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Elon Musk and X are once again proving why institutions should never rely on corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms to reach their people.
Update: das war es dann.
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In knapp 9 Stunden endet die Anmeldefrist für Assemblies.
Im Gegensatz zu sonst werden wir dieses Jahr einen klaren Cut machen - Verpeiler haben dann Pech gehabt. Sagt nicht, ich hätte euch nicht gewarnt.
tl;dr: Registriert eure Assembly ab sofort im Hub, spätestens aber bis Sonntag, den 23. November, 23:42 Uhr (MEZ). Auch zum 39C3 wird es auf mehreren Flächen und Ebenen des CCH wieder Tische, Stühle und Orte geben, die mit euren Ideen, Themen und Projekten gefüllt werden wollen. Bringt mit, was euch in euren Communities, Hackspaces, Erfas und Chaostreffs beschäftigt und begeistert. Schraubt gemeinsam an Projekten und Ideen, kommt mit Interessierten in Kontakt, lehrt und lernt, zeigt, erkundet und entdeckt Neues – und manchmal Altes. Frei nach dem diesjährigen Motto Power Cycles wird es dieses Jahr Anpassungen im Assemblies-Bereich geben. Shared Tables Verteilt auf den gesamten Assemblyflächen werden einzelne Tische als „Shared Table" gekennzeichnet.
#Windows10 reaches EOL today. Microsoft's message is clear: buy new hardware or pay.
For millions of users worldwide, perfectly functional computers will suddenly become "obsolete" - not because they can't run an operating system, but because #Microsoft says so. This isn't just about one OS reaching EOL. It's about a business model that treats your hardware as disposable e-waste and your security as a subscription service.
Users shouldn't have to choose between security and #sustainability.
Meanwhile, in the parallel FOSS universe...
I switched to Linux three years ago, and would highly recommend you do the same. Linux is free, actively maintained, and hardware-friendly. It gives you full control over your system and data. Currently I'm using Linux both in my private and professional life and it's fully covering all my use cases. I'm really impressed how good the user experience delivered by @gnome is.
Break free from #Windows vendor lock-in.
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Right. Now forward to Russia, post-Soviet collapse. Putin eventually takes over, and in the service of his growing authoritarian regime, he builds up the myth of invincibility. Russia is destined to be an imperial superpower! Look how we threw back the invaders, twice, to their destruction!
So when Putin starts the open warfare in Ukraine (remembering he’d seized Crimea many years earlier, and the Little Green Men pseudo-invasion of the Donbas and Luhansk regions of Ukraine), he proclaimed that it would be done in three days. They put together a pretty slapdash plan, involving a push on two major fronts: one from Donbas/Luhansk, one towards Kyiv itself, including airborne troops landing at the airport to try and seize it.
Ukraine threw them back from there, pushed right back over the border near Kyiv, and eventually retaking Kharkiv and some other parts. Then the war ground to a more or less halt. The Russians couldn’t push forward any other way than slow, grinding assaults, pouring in men and machines as fast as they could to try and overwhelm the Ukrainian defence.
They managed to make slow, very slow, progress, until even that petered out. Three and a half years into the open phase of the war, they were stalled.
Which is when Ukraine got their strategy working for real.
They had been building up their ability to strike behind the Russian lines, while maintaining the front line as a stalemate. Supply lines were hit, reorg and rest areas were hit, railway lines, junctions, anything they could reach, to push the Russian supply lines to be longer. Frustrated by the restrictions on deep strikes by their weapons providers in the West, they began building their own deep strike assets.
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