I don't think there's one at least in official repositories. But if you're missing libc6 one might argue that your system is not in any functional state anyways.

I have absolutely zero experience on pacman, but I could argue the very same with dpkg/apt with the same arguments. The Debian kind, not the abomination Ubuntu ships with today.

as far as i know apt and dnf have no equivalent easy redo all

It's similarily possible (dpkg --get-selections, some sed/cut/awk wizardry to cut unnecessary stuff from the output, xargs to apt install --reinstall on that and you should be good to go, maybe there's even a simpler way to achieve that) with Debian.

But that's just me. I've been with Debian for quite a while. Potato was released 2000, but I think I got my hands on it 2001/2002 and I've been a happy user since. And even if I've worked with pretty much any major distribution (RHEL, CentOS, SuSe, Ubuntu and even Slackware back in the day) around I still prefer Debian because that's what I know and learned over the years on how to fix things if something goes sideways.

That's pretty much it. I personally would run conduits too while the walls are open, they're pretty cheap and once you have them in place you can just run whatever you want and easily replace cables if needed. Maybe even add an extra conduit to expand wiring later on, but that depends on quite a few things.

I still have a fools hope that generals and other high ranking military people have their feet firmly on the ground, as their whole training, career and often identity necessities. And, at least on my belief, that also means that they won't lead their military across the ocean to get their ass handed over.

I'm quite confident that US military could defeat their Chinese counterpart on a level field, but fighting across the ocean is a logistical nightmare and even if they could get their boots on the ground against Chinese holding anything there would be nearly impossible and it would have an astronomical price tag. USA might be able to pull that off, but in the long term it would just be another Vietnam, but with far more severe consequences locally.

So, yes, I assume that generals would disobey. And any competent replacement would disobey too. Replacing them with someone who don't know what they're doing would just be a disaster for the US of A. It might still happen, but at that point they'd look like the "second strongest army in the world" which is being destroyed on a field in Ukraine and there would be no hope for anyone in the Europe (or maybe globally) who would like to do any meaningful business with the US, so they'd just dig their own grave. pretty much like what Russia is doing right now.

You are of course not wrong with that. But also I tend to believe that high ranking military personnel are pretty practical and rational on their decision making. Getting US military boots on the ground in China would be bigger than Vietnam war scale of operations even to the US army and it would have immense effects on both US army and the country as a whole. The operation would practically mean moving a smaller European country quite literally across the ocean even without any warfare and when the receiving coast is armed to teeth and willing to fight for their land it's way more difficult.

And for what? Absolutely destroying on whatever respect and trust is left globally? Because there's no way in hell US army would conquer and keep the whole China. Maybe expand Hong Kong or Taiwan a bit and gain a relatively small area of land for material imports? It just doesn't make any kind of sense at all.

9/11 retaliaton at least made some sense as US was willing to punish someone for the tradegy and Iraq wars had resources they could actually hold and gain from but with China there's just no way for US to make any profitable scenario out of open warfare. Anything they might gain from that would be diminishingly small compared to the military effort and expenses they would need to get anything out of that fight.

And that's what I'm pretty much counting on. No matter how patriotic the generals might be, attacking China just doesn't make any sense and it doesn't have any arguments for it beyond the rambling of a demented leader they have. I refuse to believe that the biggest military and logistics might in the world would do that stupid things just because one man said so.

will Americans stop him before he starts more wars?

A really good question. Politically it seems like it's not going to happen, but I still have (at least naive) hope that the actual US mlitary would not respond on commands should the cheeto order active military operations against China. That would make absolutely no sense in so many ways, no matter how you spin it around, that I'd expect the boots on the ground would just say 'fuck off'.

But I also tought that the orange clown wouldn't have a chance on elections either, so we'll see. And also, I'm across the pond from US, so my information is mostly from European media outlets and social media around here, so take that with suitable grain of salt. I just rather not see the reality where US is fighting China and Europe is left to deal with Russia. Not because we couldn't handle that, but because that would be just bat shit crazy situation in my lifetime.

