Thinking that the current Russian government is communist/socialist is peak brain rot. It is a nepotist police state with conservative/neoconservative social policy (religion, nationalism, anti-LGBT) and a neoliberal economic policy (capitalism). It’s almost an exact opposite of the ideas behind the hammer and sickle.

Don’t get “rest of world” mixed in there; I mean sure, all governments suck in one way or another, but most of them at least aren’t imperialist.

Thank you!

An @lemmygrad user not knowing what USSR/СССР stands for is so funny to me for some reason (it’s the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Союз Советских Социалистических Республик). The difference between a united republic and a union of republics is kind of the reason it was so easy to tear apart in the end, any constituent republic could quit the union at any time.

A text post without a picture would achieve the same result just fine, without stealing work from artists and regurgitating it into a soulless, artifact-ridden and generally ugly picture.

You can already do so incredibly much by hooking up a few extra LSPs and keybinds (calling external scripts/programs)!

Yes, agreed. But I would still love some git integration that can’t be emulated like this. For now git cli + lazygit for more easier refinement works fine, but it’s not ideal.

Emacs Org-Mode like context aware styling, for i.e. Bold or Italic text hints from LSP

Hmm, isn’t this already the case for, like, markdown? Or what do you mean by context-aware?

Hm, I haven’t thought about a Fandom replacement (a bunch of wikis covering mostly unrelated, niche subjects); for something like this, federation would indeed be nice as just a way to have a single user account, search, etc. I still stand by my opinion that a general-purpose encyclopedia should have a single article per subject, and thus not really suitable for federation.

Is OrganicMaps using Nominatim? It seems that Nominatim’s reverse geocoding returns the correct results there: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=N&osmid=1134851553&class=place

What is the point in federating a wiki this way? The point of an encyclopedia is to have structured and consistent information about everything in one place. This seems to propose a model where rules, formatting, notability/verifiability criteria, quality etc can only be consistent within a single server. Information is spread over multiple servers, creating a rife potential for duplicate articles, difficulties with search, and fracturing of the community (I can easily imagine a dozen articles about every even slightly politically contentious subject).

In other words, to me the point of federation is to allow multiple sets of rules (e.g. moderation rules) to exist within a single space, which seems to be contrary to the basic idea of an encyclopedia. IMHO the better implementation of an encyclopedia is a robust set of rules ensuring that every (notable) viewpoint is represented, and social norms that ensure everyone follows them regardless of their personal biases. Wikipedia is kind of like this, although I understand the frustration due to it often being biased towards a liberal viewpoint (but even then, a wide range of viewpoints is almost always represented).

Hey, in the future it’d be nicer to describe the project while posting something like this. Having to click through just to see what it is can be a bit annoying.

Looks neat, does its job.

If you’re a power-user looking at this, you can also look at https://github.com/rgwood/systemctl-tui which is somewhat similar but seems to be more useful (for now), also showing the service logs and being easily navigable with a keyboard.

Seconded. I’m coming from Emacs (+evil), so I’m still missing a few features (proper git integration a-la magit, collaborative editing a-la crdt.el, remote editing a-la tramp). However what is already there works way better/faster/more consistent than any other editor IMHO, and I’ve tried neovim with plugins too. I particularly enjoy the ability to traverse the AST rather than text (Alt+l/p/o/i by default, but I have it remapped to Alt+h/j/k/l). Really looking forward to https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675, I’ll probably write a couple plugins if this ever lands.

TBH I think it goes back way further than that: US expansion started of as part of the British expansion, who were probably inspired by Romans. I’m sure there are examples further back in history as well. It’s a pretty easy general idea to come up with if you are unburdened by ethics, empathy or humanity and your only motivation is greed and/or religious zealotry. But yes, parallels with Lebensraum specifically are especially potent.

Looks like their long-term strategy for peace is to deport, imprison or exterminate the (uncivilized, jihadist, subhuman) locals and re-settle with (civilized, devoted, master-race) Israelis. Now, where have I heard this idea before…

This is why I’m kinda excited about WASM. With a WASM backend for GHC, you can now write almost the entire frontend logic in Haskell, with only some minor bindings on the JS side. I really wish that this happens at some point to eliminate the need for JS almost entirely, but I’m not that hopeful anymore.

The notion that prison is only for “housing criminals” is just wrong, and leads to the fucked up legal system you see in the US. Its primary purpose should be reforming someone to become a better person, drop their old ways and rejoin society. The percentage of people who can’t be reformed is vanishingly small if you do it right. And even in those cases, murdering someone just because they require resources to live is wrong. They are still human beings, however fucked up their actions, and deserve life and dignity simply because of that.

Capital punishment is state sanctioned, that is the only difference in my eyes.

No, the main difference is the active and actual threat the person poses. When they are isolated in prison already, they do not pose any further threat.

I don’t think capital punishment (murdering a helpless person in custody) is ever justified. It’s just cruelty for the sake of cruelty.

What we have here could be an act of societal self-defense, where the target was in the process of actively harming millions of people, and the legal system wasn’t doing anything to stop it. Whether or not it was self-defense or just a pre-paid hit for some other reason I can’t say, and neither can I judge whether it was justified or not. I just think it’s categorically different from capital punishment.

Phone? Nah. It’s only a tool, used for photography, maps/navigation, messaging while on the go, shopping lists and phone calls for that one time a month you need to make one. Maybe other stuff sometimes, like making a bank transfer when not at home or editing OSM.

I used to be indirectly addicted to it. It was actually doomscrolling Reddit, but now that I’m off it I don’t get the urge anymore.

My desktop is a different story, I’m kind of addicted to it while I’m at home; when outside I don’t really miss it.

After trying it out for a while, it is indeed quite awesome!

Nice! Judging by the description, this would eliminate the need for osmcha.org for me entirely (I know it also does other things but I mostly care about the detailed diffs). I’ll try it out.