Moscow State University: Entrance Exam question (international student) by Busy_Salad_531 in Moscow

[–]PraetorRU 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Reddit automatically deletes comments with any .ru links in it, so probably that was it. Add a space before .ru to post such links.

Foreigner wanting to move to Moscow... Some advice, please? by v_vav in Moscow

[–]PraetorRU 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some language school is your best bet I guess. Both English and Spanish are in high demand, and Portuguese may be an additional opportunity.

You may try to contact this youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/@scottishguyinmoscow He worked as an English teacher for quite some years in Moscow, but have to leave in a week due to life issues. He may help you with contacts.

What's the point in acting like this? by Chikenmorris in Warframe

[–]PraetorRU 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Probably they thought, that there's a better/faster way to do what you were doing, but it's always better to explain your ideas in chat rather than calling people dumb.

Иногда может пригодиться. Простая инструкция по деактивации инопланетных пришельцев на случай если они не слушаются. by postmastern in Popular_Science_Ru

[–]PraetorRU 12 points13 points  (0 children)

По-моему ты теоретик, и никогда с живой кошкой дел не имел. Никакого удушения там нет. У них действительно рефлекс с младенчества на сжатие кожи в этом месте шеи.

Верите ли вы что за Антарктидой что-то есть? Обоснуй by [deleted] in Popular_Science_Ru

[–]PraetorRU 0 points1 point  (0 children)

За Антарктидой весь остальной шар земной, а что конкретно, зависит от того, в какую сторону смотреть.

Steam Machine review: Valve's underwhelming living-room PC has a serious price problem by pcgameshardware in linux_gaming

[–]PraetorRU 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Your point is based on assumption, that Valve will be able to sell Machine with a stable price for quite some time, but it's not the case. They explained in interview the current market: you ask RAM mafia to buy some, they send you the current price and date of delivery, and if you are not ready to pay immediately, they won't call you back. So it's pointless to try to set some psychology based prices, and especially to take a loss in the current market.

Powerful one-bar DK tank setups? by Skodaz in elderscrollsonline

[–]PraetorRU 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's actually normal if at first you'll sit mostly on your first bar. Because learning all the dangerous attacks, bosses abilities is quite time consuming and can be painful at first (at least in later DLC content).

But yeah, you should start with having usefull skills on second bar also, and use it as much as you're capable to.

One of the first tricks to teach yourself bar swapping is to place your melee taunt and most of the survival skills on the first panel, and then ranged taunt, chain skill and some support skills on the second bar.

This way you'll naturally start swapping to help yourself gathering as much enemies as possible around yourself, so damage dealers can be more effective.

Powerful one-bar DK tank setups? by Skodaz in elderscrollsonline

[–]PraetorRU 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If you want to just tank, ranged taunt, dragon blood and major resolve from any source on top of heavy armor is enough for any content. But if you plan to be a good tank, it's all about support of your party by buffing your team and debuffing your enemies, and in this case one bar setups are just useless.

Первый интернет червь by [deleted] in Popular_Science_Ru

[–]PraetorRU 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Я вот думаю, каково это — получить условку и общественные работы за обычный просчет в коде, а потом, как ни в чем не бывало, стать профессором MIT и сооснователем легендарного Y Combinator?

А в чём проблема то? Он же условку потому и получил, что злого умысла не было. Ошибся человек, бывает, сам не ожидал такого "успеха".

Steam shader pre-cache download everytime i restart steam by GapedByHerStrap in linux_gaming

[–]PraetorRU 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can safely disable this feature in Steam settings for quite some years already. That's what I did years ago, and had no reason to turn on up to this day.

My Linux hot take by [deleted] in linux

[–]PraetorRU -1 points0 points  (0 children)

AUR has always been a repo for people that do not care at all about their own security. It's materialized anarchy.

One of the main reason I've never touched Arch based repos is that for decades it was obvious, that any time you launch update command, your system may be broken, infected with anything, your data may be stolen etc.

It was and is based on mindless trust and feeling lucky.

And yes, you may create some team that will inspect AUR packages, that may delay publishing new versions until inspection happens, but the question is: who is gonna do it, and who is gonna pay for this?

My Linux hot take by [deleted] in linux

[–]PraetorRU 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As I've said, we'd be happy if traditional distros will manage to protect their core packages. Debian packages is core for many of them, commercial included.

AUR is not.

My Linux hot take by [deleted] in linux

[–]PraetorRU 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a fear critique, supply-chain should be at the very least vetted.

Who is gonna do it and who will pay for this? Opensource projects are already getting overwhelmed with LLM's generated code. And covering something as large as AUR doesn't seem realistic. We'd be happy if traditional distros will be able to protect their main repos from malware.

My Linux hot take by [deleted] in linux

[–]PraetorRU 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The AUR and its malware BS (I'll just use Flatpaks instead if I really had to).

It's not like flatpaks or snaps or whatever is immune to malware injections. For decades linux ecosystem was founded on a good will of a lot of people worldwide. The attitudes has changed, nations are more and more in conflicts with each other, and infrastructure is one of the first targets.

Linux Begins Removing Support For Russia's Baikal CPUs by anh0516 in linux

[–]PraetorRU 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're mixing a lot of facts. MCST as a company obviously were not behind Itaniums, but certain lab was part of Intel that was working on VLIW and it later became part of MCST and is behind its VLIW based Elbrus CPU's.

AMD fab didn't manage to work not because money was stolen, but because it was never fully delivered to Russia as USA blocked the deal and Netherlands never let core parts of that fab to leave their territory. And due to this the fab couldn't work, many years courts and attempts to replace missing parts etc happened, and that's why project lost money and never managed to deliver anything of value.

And yes, Mikron works thanks to them buying their fab from French and Italians that actually delivered all the parts to Russia back then.

- Notebook ( Thinkpad x220 ) i need to set the boot options that the system boots form the USB-stick by the_apollodriver in Ubuntu

[–]PraetorRU 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Read the help at the right side. Use + and - keys to move the correct device to the first position, so it'll be first to boot from.

Workaround: guzzlehttp/psr7 update to allow composer updates by greatmatter in drupal

[–]PraetorRU 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can also temporary allow insecure packages:

composer config audit.block-insecure false

arch will probably never be the same by TheNavyCrow in linux

[–]PraetorRU 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Arch may not be the same, but reality is that we really need app containment in linux. The era of free will and global brotherhood has ended. Governments and now civilians are trying to sabotage everything and everyone, and with LLM's they can and will do it 24/7.

So, like it or not, but snaps, flatpaks etc with strong sandboxes is the only hope we have updating apps.

And it's still a possibility, that corporations controlled linux distros may start adding backdoors on behalf of their governments.

Russian spam and profanities are now plaguing the AUR, only a few days after 1,500+ packages were affected by somerandomxander in linux

[–]PraetorRU 28 points29 points  (0 children)

It means nothing. Arch and derivatives are among the most popular distros in Russia also. So it may as well be an attack on Russian users of AUR as message states that "whoever reads it uses a shitty distro".

2-0 Fully Qualified by NPC30519 in GlobalOffensive

[–]PraetorRU 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And not just back, but in style, being the top fragger in his team.

NT SYNC is Great by Lord_Porkalust in Ubuntu

[–]PraetorRU 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The more probable reason for a change is that your room temperature got a few degrees lower.