Otsikosta huolimatta tuo ei taida aivan kokonaan mennä nimimerkki Riikan ansiolistalle. Yle uutisoi asiasta jo ~5 viikkoa sitten ja Google on ehtinyt jo kovasti pahastumaan asiasta.

Itse asia taas ei ole aivan niin suoraviivainen. Toisaalta nuo datakeskukset luo oheistyötä vartijoille, sähköasentajille, IV-insinööreille, lounasravintoloille jne, ja toisaalta jos niitä valtion toimesta tuetaan kohtuuttomasti niin kokonaisuuden kannalta hyöty voi jäädä jopa pakkaselle. En osaa suoralta kädeltä sanoa kumpi nyt sitten on parempi ja toisaalta vaikka kokonaisuus olisi valtiolle nettonegatiivinen euroissa niin se ei välttämättä ole silti huono investointi jos vaihdossa saadaan työllisyyttä ja yhteiskunnan hyvinvointia parannetua.

Half decent tactic when you're pushing enemy in an urban area, in buildings and stuff like that. On the wide open field very much not so. Good for Ukraine, they can spare some ammunition when you can just shoot trough the conga line and get multiple hits in one shot when you aim properly.

Yhtään tippaakaan mitenkään väheksymättä ihmisten epäilemättä hyvin todellista ahdinkoa täytyy jutusta yksi lainaus nostaa kuitenkin pöydälle:

Köyhillä viitataan Tervolan mukaan sellaisiin kotitalouksiin, joiden rahat eivät riitä yhteiskunnassa normaalina pidettävään elintasoon.

Sitä en nyt tiedä, onko tuo laskenta muuttunut johonkin päin tai että mihin tilastolokeroon Tervola nyt tarkalleenottaen viittaa, mutta mitä olen jotain noita "köyhyyden" rajoja nähnyt niin ne ovat kyllä omaan elämäntapaan verrattuna melkoisen kovia. Suuruusluokkaa suunnilleen satoja euroja kuukaudessa vaatteisiin per pää, useita (kalliihkoja) harrasteita perheessä, ulkomaanloma tai laskettelureissu koko perheellä kerran vuodessa, ravintolaillallisia säännöllisesti jne.

Itse en mitenkään päin, varsinkaan nykyään, voi sanoa olevani köyhä ja toki rahat tulee kulutettua vähän eri arvopohjalta, mutta mitä tässä on lomareissuja ja muuta touhuamista koko perheellä tullut katseltua niin jos 5 henkeä raahaa edes kotimaassa mihinkään muualle kuin karavaanarialueelle tekemään hiekkakakkuja niin viikossa humahtaa tonni poikineen, ja jos sen kiimaliiterin joutuu vuokraamaan niin halpaa se ei ole sekään.

Eli pointtina siis, että se "normaalina pidettävä elintaso" vaihtelee aika paljon yksilöittäin ja asuinalueittain. Elämisen kustannukset lapsettomana pariskuntana vuokrakaksiossa kun on vähän toista kuin omakotitalossa lapsiperheen kanssa ja jos näitä vaihtoehtoja yrittää sulloa samaan muottiin ja mittareihin niin metsään menee aika lujaa.

Itse olen toisinaan ollut vähän näreissäni kun (lapsettomat) sisarukset suunnittelevat että eikö mennä porukalla käymään ravintolassa syömässä kun X täyttää 30 vuotta tms. Sen verran onnellisessa tilanteessa olen, että tuommoisen kyllä lompakko kestää mutta ei tarvitse kovin kummoinen salaattipöytä + annosruoka -ravintola olla että kun maksaa 5 henkeä niin 200€ menee niin että pölinä käy. Idean ehdottaja taas pärjää 40-50€ budjetilla ja syö/juo vielä vähän paremmin.

