Gmail and other consumer services have deliberately dumbed down e-mail experience. No proper quoting, threads by default (instead of single one by one emails), hidden text, subjects. Consumers were not educated to clean unneeded chunks, instead they're just responding above the fold, creating a mess of a read. I still can't stand long unedited emails, recalling old years of FidoNet and GoldEd mail editor - how clean and neat it was, when every Kb was counted! Still cleaning all my in/out emails and hate to text-encode large attachments.
Ukraine - as how it wants to exist in the present: West-oriented and with Ukrainian-speaking population - can exist without these parts Russia demands. Those parts were Russia oriented in the first place. There is no reason to forcefully conscript those unwilling to fight and send them to die for no reason. This war shouldn't be lasting that long. "Threat to it's very existence" is a lie, Ukraine will be smaller, but it could have much stronger identity. The risk of losing more land to Russia is much higher than keeping pushing up this false ideology about "existence risk". Why there is still no referendum about Crimea, which Zelenskiy promised, if elected? He has drastically changed the course for some reason and many Ukrainians oppose this suicidal fighting for nothing. There is minerals deal already - time to stop and negotiate some better terms, instead of blank refusing them.
PS: I think I recalled Dennis' nickname.. Y0nkie :) dude, hope you will get out of this safe and sound. I know it's not your war, as neither it would have been mine, should I have stayed in Ukraine..
Damn.. even though we were both on the same reverse-engineering/cracking scene back in the '90s, but I can't immediately recall his scene nickname -- his full name has immediately slammed me back. Were we all the same gang - whether from .ua or from .ru, hanging on IRCs, chatting in English and Russian (almost nobody spoke Ukrainian online back then), although Dennis was from a Russian-speaking part of UA.. I see his blog is still predominantly in Russian (with ENG translation), it is so damn pathetic that Ukrainians are being suppressed into ukrainization and fighting for a cause many do not side with - four oblasts which Russia demands should be given to them to stop the war. It's unpopular opinion, but people in Ukraine do not want to die and fight for being "pro-Europe". It is simply not worth it. As a Ukrainian who emigrated decades ago, I am asking everyone to push Zelenskiy towards being more accommodating to Russian demands, give them their f*cking four oblasts and the Crimea, but stop the war! It can't be won.
I'd like to hope that Dennis could get away from serving or use his tech skills in drone teams or whatever.. but how many other talented people are being taken to the front lines against their own will and against their cause?! :(
If everybody followed your line of reasoning, not only Ukraine but half of Europe would be Russian already. Remember Putin's initial demand before the invasion was a full reset to the 90s. It was only because of Ukraine's dramatic fight that he scaled his demands temporarily.
Also, this logic doesn't work, because if it worked, he should already be satisfied by the annexation of Crimea in 2014. But he didn't, and this "success" made him even more hungry. It took time for everyone to understand this.
I don't buy this nonsense about Putin having ambitions beyond Right-Bank Ukraine. Putin didn't expect such resistance, and he understands now that Ukraine won't allow itself to become entirely Russian. Western Ukraine is not a match for Russia ideologically or historically, and since the war began, Central Ukraine has become much more radical in its stance toward everything Russian. He now realizes that Eastern Ukraine is the only area where Russia can be tolerated , if ceded to Russia.
And please -- anyone who talks about European ambitions is either naive or deliberately spreading propaganda.
> I don't buy this nonsense about Putin having ambitions beyond Right-Bank Ukraine.
It would be wonderful if it was true. Unfortunately the facts are different: he started a full-scale invasion planning to capture Kiev first and take over all Ukraine. He explained it very clearly here:
In short, in his opinion Ukraine is not a real country and shouldn't exist, and he doesn't want to "leave this problem to future generations". Which is his typical language because already assumes that well-developed Ukraine is a threat to Russia, and that future generations will share his view on this.
And what would be with the people who live in those regions? Who would house them, if they decide to move to Ukrainian controlled territory? What would be with the people who would be persecuted by Russians?
What do you know about what people in Ukraine want? Who gave you the right to speak from Ukrainians position?
You don’t live in Ukraine, you are not a Ukrainian, you are just “from Ukraine”.
The regions are largely already occupied. Are you aware of how many refugees have already left for Ukraine? They are not coming back to those territories unless they are liberated. A lot of pro-Russian refugees left for Russia. Any non-conscripts left for Europe.
I know what my relatives in Ukraine want -- they want to stop the war without it progressing further and without the conscription of 18 year olds. Zelenskiy should have held a referendum on Crimea years ago -- he promised it before getting elected. They purposely want to avoid this because most Ukrainians would vote to cede Crimea to end the war. This could have been used as a strong negotiating chip with Russia. Ukraine could have negotiated the return of some of the already occupied territories in exchange for accepting the loss of Crimea. But it's not happening! And nobody is allowed to talk about this -- not even hint at it! I ask my numerous Ukrainian contacts privately, and they all agree: cede Crimea, at least to end the war.
It is quite obvious that Ukraine cannot win a war of attrition, and the longer this drags on, the more devastated Ukraine will be when the war ends. The amount of damage to the economy, infrastructure, agriculture, housing, etc., is already beyond recovery. Have you seen how much the World Bank expects Ukraine will need to rebuild? More than half a trillion USD -- that's today's figure.
So yeah, you can continue the demagoguery about "who gave you the right" or "what if, what then" -- but Ukraine needs concrete steps and the acceptance that it will have to lose something in order to secure its further independence and, hopefully, future prosperity.
PS: But if you think losing millions of lives, losing bright minds who don't want to have to do anything with this war, is more important than ceding some pro-russian oblasts - go on the frontlines and fight for this flawed ideology.
