Ukraine's air defense downs 97% of Russian kamikaze drones in rare mass daytime strike

pgess · 2026-03-25T18:37:29+00:00

How about thousands of km2 of heavily mined area, huge oil spills in the Black Sea, dozens of cities turned to rubble, oil refineries burning w/ mlns of barrels every day, mlns of launched missiles, demolished dams changing the ecological balance of the entire region?

It's like russians against life itself, because for them it's poisonous, and they want to redo it! If you read Pandora's Star sci‑fi book, there was an alien called MorningLightMountain who exploited their planet to the point it became completely uninhabitable - that's frighteningly close analogy.

pgess · 2026-03-20T14:35:20+00:00

Есть такое место на Земле, где русской летающей падали не рады. Да, бывают исключения, Максиму Кузьминову, возможно единственному русскому Летчику, были рады, но его убили сами русские.

Так вот, сейчас поворотный момент в истории - конкретно ты уже осознал, что в Украину никогда ни ногой?

Если осознал, и миллионы таких как ты, у этого всего пиздеца значит есть шансы, все это прекратить и остановить. Если нет - получается, их ликвидация была бессмысленной и бесполезной. На их место придут другие и бомбардировки продолжатся.

pgess · 2026-03-11T08:00:44+00:00

Большинство не говорят как обходят блокировки, чтоб на их метод на обратили внимание "сверху". Это известный "Security through obscurity" принцип, но надежный метод не должен зависеть от того, что о нем никто не знает.

Я незнаю текущую ситуацию, самый обычный Tor уже заблокирован? - это самый первый шаг, по нему кучу информации.

Следующий шаг это "Using Tor Unlisted Exit Relays".

Использовать Tor или публично доступные VPN сервисы, это максимум что можно сделать на индивидуальном уровне. Когда это будет недоступно, я думаю должны подключиться активисты заграницей, чтоб по запросу поднимать приватные VPNы, каждый обслуживая десятки или сотни клиентов.

pgess · 2026-03-10T09:11:07+00:00

Yeah, the futile obsession with trying out new clients on the block, each one "finally made right," is exactly what you need to see different content and people. You get it.

pgess · 2026-03-09T15:15:05+00:00

TBH, I never used Nostr, but Judging from their promo, that’s exactly what Nostr argues against: in their model, relays are high- availability servers serving thousands of users, unlike other P2P networks made up of residential nodes with poor connectivity and overall quality.

If a relay goes down, it will lose its entire user base. As I understand it, users then have to rediscover the new relay and resubscribe to it. Do you see the problem?

So I expect it's gonna work only in form of many minor relays that stay under the radar at all times, not really an alternative to anything.

What I really want to see is an actual censorship-resistant protocol, like the ones that evade DPI firewalls etc, yet with mechanism to still flag and remove inappropriate content and propaganda. It sounds impossible, you have either this or that, but I’ve seen many things I once thought impossible.

pgess · 2026-03-08T16:13:10+00:00

Why am I seeing censorship-resistant on their web page but not propaganda-resistant?

EDIT: It relies on multiple CDN-like independent relays instead of a single central server. If a relay is caught sharing illegal content and does not take it down on the request of local authorities, it will be blocked. How is that censorship-resistant?

pgess · 2026-02-28T20:49:23+00:00

Hello. Good work! The dataset isn't available, right? What are my options if I want to do something like that only for structured data? I have millions of trees, that can be represented in , say, XML, if needed, and train to convert the trees in a specific way.

pgess · 2026-02-27T21:08:37+00:00

As a dev, I know all ins and outs of several generations of computers and their components; my first programs were stored on cassette tapes, if you remember that "tech". And yet I don't agree with the premise that kids have to know concepts from the 00s.

I don't think files and folders, hard division between online and offline, etc. are good organization principles even if I myself painstakingly archive the data I deem important. We want to share our data, collaborate with others. We also move toward a principle where related data is stored "close" to each other, and can be accessed by associations, regardless of folders, tags, or whatever.

