For some definition of cloud. You also have on premises cloud. When Amazon runs their e-commerce site on AWS, are they running it on someone else's computer or not in cloud? (putting aside some tax-wise separation of individual Amazon subsidiaries)
On the other hand there are still providers that will rent you an server in their DC, but you don't get any API or anything else. At best they'll plug in HDDs that you sent them. This server hosting existed before "cloud" was a thing and it continues to exist.
I'd say that more accurate definition of cloud would be "someone else's computer with an API that customer can access". And if I'm really strict about that definition I'd drop entire first part, because it's the API that matters - computer might as well be yours.
Source: I've been on both sides of cloud from the very beginning.
My vatnik-o meter is maxing out. Whataboutism, pointing at nazis (ignoring the obvious one with Molotov-Ribbentrop pact), outright lies, victim complex, copypasta of bullshit, rewriting history. Your comment has it all.
It was entertaining, but I have no interest talking to russian drone.
No, what I'm saying is that russia never negotiated in good will. Whatever cooperation there is, russia will always spoil it.
Interpol is good example, russia abuses that system so much, about 38% of the warrants in the system come from them. Per capita that's about 2000% more compared to other countries. There's 194 countries in Interpol to put things into perspective, including China. They use the system to harass opposition abroad to the point that Interpol had to implement special rules for russia and actually review the warrants.
Russia will never stick to any agreement unless they are forced to. Had NATO understood that in 2014, we might have avoided the second invasion completely. The best we can do is to make sure there's not going to be 3rd invasion after russia breaks Minsk III.
Last 20 years russia invaded Georgia and twice Ukraine. Any attempt to find peaceful resolution post 2014 invasion was made impossible by russia. They were amassing troops around Ukraine since early 2019 and likely prepared for this since Minsk II was signed in 2015. That agreement eventually ended up with russia deciding that Minsk II no longer existed in 2022 and invading 2 days later based on made up excuses. These are the "security guarantees" they have been asking for. They never had any intention stopping their invasion, they just needed pause to prepare for another offensive. And they are doing exactly the same now.
Yeah, it would be unwise thing to do for sure. (on top of being immoral) I believe there's some serious effort by Ukrainian government to actually prevent this.
When you think about it, it's not like Ukraine is some uniform body, there is a lot of groups with lot of interests. Quite frankly also a lot of broken people that just saw one too many of their relatives dying under russian rocket barrage..
So it's almost a miracle that there isn't some sort of nasty bomb attack IRA style somewhere in russia on weekly basis. And if something like that eventually happens, it would hardly be surprising. For me that's one of the contexts for Zelensky's quote in the article. You just can't shell civilians on daily basis for a year and expect to not reap some revenge. It might not be government doing this, just a bunch of people that had enough. And as much as you'd like to stay on the moral high ground, I wouldn't blame these people one bit.
I really hope it does not happen for Ukraine's sake, but at the same time I would understand if it did.
I don't think there's much evidence that Ukraine targeted civilians. Previously they managed to hit office building where presumably the infamous unit 74455 (aka Sandworm unit that was behind many cyber attacks on Ukraine including the multiple power grid attacks) had its offices. So I wouldn't assume they are hitting civilian targets. They are hitting goverment offices that are closely tied to military or are directly part of russian military. And even then the attacks are done at a time when personnel is not present.
So to me it looks like they might be hitting targets that are military in nature if maybe less important overall with the added bonus of forcing russia's hand in terms if AA equipment use.
I agree that hitting civilian targets to force russia to relocate AA hardware would be very slippery slope and in my opinion unacceptable, but I don't see Ukraine doing this. And honestly I don't think it would be good strategy anyways, russia is perfectly fine with sacrificing their citizens, they would at best do some minimal effort if not outright just ignore it. So actually hitting military apparatus instead is much smarter choice for Ukraine.
From what I've seen so far, I'm willing to give Ukraine the benefit of the doubt here. They were so far very much focussed on military targets. Even in this case they seem to be attacking office buildings night time when they're presumably empty. This looks like an effort was made to minimize civilian casualties. And if we trust russia, we don't know what the targets were, because they claim they intercepted all of the drones.
Russia is attacking apartment blocks during night and shopping centres daytime for over a year now. They are aiming to inflict as many civilian casualties as possible it seems.
