mawhrin

i have a reading account for when i need to read reddit via logged-in account, so i went and asked.

ETA-1: and got banned for asking.

ETA-2: the subreddit's description still has “sub moved to https://awful.systems” in the old view.

why?

that's sad (or delusion).

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i'm fifty, and you're full of it.

such an excellent nazi bar they have there.

i don't think you understand the gravity of the situation.

this is an actual large scale conflict, a land war, and we need to finance very traditional sort of armaments and ammunition, because that's what ukraine needs the most.

this requires ramping up actual production capacity, not just paying more for the same.

(i'm astonished, or rather really angry, that after two years there are still western fucking leftists who never did the minimal effort to learn what's happening and are happy to talk in platitudes and exude the feeling of moral superiority. from our point of view in eastern europe, large swathes of western left are just useless bumblefuckers; especially the american so-called democratic socialists.)

a little correction: it's not the united states pressuring that makes the eu governments reconsider military spending, it's the russia invading ukraine again and the full-scale war that followed. (the general tone of your comment suggests that you're not aware that russia is at their most aggressive stance in decades).

ah, and before you start spewing bullshit in the style of chomsky or, goddess forbid, begin quoting the likes of mearsheimer, my advice is: don't.

yup.

also: it was microsoft's business decision to make the api required for av (or, more general security subsystems) to function so low-level that it has to be delivered as a kernel driver and operate in ring0. i guess it's primarily for the performance reasons, but still, there are other technical options. someone made the executive decision there.

on the other hand, it was crowdstrike's business decision to make the bloody update parser run in ring0, and without verification that the update data is correct, nobody forced them to do it that way.

let them both burn.

he was an abusive gobshite, including physically abusive.

again, there's no need to defend microsoft: microsoft could do the right thing and not try to use the situation in an attempt to undermine eu antitrust policies using a bullshit take.

i find the level of ms apologia unsettling. remember, we're only a few news cycles away from the time ms almost shipped windows with spyware and keylogger built-in

a hunch, really: i've met the type and had my suspicions, and then i've found that he posted the link about polish antitrust & consumer protection watchdog fining paypal, which is generally niche outside poland.