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I am desperately trying to find myself a nickname as cool as Johnny Flatline or Count Zero since I read William Gibson's Neuromancer, and that's surprisingly difficult

The cyberpunk genre is in a weird place right now, because we already have all the dystopian downsides. The only difference is that they have flying cars and robot bodies

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you ever just think about x86

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I should have probably made a proper post, but yeah, I'm a bit too full of emotions.

Russians hit a well-known restaurant in my city during its working hours. It was almost two hours ago but the drones are still flying through Dnipro. There is smoke in the air even though i live in the opposite part of the city. The fire is absolutely massive. Right now there are 4 dead people, 15 injured.

They deliberately targeted civilians. Over 20 drones during just one evening. Only in the city of Dnipro, not counting the region.

I hate them with all my soul

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I was shocked to discover that you can't just use a Ubuntu PPA on Debian. I don't know why I thought it's possible, but now I am disproportionately sad

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Today I spent several hours trying so hard to avoid building qbittorrent-nox from sources because Debian has a 4.5.2 and I needed a 5.0.4. Then I got so far and spent an hour building boost and libtorrent from sources because apparently you need to be proficient in every fucking C++ library and build tool out there to use Linux. Bonus points to Debian for having a package for libtorrent 2.0.8 and to qbittorrent for depending on a libtorrent 2.0.9. And in the end it doesn't even matter because I gave up, reverted the system to initial state, and decided to stick to the 4.5.2

PS I get the appeal of AppImage but I hate them so much 😭

PPS it's still magnitudes better than using a mac or maintaining a windows-based server

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Damn that's an accurate visual representation

(I'm not an artist and it's mainly war in my case tho)

(I'm starting to feel awkward having every other post about the war in Ukraine, but it has truly maimed every part of my life (and I am incredibly lucky to be where I am tbh) + writing about it helps with processing because I still can't believe it)

Anyway I have a lot of people to show this to

Feeling rough lately.

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I've just finished watching The Bear, a three season semi-marathon. Fucking fabulous. I am not even sure what I liked about it. This show perfectly pictured a constant pressure of just staying afloat, an infinite difficulty of maintaining a conversation, a sharded nature of life, and a comedy of being alive together. Damn, they managed to show so many themes that it is impossible to explain what this show is about. And yet, I am hypnotised by the Big Kitchen and fell in love with food once more. There was a line about "preparing a dish is like playing music" and that's surprising and a bit confusing how accurate it is.

I loved all the tense scenes of precise swearing, and all the story pauses, where the show creators invite you to feel the world how the character sees it. I never thought I would enjoy watching a wordless bunch of shots so much. To some extent, the Bear is a tribute to all who cook.

And obviously Jeremy Allen White is hot as hell

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Tbh here in Ukraine we already call it the wwiii because, you know, full-blown next gen drone warfare all over the frontline, cyber- and electronics warfare is the new meta, and russian meat waves (a real term) just as in WWII (with an exception that actually a ton of ussr soldiers were Ukrainians). On the other hand, Ukraine gets armaments and other support from all over the world, russia is using Iranian bomber drones to terrorize us every night, and North Korean ballistic missiles as a treat. And finally, thousands of fucking literal North Korean troopers in Kursk.

So if you ask me, this kinda looks like wwiii. Or at least like that part of the history book where world war is imminent but has no name yet

you know, as someone who grew up joking about wwiii, i cant believe it’s actually about to happen

i wonder what will happen when trump tells us troops to fight for russia, bc they’re definitely not gonna join europe while trump controls the military

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“How was your week?”

Hmm… let’s see… 🤔

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Friday:

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Why do some people believe this false info that people in Donetsk and Luhansk oblast support Russia? Yeah some of them may support Russia, but i don't think the majority of people do.

That's a very complicated question - one I'm not quite prepared to answer today, because today has been a lot. But I'll try anyway.

The statement "people in Donetsk and Luhansk oblast support russia" is both correct and incorrect. It's all about the context.

Let's start from the beginning. Russian propaganda was rampant in these regions for years before 2014. The Kremlin poured a lot of resources into conditioning people in the Donbas to believe russian false narratives, creating an artificial divide between the eastern and western parts of Ukraine - an "us vs. them" dynamic. Once they achieved that, they simply claimed, "It was always like that. These are different nations, different people, and they were always against each other" - which, of course, is a lie.

Disinformation coming from russia was often so obscenely ridiculous that one has to wonder how people believed it. How they still believe it. Takes like "Western Ukrainians ("Banderovites," Nazis, "raguli," etc.) will create concentration camps for the Russian-speaking people of the Donbas" or "They will extract shale gas here, which will make the entire region completely uninhabitable."

Along with the fearmongering and dividing one nation into "us" and "them," russia also pushed the false narrative that the Donbas was "feeding" Ukraine ("Донбасс кормит Украину"), suggesting that other parts of Ukraine were nothing but parasites, feeding off the hard-working people of the Donbas. You see where this is going? The road to separatist sentiments was paved completely artificially by russia, and the so-called DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) was first created in 2005-2006 - many years before it actually came to fruition. There are speculations suggesting that Yanukovych and Putin wanted to divide Ukraine into two separate entities, separating western Ukraine.

