Some edutainment-acquired knowledge: Cold lasts about a week on average, if you take vitamin C and zinc that time supposedly is cut short by about half a day.
trompete
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IDK about untenable, this one especially looked like it should have held. This is a long and thin Russian salient, there was a fortification (and there are more around), and I remember the Russians got a bloody nose or two in that direction before the fall of Avdiivka. Just yesterday or two days ago, I thought there's no way Russia is going to push forward there, they'll want to secure their flanks first and be able to attack from multiple directions, but here we are.
War is a crucible of progress, and Ukraine needs the support necessary to give it the time to innovate.
That guy is doing some ai drone business/grift. Of course he wants the war to go on. He gets attention, funding, human test subjects. Writing these articles is like a free advertising for him.
Indirectly? Yes. Directly, as in people get checks from US govt? No.
There is/was this talking point, particularly around the time of the US government shutdown threat, that the US would be paying Ukrainian salaries (while US govt employees don't get a paycheck), but I'm pretty sure they just mean that some US taxpayer money goes to the Ukrainian govt, and Ukraine pays out salaries at the same time, so you could sort of say that some of the money ends up as paychecks for Ukrainian officials. They'd be paid in local currency and not US dollars though (except maybe foreigners?).
It slows Russia's advance insofar as Ukraine cannot pay anyone's salaries without inducing hyperinflation if they don't get a steady flow of dollars. It would be real difficult for the government in Kiev to order people around without paying them.
Zeit.de frontpage ("centrist" "quality" media, i.e. right-wing rag), first four stories, in the same order as they appear at this moment:
- Habeck in Ukraine: Remains devoted [to Ukraine] (pic: Habeck with a group of ~~Wehrmacht~~ Bundeswehr soldiers at the eastern front)
- Baerbock wants to "scrape together" air defense for Ukraine (pic: Baerbock in front of "G7 Italia" sign)
- Russian Agents: CDU MPs demand strengthening of counter-espionage (pic: ~~Organisation Gehlen~~ BND headquarters)
- Scholz urges more air defense for Ukraine (pic: Scholz in front of a tank)
Running Flash was right pain in the ass on Linux. The free flash alternatives didn't work right. So proprietary Flash it is. OK I know how to copy libflashplayer.so into the right folder. At the end of Flash's live the only way to get the new libpepperflash.so was to download Chrome. It was not distributed anywhere else. 
Oh what's that? The performance on Linux sucks? Somehow my perfectly average laptop can only show me a slideshow instead of a flash game, even though that game presumably ran perfectly fine on most Windows PCs 10 years ago? I guess I'll play emulated SNES roms instead.
Oh yeah that thing should be way faster.
Traffic shaping eats up CPU, maybe your router's CPU wasn't fast enough for this? Apparently mine has a dual-core 880 MHz MIPS.
Just to illustrate: When a download clogs up my pipes, it adds ~50 ms of latency to every packet (which, because of multiple rounds of back-and-forth, can actually end up as seconds when loading a website). When limiting my bandwidth to ~85% speed, that extra latency is between 0 and 1 ms.
I have a cudy (which came with an openwrt derived firmware) that cost about 30 € and has enough CPU to do this SQM traffic shaping (at 100 Mbit/s), but I had to buy a modem separately. I could have (ab)used my ISPs router as a quasi-modem, but the firmware had a bug that prevented IPv6 from working correctly when daisy-chaining routers, which would have actually been fixed by an update if my ISP had allowed me to actually update the firmware myself. So another 40 € for a modem.
If you want to buy an OpenWrt-capable router, my advice is to go to Amazon (or whatever) and check for OpenWrt compatibility in the reviews and then double-check on openwrt.org. Models that are available change all the time, and differ by region, so I cannot recommend any specific product.
Maybe you're going to a different server from different locations, and the one near you happens to not work right.
When I
traceroutethat, it goes to a server (calling itself myshopify.com) that seems directly connected to my local ISP's network and must be quite close to me, same city probably.Also looks like wlmouse.com is made with and hosted by Shopify, which is a Canadian company.