Not that I wouldn’t love to see that shit banned all over Europe…

But “we need to ban populist bullshit desinformation” from a government constantly operating on populist bullshit (see for example: talks about being ready to defend their western border against those aggressive Germans that also refuse to acknowledge the monthly reparation demands) reaks of hypocrisy. In the end it’s basically: “Help, voters we fed idiotic bullshit for years to get their votes are now falling for other populist’s bullshit, too”.

That’s okay. Thanks to their insane pricing caused by covid, followed by more insane pricing caused by the AI bubble, many people are still running cards not getting any new drivers anyway.

Back then it was for many simply the first rolling distro they tried… to suddenly realize that without tedious (and rarely unproblematic) release upgrades the reasons for a new install (thus trying out yet another distro) also vanished.

High tuition fees…

And just with that statement we already know what kind of alleged “university” we are talking of in a country with basically free university (semester fees usualy ranging around 200€ at best, most of this for the university’s student organisations and including free public transportation for half a year)…

(PS: Yes, being officially a student just for that incredibly cheap transport option without actually attending any courses is not unheard of…)

Yeah, the majority downloads a random program to do it for them from some website. Which might or might not do what it advertised, sometimes even without installing a lot of trash ranging from ads to viruses…

What are the reasons that politicians in Romania are hesitant to join the Eurozone?

Well… Take a guess why pro-Russian politicians are the ones loudly against it and why Russian-financed desinformation campaigns are targeting the poor/rural population with horror-stories of high-inflation caused by the Euro…

Extrapolating from other countries who did the move the EUR adoption brings slight inflation in the short-term but long-term much easier access to investments from the rest of Europe, easier trade, as well as an uptick in tourism-related spending (mostly from EUR-using European tourists).

…and all of them are using base 10.

I do manage them via git. But I only do it so have settings (and their changes) synchonised between 2 PCs and a laptop.

With just one main device I don’t even see a reason to “manage” anything… a basic backup strategy completely independent of just dotfiles aside.

Boxer is produced by Artec which is a cooperation of Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann (now KNDS). Or the drive module is… as modularity was the main goal the mission module part also has a lot of third party producers.

But it started as a German/British/French coproduction… up to the point when orders for the production of several different prototypes fitting the requirements were given to several different European companies and they dared to not pick the French contender. Whch then later became VBCI.

…or Boxer …or APACHE (the most rediculous one actually)

…and probably MGCS after that.

Interesting. I just quickly changed my PC’s resolv.conf to use 86.54.11.100, so not DoT in that case either…

; <<>> DiG 9.20.17 <<>> archive.is
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2272
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;archive.is.                    IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
archive.is.             300     IN      A       160.25.74.230

;; Query time: 249 msec
;; SERVER: 86.54.11.100#53(86.54.11.100) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Fri Dec 26 00:40:12 CET 2025
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 55

Now I am slightly confused… For filtered entries I would not have expected a timeout on specific queries anyway, but a proper answer with an error.

That’s a spontaneous slightly tin-foil idea, but can your provider block stuff with certain content before reaching the server? Can you try with DoT for encryption?

Edit: Okay, there is definitely something strange going on with that server. If I try to use it over DoT I also get timeouts for archive.is

So I’m going back to my original assessment before -surprisingly- DNS4EU resolved it properly for me. And I will keep to not expecting anything positive from that EU project…

Not surprisingly for DNS4EU as that behavior was exactly what everyone was expecting when that service was announced…

Fortunately there are several free and uncensored alternatives available in Europe. Bonus point: Take the 3 extra minutes and finally set up properly encrypted DoT or DoH (DNS over TLS/HTTPS)…

PS/Edit - As a starting point: digitale-gesellschaft.ch (Switzerland), digitalcourage.de (Germany), uncensoreddns.org (Denmark) are the ones my home network queries at the moment…

PPS: DNS4EU has an explicitly unfiltered one, also DoT-compatible: unfiltered.joindns4.eu (86.54.11.100) that resolves those archive links for me

None.

I use Signal for messaging. In fact I only use it on mobile devices for short stuff.

Any discussion that takes more time than typing s few short sentences (but is usually also less time-sensitive) I do on the desktop app already.

So Signal is definitely not the right platform for me to talk about hobbbies or other interests. That’s not what it was originally designed for. And that’s not what I will ever use Signal for even if it can nowadays cover that area somewhat.

Yes, that is the actual whole concept of deterrence and common defense pacts. You cannot in fact stop anybody from attacking you, but you can give them a good reason not to.

So countries will in fact ignore useless provocations by morons trying to show their dumbed-down citizens how strong they are allegedly. If they actually want to attack, they can try and suffer the consequences.

There is an actual reason Russia is loudly crying about being at war with NATO and how they will conquer all of Europe yet will not dare to do more than performing a big show of rediculous screaming and posturing.

“It works on my system” vs. “I bricked my device because the basic functionality to replace the pre-installed keys was broken or some idiot vendor had signed his hardware with that MS key” is still bad, even when it runs for the vast majority only using their system with pre-installed keys (those are not actually the ones needing the security and it really is just a marketing gimmick) while just a small minority aiming for security gets screwed by shitty implementations.

You speak about the design of TPMs. I speak about the actual reality of mediocre and sometimes defective hardware and the even worse and often defective software implementations (often already on the bios/UEFI level) used in conjunction.

Sadly that’s not even close to the same thing, in parts because a certain “PoS company” plays a huge part in it.

Or to stick with your picture: Your argument is as sane as supporting any vaccine, no matter its effectiveness, because vaccines in general are a very good thing. Fortunately there are national health offices evaluating effectiveness and benefit/drawback comparisons for vaccines. Unfortunately the “same” evaluation for hardware is done by big tech under the premise of how to make the most money.

If you dislike TPMs on face value it’s because you also don’t understand the science behind how it works

No, i don’t “dislike” anything. I simply talked about practical reality instead of theoretic ideal.

HSMs are a key component of modern enterprise security.

I feel like you would not believe the real amount of shitty enterprise security were the pinnacle of TPM use is requiring active Secure Boot (with pre-installed MS keys of course) and managing their Office365 licensing…

You are confusing “what it should do” with “what it does”. Vendors are trying to save money like everyone else and will regularly provide defective hardware or software implementations that were never properly tested for any actual functionality beyond said “MS marketing gimmick”

Vaccines work and are tested rigorously.

TPMs are not even close to that and UEFI implementations using them are then even worse and often next to disfunctional if used for any other case then “I use the pre-installed MS keys with a MS product”, up to bricking devices. And they are this bad by design.

So no. The comparison between advocating against an often low quality product used in combination with an even worse implementation accessing it, just because Microsoft pushed for that shit as a marketing gimmick (thus verndors often only test that subset of the functionality properly) and anti-vaxxers is actually insane.

Just set the timezone environmental parameter accordingly. Librewolf might pretend to be in UTC but doesn’t care if the time given by your system is wrong to get the correct time again.

Oh, they really fixed this.Didn’t notice as Librewolf is only my backup.