At this stage Medvedev is using nuclear threats to separate paragraphs in his speeches.

If you're trying to find any logic or intent in what populist lying politician says, you're doing it wrong.

If Fico said that the sky is blue, I'd go outside to check.

He just won election on the platform of russian lies and conspiracy theories. He's a COVID denier that was privately recorded saying he personally had quite serious symptoms when he got it. He lies pretty much constantly.

Whatever he says has no reflection in reality. There was pretty much zero military help from Slovakia since we gave away the only S300 system and jets. The rest (ie Zuzana howitzer) is paid for by a third party or an actual contract. And he's not stopping that - if anything he likely gets a cut off that deal. It's just posturing for the portion of his voting base that eats russian propaganda he personally helped to spread.

Strategically it makes no sense to suck putin's dick. Russia is done for no matter what happens in Ukraine. It's a bankrupt pseudo-country on the verge of collapse. It makes zero sense losing the good will of the EU countries - many of which have bigger economies than russia - for anything russia can provide. And Fico isn't some master planner. If there isn't something in it for him, he isn't interested. It's that simple. And he needs EU money to fund projects he can then suck dry.

I agree it's bad idea to do this, but it looks like most people didn't read the article past the headline and assume Kyiv is used as metonym for Ukraine. (In the same way as when Kremlin is used instead of russian government) Which is not the case here, it's literary just Kyiv city council doing this.

The working in the article is a bit confusing:

was charged with justifying terrorism and refused to plead guilty

To me this sounds like he was charged with justifying terrorism, not for refusing to plead guilty. Reading further the charge is based on "conversations with other inmates during which Miftakhov allegedly expressed support for a 2018 attack on a regional office of Russia's Federal Security Service". In reasonable legal system it would stand on very shaky legs given the other inmates have every reason to say whatever FSB told them to say otherwise they will be tortured as well. But this is russia.

Which is to say he wasn't really charged for refusing to plead guilty, but in practice the FSB can just keep making up false charges and torturing him until he pleads guilty, so there's very little difference. It might as well be an offense as you implied.

Nothing to worry folks, here's what NSO said when it was used to target Khashoggi's inner circle as he was murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate:

NSO denies any wrongdoing. It says the software is intended for use against criminals and terrorists and is made available only to military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies from countries with good human rights records

Something that were already seeing with Slovakia cutting all aid to Ukraine and taking a 'war is bad, negotiate peace' stance that is a blatant and thinly veiled Russian supportive line.

Keep in mind that Fico is lying populist. He is very vocal about ending support for Ukraine, but then ends up supporting budget that includes help for Ukraine.

He's very dependent on EU money. Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas very correctly pointed out to reporters that Hungary often said one thing to the media and did another thing behind closed doors. Fico is exactly the same.

Any military equipment Slovakia could send is already in Ukraine. And any future financial help will be approved by Fico after making loud claims in the media how he'll stop any and all support. Or pretend that the support is only humanitarian. (But obviously money is money, we can easily pretend the 1% of the overall budget that Slovakia sent was used for.. ..uh.. ..fuel?)

They are still part of a country that's not within the EU. Even living in Ireland it's sometimes a major pain to do anything in the UK. (Ordering stuff, returns, etc..) I can imagine it's turned up to 11 in NI.

Perhaps it's kind of inevitable to have some bloat. For example apps these days handle most of the languages just fine including emoji, LTR/RTL and stuff. Some have pretty decent accessibility support. They can render pretty complicated interface at 8k screen reasonably fast. (often accelerated in some way) There is a ton of functionality baked in - your editor can render your html or markdown side by side with source code as you edit it. You have version control, terminal emulator, language servers, etc..

But then there's Electron, which just takes engine capable of rendering anything and uses it to render UI, so as a result there's not much optimization you can do. Button is actually a bunch of DOM elements wrapped in CSS.. Etc.. It's just good enough for the "hardware is cheap" approach.