So much for facts. Now what military purpose could these drone attacks have? To me it seems like one expected outcome is to force russia to move some of its air defence back to Moscow. So far russia felt safe enough within its own borders to the point where they used their S300 systems in ground attack mode to terrorize Ukrainian cities. Due to the nature of these AA rockets, these were also hard to intercept. So the only defence from these might be to force russia to actually start using them for their intended purpose. It seems that in some way Ukraine already tried this approach when they attacked military bases deep in the russian territory, but in those cases russia just moved strategic bombers further away and continues to lob missiles from there. Also military base is much smaller than Moscow and likely already had some AA defence present there.
The athlete was from modern day Ukraine BTW and IIRC he was allowed to compete in other events afterwards. He achieved very solid results even without cheating. So it wasn't something that he really needed to do in order to win, it's just the soviet apparatus wasn't taking any risks as sports are major propaganda outlets for them. Stakes are just too high for them not to cheat. The system is simply corrupt by design. Modern day russia just continues doing the same.
It's almost immoral to let russians compete even from the point of russian athletes as they are effectively forced to dope and cheat.
She is on the frontline winning important battles. There are often smarter ways to fight. Perhaps that's not obvious to vatniks that are told the only way to victory are countless meatgrinder waves of conscripts and prisoners.
Props to you for setting up boundaries and enforcing them. And for cutting them off when they didn't stop after multiple warnings.
I had to draw the line with some members of my family after they joined some christian cult and started to pressure me to "see the light". Fortunately for me it was enough to just do that.
I really like their embrace of open source. Seeing their email app on f-droid first is quite refreshing. And when they started developing it, I just subscribed to github issues with features I considered crucial for me so that I'd get notification once they were implemented.
How often do you get at least changelog with closed source apps? I'd have to check every couple months whether they implemented features I need had this not been developed in the open.
In context of self hosting it's probably worth pointing out, that SQLite specifically mentions NFS on their How To Corrupt An SQLite Database File page.
SQLite is used in many popular services people run at home. Often as only or default option, because it does not require external service to work.
I haven't seen anyone recommend Infomaniak Mail. I think it's great option. It's €1.50/month for 5 mailboxes with unlimited storage. You can add multiple domains and mailbox aliases for free. (no limit on either as far as I can tell) You get calendar and contacts as well. They also offer entire office suite, but that's going to cost more.
They offer pretty good webmail interface, that's not just Roundcube or other OSS webmail solutions. (which are okay, but usually limited by the fact that it's IMAP on the backend) They offer apps for mobile calendar/contact sync and they also have (quite new, but already very good IMO) email app. These are all open source. You obviously have IMAP, CalDAV and such if you want to use your own client.
It's not some one man show provider, they are pretty big cloud provider in Switzerland. So you also get custommer support that from my experience is pretty fast to respond.
If you look at liberated territory as your only measure of success, you're going to end up in the "basically wishful thinking/propaganda" space. This war is more complex the more you zoom in. Reducing it to kilometers squared liberated is effectively boiling it down to single somewhat meaningless number. (It is not meaningless for people living under occupation, but it often does not show actual progress)
To provide some specific example, the fact that crimean bridge was damaged (again) did not directly liberate any area. Looking at this single number would make you think it had no impact whatsoever on the battlefield. Same for Antonovsky bridge during the Kherson counteroffensive. How many times have they bombed it (and then also the pontoon bridges russia built)? If you looked just at kilometers squared at the time, well it was kind of stalled or at best very slow progress.
You're right about discounting war reports. Or at the very least understand that they are not going to reflect any sort of global status and are at best approximations of certain reality of the counteroffensive. If you try to amplify these to aproximate success rate or predict end result, you're going to get more noise than useful signal.
I have found convenience store within 5 minutes walking distance from my house thanks to StreetComplete. I had solved most of the tasks nearby, so I took a small detour on my way home and found this shop there that I had no idea existed. At that stage I was living in the area for years.
For some definition of cloud. You also have on premises cloud. When Amazon runs their e-commerce site on AWS, are they running it on someone else's computer or not in cloud? (putting aside some tax-wise separation of individual Amazon subsidiaries)
On the other hand there are still providers that will rent you an server in their DC, but you don't get any API or anything else. At best they'll plug in HDDs that you sent them. This server hosting existed before "cloud" was a thing and it continues to exist.
I'd say that more accurate definition of cloud would be "someone else's computer with an API that customer can access". And if I'm really strict about that definition I'd drop entire first part, because it's the API that matters - computer might as well be yours.
Source: I've been on both sides of cloud from the very beginning.