Itsekin olen aikanaan ollut tilanteessa, että se raha on ihan oikeasti ollut tiukassa, vuokrarästejä ulosotossa ja tilanne muutenkin yhden lounaan päässä katastrofista, ja sitä aikaa ei ole yhtään ikävä. Mutta tuo "yhteiskunnassa normaalina pidettävä elintaso" on hyvin epämääräinen mittari ja jos johonkin tuommoiseen määreeseen ei yllä ei tarkoita automaattisesti sitä että olisi köyhä, ainakaan sillä tavalla kuin minä termin ymmärrän.

The real question is how much US GDP is relying on Chinese materials and products. I honestly have no idea, but I'm sure that it's more than zero.

And any meaningful investment in to the US, unless you already have manufacturing there, doesn't seem like a smart move. Tariffs (and policies in general) might change radically before the ink is dry on newspapers reporting latest changes.

Drones have without a doubt changed warfare a ton, but there's still no fighter jet equivalent on speed and impact power. Situation in Ukraine is a bit different as Ukraine doesn't have much hardware to spare and Russians seem to be afraid of modern defences and neither of them have real infrastructure in place for fighter jet maintenance close enough to the front lines.

I've been writing a small powershell script at work lately and as vscode now offers their AI bundled in I just tried it out of curiosity. It does a half decent job. Nothing I couldn't write on my own, but on a simple script it saved some time as I'm a long term linux guy and just getting my toes wet with powershell so I need to dig up proper functions and syntax pretty often.

But it also created a script which would have broken syntax and errors in it, so it still needed manual tweaking, but as long as you know what you're doing it can be useful. And also potentially dump your company data to some learning database.

I agree, specially on the 'not intent' part. Wording is not the best, but the underlaying question is still valid. However on the article the same lieutenant says that Russia is ramping up operations, so maybe (hopefully?) he or Ukrainian army in general are just getting better on what they do.

Either way, good news. And there's plenty more promising news from the front, I really hope that Ukraine can keep it up and that Europe can get their head out of their ass and start actually producing ammunition and other gear for them instead of just endless negotiations.

And maybe, when all of this is over, Russia has collapsed under it's own madness and future generations in Ukraine will prosper in peace.

Latest versions of maxim are still pretty useful weapons. Not on the field, or drawn with a horse, but if you have a ton of ammunition and mount one in a bunker where you can use water cooling it's still pretty powerful.

500-850 shots per minute (depending on model) with 7.62mm and with proper cooling you can just keep the trigger pulled and wreak havoc until you ran out of ammunition. Obviously it's still old, heavy and big, but if you don't have to carry it around it's still decent hardware.

Iltalehden seurannasta:

Riikka Purra kommentoi lyhyesti ennakkoäänten tulosta ennen kuin perui kaikki sovitut haastattelunsa.

– Hirvittävän huonot luvut, ei siitä mihinkään pääse. Toivottavasti niitä varsinaisen vaalipäivän äänillä saadaan sentään jonkin verran ylös, Purra sanoi Iltalehdelle.

Purra oli tosin tieten perunut tuon perumisensa sittemmin, mutta ei tuo kovin hyvää urheiluhenkeä osoita.

I'm pretty sure that Zelenskyi or Ukrainians in general are not stupid. But they're in the hard place right now and as USA support is still pretty big deal for them it's necessary to keep the negotiations going. And also they most likely need and want outside capital on rebuilding, where mineral deal (or any other deal on resources) made with both parties interest in mind might make sense.

So, my best quess is that they're actually looking for a deal which benefits both countiries equally, but they won't sign off their wealth just for a vague promise. Also keeping the negotiations going, pampering Trump every now and then and in general showing of a good faith is all beneficial for them right now. They can agree on peace fire, they can agree on joint negotiations with anyone and then either declare that there's "minor details" to iron out or (more commonly) show off to the world that they're willing to find a solution while Russia just denies every proposal.

So, their current strategy might benefit Ukraine in the long run and even if it didn't it still makes Russia look bad in comparison as they won't never be as willing for actual negotiations. In my opinion that's well spent time for few ambassadors right now.

Is my current set up secure, assuming strong passwords were used for everything?

