Someone who lies is a liar. I lie unintentionally all too often, despite my best efforts not to (aside from some leg pulling.) Some people can't seem to help lying, and some others do it quite intentionally. We humans aren't very reliable or trustworthy, but we muddle on anyway, and we're not that bad, mostly.
Not to mention the younger generation with no work ethic, unlike in my day.. 5am start 6 days a week.. builds character.. then school.. uphill.. both ways.. respected our elders.. bought first house with 22.. kids now.. no respect.. video games.. no work ethic.. living with parents at 30.. avocado on toast.. no house.. AVOCADO ON TOAST.
Austria remains a snake in the grass, unfortunately. Too many russian spies, bribetakers, and sympathisers.
"... and we will break any mods that attempt it! Muhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.. hah.."
If it doesn't have signatures, it isn't a treaty.
After the USSR disbanded, many former soviet & warsaw pact countries lobbied to join NATO and were eventually accepted. They had experienced russian control, and they never wanted it again.
Relations between russia and the west were relatively good for a while, until putin decided he needed an enemy for his domestic politics. He probably should have chosen china. :-P
With Finland and Sweden, russia now has 10% land border with NATO countries. That is far from encirclement, as they sometimes propagandize.
Why did these countries join now and not earlier? Well, that should be obvious. Domestic opinion changed in their democracies, and neutrality was no longer seen as viable. Once again, existing NATO members welcomed new voluntary members to their ranks. 💪
So now that russia has a longer border with NATO member countries, it must be scared, right?
Wrong, russia is reducing military personnel and equipment along the Finnish border, and sending them to Ukraine instead.
NATO is not the aggressor, but it is a military powerhouse, and only getting stronger.
Who cares?
My company's 9,000 CentOS machines and over 100,000 containers now mostly run Amazon Linux or Alpine. Rocky Linux was preferred by some, but we led the way and the rest followed. Our final licensed RH systems will also disappear this quarter (legacies of a DC-centric era), and we will be free of them.
It was inertia that kept us with RH, but their bad faith moves kicked us into action. We now have better security tooling and processes all around, too.
Good riddance, Red Hat (and IBM, until your next acquisition and corporate strangling)!
Welcome to the world of Carrier Grade NAT. 100.64.0.0/10 is reserved for this.
If you are lucky, you also have an IPv6 address. The catch is you need IPv6 on the client-side too.
A VPS or similar running wireguard and a proxy might bridge the gap.
It might also be possible to ask your provider for some port forwarding. Probably not, but check anyway.
Good luck!
There is a good chance that there are A-W, Y and Z social media companies too. Some may be legit (eg. marketing on existing social media platforms), and others more for trademark squatting.
A whale, or possibly a bowl of petunias
Alcohol does have an effect, as everyone will attest, but there is also an effect to arriving home, cracking open a cold drink, and relaxing for a while. It may not work for all, of course.
I have a NA beer that tastes almost identical to its alcoholic brother, and there are definitely similar results from a single beer..
The good thing with the NA version is that I sleep better and can snap myself out of the relaxed state if needed. It also makes it possible to mix & match at social events, so that I don't over-do it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlr8gp813ko seems to have a good explanation. In short, it's complicated, and the IOC drew their lines.