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heh, but 'the good guy' also smokes. i don't know why, is it because we have this legacy image about thinkers and artists, that they should smoke, while their mind is occupied with eliminating the problems of the humankind.

i cannot help but perceive this image (not exactly your painting, but image of a thinker) as one that should be deprecated, since it romanticizes smoking.

heh, no. my polaroid back has a crack in it, and it has to be covered. luckily it didn't ruin the shot, but i guess even improved it. (:

i remember acidrip. i remember it was a gtk program, written in some interpreted language: perl or python.

well i am not aware about the details of transnistria status, but i know that abkhazia and south ossetia are at first glance in the same situation: despite being internationally recognized parts of georgia, georgian law, law enforcement, military has no control there whatsoever, there is russian military, and both self proclaimed republics are getting money from russian government.

i can guess (but it's interesting to clarify) that situation in transnistria should be similar: that's a break away region with russian military presence, and it seems unlikely that moldovan law would have any even negligable influence on the region.

but maybe i am mistaken.

yes me too, i use exactly librewolf on desktop and mull on mobile.

so transnistria voted? despite declaring themselves an independent state? do they participate in moldovan elections?

let me list two not federated options.

but both are self hosted.

• lobsters. one active instance is lobste.rs but i know of https://սարեան.ցանցառներ.հայ

• if you use gemini protocol, you probably know about it: bubble is a reddit like software. i know about two deployments, the original, by the author is at gemini://bbs.geminispace.org

users also can have their blog feeds on it.

xmpp (jabber)

alas, i am afraid that even if ukraine is able to restore its territorial integrity, most of russian citizens won't understand that their government did something wrong. russia won't ever be humiliated like nazi germany, to force people to think what they did wrong.

i am afraid of newer russian revanshionism and i am afraid of what their post imperial phantom pains will make them do in the future.

my impression is that majority of the russian citizens feel pain regarding the 'lost lands' as they often put it, as a result of ussr collapse.

i saw somewhere yesterday that it also removed siskin (or snikket? or both?) xmpp client.

i believe this apple update was introduced after the court which ruled that it is ok to force you to unlock with the fingerprint, but not ok to demand the pin.

there was a case when police wanted to unlock a gangster's girlfriend iphone.

yeah, i have a historical oberon compiler for palm pilot.