i don't think you understand the gravity of the situation.
this is an actual large scale conflict, a land war, and we need to finance very traditional sort of armaments and ammunition, because that's what ukraine needs the most.
this requires ramping up actual production capacity, not just paying more for the same.
(i'm astonished, or rather really angry, that after two years there are still western fucking leftists who never did the minimal effort to learn what's happening and are happy to talk in platitudes and exude the feeling of moral superiority. from our point of view in eastern europe, large swathes of western left are just useless bumblefuckers; especially the american so-called democratic socialists.)
a little correction: it's not the united states pressuring that makes the eu governments reconsider military spending, it's the russia invading ukraine again and the full-scale war that followed. (the general tone of your comment suggests that you're not aware that russia is at their most aggressive stance in decades).
ah, and before you start spewing bullshit in the style of chomsky or, goddess forbid, begin quoting the likes of mearsheimer, my advice is: don't.
also: it was microsoft's business decision to make the api required for av (or, more general security subsystems) to function so low-level that it has to be delivered as a kernel driver and operate in ring0. i guess it's primarily for the performance reasons, but still, there are other technical options. someone made the executive decision there.
on the other hand, it was crowdstrike's business decision to make the bloody update parser run in ring0, and without verification that the update data is correct, nobody forced them to do it that way.
again, there's no need to defend microsoft: microsoft could do the right thing and not try to use the situation in an attempt to undermine eu antitrust policies using a bullshit take.
i find the level of ms apologia unsettling. remember, we're only a few news cycles away from the time ms almost shipped windows with spyware and keylogger built-in
a hunch, really: i've met the type and had my suspicions, and then i've found that he posted the link about polish antitrust & consumer protection watchdog fining paypal, which is generally niche outside poland.
yeah, they don't teach much about fascist atrocities in ethiopia, and then people feel compelled to defend the good name of the boys in the black shirts because the poor dupes didn't build the concentration camps – just were allied to the builders.
i looked up the instance – it's a regular pleroma, so it lists the admin. timeline is full of local gobshites, and it clearly federates with the rest of the naziverse.
let me repeat something i wrote in another thread: bringing up the smtp daemon in basic configuration (and, by the way, my preferred one is exim) is trivial. managing working and usable mail service is not.
it's a process! you need to reserve time for that! you need to understand basic networking, you need to intimately know how dns works. you need to know how to use swaks. you need to know your RFCs, and the subtle breakages of the protocol that you need to introduce in order to reduce the amount of spam you're receiving. you need to understand why everything that SPF promises is a lie, but you'll be using it anyway. you need to know how DKIM works, and what is the true meaning of DMARC. you will learn that google wants you to use experimental features in order to be able to deliver your fucking mail to them. you need to understand that the anti-spam blacklists are managed by fucking racketeers, and that you can't avoid them. you need to understand the difference between sending mail and receiving it, and why a correctly configured MX record does absolutely nothing to improve the ability to deliver remote mail. you need to have time to deal with petty tyrants on a mission, and with oblivious bureaucracy of large providers, and learn to be happy if you can reach a human person on the other side at all.
sure. tell that to people who used the .af domains; or learn more about shenanigans with the various oceanian TLDs, or who owns the .io domain, and why.
the fact is that you don't own the domain name, and it's always one missed card payment (or registrar changing hands and losing your card data) from being lost, and then your best chance is arbitrage.
it's one of these things that you have to understand when you start self-hosting anything.
for backups have a look at kopia. not only for the functionality, but for the fact that this whole thing is a static-linked single go binary. drop it where you need it, and you're done.
i don't think you understand the gravity of the situation.
this is an actual large scale conflict, a land war, and we need to finance very traditional sort of armaments and ammunition, because that's what ukraine needs the most.
this requires ramping up actual production capacity, not just paying more for the same.
(i'm astonished, or rather really angry, that after two years there are still western fucking leftists who never did the minimal effort to learn what's happening and are happy to talk in platitudes and exude the feeling of moral superiority. from our point of view in eastern europe, large swathes of western left are just useless bumblefuckers; especially the american so-called democratic socialists.)