World of Warcraft font and quest mark! The Forsaken keep forgetting they’re not supposed to eat people.

Yeah, that checks out, I usually notice a 10-20 years “cultural” gap. Personal anecdote: watching The Sopranos in 2020s still felt like the topics in russian media and culture are just starting to catch up, before that no one really talked about depression as a disorder, and people taking ADs were seen as “crazy”.

I had a job developing software for datacenter machines’ hardware and software health. And the most common automatic repair that we had was escalating 1. reboot; 2. reinstall OS; 3. check hardware. I know it’s different but it was fun to see it “first-hand”.

And also, “to create Linux problems, be root” works as well.

I’m not so sure but I think back THEN there were less captivating PC games as well. My perspective is from the early 00s Russia, when you had to deal with pirated games, unbelievably slow Internet, funny videos shared between friends on CDs, going with a hard drive to a friend’s house just to share your music collection, etc. Basically, we had to know how to do this kind of stuff because the alternative was so expensive. Now with LLMs you don’t even have to “google” anymore, so there’s no need to know, for example, what a file extension is.

I think one of the reasons is that MacOS didn’t really have any games back then, so there was no reason for a kid to be glued to their computer. And if you use something for a long time, you collect problems and ways to solve them, getting the experience and some technical knowledge along the way.

Probably a spelling mistake from an English native speaker. Because of how the transliteration Zelenskiy (or Zelensky) is sometimes read.

dolboyobs

oh hai

Here’s for anyone looking for the actual video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stlj_OoVnmY

Just like elections and sociology in Russia! They are such a good couple!

I’m genuinely curious to see their metrics this autumn. It feels like so many old redditors came here!

Typical “product owner/manager” mentality to show percentages of engagement growth or whatever stupid KPI they came up with. And those shitheads are the most incompetent and the most high off AI. I just hope enshittification will be complete some day and everything will be brown and smelly (just like those Claude UIs).

I think Dugin gets too much credit, here’s a pretty good write-up from an outsider’s perspective. As a Russian, I think it’s one of the most accurate description of what’s been going on.

https://cscr.pk/explore/themes/politics-governance/aleksandr-dugin-and-russias-military-propaganda-machine/

Well, yeah, I agree that almost everything around us is either touched by or a product of capitalism. What I mean is that you can’t just say “everything is shit because it’s capitalism”.

it honestly feels like a psyop at this point. in russia there was a particular focus on making people “apolitical”, which is a different direction but still was focused on reducing opposition turnout.

Asking as a non-American, did it change anything for the good? I mean, were there any improvements in approved medical cases, or anything like that?

Yep, men are the only main characters. Everything else is just their possessions.

VK has its own infra in Mail.Ru datacenters. And because they’ve been serving the government in a larger extent (VK is basically your direct line to FSB), it’s pretty strange that Yandex was targeted instead.

Won’t help, they don’t really have an incentive to host their shit on Yandex anymore. Even if there was anything in the first place, I’ve yet to find a good proof of bot activity being disrupted during those bombings. Don’t get me wrong, it would be a very good story, but SWEs in Russia can be pretty competent.

Protest in cars! Block the roads, enjoy the music, grab some snacks.