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cinci zoo sniper posted:Imports replacement is cool strategy and all, but this may turn out to be quite silly: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50507849 I expect Yandex.Maps or Yandex.Music to be pre-installed on all devices by retailers, and that would be the extent of it. Just like with Russia's ban of Telegram, I can't imagine it being effectively enforced in any capacity. Maybe they'll try to collect fines from Apple and Samsung once in a while.
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Paladinus posted:I expect Yandex.Maps or Yandex.Music to be pre-installed on all devices by retailers, and that would be the extent of it. Just like with Russia's ban of Telegram, I can't imagine it being effectively enforced in any capacity. Maybe they'll try to collect fines from Apple and Samsung once in a while. Don’t forget that Orthodox Instagram thing from 2014.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Don’t forget that Orthodox Instagram thing from 2014. Ha-ha, what now? Those Russian patriotic social networks keep popping up so often, I don't even know all of them anymore.
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Paladinus posted:I expect Yandex.Maps or Yandex.Music to be pre-installed on all devices by retailers, and that would be the extent of it. Just like with Russia's ban of Telegram, I can't imagine it being effectively enforced in any capacity. Maybe they'll try to collect fines from Apple and Samsung once in a while.
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Paladinus posted:Ha-ha, what now? Those Russian patriotic social networks keep popping up so often, I don't even know all of them anymore. There were a few, Rublev.com was one and another one was Елицы, probably a few more that I missed since they were all popping up around the Ukraine fervour like mushrooms after rain.
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Hi Eastern Europe thread. I hate these threads, and I hate the vast majority of people who post in them. Albania got hit by an earthquake, there's half a dozen dead and over three hundred injured, some people still trapped in ruble, and heavy material damage. If you can keep an eye on things an send them some money to help the recovery efforts if you see the chance, I'd hate you a tiny bit less. Bye Eastern Europe thread. my dad fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Nov 26, 2019 |
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my dad posted:Hi Eastern Europe thread. I hate these threads, and I hate the vast majority of people who post in them. You could've researched donation options and posted them here, instead of making this bizarre attack on the thread.
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Anne Frank Funk posted:I can't imagine Apple agreeing to preinstalling 3rd party software on their devices. I don't think there's precedent even in dictatorships. They did just agree to show Crimea as part of Russia I'm their lovely maps so maybe they'll roll over on this too my dad posted:Hi Eastern Europe thread. I hate these threads, and I hate the vast majority of people who post in them.
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mobby_6kl posted:They did just agree to show Crimea as part of Russia I'm their lovely maps so maybe they'll roll over on this too Google's been doing this for various "disputed" territories since forever but they are smart and show particular versions of their maps depending on where you're accessing them from.
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Google's been doing this for various "disputed" territories since forever but they are smart and show particular versions of their maps depending on where you're accessing them from. that's sort of apple did here. if i'm not mistaken, crimea is countryless when viewed outside russia.
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Rinkles posted:that's sort of apple did here. if i'm not mistaken, crimea is countryless when viewed outside russia. Yeah for me in Latvia Apple Maps does nowhere actually say that Crimea is in Ukraine - it just exists there with no clear border lines or country attribution.
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Courageous move.
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Courageous move. Yep. They've also altered search so that if I search some street in Simferopol by street name only then it won't appear in the suggested locations. Have to type Something street, Simferopol to get the result.
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At some point the space required for special handling rules to appease various entities will probably overtake and exceed the space required by the search index itself.
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It must drive the developers nuts too, they come up with a clean elegant algorithm that works globally but then need to hack in ugly workarounds to appease the snowflakes
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mobby_6kl posted:It must drive the developers nuts too, they come up with a clean elegant algorithm that works globally but then need to hack in ugly workarounds to appease the snowflakes nothing about maps involves clean algorithms that work globally
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Yep, surprisingly enough "where are we" and "what time is it" is quite complex in computing, since real life has irregularities (and software often is quite bad or has baked in developer-centric assumptions).