In any case, all of this was possible only due to russia's corrosive influence paired with Ukrainian authorities not doing shit to stop it (likely due to russian infiltration). Heck, I remember absurd disinformation like "Ukraine got rid of all the residents of Sloviansk, secretly replacing them with Ukrainian-speaking khokhols from western Ukraine" (this was right after Ukraine liberated Sloviansk in 2014). Who could believe this nonsense? A lot of not-very-smart people.

Then there's the issue of gradual filtration and, as a result, the general degradation of the population. Since 2014, being openly pro-Ukrainian in russian-occupied parts of the Donbas has been dangerous. The last pro-Ukraine protesters were brutally beaten by russian thugs. Later, such protests became impossible altogether. So, those who could afford to leave - or who had nothing to lose - moved away. The pro-Ukrainian people who stayed can't express their real opinions without risking being thrown into a torture dungeon. Even before 2022, something as small as singing a song in Ukrainian in public could get you in trouble - or even cost you your life, depending on how lucky you were.

After 2014, when russia occupied parts of the Donbas, they continued their false narrative, claiming that western Ukrainians wanted to genocide/enslave/set on fire/etc. all Russian-speaking people from the east - despite the fact that Russian-speaking people in towns just a couple of kilometers from occupied Donetsk were living completely normal lives (when not shelled by russian terrorists). Their lives were much better than those in the occupied territories. It's hard to explain. All I can say is: corruption, propaganda, stupidity.

The irony is that now russia is doing exactly what it claimed Ukraine would do to Ukrainians living in the Donbas - concentration camps, genocide, persecution based on language, robbing the region of all its wealth and redistributing it to Putin's oligarchs, making the region uninhabitable for generations to come... the list goes on. Every accusation was a confession.

They have also switched the cause and effect - a standard gaslighting tactic used by dictators and domestic abusers alike. They created a parallel reality in which it's not russia who attacked Ukraine first in 2014, seized parts of Ukrainian land, and started a war. No, in their version, Ukraine is the aggressor, who had been "torturing" the people of the Donbas for eight years before russia invaded again and killed thousands of them.

People believe this for the same reason they believe any other bullshit - propaganda, low intellectual potential, more propaganda. People outside of the Donbas believe the "pro-russian Donetsk and Luhansk" because it's easy to create a false picture nowadays, especially if you don't really want to research the topic, but rather seek the confirmation of your own bias.

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Mathematics I haven’t learned yet is mysterious, almost religious in how it tantalizes me.

Mathematics I am learning is frustrating and taxing.

Mathematics I have already learned is trivial, and left as an exercise to the reader.

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Honestly name a more iconic duo than existence and uniqueness

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As well as intense human suffering, Russia’s attack has had a catastrophic effect on the environment. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), more than 3m hectares of forest have been affected, including 1m hectares in protected areas. Russian troops have dug trenches, felled trees and planted countless mines. Fires caused by shells have increased CO2 emissions. Giant clouds of smoke can be seen billowing next to a 600-mile-long frontline.

Some of this destruction is accidental. But there have also been extraordinary acts of large-scale Russian sabotage. In June 2023 the Russian military blew up the Kakhovka reservoir to thwart a Ukrainian counter-offensive. The explosion released more than 14 cubic kilometres (14tn litres) of water, flooded dozens of settlements downstream and killed at least 35 people. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said it was a “deliberate and calculated crime”.

The flood killed animals and swept away a fish farm that was trying to restore endangered sturgeon to the Dnipro River. Unique species were lost. In August 2024 there was another ecological disaster when suspected Russian soldiers dumped chemicals from the Russian border village of Tyotkino into the Seym River. The pollution crossed the international border nearby and made its way into Ukraine’s north-eastern Sumy region. The Seym’s ecosystem crashed.

Ukrainians agree that the damage caused by Russia to the environment cannot be easily fixed. Dr Bohdan Vykhor, the executive director of WWF Ukraine, said: “We have lost some parts of nature for ever. It’s impossible to return. It’s objective reality, unfortunately.” Vykhor said it would take many decades and “tremendous effort” to de-mine Ukraine, one of the most densely mined countries in the world. “Until fighting stops, we can’t begin. It’s dangerous,” he said.

The war has destroyed many important habitats for wildlife. Several rare species have suffered, including the red-listed marbled polecat. The Kakhovka flood washed away its breeding areas, Vykhor said, adding: “We can’t say if these creatures still exist in Ukraine.” Meanwhile, Russian soldiers have built military camps on coastal reserves and crucial wetlands used by birds along the Black Sea. The elusive black stork has changed its spring migration route, Vykhor said.

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'tis finally complete.... going this overkill with this exam preparation was kind of exhausting but also really fun

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is the most realistic depiction of "post-apocalypse", because it is local. The outside world is fine and continues to live on, and it's only The Exclusion Zone which is supremely fucked up, and people still live there and some new faces arrive now and then to see the horrors and then, if they're lucky, to fuck off back outside.

Supreme irony in that is that it's a game made in Ukraine.

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One of the biggest issues of moving to England as a person who is Ukrainian AND neurodivergent is not knowing how to answer the small talk question of "how are you", but today I was reminded that Ukrainian blessed me with the phrase that roughly translates as "living is hard but dying would be a pity" and can we please naturalise it so I can use it all day every day