Cesura's comments

Do you read French history and find yourself sympathetic to the plight of Marie Antoinette?

Communism is when multinational corporations can't operate in any market that they want, using any practices they see fit, with complete impunity.

Not exactly, but I'm an American citizen who has lived in Estonia for the past ~5 years (and often read Estonian language media).

One of the more unfortunate political outcomes I've noticed from the Bush era is a tendency for people to take the tragedies of US foreign policy in the Middle East and project them onto every conflict involving the US since then (this is not targeted at you).

So you end up with well-intentioned individuals who strive for peace and opposed the Iraq War (or eg Vietnam), who find themselves siding with the autocracy invading its sovereign neighbors, for the simple fact that it positions itself as a force against American hegemony and must therefore inherently be "the good guys".

Either way, I sympathize with your point more generally, and also wouldn't like to see my tax dollars spent on drone striking weddings.

I agree completely. Most of the complaints I read about Kubernetes being "overkill" for homelabbing seem to stem from either wildly overestimating the resource requirements, or underestimating just how many common infrastructure concerns it handles for you out of the box (things that would otherwise still need to be implemented by the administrator in various ways, but with a less unified config syntax).

Surely you're speaking about your own country of residence here?

In Estonia for example (which tangentially has one of the highest press freedom rankings in the world), ERR ("Estonian Public Broadcasting") is widely considered to be one of the most trustworthy news platforms in the country. The reason for this is simple: there is no incentive to pump out journalistic sludge for clicks, or to prey on the public's collective anxieties for larger quarterly profits.

I suppose you could argue that it indirectly supports the "war machine" in Ukraine, but I don't really consider it unethical to fund wars of self-defense, especially given the national security implications at home.

I think the terminology is a bit muddied here because AMD has historically referred to physical cores as "modules" and logical cores as "cores" (although their current spec sheet [1] seems to use "cores" and "threads" in the way that most understand them).

So in a dual-socket setup, 2 x EPYC 9754 would indeed yield 512 threads (logical cores), which are backed by 256 physical cores.

[1] https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-9754

Thankfully you've provided an example further down the thread, so my comparatively weak intellect doesn't need to do very much inference:

>As an example, it is within the realm of possibility that Israel or the United States use nukes on Iran, and there would be pretty strong logical/rational justifications for doing so.

Iran has promoted hostile rhetoric against Israel since the latter's inception as a state (with a brief thawing of relations during the Shah's time in power). You could reasonably say that its anti-Israeli stance is one of the two fundamental foreign policy positions of Iran, alongside containing the expansion of Saudi influence in the region.

Despite this (and despite having nearly 10x the population), Iran's ability to project power anywhere beyond its immediate borders has been limited to funding Islamic fundamentalist proxy groups. They have no functional nuclear weapons, and no capability to target Israel with a conventional land or sea attack. A real threat to Israel's sovereignty is neither credible nor imminent enough to warrant an Israeli preemptive nuclear strike (assuming such a justification can exist, as you're suggesting).

It's undeniable that the Soviet Union perceived the US to be an existential threat to its sovereignty. For some reason though, I find it unlikely that you would describe a preemptive Soviet nuclear strike on the US as "rational and reasonable" from their perspective, despite fulfilling many of the same criteria as your example: a hostile power outside of reach of a conventional attack, whose foreign policy is molded around precipitating your failure as a state (with the added qualification that such a power could actually deliver on this goal in a tangible way).

With an "imagination" like that, we can do nothing more than hope you're far from the reins of power.

I can't imagine supporting preemptive nuclear strikes, under any circumstances. Can you?

Your interpretation makes sense if you consider leftist to be a purely relative classification. We don't even need to look outside of the US to understand why that's not a very meaningful way to think about ideology: the Overton window within the Republican party has undergone a substantial shift to the right since the 1970s [1].

Without even loosely-defined characterizations of what a political ideology is and where it falls on our (albeit very imperfect) scale, terms like "leftism" are doomed to a future of being weaponized by their opponents, who themselves shift right and decry moderates as "radicals".

All of that aside, I'd still like to hear your rationalization for her recent appearance as the host of a far-right talk show where she, among other things, referred to the sitting attorney general's investigation of a former President's alleged crimes as one having "all hallmarks of a dictatorship". Is hosting Tucker's program an endorsement of every position he's ever espoused? Surely not. But I'd say it's a level of support akin to giving a speech at a political candidate's rally...

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FT_22...

Are these supposed to be examples of leftists? Tulsi recently filled in as a host on Tucker Carlson's show...the same show actively peddling the Great Replacement theory (among other far-right conspiracies) to millions of Americans.

Recently I've been thinking about contributing to NetBSD (mainly porting some drivers from OpenBSD for M1 hardware). From everything I've seen, they have a very welcoming and relaxed community that encourages contributions.

I suppose it will be around in 20 years, but maybe only as a research/tinkering OS.

Sorry, perhaps "verified" was a misnomer. Verified to the extent that I am in possession of a factor (ID card with chip or phone with registered Smart-ID certs) and a memorized PIN (one for authentication and one for signing).

In short: extremely convenient.

In addition to enabling me to use practically every government service from my couch (and signing legally binding contracts!), the eID system has expanded to become a single sign-on method for many more things. For example, if I would want to change my ISP or mobile carrier, I'm able to log into the new provider's site without any prior registration and have an account with my identity already verified. Even random e-shops will provide this as a login option, and then upon checkout I can use the very same authentication method to confirm the transaction with my bank.

Also, with the advent of Smart-ID (https://www.smart-id.com), I don't even need to pull out my card reader for any of this.

The only government interaction that has required me to be physically present in an office was when the residence permit + ID card were issued to me in the first place.

(For reference, I moved to Estonia from the US in the beginning of 2020)