UnreliantGiant

"A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false one." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man)

Basically I claim that X is true, and someone debunks my claim by saying Y is false, while Y is actually something I never said

Countries joining NATO want to join NATO. The majority of people in Ukraine want to join NATO. Russia is currently demonstrating to the world exactly why Ukraine wants to join NATO. Also Russia knows exactly NATO would never dare to attack Russia, just like NATO knows exactly Russia would never dare to attack them. Russia (Putin) is not scared about a NATO attack, he's scared he won't be able to insert a puppet government in Ukraine ever again. Let's not pretend it's about something else.

NATOs eastward expansion (in the past 30 years, not 60) is the product of those countries wanting to be in NATO. The Warsaw Pact was with the Soviet Union. Not sure if you noticed, but the Soviet Union does not exist anymore. Oops. I want to introduce my own whataboutism here: what about the Budapest Memorandum that Russia broke in 2014 by annexing Crimea?

Yes NATO did bad things and will do bad things in the future. This does not legitimize Russias invasion at all.

And sorry for being silent about things going on in the world years ago, I was too young to understand shit at the time. But anyway, when there's police fatally shooting hundreds of protesters, it's a sign the Maidan revolution was absolutely necessary.

Even Chinese state media (CGTN) is criticizing the invasion.

Maybe just changing the DNS Servers would be sufficient in this case. Alternatively you might be able to play the stream by the direct playlist link: https://rt-glb.rttv.com/live/rtnews/playlist_4500Kb.m3u8 (in a media player like VLC or mpv). If all fails a VPN or Tor might still work.

Watching this stream shows great examples of straw men and whataboutisms

I haven't tried it personally, but for content requests you can host Ombi. People can then request content through Ombi, which then instructs your *arr stack to get the content. It would basically be fully automated

I come from Germany and it's a mystery to me too. What I can tell you is that school is 100% not it. IT is heavily neglected in schools because there are barely any teachers who can use computers properly. School IT is also very Microsoft centric here. The closest thing to programming I had in school was writing VBA Macros in MS Excel, which didn't go beyond basic for loops. This was also in the last year of school and only for students who picked the technical/mathematical branch.

I heard from friends at other schools that they had better IT education, but still not great.

Yes but no. If you have your own server and all necessary bridges installed it would mostly work fine. The problem is this requires quite a bit of server hosting experience which most "normal" people don't have. Another option would be using bridges hosted by others, but this is problematic in my opinion because you share private information about your contacts with a third party without their consent or knowledge

Everyone talking about notes and reminders. Another aspect of organizing life (to me) is organizing all the documents I accumulate over the years. I run paperless-ng in my home network. Every physical letter I receive is immediately scanned and added to paperless, which then OCRs it for easy text search. It automatically tries to find out the date, who the correspondent is (you can set detection patterns or let it learn), and you can give tags to documents (which can also be auto-added by simple patterns or learning). After scanning a document I can put it in a binder (if it's worth keeping), and paperless stores the page number of it. When the binder is full, I use a new binder and continue the page count. I can find any document within seconds, no more searching through piles of paper for hours. Of course it also handles any digital documents I find important and it can also monitor E-Mail Accounts for attachments to automatically ingest. I believe everyone should use this or similar software

What I like about spaces is that they are not bound to a server, or bound to only rooms of a certain server. People collaborating from different servers can take part in all aspects of managing a space, and you don't need one server instance per space. The space stays functional even if the server it was created with disappears (assuming the space had admins from different servers too). Another advantage is that you don't need to do any kind of server hosting yourself to create a space (just use some public matrix instance), which makes it much more accessible. From what I understand Spaces are not that complex in the protocol, they're mostly just a special kind of room that describes the structure of the space. If they also manage to turn user profiles into a special kind of room, it would be possible to have a truly decentralized identity that is not bound to one single provider in any way.