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NATO admiral warns of potential all-out war with Russia
  • Russia doesn't need Ukraine on its own, they need Ukraine to get access Poland, Romania and Moldova.

    They already switched into war time production, and if they manage to get Ukraine they only need a year or two to replenish all military equipment.

    People really underestimate Russia and that's the worst thing you can do to get caught pants down. If Russia senses there's a chance to succeed they will move on.

    Another thing the West seems to be ignoring is that they think the war is just what is happening in Ukraine, when the majority of their operation is disinformation, subversion, and destabilization.

    The popularity of far right politicians (who for some reason are friendly toward Kremlin) or BRExit shows how effective it is.

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    Why use VIM/Nano/Emacs over VS Code?
  • But does actually work like an IDE? I for example love PyCharm understanding type annotation. Not only it highlights errors, but also improves autocompletion and makes big refactoring less scary.

    The integration with data grip (unfortunately that's available in paid version) allows for similar behavior with SQL contained in strings. Which IMO fixes the impedance mismatch that created the need for query builders and ORM frameworks.

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    FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard
  • I love when FCC at least appears to do something, not like under Shit Pai.

    Frankly though they should revise Title II classification for the Internet and remove exception from the requirement to share last mile to competitors. This is the main reason there's almost no competition. It doesn't make sense for every single ISP to run lines to every home. Those lines should be leaseable.

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    Drag shows are protected by 1st Amendment, performers tell federal judge
  • As a parent I rather not have government tell me what is approved thing and what's not. I'm not LGBT and not interested in drag shows but honestly the whole thing is blown out of proportion.

    I find it ridiculous that countries like Poland are heavily against LGBT, then the same people will turn on TV to watch cabaret (note the meaning in US is different than in Europe) and watch male comedians dressed as women for comedic effect (e.g. https://youtu.be/iM87cjLCCwI?t=63)

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    Twitter Removes Its 'No Political Ads' Policy Ahead of the 2024 Election
  • Yeah, also anyone who claims that they didn't switch to mastodon because it is too confusing, must have serious learning disability. I can understand that Lemmy is harder than traditional reddit, because the problem is more complex and the service still need a lot of polish, but mastodon is very simple to use.

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    Should I use chromium based browsers or firefox?
  • I'm guessing you don't work in corporate environment or no longer work from home.

    There are times when video is expected to be on, but you don't want to show your room to everyone.

    Having said that I can't think of firefox being able to stream video yet not being able to do this, so likely it is Google's way to make its competitor look subpar. Probably can be fixed by spoofing user agent. Ironically the most recent change in Chrome will make this very difficult in the future.

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    Should I use chromium based browsers or firefox?
  • Did you try agent spoofing (which probably won't work in the future because of this). This sounds like things Microsoft (and now Google) does to make their product look better.

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    Should I use chromium based browsers or firefox?
  • If you want to have choice in the future you should go with Firefox. Google is close to (or maybe already did) make Chrome equivalent of the Internet Explorer.

    The better thing to what was with IE is that majority of websites still work fine in Firefox and people who stick to Chrome just do due to mostly ignorance.

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    Japan says no radioactivity found in Fukushima fish, Kyodo reports
  • When I said half life, I made a mental shortcut that it degrades into harmless compounds.

    The 12 days just means how long the body keeps most of tritium.

    You are talking how much radiation the water causes and that it is smaller than radiation from banana, and I'm talking that this "banana" stays in your body for 12 days and part of it your body integrates by replacing your hydrogen with its radioactive counterpart.

    You work with radiation, but this isn't just about radiation, but also involves organic chemistry and metabolism.

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    Japan says no radioactivity found in Fukushima fish, Kyodo reports
  • That 12 days is not a half life, but it is how long it stays in the body before you pee it out. This only matters if you had a single incident of drinking the water or eating contaminated food not if you are constantly exposed to it then each time you consume affected foods you know it stays with you for about 12 days and small part of it stays with you forever as your body doesn't see the difference between tritium and hydrogen, so it will be happy to use the radioactive version, which could increase your chances of cancer as well as your future generations.

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    Japan says no radioactivity found in Fukushima fish, Kyodo reports
  • Isn't the problem as much with the radiation itself as consuming radioactive elements that will stay in your body likely to the rest of your life and provide radiation from the inside?

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