The Coordination Center for TLD RU confirms that it’s working on the “technical problem affecting the .RU zone associated with the global DNSSEC infrastructure,” and service should be restored “soon.” https://t.me/fontankaspb/51445
Following a Bloomberg report that Chinese state banks are stepping up due diligence on funding to Russian clients to avoid U.S. secondary sanctions, Putin’s spokesman says it’s all “very sensitive,” harrumph, no comment. https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/65a64feb9a794706152b90f1
State Duma deputy Alexander Khinstein doesn’t want anyone to forget what a good little anti-LGBT crusader he is, and so he’s filed a police report against a book publisher for selling a Ukrainian comic strip about pansexual pigeons. https://zona.media/news/2023/12/20/eksmo
Japan has expanded its sanctions against Russia for the invasion/occupation of Ukraine (designating 100 more companies and individuals) and announced a ban on the import of diamonds from Russia, effective on January 1, 2024. https://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/pressite_000001_00050.html
many of us are currently grieving over the loss of our dear meme where Death is playing a claw machine and always grabbing the wrong person. please be respectful in your comments and remember our fragile state of mind.
Russian officials doing their best to make it unethical even to set foot in Russia as a foreigner: Internal Affairs Ministry proposes mandatory ‘loyalty agreement’ for international visitors
when i read eastern europeans talking about nationalism and ethnicity, i sometimes get the same “huh?” feeling i do while reading the english-language translation of Three-Body Problem’s scientific exegeses
@FrohlichMarcel@jerry Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Bluesky system doesn't involve setting up and maintaining a separate instance so much as creating some kind of linkback to Bluesky? Or is there ongoing maintenance in both cases? If reporters could petition their IT people for a one-time setup vs ongoing labor, it would matter.