Well, Ubuntu uses Snap, which is a rather poor packaging solution that basically no other distro has adopted. By default it's a little bloated, it's made some controversial decisions (rust coreutils), and other distros just do what Ubuntu does better (like Mint)
Yeah, there isn't really a huge amount of evidence for CIA involvement in 1956. MI6 involvement seems a bit more likely, but the evidence is barely better, and even if they were involved, it's pretty clear that the uprising was native in character (i.e. Kruschev in internal meetings referred to socio-economic issues as the cause, the MI6 guy says the uprising itself was a result of other events, and CIA documents like CIA-RDP60-00594A000100090005-2.pdf refer to it as spontaneous, and indicate they were caught off-guard, with only one Hungarian officer).
The antisemitic pogroms and 'fascistic elements' are probably real and were widely reported on, and it's a lot better of a rebuttal to Hungarian revolution arguments. The number of deaths that resulted is relatively low too, even the suppression of small communist uprisings like the Jeju uprising involved several times as many deaths, without even mentioning the extremes like the Jakarta method. Of course any amount of death is bad, and it should've been stopped pre-emptively and peacefully (e.g. reducing economic austerity, less de-Stalinization), but Kruschev was leading.
"Some of the reports reaching Warsaw from Budapest today caused considerable concern. These reports told of massacres of Communists and Jews by what were described as 'Fascist elements' ...." (N.Y. Times, Nov. 1. 1956). This pretty decent writeup by a Hexbear goes over some details and gives more quotes.
The legality of the invasion is dubious at best, but that's in many ways beyond the point. The UN didn't rule on it thanks to the USSR's veto, and because the Suez crisis was ongoing at that very moment, weakening any Western claim to the legal/moral high ground. The people uprising did attack Soviet troops that were already occupying Hungary, but that's a pretty weak self-defense argument. And the USSR did kinda use force against Hungary's political independence, a violation of the UN charter (of which both parties were a member). Again, it doesn't really matter, I don't think people really care if an invasion is legal or not.
Sure, maybe I was a little ambitious. But my point is mistakes can bring learning, so it might be worth it to try something "hard". Trying things in a virtual machine is also often a good idea.
Attempt an Arch install entirely from memory. You might want to try this in a VM, in case something goes wrong, but just do it. If you can't quite remember what to do, man and ls /bin are your friends.
I came into that article thinking "it's been nearly 150 years since emancipation, it can't be that bad, right?", but then I saw "current median net worth five times larger than their peers whose ancestors were not slaveholders: $5.6 million vs. $1.1 million". That's fucked up.
I can't find any hard numbers on how many Americans are descended from slave owners, but from my rough back of the napkin math it looks like they are represented in congress disproportionately high.
American racism being deep and ingrained isn't new, but this study shows it's not something to be taken lightly.
Maybe, maybe not. They probably would've been hacked regardless, things went downhill quick. The hackers weren't ever identified, and it's unlikely they had the capability to do that.
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Well, Ubuntu uses Snap, which is a rather poor packaging solution that basically no other distro has adopted. By default it's a little bloated, it's made some controversial decisions (rust coreutils), and other distros just do what Ubuntu does better (like Mint)