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Doctor Malaver posted:You could've researched donation options and posted them here, instead of making this bizarre attack on the thread. That would take effort they cannot spare in-between hating this thread and doing ??
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Xarn posted:That would take effort they cannot spare in-between hating this thread and doing ?? Hating one of the three or four China threads most probably.
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https://twitter.com/TatAtfender/sta...ingawful.com%2F https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/s...ingawful.com%2F Oh boy are Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic countries not going to be happy.
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The gently caress?? (And yes, as someone whose birth country borders both of those, this does not make me happy at all.) ETA: hahaha it's kinda funny to think that the two places I've split my life between and have ties to are now defined by Brexit on one side and Russia-Belarus bromance on the other, talk about a rock and a hard place. ETAA: i guess i also have family in Florida. Clearly an option that trumps the others. Perhaps a hamster fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Nov 30, 2019 |
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MARIUPOL IS GONE HOLY loving poo poo 3 years of spouting this prediction. Hate to see it.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:MARIUPOL IS GONE HOLY loving poo poo 3 years of spouting this prediction. Hate to see it. How is it 'gone', exactly?
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Weren't there rumors about the Belarus thing for ages now? Putin and Lukashenka can dock or do whatever the hell they want though. Now the DPR poo poo is way more concerning wtf.
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mobby_6kl posted:Weren't there rumors about the Belarus thing for ages now? Putin and Lukashenka can dock or do whatever the hell they want though. Now the DPR poo poo is way more concerning wtf. Lukashenko is constantly going back and forth on deeper integration with Russia. He's clearly planning something ahead of the 2020 presidential elections, but it's hard to say what exactly. According to various polls, while the majority of Belarusians see Russia as an important strategic partner and in general as a brotherly nation, becoming part of Russia is not something they are enthusiastic about. And the trend after Ukrainian events is that support of Russia is slowly getting lower. Maybe Lukashenko prepares for a dramatic 180 to show himself as the defender of Belarusian independence. The man is an enigma.
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The only thing preventing a complete integration between Belarus and Russia is that Lukashenka has enough work on his plate just governing Belarus.
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Paladinus posted:Lukashenko is constantly going back and forth on deeper integration with Russia. He's clearly planning something ahead of the 2020 presidential elections, but it's hard to say what exactly. According to various polls, while the majority of Belarusians see Russia as an important strategic partner and in general as a brotherly nation, becoming part of Russia is not something they are enthusiastic about. And the trend after Ukrainian events is that support of Russia is slowly getting lower. Maybe Lukashenko prepares for a dramatic 180 to show himself as the defender of Belarusian independence. The man is an enigma. An enigma who made himself eternal president and despite the complaints everyone is fine with that. I know there is no real opposition to him, but don't people get bored after a while?
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Paladinus posted:Lukashenko is constantly going back and forth on deeper integration with Russia. [...] The man is an enigma. IMO, the explanation is simple. Back: wanna keep his personal power over Belarus, instead of giving it away to Putin Forth: fully aware he can't stand up to Putin and will lose more if he's an obstacle to Vova's plans
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Plus lateral movement of EU being a close and rich entity, managing which amicably is in economical interests of Belarus.
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Rust Martialis posted:How is it 'gone', exactly? Sorry maybe gone is an over estimate. Little drunk last night when i was reading these articles.
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Rust Martialis posted:How is it 'gone', exactly? War Crime Gigolo is a guy who talks about international affairs like a 13 year old talking about Dragonball Z theories.
