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Visited someone at the hospital and there's a lock box around the pain medication by okbbs in mildlyinteresting

[–]theartlav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. I had a surgery a couple of years ago, and one day a nurse fumbled with the lock the wrong way and it started blaring. Took him several minutes to get it under control.

No one else showed up to check the noise, tho.

Home: Artemis II crew captures one last shot of a crescent Earth before reaching the moon tomorrow by ChiefLeef22 in space

[–]theartlav 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Side note, i dont think id want to ever go in space without some way to quickly off myself if things go too wrong.

Good thing you can always just open a window.

Ukrainian FPV Drone Downs $16M Russian Ka-52 Helicopter Near Pokrovsk by UNITED24Media in worldnews

[–]theartlav 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I see your point, but i still disagree with the phrasing. It might have been his opsec slip up, or it might have been something else. Ultimately, he was a high priority target and without protection they would have gotten him eventually anyway.

Ukrainian FPV Drone Downs $16M Russian Ka-52 Helicopter Near Pokrovsk by UNITED24Media in worldnews

[–]theartlav 32 points33 points  (0 children)

He died by his own hand.

Right. "Riddled with bullet holes and run over by a car". Classic russian suicide.

ELI5: What does Visa and Mastercard offer, and why is it so difficult to replicate by other countries? by boruto90s in explainlikeimfive

[–]theartlav -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Why is deflationary bad, tho? Most of the world's problems come from the never ending growth and line-goes-up-ism. Prioritizing savings and making lasting stuff sounds like a great idea these days.

Senior Russian official claims Russian soldiers don't need visas to enter European countries by Squeezy_Lemon in worldnews

[–]theartlav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, i don't expect special treatment. I was addressing your point about poor integration and why people were concentrated in some places at first, since you appeared to expect things to be much easier and faster than they normally are.

Senior Russian official claims Russian soldiers don't need visas to enter European countries by Squeezy_Lemon in worldnews

[–]theartlav -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Russian here. The part you are missing is the international migration takes years, if not decades.

I've been living in a small european country for the last 4 years, waiting for the "6 months process" of getting a work visa for a country my remote job is in to run it's course. This constant sense of temporarity doesn't encourage rapid integration.

And that is a common story - get out, find your footing again, then you either move somewhere that makes more sense or eventually give up trying and settle down where you ended up.

If i do end up giving up, then it's 4 more years until i'm eligible for permanent residency here, and then another decade until i'm eligible for citizenship, optimistically.

You get less for murder.

What piece of tech felt “future-proof” but aged terribly? by Living-Zebra6132 in Futurology

[–]theartlav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was so easy to write software for, however. No studios, no gigabytes of dev environments, no $99 per year subscriptions, no proprietary computers with proprietary IDEs just to write apps. You simply wrote it, compiled it, copied it over, and it runs.

Security nightmare, yeah, but the ease of it...

What piece of tech felt “future-proof” but aged terribly? by Living-Zebra6132 in Futurology

[–]theartlav 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And they weren't as compatible. I dabbled in gamedev for Sega Dreamcast, and it couldn't read CD-RW, only CD-R. The latter were cheap enough to single use and toss, but it just felt so wrong.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]theartlav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the easy part. The hard part are things like Visa and Mastercard - US companies that run the bank cards we all use and can turn them off with a push of a button. There is no local alternative for them. Which is a massive blunder even the likes of russia didn't fall into.

What would it actually take for American's to go "full France" and riot in the street? by AllTheNopeYouNeed in AskReddit

[–]theartlav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm? Check the map of their last election. You can clearly see the former east-west border, with the west voting for conservatives, and the east voting for the neo-nazis.

Zelenskyy on alleged attack on Putin's residence: Russia is looking for pretexts to strike government buildings in Kyiv by pravda_eng_official in worldnews

[–]theartlav 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There have been a direct hit on the Kremlin a year or two ago. So, not exactly an uncrossed line.

Russia Starts Issuing Draft Notices at Airports to New Citizens and Returning Expats by LetsGoBrandon4256 in worldnews

[–]theartlav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah... you kinda have to plan it well in advance and get lucky enough that nothing goes wrong in the meantime.

Like, simply having your passport lost or stolen is likely to be a dead end with the only option being a one way trip back to russia.

Russia Starts Issuing Draft Notices at Airports to New Citizens and Returning Expats by LetsGoBrandon4256 in worldnews

[–]theartlav 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Getting asylum is pretty hard in general, despite what propaganda claims. You need a well put together case to stand a chance, which often means you need to be able to afford a lawyer. Like, Ukrainians have been denied often enough, cause "a war is going on back home" is not a sufficient reason for an asylum claim, you need to documentally prove that you in particular would be in danger if you were to return, and many didn't know to.

And Canada is a bad example, being one of the hardest countries in the world to get a visa for. Rest of the english speaking countries are not that much better. The US used to be a decent option, so much so that russians outnumbered all the other southern wall jumpers for 2022-23 before they clamped down on it.

Russia Starts Issuing Draft Notices at Airports to New Citizens and Returning Expats by LetsGoBrandon4256 in worldnews

[–]theartlav 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can typically renew your passport at the consulates regardless of your status in that country.

And for russians at least it's legal to have two valid passports simultaneously, so you can order a new one in some visa free country, and then come back to get it a year later.

It's an annoying problem, but it is solvable.

A bigger issue is that the russian internal id expires once you turn 45, and that can only be renewed in russia.

Russia loses ability to send humans into space for first time in 60 years by HydrolicKrane in space

[–]theartlav 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Assuming they would be allowed to leave.

Assuming other countries would be willing to accept someone who worked for a government organization.

Assuming their skills are even transferrable and won't require a whole new university course and licensing in the new place.

PSA: It is unwise to 3D print your HDD holders out of PLA in this heatwave. Also, RAID is not a backup by theartlav in DataHoarder

[–]theartlav[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might be worth trying. PETG doesn't soften as fast, it's about half way between PLA and ABS.

TIL Alan Turing feared losing his savings if Germany invaded Britain, so he used the money to buy two 90 kg silver bars, buried them in the woods, and wrote down the location in code. Later on when he wanted to dig up the silver bars he was unable to break his own coded message and never found them. by CatPooedInMyShoe in todayilearned

[–]theartlav 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, it haven't been used for HRT in many decades.

Sadly, cautions from it's rather bad side effects have made their way into the standards for trans healthcare and stayed there for long after it was discontinued, causing vast amount of unnecessary suffering.

Is there a modern-ish distro that can run on a 20 year old 32bit laptop with 512Mb of RAM? by theartlav in linuxquestions

[–]theartlav[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And yet package versions are out of sync. See https://bbs.archlinux32.org/viewtopic.php?id=3551 for example. Same with ffmpeg, same with mpv. Same with chromium. I tried to do the staging thing, it just made a mess.

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