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That Hungarian mobilisation is giving me the chills. They'd be attacking from the south as well, and I wouldn't exclude a land grab from them as well, Nato be damned.
I highly doubt Hungary would even remotely think of doing something like that, not because Orbán is a rational individual (he isn't for the most part), but because it would result in complete collapse of practically everything Hungary has been building in last decade and more. It's an export-oriented economy with minimum unemployment and a main emphasis on FDI's, especially from EU (mainly Germany) and a few other highly developed countries like Japan, and roughly 80% of its exports go towards the EU. Sanctions of any kind towards its exports and economy in general would be political suicide for any politician in charge of the country.

As a side note, a couple years ago or so I attended a lecture by a security expert from one of the main universities in Budapest; he pretty much described the Hungarian armed forces as a joke even for 'low military expenditure EU member state standards' and its capabilities far lower in reality than on paper due to apparently some major procurement and maintenance issues, resulting in a good chunk of their major equipment not ready for actual use most of the time.

Ultimately this is just an expected populist move by a populist politician to whom 'border security' has been one of the pillars of his policies ever since the 2015 European migrant crisis.
 

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As a side note, a couple years ago or so I attended a lecture by a security expert from one of the main universities in Budapest; he pretty much described the Hungarian armed forces as a joke even for 'low military expenditure EU member state standards' and its capabilities far lower in reality than on paper due to apparently some major procurement and maintenance issues, resulting in a good chunk of their major equipment not ready for actual use most of the time.

I really wouldn't be surprised, if half of the ammo in Hungary is unusable and some tanks only existing on the paper. Corruption in public spending is huge there.
 
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The artillery attack on Schaschtya power plant :

 

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The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” Albert Einstein, year 1945.
 

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Poettering!!!!!!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

(I'll give you three guesses as to which software just broke. I'm confident anybody that recognizes the name won't need more than two).
 

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Lets play captain obvious.

systemd again

No, but you still have two guesses and Poettering has another controversial project (which I didn't get the controversy about until systemd convinced me that Poettering is bad news).
 

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No, but you still have two guesses and Poettering has another controversial project (which I didn't get the controversy about until systemd convinced me that Poettering is bad news).

Well, lets skip Pulse Audio, since its bugs only make you deaf: Avahi.
 

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Lets play captain obvious.

systemd again
[ OK ] Starting tantrum against systemd
[ OK ] Randomly turning on non-related house appliances
[ OK ] Crashing DeltaGlider flights
[ OK ] Randomly putting [OK] meawhile user not [OK]
[ OK ] Slowly starting C'mon Desktop Environment
[ OK ] Asking: tired of systemd? Try rcctl


By the way I am learning OpenBSD (because FreeBSD is not compatible with my ACPI and NetBSD does not detect my Latin American keyboard) and it is an interesting experience. I have been able to achieve a desktop (XFCE) and am going to try a common desktop usage (office apps etc.) so far so good. And on Linux (Manjaro) I found a great desktop environment that recreates CDE, it's called NsCDE the Not so Common Desktop Environment.


And by the way, although I have never had problems with systemd, I am very amused by the tremendous discussions that take place around something immaterial/virtual like systemd.
 

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[ OK ] Starting tantrum against systemd
[ OK ] Randomly turning on non-related house appliances
[ OK ] Crashing DeltaGlider flights
[ OK ] Randomly putting [OK] meawhile user not [OK]
[ OK ] Slowly starting C'mon Desktop Environment
[ OK ] Asking: tired of systemd? Try rcctl


By the way I am learning OpenBSD (because FreeBSD is not compatible with my ACPI and NetBSD does not detect my Latin American keyboard) and it is an interesting experience. I have been able to achieve a desktop (XFCE) and am going to try a common desktop usage (office apps etc.) so far so good. And on Linux (Manjaro) I found a great desktop environment that recreates CDE, it's called NsCDE the Not so Common Desktop Environment.


And by the way, although I have never had problems with systemd, I am very amused by the tremendous discussions that take place around something immaterial/virtual like systemd.

TBH, I've not found systemd to be that bad in purely desktop contexts, but I've had it explode messily on me several times when doing more serverish things (stuff like helpfully grabbing ports that daemons are supposed to be listening on, then forwarding traffic to the daemon, and then, when the daemon crashes, falling to either release the port or forward traffic to the new instance of the daemon. Or just randomly using a whole bunch of CPU whenever a particular daemon is running). So if Canonical were pushing systemd but Red Hat wasn't, it would make sense. But Red Hat is one of the distributors that's pushing it hardest.
 

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Just driving around today , and I was fooling around with the waze language settings. 'twas one of the Scandinavic languages, but I can't remember which. And suddenly, I just hear it go like ' something something rue de space demons'. I'm like wtf., I turn around at the next roundabout (many of them here, and usually spots for the cops too. Wanna avoid the blues? Just go crisscrossing the road network to your destination and avoid roundabouts :D). So I hear it say space demons again. As I had places to be, I press on with my journey and hear it go on space demons street' several times again. By this time, I was seriously questioning my sanity .Turns out, Rue des Pays des Monts gets pronounced like that in Swedish or whatever that was.?

Also, not going into basement territory just yet (having air defenses helps), but if he-who-ruins-restaurant-menus wants to remake the soviet union, he might learn a few lessons from run-of-the-mill France. They're so communist here that everyone gets do everyone else's job, lest the whole thing grinds to a halt. In a way, I like it. Had to run errands (hence the drive, personal car and all) because the company we usually use for supplies can't deliver due to at least one of the drivers being down with covid, apparently. The dude with covid was also a colleague of mine on a completely un-driverly job. Though it could be just understaffing and everyone used to helping out and filling up positions whenever they can to the point that they become jacks of all trades. You see people roll up in beat up vans or rented ones and you're maybe getting ready to get robbed, but it's just the delivery service making do with what they can.? In a way, it's very different from the 'well f you too' attitude I've seen in some other places, with everyone blaming the higher ups or anything else until it all goes to s**t
 
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Well, as long as it doesn't suddenly start screaming "FOR THE EMPRAH!" and goes all exterminatus on the pedestrians, everything's fine... ?
Could have been slightly worse ?. I didn't go to the main city in that area, which is St. Jean de Monts. Depending on how badly it pronounced St. Jean, it could very well sound like it was saying in frenglish that it has a demon (j'ai un etc?) But yeah, given the situation, I'm relieved my gps isn't posessed ?

Edit: it's not getting worse as long as nobody is obeying the orders ??
 
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