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More Russian shenanigans around MH17. Back in July it was revealed the Ukrainian SBU had kidnapped separatist Vladimir Tsemakh from Eastern Ukraine. A Ukrainian citizen, Tsemakh was believed to have been involved with hiding the Buk missile launcher that shot down MH17, and the Dutch had hoped to extradite him as a witness for the March 2020 court cases in The Netherlands. Except, in September 2019 he was released by a Ukrainian court at the same time as a Russian prisoner swap with the Ukrainians, and immediately left for Russia. Even though he's a Ukrainian citizen, his release was believed to be part of that same prisoner swap deal. However, as a Ukrainian citizen in Russia, he could still legally be extradited by Russia to The Netherlands, so the Dutch made that request. The Dutch public prosecution service just published details of what happened next:quote:Today the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has informed the Russian authorities of its findings regarding the Dutch request for the provisional arrest of a person who may have been involved in the downing of flight MH17. My highlighting in the text, but this just adds to the pile of Russia acting as guilty as possible in relation to MH17. Brown Moses fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Dec 2, 2019 |
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Brown Moses posted:More Russian shenanigans around MH17. Back in July it was revealed the Ukrainian SBU had kidnapped separatist Vladimir Tsemakh from Eastern Ukraine. A Ukrainian citizen, Tsemakh was believed to have been involved with hiding the Buk missile launcher that shot down MH17, and the Dutch had hoped to extradite him as a witness for the March 2020 court cases in The Netherlands. Except, in September 2019 he was released by a Ukrainian court at the same time as a Russian prisoner swap with the Ukrainians, and immediately left for Russia. Even though he's a Ukrainian citizen, his release was believed to be part of that same prisoner swap deal. However, as a Ukrainian citizen in Russia, he could still legally be extradited by Russia to The Netherlands, so the Dutch made that request. The Dutch public prosecution service [ur=https://www.om.nl/actueel/nieuwsberichten/@107214/press-release/]just published details of what happened next[/url]: 'According to media reports Mr Tsemakh had already returned to his residence in Eastern Ukraine. From there he cannot be extradited.' Does this part mean he's back in LDNR or in some unoccupied part of Eastern Ukraine? Paladinus fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Dec 2, 2019 |
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Paladinus posted:'According to media reports Mr Tsemakh had already returned to his residence in Eastern Ukraine. From there he cannot be extradited.' It would be the L/DNR, my understanding is that the Dutch could also request Ukraine extradite him from territories they control if he wasn't in separatist controlled areas.
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Brown Moses posted:It would be the L/DNR, my understanding is that the Dutch could also request Ukraine extradite him from territories they control if he wasn't in separatist controlled areas. Okay, that makes sense, I guess. But is there anything preventing SBU from detaining him again from the legal perspective? I suspect if he wasn't welcome in Russia, he might want to try to leave L/DNR soon, too.
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Paladinus posted:Okay, that makes sense, I guess. But is there anything preventing SBU from detaining him again from the legal perspective? I suspect if he wasn't welcome in Russia, he might want to try to leave L/DNR soon, too. I think the SBU might not have another go as they lost a man in the last attempt, and it just ended up with the government handing him over to Russia. We'll see if we can get an interview with someone from the Dutch public prosecutors office for the update episode of the MH17 podcast we'll be recording soonish.
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We've just published a new piece revealing the true identity of another Russian agent, this time the identity of the Berlin assassin who killed Zelimkhan Khangoshvili earlier this year: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/12/03/identifying-the-berlin-bicycle-assassin-part-1-from-moscow-to-berlin/ Bit different from usual, instead of it being a GRU agent we're exposing the identity of, this time around it's a murderer who killed a Russian businessman in 2013, who was subject to an Interpol red notice that was withdrawn in 2015. It appears the Russian authorities arrested him, then started using him for their own dirty work, eventually purging records of his real identity and earlier arrest from their systems and issuing him with a fake identity. Unfortunately for Russia, a lot of their databases with information of their citizens have been leaked over the last several years, and his records are still on there, but on the live Russian systems they've been removed, something that could only be done with state level interference.
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German Generalbundesanwalt, I think that's the chief federal prosecutor or something in english? is expected to take over the case. Curious to see how this goes, Merkel has been phoning it in lately and no political party is interested in making a mess over this either. Minimal disturbance is the safe guess.
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