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Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating

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  • The alternative is making Russia getting/keeping the territory a worse option than leaving Ukraine the hell alone. I agree that the unfortunate reality is that Putin will never - can never - give up the war willingly without concessions, but the flip side to that is they'll be back for more sooner or later. We have to make the war such a bad option for Russia that Putin is deposed, whether by his oligarchs or by the Russian people. It's a difficult fight, but it's one we've fought before on 3 fronts in WWII. The difference, this time, being nukes exist and that understandably makes a lot of people nervous - but again, expansionists never stop. The confrontation has to come at some point unless we want all-out war in Europe.

    I'm far removed from the situation, so my opinion isn't worth much on this part, but I think realistically maybe there could be some concessions around Crimea for a peace deal - sort of a status quo ante or similar - but Russia would have to make some concessions in turn for Ukraine to agree (NATO peacekeeping forces in Ukraine? Still a no-go for Putin though...). Ceding Ukranian territorial losses from the current war, though, will only put off the eventual confrontation, and hurt the West in the meantime.

    • Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating

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  • Giving away conquered territory in hopes of peace is called appeasement. Historically, it doesn't go well.

    • Protestation

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  • Isn't that just the current state of affairs?

    • Elon Musk’s DOGE website has been defaced because anyone can edit it

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency

    formerly known as the United States Digital Service

    See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_DOGE_Service

    • TIL the NSA created SELinux and various other FOSS projects

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  • A favorite of mine is Ghidra. Before they realeased+open souced it a few years back, the only option for real software reverse engineering (as in, for large and non-trivial programs, where you need more than just fancy disassembly) was IDA Pro, which is absurdly expensive if you're not sponsored or willing to pirate. Now, some of us kinda take for granted the fact that there's an open source world-class RE tool. And honestly, I even prefer it to IDA Pro - that's how good it is.