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Cake day: August 11th, 2023
  • Kualk@lemm.eetoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Ukraine at a Crossroads: End the War or Risk Defeat
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    1 day ago

    The article is a dream of how to save face.

    In short: Ukraine is on the path to loose, it is loosing. Current levels of western support is not sufficient. Population support is dwindling.

    Let’s save face by freezing conflict at current lines.

    The article completely dismisses official Russian position, that is glossed over in western news sources in the 1st place: Ukraine must accept new Russian territory, withdraw its troops from this territory.

    Article called current Russian position as maximalist, but when announced it was pointed out that it is actually a minimalist position. Putin stated directly that as Russia advances on the ground, conditions will change.

    The article is a feeble attempt at getting closer to reality on the ground.

  • Kualk@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Why does nobody here ever recommend Fedora to noobs?
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    23 days ago

    Years ago major upgrades and to lesser degree even minor upgrades made me to give up trying to keep installation running. I don’t even remember if it was Red Hat or Debian.

    Eventually I realized, that I like running newest version of Desktop and I ran into cases of getting frustrated with lack of newer versions, which had fixes for issues I ran into. Then I realized that best wiki was not a snapshot distribution.

    In the end I tried rolling distribution and remain happy for years.

    Debian or derived distribution is easiest to get google help for and it is the simplest choice for me, when running on the cloud.

    Although, Alpine is pushing through containers quite forcefully.

  • Kualk@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Thoughts, tips, and customization of fzf for old-school CLI enjoyers?
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    1 month ago

    I don’t get the question.

    I usually use vscode to work with files. It has excellent remote editing over ssh. For example, I have large private collection of markdown notes that is kept on remote server.

    At work I deal with large GO project that targets Docker images and my setup is:

    • windows 11 laptop
    • WSL Debian with full systemd integration installed (that’s the hardest part)
    • visual studio installed on windows, I have no development tools on windows: no docker, no git, no GO compiler
    • debian on WSL has all the dev tooling: git, go lang, ssh server is turned on

    My workflow is to start Debian WSL and forget about terminal. Start vscode on windows, connect to Debian over ssh, open project directory. Work on project without ever leaving editor, use built in terminal in vscode. Fish runs inside vscode. Editor is primary. Fish is secondary and it excels at recalling history.

    Use each tool for what it was designed. No terminal will ever match my productivity in vscode. Vscode has all the fuzzy search built-in.

    I used to use vim for heavy coding, but abandoned that route 20 years ago. I am still able to use vim for quick short changes in config files, but anything serious is handled with visual studio code over ssh.

    Primary vim scenario:

    sudo vim /etc/config-file-name

    Vscode 1st approach is a modern day version of emacs approach Or vim with plugins. Only difference is vscode is actually low effort to get started on new machine, low learning curve, low maintenance effort unless you have sunken months into your terminal editor and refuse to abandon your investment.

  • Kualk@lemm.eetoInteresting Global News@lemmy.zip•Moscow stock exchange stops trading in dollars and euros
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    1 month ago

    Chinese currency took 53.6% of all Russian trade in May of this year.

    Compare this with just 1% 2 and a half years ago in the beginning of 2022.

    Russian financial system is already prepared for this scenario and absolutely no serious impact is expected to occur.

    These events (sanctions and switch in trade) will simply accelerate transition of Russian economy away from dollar in the trade.

    Russia and China already use each other’s currency to settle trade between each other. World manufacturing and world resource store are now exclusively connected and now fully control internal inflationary pressures.

    EU and US are not able to control price inflation and are forced to guard their economies through additional tariffs. For example, recent introduction of tariffs on Chinese made electric cars demonstrates loss of competitiveness of western economies. Cars are complex products that require a lot of energy to produce. As a result they are a good subject to aggregate economic efficiency.

    if this continues China and Russia may be able to dictate the rate of currency inflation in the non-dollar space (read BRICS future currency control).

    dollars that used to work inside Russia-China trade space are continuing to get pushed out into the dollar space and causing upward inflationary pressure on the dollar. This forces US Fed to keep pumping freed up dollars from the dollar system through elevated interest rates to keep inflation down in the dollar space.

    There are 1st signs of economic slowdown in US and fed is currently unable to react quickly due to the need to pump excess liquidity from the dollar system.

    So, all this impact on the dollar for a questionable impact on Russia.