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Poor Putin. No one believes you that all these hospitals, kindergardens and playgrounds were in the way to make peace in Ukraine.

I totally believe it. And I think that all the people who don't believe you, should accidentally fall out of windows or down the stairs.

Of course, it's better to use some frameworks for logging, especially because these verbose statements are often needed for assertions while unit testing the code. But it's still equivalent to printf.

I use debugger sometimes. I actually like to load core dumps to take a look at the stack trace. But I usually don't really need debugger interactively because when some error appears, I usually already have an idea what happened. And lots of embedded code needs timing in milliseconds, so debuggers won't help.

Because if you invested a lot of time on carefully choosing the places where printf should be to get all the info you need, you just need to unset NDEBUG and voilà everything that you need is there again.

The numbers (also the 80%) comes from surveys. These are not poll results.

AfD are horrible people. Typical for far right is to cause outrages but have no solutions. Around 80% of Germans fortunately see through this shit and wouldn't elect them. So we are probably at 20% max right now.

Besides being bullshitters, AfD is also far right economically. I find it hilarious that the uneducated crowd wants them to have power. Bullshitters and dumb people put together are quite powerful, as also science shows.

I don't like systemd at all, but a boot routine that allows to load the plain kernel instead of an image and maybe choose other init systems than systemd would be nice. This is how most other Unix-like systems work.

I do it too, but the essence is not to share a drive with Windows. Just use a second drive. It's also better to select the boot drive using BIOS/UEFI.

How do you use spaces? I tried it in Element and it was very confusing to me, so I removed them from my setup again.

What is annoying that they make the clients 18+. I want to avoid WhatsApp and chat with my kids. It would be fine when I could make an exception to the parental controls, but it does not allow me to do that.

So they have no shame to admit they have committed war crimes. And as a parent I would be sceptical if I am safe collecting the children.

There is also many complications when citizens of a country they are at war with enter the other country. The most reasonable thing to do would be to bring the kids near the border where they would be collected by officials or an organization which makes sure the kids find a safe way home.

Matrix is like WhatsApp. The advantage is that it does not belong to Facebook/Meta.

I don't care about numbers. I care more about quality of conversations. I can easily chat with competent people who react in real time on Matrix servers. They helped me solve many problems and give useful information. Staying connected with them is nice.

I don't know what Discord is. I don't need to chat with gamers. I just play games on Steam and PS5. That's all I'm interested in.

No one answers the question. I have never used Discord, only Matrix and have the opposite question.

Matrix is a chat protocol. The clients support chat with styling and sending media, post reactions or polls, telephony (voice and video) and can integrate many other features like video conferences. One feature that is also well known are protocol bridges. You can connect to other chat protocols (like IRC) and have one single client.

I am not a guy who blindly trusts technology. Why go forward when you cannot see what's in front of you? How can that happen?

AFAIK Google makes a disclaimer about it. A bridge can also be destroyed on the same day, so...

I don't know what you mean with Adobe. It's a company not an application. Adobe Reader sucks and I don't need Adobe Pro, because I am able to use LaTeX.

Why I need a real distribution instead of a naked operating system like Windows is that it comes with ten thousands of preconfigured packages.

Then the system is transparent. I know what it does and can analyze it easily. When something doesn't work, I am able to find the cause. This is essential for me.

I don't need any shady antinvirus that hooks into the kernel, making the computer overall insecure. I generally trust the OpenSource community more than I trust Microsoft.

I also don't like ads on my system, except I subscribed to them. I pay for software and give devs money to keep projects running. But I don't want to see unrelated ads.

Well,...

1. The swam over to us (that's why "sea")
2. They make squeeky sounds (that's why "pig")

I like Shelly hardware. The devices default to local communication and cloud is optional. Custom firmware can also be used, but not really needed. I wished they made more kinds of IoT stuff.

Since the device state can be queried with HTTP requests, it's easy to integrate it to my monitoring system (Prometheus/Grafana).

TIL password managers charge for 2FA.

1. Get a free password manager.
2. Get a free 2FA App. Please don't mix passwords and 2FA so you don't reduce it to 1FA.

For 1) I use PasswdSafe, because I can merge databases with Password Gorilla as I like.

For 2) I use Aegis. You can download an icon theme, which is quite cool.

Ok, you're right. You'd also need the median income to have an objective overview how people live in the country.