kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

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You might wonder why I'm not living in Poland 😂 The problem is that in case of countries with large anti-liberal base at most time you feel you're fighting against most of people, including your parents and friends who "just want to" live in a country ruled by a weird mix of populists, anti-vaxxers and Catholic fanatics. What can you do?

Been there, done that.

I guess some societies need to grow up, or they will just gradually dissipate and disappear.

@dump_stack

Precisely, because food prices went up immediately. Right now I buy basic foods cheaper in UK than in Krasnodar, which is crazy, but has nothing to do with EU sanctions on Girkin or oil industry, and is instead changed by the bilateral Russia's sanctions on food imports. Which were widely criticized in Russia from the very beginning for "punishing their own people".

@dump_stack

The only thing EU can do in this situation is to support the Russian democratic movements with soft power (like grants, mostly cut by Russian "foreign agents" law) and restrict Kremlin's access to cash.

Which it's not really doing, as Germany is actually increasing oil and gas imports from Russia, Poland imports coal and wood (!) from Siberia to use for biomass.

@dump_stack

Leftovers from the money spent on military operations and villas in Spain do trickle down to the people in Russia eventually... but it's nothing more than trickle-down economy in the first place and it's dysfunctional by design.

If Russian society is fine with that, then well, what can you do? And yes, I realize the complexity of situation where 30% loves this mode, 30% hates it and 40% does not give a f...

@dump_stack

I'm afraid that's always the dilemma of sanctions. I share 100% your idea of opening EU to people from Russia as being the most damaging "sanction" for Kremlin, but it's just one side.

The other side is that Kremlin can be waging wars in Ukraine, Syria, Lebanon and Africa at the same time only because it can afford it as they have shitloads of money from EU, mostly Germany.

@dump_stack

But they do not *target* regular Russian people. They primarily target people like Surkov and Girkin, Crimea and some industries like Almaz Antey.

I couldn't find anything in EU sanctions about oil industry though. You might mean the recent US sanctions on Nord Stream 2 but again, this is US not EU.

And TBH direct impact on people from Russia's own ban on food imports was immediately visible and much larger than any indirect restrictions on oil industry.

@dump_stack

In general, Kremlin has rather funny foreign policy.

On one hand, they play a huge geopolitical superpower, boast as "the last bastion of Christianity" in contrast with the "rotting West", laugh at sanctions boasting local "imports replacement" and great friendship with China.

On the other hand, as it comes to food, technology and financing, half of them own property and have their families in the West and cry every time access to the "rotten West" is slightly limited...

@dump_stack

Apparently control of Donbass is more essential, what can you do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@dump_stack

Correct, but would you agree none of these are "restriction on essential goods" as Putin tries to portray it?

After Putin called for "joint moratorium on restrictions on essential goods" on G20 summit he was promptly reminded that it was... Russia who banned imports of foods from Europe, while EU #sanctions only apply to ~200 individuals and companies in Russia.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/03/26/putin-calls-for-sanctions-moratorium-at-g20-summit-a69770

How Slack's STUN/TURN servers running Coturn were abused and how to fix it?

Important for anyone running #jitsi with their own STUN/TURN servers #security

https://www.rtcsec.com/2020/04/01-slack-webrtc-turn-compromise/

Branson Shifts $1.1 Billion Galactic Holding Between Tax Havens. Virgin Atlantic Airways has asked U.K. government for aid.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-06/branson-shifts-1-1-billion-galactic-holding-between-tax-havens

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-020-0534-9

The philosophical dillemas web browser authors needs to face 🤔 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1159884

"Have you been watching inadjacency again?!"

If you use #Django CommonPasswordValidator you will like this https://pypi.org/project/fast-password-validation/ rewrite using Bloom filter with 4x speed up and ⅓ memory usage

@ona Sure, I can do PL

@ona Here you go https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/yhCNkRK8531R3DD-e6SMMINg/

@ona Item #2 still sounds nonsense :)

@ona 80% is correct, there are some untraslated words. I can correct most, but I don't understand #2

@ona I speak Polish and English, also a lot of Russian speaking people here on Mastodon