capt_kafei

This guy sounds like a fucking tankie to me. From this article on his blog:

Additionally, Ottawa’s unnecessarily aggressive posture has stoked tensions with Russia. Despite knowing that NATO enlargement eastward and into Ukraine threatened Russia and risked a conflict, Canada promoted it. With 100,000 Russian troops amassed on the border, Canada’s then foreign minister Mélanie Joly went to Kyiv in mid-January 2022 reiterating that “We believe that Ukraine should be able to join NATO.”

Blaming the expansion of NATO for Russia's invasion of Ukraine is just parroting Kremlin propaganda. Countries in Eastern Europe want to join NATO due to the extremely justified threat of being attacked by Russia.

In 2014 Canada also backed the ousting of the democratically elected Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, who sought neutrality and good relations with both Europe and Russia. As Owen Schalk and I detail in Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy, Ottawa played a significant role in destabilizing Yanukovich and pushing him out. At the height of the anti-government Maidan protests, opposition forces, including the far-right C14, used the Canadian Embassy in Kyiv, which was immediately adjacent to Maidan square, as a staging ground for a week in their bid to topple Yanukovych.

It's called the Maidan Revolution, and it was the Ukrainian people exercising their collective power to prevent their country from falling back into Russia's orbit. I would recommend reading about the event from people who actually lived through it: EuroMaidan Revolution.

The coup spurred right wing violence, Russia’s intervention in Crimea and a war that left 14,000 dead in the east.

Calling the illegal invasion and occupation of Crimea "Russia’s intervention in Crimea" tells you everything you need to know about this guy. If he cannot call unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country what it is, then he is not fit to run the NDP or have any role in the Canadian government. Having a Kremlin bootlicker lead the NDP would be a complete embarrassment and would ensure their failure in the next election.

I encourage anyone who's interested to read about these events from the perspective of Ukrainians: The 2014 annexation of Crimea — How Russia stole Ukraine's peninsula

Finally! It's crazy that RADV has gone without AMD's official backing this entire time. This should have happened a long time ago.

I didn't know about that, thanks for sharing.

No fucking way I am clicking that URL.

I love Tentree's hoodies, they have great length compared to a lot of other brands that cut their hoodies too short for me. Folks probably aren't thinking about buying hoodies in July, but might as well get them while they're on sale.

Games in that era used mask ROM for the game data, so they don't lose state over time as quickly as NAND flash does without power.

I say "as quickly" because I'm sure mask ROM still degrades eventually, but I'm not sure how long it takes.

The batteries in Game Boy carts were for keeping the save data SRAM powered. If that battery dies you'll lose any data on the save RAM, but it doesn't affect the mask ROM.

What a horrible situation. I just sent RAPS a donation to help them deal with this - if you're financially able to, please send a few bucks their way. I adopted my current cat from RAPS, they are a great no-kill shelter and they need all the help they can get.

This sounds like great news, but why is this site asking me for a username and password?

Wow, this is an awesome move! We are honestly so lucky that Valve hasn't enshittified like so many other gaming companies out there.

Wait, really? I've found the new outlook opens emails faster than the old one, especially the HTML-heavy ones that my work loves to send me.

The refactor to the rules UI is really nice too, the old one was so crusty. Can't comment on the timezone issue though.

This is good news considering Russia's increasing hostility, but it's surprising that they don't even plan on starting construction until 2030. How does it take us so long to even get started on a defense project like this?

Damn, sad to hear. But, at least she'll live on through the lasting impact of her work on Star Trek. People will still be appreciating her art for (hopefully) many more decades to come!

RIP Jeri Taylor 🫡