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  • 40% of national expenditure on defence and security is astounding. I’d read previously that the massive defence spending was reshaping the Russian economy, but I had no perception it was that high.

    That sounds like the sort of spending you’d pursue if you were heading toward total war, not merely entrenched in a single ‘special military operation’. I wonder if it indicates that those who suggest that this is just the opening stage of what will end up being a much larger war involving the attempted conquest of other nations might be right.


  • Allow them and if Russia strikes the West then have NATO impose a no fly zone over Ukraine and see how far Russia gets.

    Forget a no-fly zone; if Russia strikes a NATO country most of the West will be going to war.

    I’m torn on the matter for the obvious and horrific implications of war, but at this point I’m not sure it’d be the worst outcome. The invasion of Ukraine is utterly heartbreaking and setting the scene for a century or more of militarism and conquest by undemocratic states. Being gripped by fear of war now is going to condemn future generations to much worse, and it’s going to seem absurd to them looking back at why we didn’t prevent it now, with our tentative, sometimes faltering support for the multiple liberal-democracies facing conflict and the threat of conflict from undemocratic states right now.

    Sooner or later the world is going to have to contend with this. I just hope it won’t be too late for Ukraine.


  • I wonder what the author thinks of Christians depicted in fiction. Are they all to be considered heretics for worshipping their god instead of their actual creator, the all-powerful writer?

    The writer-as-god concept isn’t original, but the sheer level of egotism it embodies makes me think this author is an aspirational fiction writer trying to break through rather than a deeply deluded person struggling to reconcile TV fiction with their understanding of psychology, philosophy, and theology.




  • I’d suggest it depends on your hardware setup. If you have sufficient disks and care about availability and/or performance of your data access, RAID is rarely a bad idea.

    If you choose to do a software RAID in Linux without Intel RST, you have three main options: mdadm, LVM, and ZFS. You can explore those options on your own, but my personal view is that ZFS is wonderful to work with and comes with tons of benefits itself alongside its ZRAID implementation, making it my preferred choice.

    edit: I forgot btrfs! I have no experience of it but I imagine its RAID implementation is as similarly awesome as ZFS/ZRAID.


  • Return the sausages! Brexit means breakfast! Gordon Brown saved the world!

    Everyone misspeaks from time to time. The fact these folks speak publicly so often and misspeak so rarely is actually to their credit. I think it’s mildly newsworthy when it results in saying something politically relevant — like Biden mixing up Zelenskyy and Putin, or Bush when he seemed to reveal his true thoughts when misspeaking — but this one, like most occurrences, is just silly.



  • I can’t; I’m out of the loop with VPS providers. I think if I needed one nowadays I’d look at small providers located near me.

    I was using Linode for my many web apps and self-hosting projects until fairly recently, but when Akamai rebranded them and raised prices I moved to a Hetzner dedicated host, which worked out cheaper with my workloads. I run everything in LXC containers, all of which join my Tailscale/Headscale tailnet, and all of which get backed up to both my local NAS and to rsync.net (using rclone’s crypt module).



  • rhystoMechanical Keyboards@lemmy.mlergo ftw
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    Ah, the Lily58. I use one too, with Vilebloom keycaps.

    I started with it after getting intermittent wrist and knuckle pain. Switching to the split ergo form factor eliminated it entirely, and the Lily turned rapidly into my very favourite board.




  • I’m not sure it’s a ‘pigs flying’ moment. Despite being an ultra-committed conservative, he’s been a critic of Trump since the beginning (and other unserious Republicans like Sarah Palin) and voted Democrat in 2016 and 2020 accordingly.

    Honestly, fair dues to him. He’s from an elder era of more serious politics, and — as incongruent as it may sound when referencing those with a libertarian slant — an injection of that sort of seriousness is exactly what the American right-wing sorely needs. Like with Dick Cheney, I agree with him about virtually nothing — apparently except for the continuation of American democracy that’s tragically on the ballot this November.

    I wish there were far, far more Republicans willing to act similarly.



  • This one mildly surprised me — possibly even more so than NIMBYs blocking solar farms and Green MPs opposing green infrastructure in their constituencies — given the industrial presence in Pembs that locals are pretty enthusiastic about. Our culture of Citizens Against Virtually Everything (CAVE) appears pretty pervasive though, and I really hope it’s something we’ll see tackled through this Parliamentary period.

    I hope DARC gets rammed through regardless of such opposition, that we massively revamp the Town and Country Planning Act and Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act, and that we become gradually more comfortable as a country with actually building and doing stuff from time to time.