Notices by Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)

@mario Bologna mi va benissimo! Verona diurno però costa meno ed è più semplice.

«Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine can take back Crimea only through diplomatic means. "We cannot spend dozens of, thousands of our people so that they perish for the sake of Crimea coming back … we understand that Crimea can be brought back diplomatically"».
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/21/ukraine-war-briefing-we-will-regain-crimea-through-diplomacy-not-force-says-zelenskyy

About time, even if he's just pandering to the orange one. For this #war to end, we'll need to hear a lot more diplomacy-boosting talk. Imagine if the USA had caused this change of heart a few years earlier.

@mario Ma passa da Verona, no?

Despite Slush, some 3 % of the hotels in central #Helsinki still have at least one room for tomorrow night under 200 €, according to one popular hotel booking service. All good then.

@bovine3dom Nice but no useful route either from Stockholm or to Milan. :(

@mario Sembra una bella scusa per tornare a Milano per la prima volta in qualche anno!

@douginamug Ah yes... probably a browser extension to open all links in tabs would help more. :)

@luis_in_brief If that were an objective, it would need to be a force equal and opposite to everything done so far. So for example, virality penalty: if a post of yours "goes viral", you're shadow-banned for a week. If a post has more likes/boosts than a certain threshold (percentage of the author's followers?), everyone trying to boost it needs to go through a confirmation dialog "uh, are you sure? perhaps this has already been seen enough?". Dunno, it sounds silly.

@cwebber Reminds me of the time when people ganged up on the admin of the instance hosting a CISA account.

@douginamug Is the "quick start guide" helpful? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Third-party_Wiki_Quick_Start

There's a category.py so if you have a list of titles to work with it most of the work is done. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/category.py

If you don't have a list of titles and you prefer a GUI with checkboxes, perhaps ReplaceText can do the job. You just need to be careful with regular expressions as it can be quite disruptive! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text

Time for Vivaldi to check their couch for 20 billion $ spare cash?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly

#Google #GoogleChrome #antitrust

@douginamug pywikibot? :P

Compare and contrast: narratives of civilian casualties in a #war.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240102005430/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/world/europe/ukraine-russia-putin-belgorod.html

Economic #war is expensive, it turns out.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-20/europe-racks-up-700-billion-energy-tab-as-fiscal-battle-rages

«Tank maker #Rheinmetall raises sales view, asks Berlin for firm orders».
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/tank-maker-rheinmetall-raises-sales-view-ukraine-war-boosts-demand-2023-01-24/

«Sales of #USA military equipment to foreign governments rose 49% to $205.6 billion in the latest fiscal year».
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-arms-exports-up-11-fiscal-2022-official-says-2023-01-25/

#Zeitenwende #war

Even the #ECB top brass now points out how convenient the #war sanctions have been for some: «Workers have so far borne the brunt of the "Putin tax", suffering a large loss of real income while, on balance, firms' mark-ups remained stable or even increased in some sectors».
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2023/html/ecb.sp230216~a297a41feb.en.html

Bloomberg News admits that sometimes to end a #war you need «some of the external powers that fed the conflict with money and arms [to switch to] talks to put a permanent end to the fighting». Now imagine if we realised this *before* having hundreds of thousands of civilians dead, millions of people displaced etc.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-05/syria-peace-talks-what-s-at-stake-for-assad-turkey-s-erdogan-russia-and-us

When we do #nuclear sharing, it's freedom. When the others do it, it's vassaldom.

Always priceless NYT.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230622124554/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/world/europe/belarus-russia-lukashenko.html

Unilateral "sanctions" make the #fossil fuel industry even more wasteful, while the well-connected privatize the formerly public profits: «about $11 billion is going into what might be called a delivery spread. Some of that will represent legitimate shipping costs, but almost all of it goes through anonymous traders or unknown shipping companies.»
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-06/oil-prices-how-russia-punched-an-11-billion-hole-in-west-s-sanctions-regime

#EnergyCrisis

Apparently the #war in Ukraine is a "win" for Biden. If this is winning, imagine losing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/us/politics/biden-immigration-ukraine.html