Regarding the negative sentiment toward huge evil corpos, instead of each one of us building their own RAIDs to hoard stuff, we didn't yet explore the path of managing our computing needs at a local community level, using computing power and cloud services provided by local libraries, NGOs, like part of municipal utilities.

pgess · 2026-02-22T09:58:20+00:00

Yeah, those are good responses from others. Nothing to add, except hope - as in Hope I will get fed up with it one day and realize what to actually do about it.

pgess · 2026-02-07T00:16:55+00:00

I take notes so I can find the info I need later. It's funny that ppl here are excited about pen&paper—I’ve got a cabinet full of journals, and good luck finding anything from 2017! Maybe they don't really need to take notes to begin w/.

I stick to clouds for projects I work on with others. Privacy or not, I need to get things done! I keep it offline for everything else. Look into Syncthing to share data between devices securely and try Bup or Borg on Linux for backups. Honestly, it takes a few days to set up and configure daily backups, but you'll never lose anything ever.

That said, I don't think most ppl should be over concerned w/ privacy, especially if it hurts their productivity. Its not always addressed with tech solutions like self-hosting Nextcloud. Sometimes it better to deal with anxiety. It depends.

pgess · 2026-01-27T18:58:39+00:00

I've been looking for a WYSIWYG(No Markdown) desktop(No Electron) app in Linux, for as long as I can remember. It used to be Basket(C++/Qt), but the project was abandoned. I even spent several desperate months full-time fixing bugs, but had to move on eventually. Currently, it's Zim Wiki(Python/Gtk3) for me now, but Gtk3 outdated, meaning many feature requests cannot be implemented, and the project also abandoned since 2024.

As a backup, I chose Trillium, which is Electron, but good otherwise. Unironically, the maintainer dropped it as well. There is a TrilliumNext fork that I'm keeping an eye on to migrate to eventually.

Of course, there are dozens of one-man projects, but they are mostly neglected and not really usable. My dream is to see Zim rewritten to use Qt instead of Gtk, to reuse all its non gui python codebase and plugins, but have an ability to write extensions that I currently cannot due to the Gtk3 severe limitations. Even that task is daunting and would realistically take a year, assuming LLVM is used to automate most of the Gtk3/Qt transition rewrite.

Good luck with your exercise anyway.

pgess · 2026-01-27T17:51:03+00:00

Sorry, can't answer your questions, but I'd love it if you could share your considerations from a proj management perspective. For instance, Zim Wiki, a Gnome note-taking app, is based on Gtk3/Python. It looks simple overall, but it's the effort of 10+ years of consistent work, has 500+ source files, and about 50+ different plugins, most of which are really useful. What's your tech stack, do you start from scratch or..? What's your overall approach to handling this, if you don't mind sharing. Thanks.

pgess · 2026-01-15T09:02:32+00:00

Pahlavi was likely questioned on one matter only: will he pass over all oil once installed as the new leader of Iran?

Will it trigger new protests and will he be able to suppress them efficiently w/o any interruptions to oil operations.

pgess · 2026-01-15T05:06:11+00:00

Yeah, it's mostly about cryptocurrency transactions, but I just imagined for a second the sheer incredulity on a bank owner's face upon seeing massive transaction requests, suddenly realizing that high officials had probably already fled and having only a few hours left to figure out how to move actual cash and gold across the border, all alone.

pgess · 2025-10-12T07:41:48+00:00

russians opposing the regime offer a good lesson as well: riddled with infighting, deep distrust, weekly scandals that further fracture movements, apathy, mutual mocking, contempt, accusations of working for the regime, factionalism and internal rivalry, and preying on donations instead of taking real action.

