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Thanks, I do this sometimes, but there are also some... not very reliable posts in there on occasion.

That's fair, I think we're all trying to understand this new Fediverse thing. I understand that the underlying ActivityPub protocol is the same, but people tend to use these frontends quite differently. For example, I can't downvote a Lemmy post in Elk (the software I use to follow other people). I also anticipate Lemmy posts to be more "community-oriented" in the way information is surfaced (like Reddit), whereas Mastodon is more focused on following a person or organization (like Twitter). There's no wrong way to use the technology, but I do find the use cases helpful in organizing my expectations.

Here's another one I forgot to mention:

• https://mstdn.social/@noelreports

More info here: https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukrainian-armed-forces-to-receive-state-of-the-art-luna-ng-drone-system/

I'm just learning about distrobox.

I'm very excited for COSMIC, but I'll probably wait until 2024 before giving it a spin. Parts of it already look good, but it will take some time to give it the polish it needs for a good professional work environment experience.

OMG:

He disclosed that in December Ukrainian authorities had been on the brink of ordering the complete evacuation of Kyiv due to the intensity of Russian airstrikes. “Not many people know this, but Kyiv was on the verge of evacuation,” he said. “There was one battle that, in my opinion, determined the fate of Kyiv and the Russian campaign to destroy our energy sector, when 49 cruise missiles were launched at Kyiv.”

In a desperate 15 minutes on December 16, Ukraine fired dozens of missiles from its Soviet-era S-300, American Nasams and German Iris-T systems to save the city from total blackout in freezing temperatures.

Archived: https://archive.li/K6JdH

Note to anyone scratching their head: As far as I understand it, the Freedom of Russia Legion is a Ukrainian-supported group of Russian citizen-soldiers fighting against Putin in Russia. If anyone has more information, please feel free to add or correct me.

Marinating in "propaganda sauce"... lol, I'll have to remember that one.

My read of the Red Scare era (McCarthy) is that while what we want is accountability, what we get is a low-trust environment in which both good and bad people are thrown in to the shredder, to the benefit of mostly bad people who hold the fear cannons.