Posts by jschwart@mas.to
(DIR) Post #AWEcmO83UDOTYytHua by jschwart@mas.to
2023-05-27T16:42:21Z
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@lxo the problem with articles like these (there have been quite a few) is that they fail to recognize the sovereignty aspect of countries in joining NATO. One would need to argue that countries like Poland, Romania, etc. joined NATO without support of their population. Similarly at this point the majority of the Ukrainians stand behind their country joining the EU and also NATO. Without addressing this aspect, it is hard to convincingly put such blame on the US.
(DIR) Post #AWEcmPql5UkKtuoVEG by jschwart@mas.to
2023-05-27T18:48:16Z
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@lxo whether the US role has been a good one or not is definitely debatable. Whether a coup d'était was promoted is different from whether one took place. That the elections since 2014 ended up being fair is not based on propaganda, but on evidence. While I can agree that the US did not do optimal diplomacy, there are other arguments that are more convincing that ended up triggering the war than the US provoking it.A book I can recommend is Marusya (Maroussia) by Marko Vovchok.
(DIR) Post #AWEcmR8AKGGSsBxv04 by jschwart@mas.to
2023-05-28T07:05:08Z
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@lxo that makes sense. In that case I hope you will get opportunities to travel to Ukraine and/or meet with Ukrainians. Maybe somebody from Ukraine could reply too. Of course if there turns out to be evidence showing unfairness of Ukrainian elections that would be good to share.I hope you find time to read the book. It is written by a Russian writer who moved to Ukraine. The essence is that Ukrainians simply want the freedom to be themselves in between Russia and Poland.
(DIR) Post #AWEcmSMNktEMgZcmnY by jschwart@mas.to
2023-05-28T15:08:57Z
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@lxo here is a copy of the book:https://archive.org/details/MaroussiaAMaidOfUkraine(Its from 1890, now public domain.)Throughout history Ukraine often ended up in situations where they had to choose one side over another side.They have a lot of (classic) literature that relates to freedom. There were few moments in history they really had autonomy. Given the history of Ukraine "have just been" is sadly not accurate and the US/NATO are offering more outlook towards freedom and autonomy than any party prior.
(DIR) Post #AWEcmTbJ8slQX9cDhY by jschwart@mas.to
2023-05-29T08:46:47Z
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@lxo Regarding Russophobia, the pattern is older than any US involvement. The US/NATO are the first arming the Ukrainian army themselves. Formally the Budapest Memorandum binds the US and UK to supporting Ukraine.We have to see how the future will be and do our best to support Ukraine and similar places. It is true that we should be cautious regarding the US intentions. Russia's own actions and history sadly made it a far worse option prior to any involvement from US/NATO.
(DIR) Post #AafGmL1A9ywk6N27W4 by jschwart@mas.to
2023-10-11T15:29:34Z
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@rms it is unfortunate and a loss for the Russian language culture of which a significant part is by Ukrainian artists.At the same time it is understandable and one cannot control the emotions they attach to hearing particular. There may be situations of trauma too that might be triggered by hearing Russian after being imprisoned there.German was not the most popular language in the Netherlands during/right after WW2. For many years now German is no problem at all. These things take time.
(DIR) Post #AapFUJriWsxUSXB9do by jschwart@mas.to
2023-10-16T11:01:39Z
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@EU_Commission a colleague recently gave me his old phones that he was about to throw away. They still work fine for my purposes.Recycling material alone is not enough. We need more efforts to promote and allow reusing old devices as-is. Easy replaceable batteries and hardware specifications to write replacement software are aspects that are lacking.The device in your photo is quite advanced and could run up to date software and still be useful if the right documentation would be available.
(DIR) Post #AdDmXgmM9zCZFCzfAu by jschwart@mas.to
2023-12-26T22:26:22Z
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@randahl to me it does not seem to reveal anything new. Many Russians are struggling with an inferiority complex while they feel they need to show off superiority towards outsiders. Such traits are observable among various Russians in various sorts and forms for many years already.I hope somebody can figure out a way to make them collectively come clean at a national-wide scale one day. It would solve a lot.
(DIR) Post #AkozqbH1TbmwWCKe7E by jschwart@mas.to
2024-08-10T10:47:09Z
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@kaia I fully agree and I miss this. I was using KDE 1 for a long time which looks quite similar.
(DIR) Post #AvKftHwjDHXYkYJDrk by jschwart@mas.to
2025-06-20T19:57:21Z
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@SuperDicq @fence it's an X200 I guess? How's the performance? How long does it typically take to install updates?
(DIR) Post #AvLvLiugElKsxuKONE by jschwart@mas.to
2025-06-21T08:26:53Z
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@SuperDicq @fence alright, 15 minutes seems quite ok. At some point I was playing with Guix and somehow it was takes hours as it needed to build all sorts of stuff.I might try it again at some point. Thanks!! :)
(DIR) Post #AvM1UelPdLKCQXdTvc by jschwart@mas.to
2025-06-21T11:30:18Z
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@SuperDicq @fence that could be, I don't remember to be honest.What would your advice if I try it again? I'm now running Triskel. I was also thinking that possibly I don't really need disk encryption and avoiding that might make things faster too.
(DIR) Post #AxZRtfsWR0NLfBAFNo by jschwart@mas.to
2025-08-26T19:04:07Z
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@selea I found it helpful myself to have a good understanding of the different philosophies that underpin Linux and GNU. Especially the technical consequences for each of them. Whereas Linux regards userspace binary compatibility as holy, in GNU land it's much more "why don't you just recompile?" as the assumption is one would typically have source code.Being aware of the different mindsets helps a lot to understand different rationales around each component. And I can appreciate both.
(DIR) Post #AzsitCxiTQOVa9rTUW by jschwart@mas.to
2025-11-03T15:45:22Z
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@SuperDicq we had these mice in university. They were horrible as they were sending phantom clicks all the time. At one point we ran xev and just lifting up the device already showed it was sending button presses.We often had compilation errors because the mouse had been randomly pasting stuff from the clipboard (through middle clicks).As all these mice had such issues we ended up disabling their buttons when needed to do coding.I presume some revisions of these mice didn't have that problem
(DIR) Post #B1o8ZalEL8XvRUvZCK by jschwart@mas.to
2025-12-31T08:36:30Z
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@bkuhn @b0rk @karen I always wonder on the origin of this idea of the one using proprietary software being in the wrong as generally the idea is that those users are being wronged. The virtue is in what you convey to others and possibly sacrificing some of your freedom to enable others to receive more freedom would be particularly commendable.Maybe some of this is expressed better now than it used to be.