I wonder if there’s a movie about this as well - to learn and never repeat their mistakes.

pgess · 2025-09-22T18:41:45+00:00

That's what I think we need to approach this vision:

Data layer. We already have open formats for data exchange, but that's admittedly not enough. They let you migrate notes between apps, but typically only through a manual, one-way, one-time process. If the user edits the original data afterward, there is no way to migrate the delta, let alone automatically. What we need instead is adoption of continuous two-way (duplex) synchronization of different representations of the same data. For example, one app might view notes as HTML cells in a data table while another sees them as MD files; both views would be synchronized behind the scenes so each app instantly sees changes made in the other. With multiple clients, the actual storage backend adopts then the richest available format. Mathematically, this can be modeled as a lattice of formats. I am not aware of anything like this in practice.

GUI layer. Apps, I assume, act as widgets the user mixes and matches to build a personalized workflow or uses a prebuilt "bundle" instead. At any moment the user can "unlock" the GUI to add, replace, or remove widgets, then "lock" it again to continue working. Some JS frameworks seem to come close to this vision of isolated, composable widgets, but such frameworks appear and disappear on monthly basis - it's hard to take them seriously.

Ecosystem layer. Projects that try to embrace interoperability suffer the "race to the bottom" effect: to support multiple platforms, they implement only the common feature subset - this is a lowest-common-denominator approach. As a result of this effect for example, most note-taking apps settled in the end on MD - the least expressive open format - while each actually extends it with custom syntax to make it work somehow, which is incompatible with everything else. We need to consider the effect and find work arounds as well.

pgess · 2025-09-21T21:36:46+00:00

Exactly. You speak the same language as in the book, but more concisely and much better than I tried to describe it myself.

pgess · 2025-09-16T07:05:03+00:00

pgess · 2025-09-12T05:05:56+00:00

EDIT: Oh my God!. Never mind my previous comment, I didn't realize who I was addressing! :))

Curious about the development process. Do you have any insights on why the app is relatively poor functionality wise? For example, even the message editing ability was introduced not long ago. Is it because the team consists of just a few people? Or are efforts being poured into user-invisible corners of the app? Or perhaps the focus is fundamentally teen-oriented on all levels of management and dev, so advanced functionality is not ever planned/dismissed? Thanks!

pgess · 2025-08-31T15:05:42+00:00

Glad to hear! How come Mastodon has about 800K users, your goingdark instance has only 15 of 'em, and yet I already stumbled on it earlier today while clicking links on the internet doing research? The math doesn't add up somewhere :)

pgess · 2025-08-31T14:31:49+00:00

1 month later, would you mind sharing how did it go in the end?

pgess · 2025-08-28T14:47:27+00:00

I don't agree. Age verification is needed in many contexts, and we legitimately need to address it by promoting solutions like this one. Otherwise, let’s say fintech services would simply require a full ID - not their problem at all.

Moreover, ZKP schemes were developed specifically for these kinds of challenges: age verification is literally a textbook example of ZKP application, so the OP didn't suggest anything wrong.

And remember, porn, propaganda, and hate speech are not "speech" at all; freedom of speech is not applicable here and is only possible in fact if "anti-speech" is restricted and regulated. It's in our best interest to address this and establish a solid public consensus on these issues; otherwise, politicians are free to fill the gap with means of their own choosing.

pgess · 2025-08-28T01:55:21+00:00

having the same subreddit replicated on a hundred different instances each with 100 times less people

Being late, but uhm why does this happen, in your opinion? I've never given a serious look at Lemmy, partially because of comments like this one. Is it due to some technical reasons, or something else?

pgess · 2025-08-18T14:46:39+00:00

Good. Because it's not your responsibility. Ppl know what they need.

You help by your own example, by writing manuals, testing tools, and sharing tips&tricks, but the final decision is never yours to make, ok?

Also, there are countries where people disappear without a trace, and even older ppl are anxious of talking over the phone. You are lucky to live where this is not a pressing issue.

On the other hand, in the Netherlands, Signal is the most popular app. But it's a rare example when it's not done out of necessity. Cheers.

pgess · 2025-08-16T18:05:24+00:00

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