I think Emacs is a good example to look at. It has a ton of built in functionality and with many plugins (either custom configuration or something like Doom Emacs) you can have very capable editor very comparable to the likes of VS Code. Decades back Emacs had this reputation of being bloated, because it used Megabytes of RAM. These days it's even more "bloated" due to all the stuff that was added since. But in absolute numbers it does not need as much resources as its Electron based peers. The difference can easily be order of magnitude or more depending on configuration.

The moment putin tries to do nuclear attack, he's dead. Zelensky said it well, that putin spent most of the invasion in some bunker, before that he had this thing with ridiculously long tables being super paranoid about covid. He's clearly not planning to die.

Also I think it helps to imagine the details. How would the nuclear attack look like? How would it prevent Crimea "falling"? What would be the breaking point? It's not like there would be some clear change from Ukraine not touching Crimea to full on liberation. Ukraine is bombing military targets in Crimea even now. They are even conducting operations on Crimean soil right now. They hit the Kerch bridge multiple times already. Why press the button after 4th or 7th bridge hit and not after first?

Also it's not like he can't sell this defeat as victory. The way things are going there's probably a lot of people in russia prepared to pretend that there was glorious victory after heroic attack towards russian border. There will be interviews in the Moscow streets with people praising the successful special military operation, because they know that if it continued few more months, there would be conscription in Moscow.

AFAIK the athlete never got any results either.

Old habits something something..

I couldn't help but think of Emacs when I was reading A Constructive Look At TempleOS. It's like TempleOS that is actually finished, it just lacks kernel.

Probably not what you're asking for, but I have an impression, that your primary motivation is curiosity and just good feeling of using the open platform, so I figured I'll mention it.

I'm using ESP32-C3 boards with some sensors and ESPHome to monitor air quality in my house. The board is RISC-V based and can be bought for real cheap. (single digit $ price generally) ESPHome is quite easy to work with and (If you're realistic with your expectations around very low power device) also quite powerful.

Honestly the ESPHome itself is almost too good if you're really curious as it abstracts the differences between various boards quite well. You're just editing a yaml file to define your desired functionality.

Even if you're hesitant to do some soldering, you can get pretty far if you buy board and sensors with pre-soldered pins and some jumper wires.

Fun fact: This is also how Ethernet (wired network connection) got its name. Ether was already dismissed as a theory, but "omnipresent, completely-passive medium for the propagation of electromagnetic waves" was a good description of hardware layer that can transfer data in a way that's abstracting all the signal handling complexity for higher layers.

So in a way I'm actually sending this comment via Ethernet.

Predictable in what sense?

IMO it will likely drive the price in countries that still directly buy cheap russian oil. So russia and India. There might be some price increase that will bubble up to the western countries, but it's probably not going to be huge.

We are all unfairly and relentlessly smeared as Putinists by increasingly unpopular globalist ‘elites’; their discredited lackeys in the lying, mainstream press; and Soros-funded NGOs.

It's uncanny how all of these putinists use the exact same language and arguments. It's always Soros and NGOs and lying mainstream press.

How many do they have and what would be the plan after they fired all 15?

That comment is just spreading FUD. One of the links is just link to someone's message saying they hate systemd. The other is just link to random (resolved) bug.

People aren't disliking the comment, it's actually terrible comment with no value.

If you design for work in office, WFH probably isn't going to be more productive and the other way around. A lot of companies made the mistake thinking that WFH is the same as regular office but with everyone being home. This is not the case.

I have experience with company without WFH employees, where any team that wasn't literary all in the same building had some serious communication and cooperation isuues. I have experience with company where there was no office whatsoever, people were across globe and time zones and we managed to cooperate effectively.

I'm not saying that WFH can be always more effective. But in many cases it's just terribly implemented change and companies are just moving back to investing into office space instead of investing into proper WFH culture.

Folks at Zapier wrote an excellent guide if anyone is interested. It's serious effort, sure. People often feel like this is extra work to keep WFH viable, but they tend to forget that keeping the office running is also a serious effort. Many companies probably have office manager, how many of these have some alternative of that for WFH?