PPS: I checked your posting history on HN and you seem to have joined 3 months ago to support Ukrainian-government's official narrative. I would have saved my time responding to you, should I checked it earlier.
The regions are already largely occupied by —- that is not true. Zaporizhzha and Kherson cities where most population lives are under Ukrainian control. There is a significant population in Kramatorsk-Slavyansk.
Second, Russia demands ceding all of Zaporizhzha, Kherson and Donetsk region to Russian control. Ukraine already agreed to unconditional ceasefire, Russia wants 3 regions with millions of people.
Any non-conscripts left to Europe - that is not true, there are many kids, elderly and women in Ukraine, including the South and the East.
Referendum for status of Crimea was never on Zelensky ballot.
« – Крим повернеться лише тоді, коли у Росії зміниться влада. Іншого виходу у мене немає, – наголосив Зеленський.» nothing about ceding anything.
Nor it was sole Russian demand at any point. So that’s a nice rhetorical device here, but ceding or not ceding Crimea has no relation to the war’s end
About whether Ukraine can or cannot win the war, I don’t have a magical crystal ball and neither do you. Soviet Union lost to Finland, Russia to Chechen insurgents, the disparity was much bigger.
In reality, Ukraine gave away Crimea in 2014 “to prevent war”, it worked out nicely, yeah?
Another point, Kherson and Zaporizhzha consistently, even before 2022, voted for pro-EU parties, in two parliamentary and two presidential elections.
What is also interesting, is that in your messages there was not a single mention of Russia’s responsibility for the war. It is treated like some sort of a tornado. Zelensky this, Zelensky that. Doesn’t Russia have some sort of agency, no? Isn’t it a bit conspicuous for a Ukrainian, no?
About losing something to gain something, Ukraine already lost a lot in 2014-2015, yet that did not lead to any gains. There is no equilibrium here.
Pps: I think your time is not of the utmost value.
Its pure Danegeld, you give bully one finger he cuts off your arm. putin himself is quite clear about goal being going back to at least pre 1989 borders.
If Ukraine would agree to what you were manipulated into believing Dennis Yurichev would be drafted into russian army and forced to storm Lithuania.
I just can't stand email OTP.
Before we had passwords, now we have passwords + email OTP. And doesn't matter if you forgot password - you will receive password reset to the same email. You already prove email ownership by resetting or using password - why sending another useless "security token" to the same email. Pure nonsense. Whoever designs all of this clearly has little idea of what they are doing :(
I’ve kind of become a fan of the sites that don’t even have passwords but just email you a “magic” link. If my account security is tied to my email why make me do extra song and dance if I’m gonna have to fish out an email for every login anyway?
I despise this. With username and password my password manager just fills it in and it is one click to click "login".
With email magic link I need to enter my email (it seems to rarely auto-fill for some reason), then wait (often it takes 10s for the email to be sent for some reason), then if I was logging in on something that isn't my default browser I need to copy+paste the link (often just clicking the link authorizes the source session but not always and you don't know what this site does so you need to do it to be safe). Now you are finally logged in but probably have two tabs open. Either you need to find the first one to continue your session (if it logged that one in) or close it and lose your history for that tab (and hope that the website actually maintained your target page which more often than not it didn't).
Nothing tempts me so strongly to give up and leave a site than needing to use a magic link to get in.
Sometimes it takes minutes. I have, on more than one occasion, given up on buying a product because of this. It's actually insane to me how much effort sites put into preventing users from using them.
I get it, most people are idiots with completely non-existent security hygiene, but man does it suck being punished because of just how low the common denominator is here.
That's true. Although pasting the code into the existing browser tab is a bit smoother in my workflow. And at least the form autofills properly when they ask for email and password.
I'd much prefer if they could just trust my password. But I know the unfortunate truth is that the majory of people just reuse a password across most sites. So these measures are intended to raise the baseline difficulty, not to improve the security of those with good habits.
My preferred workflow as well, but now many websites are starting to do this thing where you have to enter only your username, hit next, and then the password input shows up; however, the username only input breaks my password manager from trying to autofill! Argh
HomeDepot’s is even crazier. You input just your email and hit Next. Then a button appears to “Send magic link” to login via that annoying method. And then there is a tiny text below: “Want to use a different login method? Wait 10s…9s…8s…”. Only after 10s are you able to select a tiny text link “Use Password” to unlock using the password field
Google has been doing this for years, if not over a decade at this point. Password managers have gotten wise about it though, so for some websites it actually works.
The biggest pet peeve of mine in this area is "magic link" auth. Instead of letting you use a password and otp, which can be managed by a password manager, they send you an email so you can click a link to get into their app
That's right, you have to wait for an email to arrive, make it through the spam gauntlet, and then click the link in the email, likely covered in trackers, just to get into a website or app. And here I thought people wanted to keep you in their site as much as possible
Note that by doing it that way they don't have to have a special case for handling input of username/password when that password is a new password. Making security critical code simpler is generally a good idea.
Whether it is worth annoying some users in the password reset case to avoid making the login code slightly more complicated is going to depend on your specific situation.
Email OTP can be useful as a layer in risk based authentication.
If someone tries to log on to your site from a low reputation VPN, throwing an email OTP challenge can give some assurance it’s a genuine user logging in. Rather than a spammer or something like that.
Yes, it makes sense if the environment has changed, the device has changed, or if the person is logging in from a higher threat source such as a VPN IP address. However, if nothing changed, it is a waste of time in many cases.
UX/UI is steadily going downhill on everything where it was "re-designed". I feel new generation wants to re-imagine everything, at a cost of usability.
And vitalik.eth was just essaying on how important privacy protocols are and how Ethereum must adopt them... Let EU ban ETH then and shift closer to the caveman era and be even more laughing stock for the (expectedly) more crypto-friendly US.
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