I heard it is some Polish mix of folklore created with single purpose to fry brains of nazi invaders into overboiled spagetti.
Who know more about that?
Now talking some unspeakable last or first name can be a form of protest to bring a bit of revenge towards the state agencies employees and other members of repressive apparatus.
I have an idea for an image, which I could use as background for the site header or other decorative background for the blog. I thought about something like this:
cinematographic image of anthropomorphic cat who is a great taijiquan master, standing in the Single Whip stance in the middle of calm forest, surrounded by powerful energies and light of full moon shining in the sky.
And if possible, angle of view should be so that both the main character should be in the center of attention, while the full Moon should be visible, either directly, or as reflection in a river or lake, or even a big bowl, puddle, or other water in the scene.
Sadly I am lack the drawing of the skills, literally any of them.
You can say that I should use some image generator, e. g. Mistral. But I don’t want do so. I want an alive soul touch on the image.
It can be sketch, if it is possible to express the details of this scene this way, or photographic/cinematographic image.
But I don’t sure whether any alive master of drawing or digital imaging would be interested in doing something like that, or how much an artist would ask for this work.
According to Wikiquote Mikhail Gorbachev said this:
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. Look at the sun. If there is no sun, then we cannot exist. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
This is from: “Nature Is My God” – interview with Fred Matser in Resurgence No. 184 (September-October 1997)
But we must not be surprised and stay cautious before praising him for saying these words.
Because as a skilled member of Commmunist Party of Soviet Union, the single party allowed there most of USSR existence, Gorbachev have to get a big experience on saying not what he thinks, otherwise he would not become member of CPSU, and even its Secretary General, “top boss”.
So, even if Gorbachev said this, it does not mean he believed in this.
Tbilisi 1989. Baku 1990. Vilnius 1991. There are other moments of USSR collapse process when Gorbachev approved usage of brutal force against peaceful demonstrations or at least did not explicitly forbid it, what was enough to happen.
So either these words from quote have been said as part of empty PR trick, or he has quite twisted understanding of how Nature exists and “works”. The latter is quite possible, as for dictators it is common to see world as something as endless struggle, non-stop brutal violence and permanent fight for survival and nothing else.
Either you, either them. “Zero-sum game”. And all that bloody crap. Yes, that “You should strike first” (Бить надо первым) by said by putin, also from this direction of thought.
It is impossible to completely deny such component of nature, but making it so prominent of your worldview it ends up with multiple bloodbaths over and over – this eliminate the spirit and meaning of that quote being discussed.
Yes, Gorbachev said that trees are his temple. But to which god(s) Gorbachev prayed there? To some bloodthirsty one(s), for sure.
I will let know when auto-update flow will land fix on my server!
Thanks for your great work!
For now I write mostly about my overall experience of using WordPress and all these plugins for Fediverse blogging.
But hope I will get a chance to write on more interesting topics, which would mean I finally sorted out all issues or at least enough bugs fixed and improvements made to stop worry about the issues and start finally to write something.
The most annoying bug of Friends plugin (which generally speaking a great effort with quite promising features!) is the problem of non-standard display names threated as username. If some account, e. g. from Mastodon have display name have emojis as this one
DCoder 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦
Or wild combination of non-alphanumerics as this one:
D:\side\>:idle:
Or something else beyond latin alphanumerics, let it be Cyrillic letters in nickname, like this one:
РосКомСвобода
Even such innocent name like rogue_corq will result to the results describe below.
The result is awful – default behavior is to create virtual users with empty or non-usable usernames with e. g. -character. This makes such username and account unusable for links at Friends List left pane and they seems to break the Friends list (list of your friends page. The “break the page” means literal breaking of the page code at backend (an error email sent to me) and visual breaking of page markup with some broken div tag an and error message.
And as result you can’t rename or remove them to re-add them again later with better username. Single thing I can think about is to edit the database directly to fix such accounts.
Normally this should be a plugin issue report at GitHub for @alex-kirk , but I hope someone have a recipe, or plugin like “manual DB editing at admin UI” I could use right now?
I hope that eventually I will get used to this and will be able to fix broken data at my instance DB… And what is sad that I don’t have any PHP skills to apply a fix and write some test for it.
May be it is answered already few times but when using WordPress with ActivityPub, Friends, and few related extras, I don't get how exactly I would write post as private mention/direct message? How to send a direct message to someone with such setup? Yes I know I better use some dedicated software like Briar or SimpleX Chat for stuff like this, but what I want to sign up this setup to add someone behind bridgy fed? As I remember, this done by sending a direct mention to Bridgy Fed with a handle?
Well this is how I can use the not so elegant flow with Federated Reply widget but it somehow does not apply to the content from the Feed when I click “Reblog” from the Friends feed… May be it should be done automatically? (adding of Federated Reply block with URL pointing to the post I am replying to)?
May be it is answered already few times but when using WordPress with ActivityPub, Friends, and few related extras, I don’t get how exactly I would write post as private mention/direct message? How to send a direct message to someone with such setup? Yes I know I better use some dedicated software like Briar or SimpleX Chat for stuff like this, but what I want to sign up this setup to add someone behind bridgy fed? As I remember, this done by sending a direct mention to Bridgy Fed with a handle?
Russia’s key developer of Runet internet-blocking infrastructure, Rostelecom-controlled RDP Enterprise, plans to buy US- and Israel-made equipment for DPI systems used to filter traffic and enforce online censorship.
This is one of the most disgusting things in money-driven and profit-centric society. Just because you making and selling stuff suitable for 1-2 small legitimate niche, you will bump into the ceiling of niche limits as anyone who could buy your stuff already did so.
And what this means for shareholders and corporations? When it means you need sell Windows on the Moon, this is laughable.
But when it means you need to sell your crap to dictatorship, and you know it will bring suffering to people, there is NO any justifications to doing so. And no, you can’t pretend that you don’t know that your DPI-stuff will be used for enforcing the fucking censorship and to suppress even chance of emergence of any protest there.
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Quoting that original post below
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