “Mongolian cuisine predominantly consists of dairy products, meat, and animal fats”. Same appears to be true for Tuvans, Buryats, and Altai people, if you’re hinting at those.
If you have some particular traditional bread in mind, please share.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 day ago:
Not only Russian language and foods have plenty of borrowings from Central Asia due to centuries of trade, but immigrants from the region settle in all the major Russian cities and bring their cuisine with them, both as street food and as restaurants specializing in cuisine of those countries. Dishes with tandyr bread are made in street shops. Multiple varieties of lavash and other bakery from Central Asia can be found in any supermarket in Russia.
But you also mention ‘north Central Asia’ specifically, which as far as I can tell is Kazakhstan. Well, Kazakhs were nomad herders for centuries and ate mainly meat and milk, only starting with cereals around eighteenth century, and particularly late nineteenth century when they began settling down more.
Pray tell, what original bread was ‘culturally genocided’ in these circumstances.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 day ago:
People note that even McDonald’s in Hawaii is way better than that in the continental US.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 day ago:
And then, even Englishmen look down on Scots who think oats porridge is human food.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 day ago:
You insulting Central-Asian bread can only mean that you lack any taste in regard to bread, or that you actually haven’t eaten Central-Asian breads, and perhaps only tasted a stale lavash shipped to you over two weeks.
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 1 day ago:
Brew some tea, add lemon, cozy up in a chair or sofa. Put on relaxing music.
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 1 day ago:
It’s been so fun seeing USians freak out at the remote prospect that they might have to live like people in other countries do. USians on Reddit spent the entire 2023 complaining about prices of Doordash delivery, and then they’re also irked that games cost 60$ now. But cooking at home for a couple days instead of ordering pizza again? Not an option. “Ooh we have to work all day, we don’t have time for cooking.” Well guess how people eat in other countries? They cook at home after work. Boo fucking hoo.
- Comment on Lightweight and flexible: Bitwarden lite self-host deployment is now generally available | Bitwarden 3 days ago:
KeePass also supports merging new entries from a database. Helpful for paranoiacs like me, who don’t let any other program touch the database, but are too lazy to not add an entry on the phone occasionally.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 3 days ago:
“USian soldiers will invade your country, and then ten years later will write a book and make a movie about how traumatized they were by the war.”
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 3 days ago:
- Comment on Have YOU ever done this? 4 days ago:
English and a,language that’s highly inflective and flexible. So I can’t decide if it’s worse than C++, but that still seems unlikely.
- Comment on Have YOU ever done this? 4 days ago:
It would be me, except I swear a lot under my breath when I encounter problems with software or things.
- Comment on How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P? 5 days ago:
One example is HTTP signatures.
Why is it the first time I hear of this?
- Comment on How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P? 5 days ago:
As they aren’t running in tor or i2p they can’t send you stuff.
A server can run on both the clearnet and darknet simultaneously, but indeed I don’t think that works that well if the server name is the identifier for an instance — since it would be different between the networks.
- Comment on How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P? 5 days ago:
The server to server protocol has a bunch of assumptions that are not true for tor and i2p.
Could you please elaborate just a bit? I’m a web dev, but haven’t looked into fediverse protocols yet.
- Comment on How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P? 5 days ago:
I didn’t know it was possible to anonymise an entire instance
I mean, that works pretty much like any server on the web, now that most communication is done via http. However, websockets, http/2 and /3 might break, I guess, when they expect a continuous connection.
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 5 days ago:
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 5 days ago:
Hitler personally disliked Fraktur and gave a speech against it in 1934. It continued to be used as ‘the true German script’ until 1941, when the party made a 180 and banned it under the pretext that it wasn’t Fraktur, but Schwabacher, a similar blackletter script, which they called ‘Jewish letters’.
Moreover, it was banned so hard that cursive scripts Kurrent and Sütterlin were forbidden as well. As a result, people educated after 1941 often couldn’t read handwritten letters and notes of their ancestors.
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 5 days ago:
!nottheonion@lemmy.world
Inspired by the analogous subreddit.
- Comment on How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P? 5 days ago:
APIs should work, though. So unless the instance needs some kinda captcha or other client-side challenge, e.g. for registration, people could presumably use apps with it.
However, in my experience, not many social-media-adjacent apps support setting a custom proxy, even though modern network libraries should make it a no-brainer. E.g. few Matrix clients support that, and ones that do aren’t much of an eye candy (and have problems with the initial setup of the encryption, which seems to be a pervasive issue with Matrix).
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 6 days ago:
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 6 days ago:
When I last used Imgur about ten years ago, they communicated exclusively in gifs and meme phrases. It’s a bit odd.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 6 days ago:
I remember a post on Reddit of someone taking around 1000 mg and going to the bath, then realizing their mistake and being stuck there for half a day and nearly having to call an ambulance.
- Comment on American exceptionalism 6 days ago:
I don’t think I would even be able to drink that. As soon as it touches my tongue, my throat would clamp shut.
- Comment on Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app 6 days ago:
That’s understandable, but the result is what it is. Plus, native apps seem to have built-in remedy for being kicked out of the memory, in that the stack of activities is remembered and the input is kept, so after a brief loading screen I’m back to where I was and can back out through the previous screens too.
