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According to Vaganov, most of the accusations boil down to the idea that if a person disagrees with the current authorities, they must necessarily “want to overthrow the political system.”

Seems queer people have no other choice but to become the force that the government portrays them as. When a regime actively wants you dead, you must kill the regime before it kills you. Trying to play safe and apolitical may buy some time, but unless that time is spent organizing for power, not for tea parties, the results will be very sad.

I don't blame people for emigrating, but I hope they don't, and that they radicalize instead. They are much stronger than NGO heads and other politicians made them believe.

Does the title make some other генсек come to mind? I immediately thought either Brezhnev or Gorbachev, and the image that PieFed attaches next to the title confirmed it's Brezhnev.

What is more difficult to read in Scheme than in JS or C#, for example? I learned Scheme for fun, and I observe that programs in it that I wrote years ago are anecdotally easier for me to re-read and understand again than in other languages. It's verbose, like Java, but also more vertically concise, like Python. I like its indentation conventions, too. The bad part for me was a lack of TypeScript-powered LSP; one needs to keep much more type information in own memory to grasp a program.

Agreed that QR codes should be accompanied by text links for accessibility, because many times the scanning fails due to bad light, old camera or shaky hands.

Syncthing. I connect both devices to same Wi-Fi, copy a file to a shared directory, and wait a minute.

Depends on how they're organized. If they're accountable to their community, organized with as little hierarchy as possible, and have rotation of leadership while filling its roles from the members, they're good. But it's very rare. If the heads are appointed top-down by the government or self-selected, which is more common, there arise same issues as with companies.

NGOs advertising themselves as offering legal help to vulnerable people promise help and later do nothing but saying in the media how helpful they are, or refuse said help. Playing bureaucratic football when the person is question is member of multiple vulnerable groups: why you go here for help, go there. Other NGOs trying to take control of grassroots youth movements after offering to help with some resources. More NGOs serving as PR vehicles of their solo leaders while pretending to advance human rights. Names: Insight, KyivPride, LGBT Military, EcoAction, many of them tbh, because it's all the same "community".

Regarding government entities, there are constant attempts, for years, by state companies providing water, to write generated or fake values for previous month so that you can't report correct lower values and have to pay more. Do we consider police a government entity? Haven't helped a single time, but harassed more than once.

About Reddit, I haven't used it much and I can't say anything about it besides it not very interesting. Lemmy developers are notorious assholes when it comes to anything about my country, so I'm not trying to promote it. I use other fedi tech because I like it and contribute.

Nonprofits and government entities are just as happy to fuck you over, in my and relatives' experience.

If you live far from the workplace, you probably can't afford to relocate closer.

Basically you give it a directory with a few thousand randomly named meme images, and it asks a model to generate descriptions for each of them, that you can later search? Sounds useful.

Beautifully simple API.

YunoHost application is here: https://apps.yunohost.org/app/languagetool

Docs for installing LanguageTool manually are here: https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server - version 20260528 works on Debian 13 under WSL, needs openjdk-25-jre-headless and the --public option. The extension settings have a localhost option, I didn't have to change anything else.

Note that premium as of today costs $2.50 per month if you pay for two years in advance. Running LanguageTool on a laptop isn't very fast for languages other than English, so paying them for the cloud might provide a better experience than self-hosting.