Network security is a complicated beast to manage. If general public can access your services over the internet, that's a threat you need to mitigate. Strong passwords is a good start on that, but it doesn't take into account if there's a flaw or bug on the service you're running. Also if you have external users, they might reuse their passwords and leak for those might cause a threat too, specially if there's privilege escalation bugs on the software you're running.

And so on, it's a too wide field to cover in a short comment here, but when you're building your stuff, and what is maybe the most disticntive feature on a good professional between a not so good one, is to think ahead and prepare for every imaginable scenario where something goes wrong. Every time you add a way to access your network, no matter how minuscle, think what happens if that way gets compromised and what it might mean on the very worst case.

Maybe you want to add another access point to your network since your terrace isn't properly covered. That's nice to have, but now everyone around 100 meters around your house/apartment might have access to your stuff if they can break your wifi security. Maybe you set up a reverse proxy or tailscale on the stack. Now the whole internet can at least probe your stuff and try to find vulnerabilities, try to use stolen credentials and even try to social engineer their way into your stuff. Or maybe you made an mistake and left something open that shouldn't be.

I'm not trying to scare you off out of anything. Go ahead and play with your stuff, break things, learn how to fix them, have fun while doing it. Just remember to think ahead about worst case scenarios, weigh their risks, think ahead and then go on. Learn about DNAT, reverse proxies, VPN and network layers and whatever you come across on your adventure but keep in mind that shit will hit the fan at some point. And learn to accept that, learn from your mistakes and do better next time.

In case you're not aware: Back in the day Ubuntu took off because Debian was maybe a bit too strict on their approach on being stable and rock solid for quite a few of different architectures. There was a time when you could just edit few files and migrate a running system from Debian to Ubuntu, just with way more up-to-date software packages and that's about the time frame I moved from Debian to Ubuntu too. For quite a few years it was pretty smooth, updates just worked, software versions were up to date and the general experience was more polished than what you could get from Debian at the time.

But that ship has sailed. Ubuntu changes stuff so frequently that the package maintainers can just barely keep up, snapcraft is a steaming pile of shit in my opinion and the stability is faint ghost on what it used to be. Maybe becuse it's not that compatible with Debian anymore and thus can't benefit from the original source, maybe for some other reason.

Whatever the case might be, running ubuntu gives you an ubuntu experience, which is very much not the same than debian experience. If you want more streamlined distribution I'd recommend Mint (Debian edition), if you want the rock solid system but with less refined experience where you might need to tweak thing or two manually then go with Debian.

And, mostly for the nitpicking commenters, I know, I grossly simplified things around and cut some corners. I know it's not as black and white comparison. This is just my generic experience over quite a few years with Linux on Desktop.

Hohhoi... Kopiosto on vähän oman aikansa tuote ja yhä enemmän on semmoinen kuva että ainoa mitä niiden toimintaan kuuluu on oman olemassaolon pönkittäminen. Pikaisesti netistä kaivettuna löytyi tämmöistä (ja tuosta copypastesta varmaan pitäisi kopiostolle maksaa korvauksia):

Taloudellista kehitystä vuonna 2022 tunnuslukuineen on kuvattu yksityiskohtaisesti myöhemmin toimintakertomuksessa. Yhteenvetona voi todeta, että tuotot olivat yhteensä 52,2 miljoonaa euroa ja siirto oikeudenomistajille menevään jakoon 46,2 miljoonaa euroa

6 miljoonaa euroa vuodessa siitä että välitetään korvausrahaa eri tahojen välillä. En nyt väitä, että kopiosto tai teosto olisi aivan tarpeettomia laitoksia, tekijänoikeudet ja niistä saatava korvaus on kuitenkin aika iso tekijä taiteen ja kulttuurin saralla, mutta harvempi voittoa tavoittelematon r.y. tuommoisilla rahoilla pyörii.

Is all of this correct?

As far as I know, yes. But I'm a native in here and thus I haven't had any reason to really look things up and there's been a ton of changes in healthcare system in last few years (across the board, not just for students or foreginers). So, what I'd recommend is to contact student care on your institution and verify how things are today with them.