• @AbidanYre
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    11123 days ago

    With blackjack and hookers?

      • @[email protected]
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        623 days ago

        Not sure if they’re aware, but the Balmer Peak occurs at a fairly specific BAC/intoxication level, and output quality drops off significantly after that point.

        • Echo Dot
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          623 days ago

          I’m pretty certain it also depends on the type of alcohol being drunk. If you’re sipping expensive whiskey you start to decide that 8 GB of RAM is a lot.

    • @ZILtoid1991
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      121 days ago

      Funny thing is, I was thinking about writing my own text editor that is not a web application running in chromium, and wanted to name it “Blackjack”.

    • @[email protected]
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      And vodka too! Remember russians are whores and drunks!!! Amirite?!??!! lolollolloolo!! \s

      • @AbidanYre
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        Olde Fortran Malt Liquor would be a better fit for my joke. It’s ok that you didn’t get it.

      • @TheGrandNagus
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        I don’t know why you’re trying to imply the “blackjack and hookers” Futurama joke that we see all the time in response to stories like this is some kind of xenophobic statement.

        Trying that hard to be offended all the time must be exhausting.

      • Echo Dot
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        123 days ago

        Seems like a good fit for the Linux community really. They’re not exactly known for being buttoned down.

  • palordrolap
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    North Korea did this already. I expect that Russia’s effort will be as good if not better. Bonus comedy points if they use NK’s effort as a starting point.

    But I wouldn’t try to use it if my Internet location was outside Russia. Or maybe even if it wasn’t.

    Also: something something falling out something something Windows.

    • @[email protected]
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      1423 days ago

      I’m not gonna use this shit regardless. Even if it remains the only option for an OS in Russia, I’m gonna fucking smuggle a proper Linux distro in.

      • palordrolap
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        In before you’re going to need a telemetry spoofer in order not to attract attention. On the other hand, it takes an extraordinary amount of government paranoia before they start going after random citizens.

    • partial_accumen
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      823 days ago

      It might be interesting to set up a Russia Linux box as a honeypot.

    • @[email protected]
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      423 days ago

      I imagine Russia will do far better because they are not completely isolated from the rest of the world like North Korea.

      • @TheGrandNagus
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        322 days ago

        And they have a much more literate and especially tech literate population. And way more money than NK.

    • Echo Dot
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      023 days ago

      Somebody once was showing me a modified version of Windows XP and I’m sure it was a North Korean version. But I can’t find it now.

  • @just_another_person
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    4123 days ago

    It will work just like every other Russian knock-off thing that gets made. Very shittily, and then end up in the bin.

    Aren’t they still also trying to make their own Steam? 🤣

    • @ChicoSuave
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      2023 days ago

      It will end up like every other Russian knock-off: made by the Chinese when Russia eventually gives up

      • @just_another_person
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        Nah, it goes WAY back to pre-WW2. Russia basically made copying everyone else’s technology a major economic driver for them for decades, and it was all based around trying to sucker poorer countries into buying their awful products.

        Cameras, radios, cars, weapons. Hell they even stole NASA Space Shuttle designs and tech to build their own, which just ended up in a junkyard.

        • @[email protected]
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          423 days ago

          And the Buran system was more impressive than the shuttle, capable of completely automated flight!

            • @just_another_person
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              323 days ago

              I don’t think it was ever confirmed. They only flew the thing once, which was confirmed. Anything else claiming superior tech I’d call USSR propaganda.

            • @[email protected]
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              123 days ago

              I’m not sure whether the orbital flight counts as test or operational, but that one. The prior test flights only had automated landings.

          • Echo Dot
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            123 days ago

            So they say but since it never even went into space it’s a bold claim.

            • @[email protected]
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              323 days ago

              I’m reading that it orbited at an altitude of up to 263 km, well above the Karman line. Is that not space?

              • Echo Dot
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                122 days ago

                Well that’s debatable but really the point is it never did a re-entry so we really don’t know how reusable it would have been.

            • @SupraMario
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              It’s just like their foxbat claims…turned out it was a flying brick.

              Edit: apparently I pissed off some tankies lol

              It’s well known that the foxbat was heavily exaggerated in its capabilities. It’s how we ended up with the f15 and it’s insane capabilities. Just like now russia fighting in Ukraine, paper tiger.

      • Echo Dot
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        223 days ago

        Of course everything’s made by China anyway including all the high-end stuff. The exception being computer chips.

  • @[email protected]
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    The fact that the Russian government came out this fast and said they need a version with their own commits is, perhaps, telling.

  • @WagnasT
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    Russian government officials trying to get away from windows, eh?

  • Alex
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    1923 days ago

    It depends what they want to do. They can fork and take on the burden of maintaining the whole tree in which case good luck with that, linux is too much of a fire hose to enable a 3rd party to assemble something similar making different choices about what they merge. Otherwise they can maintain a re-based fork that tracks the Torvalds tree and then congratulations you’ve just invented a feature tree that can do contribution with extra steps.

  • @TheGrandNagus
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    A special forking operation will be underway. The new kernel will be complete in just a few days, like the inva- er… denazification of Kyi- er… Kiev.

    E: lol, fuck off to the frontline and die for mother Ruzzia, tankies

  • Dr. Moose
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    They’re just jumping the newscycle for the propaganda machine. Russian government doesn’t care about tech or linux unless it can help them deliver more bombs to Ukrainian babies and you don’t need to fork the kernel for that.

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      Pretty much no military in the world cares about Linux because you want an OS system that millions of people are familiar with, require no additional onboarding process, and has decades worth of documentation and trouble fixers.

      Microsoft have always produced stripped down locked down versions of Windows for them so there’s really no reason for them to care about any of Microsoft’s BS in the communal space.

      • @[email protected]
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        423 days ago

        An air-gapped FreeBSD os is significantly more stable and more secure than a commercially available os used globally. Security is more important to militaries than the fucking end user experience.

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          A gapped anything is going to be more secure than anything connected to the network. But if any I don’t see what the operating system has to do with it.

          Anyway that’s not really what I’m talking about, the laptops that are given out to soldiers in the field are windows laptops not Linux.

          • @[email protected]
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            -122 days ago

            How do you know this? Apologies, but I’m not going to believe a rando internet person’s comment and take it as fact at face value.

            • Echo Dot
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              122 days ago

              How do I know that the soldiers get Windows laptops?

              Because they do? They get Windows laptops. They don’t get Linux laptops.

        • @nforminvasion
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          122 days ago

          Wouldn’t openbsd absolutely take the cake then? Freaking OS is more secure than a vault

    • @[email protected]
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      423 days ago

      I mean, they can just pull the current kernel, add a few patches and say it’s their kernel.

      Let’s be honest, cold war brought the space race, if this war brings the “year of Linux” race I’m not going to complain

      • @[email protected]
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        123 days ago

        That’s IF the would be even able to pull the kernel. I know how government grants work here. 70% chance that the money gets stolen and work is outsourced to some bloke who doesn’t know what git is.

  • @mEEGal
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    823 days ago

    шiтн веLот аиd vоdкд аиd ноокеяs

  • andrew_bidlaw
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    Astra (used in MIC) is outdated shit, RED OS (more commercial) is cooler and wine’d in a lot of our windows-oriented apps, but both would have a hard time without international community if threatened.

    That’s just some figureheads shitting with their mouths. There are millions of machines still running Windows with no way to change without a pushback from users and admins, and also some Linux machines that would only suffer if we branch out.

  • Kokesh
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    523 days ago

    Vladux 0.1 codename Brezhnev