They probably moved it to somewhere under /usr or /var/lib.

That is literally the motif of this whole war special military asskicking.

He would have had no choice, not taking ukraine would have required every country to start arming, Europe would have tooled up, Sweden and Finland too, they weren’t thrilled with Russia before this.

Yeah putin might have imagined he’d keep Ukraine subjugated by fear alone, but they were moving to the western sphere ever since maidan, that was unlikely.

Putin was trying to command the tides to withdraw, that’s futile, it’s all over already.

You’re right about why he took Crimea.

He tried to take Ukraine because Xi had finished subjugating Hong Kong and said he’d be moving on Taiwan soon, putin didn’t want to look like the weaker partner, and if both moved at the same time they were positive the west would be paralyzed by fear, Afghanistan was already proof the west was weak.

His miscalculation was 2 fold: 1. Xi didn’t understand how naval power worked, the PLAN needed another decade minimum to credibly threaten Taiwan, 2. Russia’s army was decimated by decades of corruption itself.

We got lucky, if big daddy z took that ride the west would be in a bad place right now.

Russians genuinely believe the only way to prevent being invaded is to invade and dominate all their neighbors as far as possible, for purely defensive reasons you understand.

Russia can never be safe, until the entire planet is subjugated by Russia.

Cultural paranoia as foreign policy.

This is what Kursk bought Ukraine, by showing a willingness to bring the fight to Russia, and Russia showing they had no way to respond.

It’s not dark, you’re misunderstanding me, bro.

and it still implies he will kneel before Putin.

He needs to assume the position before he can truly show his respect.

No, that’s not it.

Sweden can’t afford to fund an aid package including them itself, and the US would never spend money on financing a competitor to their own craft.

Which is a tragedy because it’s basically the perfect platform for them.

630 thousand dead or wounded Russians.

I mean, it’s definitely a good start.

I blame ourselves, we should have given strike authorization against Russian soil a year ago.

and I trust them as a company enough that I have no interest in self hosting vaultwarden.

I pay the subscription, but I trust no company that much.

Have nginx for all my reverse proxies, it wasn’t trivial, but I used it for a lot of other things so it’s fine.

I back it up manually to encrypted json, it’s not the right way, but I never had much of a proper backup system, other than zfs snapshots and occasionally mirroring to another zfs pool.

It’s not a lot of extra work once you have the rest of your apps running, it’s fairly low maintenance and mostly just works, but again I haven’t bothered with backups really.

Edit: Running most if not all my services on freebsd as jails, that might have made it easier.

Good Ole Bobby tables.

God, I’ve never lived in Russia, but having worked in China, that sounds like choosing between 2 hells.

Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?

Not really, they’re kind of hated as a brand, when Chinese people see the Samsung brand they immediately think Huawei because they were taught Huawei is the Chinese Samsung.

Yeah, but Canada never has to worry about being cut up for spare parts.

The whole reason putin attacked Ukraine was to look like an equally strong partner, much like mussolini did with Hitler when he attacked Italy, but that didn’t work out for putin.

Because they’re buying from Russia.

Which is the whole point, duck season’ing China into tying itself as closely to Russia as possible.

I wish you were here.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-war-belgorod-bomb-1.6817748

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/01/russia-glide-bomb-belgorod-fab/