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I use Fedora on my workstation and somehow have trouble with packages. E.g., there is no OpenVPN 3, which I need for enterprise network. Huh, Fedora 39 doesn't even have it in EPEL. So sad.

Yeah.

The video author can enable a setting to analyze the comments. YouTube itself flags comments that it deems inappropriate. The author only chooses which videos to include this tweak and the level of strictness.

It is enabled by default.

Comments that may be spam, self-promotion, gibberish, and otherwise potentially inappropriate will automatically be held for review in YouTube Studio and will only be published if you approve them. If you want a higher level of protection for your channel, increasing strictness will increase the number of comments held for review.

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Wow. Does anyone share software from "the russian hacker" Valdik outside the RUNet? That's the first time I've seen it.

Clive Barker's Undying

True. Popular books being read by millions of people have no reviews. That's why I'm on the LibraryThing now.

100%!

I've read that tedium. Some chapters revealed something interesting, but everything else was empty. Why do I need to know what kind of wine the developers drank and in what pub after the bad news got announced to them?

This book's core issues are very important. The book itself sucks!

I fell in love with Tenorite.

I really enjoyed the game in many aspects, especially some of the mechanics and art style.

But I eventually dropped it. Two reasons:

• In many cases, success depends not on your skill, but on luck and random.
• It's a roguelike (roguelite).

Honestly, if they added some depth to the core mechanics and complexity that depends on skill rather than random events on the map and resource types, it would be one of my favorite games. As it is...

If we want to know where any form of society is on the political spectrum (left or right), we need to answer one question: what's the state role in society? The weaker the state, the more to the left on the spectrum. The stronger the state, the more to the right the formation is. In addition, we can also differentiate between formations by the economic form of society. These two points will give us an exhaustive answer.

Examples:

• Anarchism is no state and no economic formation. Hence, it's an ultra-leftist faction.
• Communism is no state and no commercial production. Hence, it's an ultra-leftist faction.
• Libertarianism is no state and free market. Hence, it's an ultra-leftist faction.
• Socialism is weak state and no commercial production. Hence, it's a left-wing faction.
• Conservatism is strongly state and monopoly/oligopoly market. Hence, it's a right-wing faction.
• Fascism is strongly state and state capitalism. Hence, it's an ultra-right faction.

There are occasional exceptions to these definitions. For instance, at the beginning of socialism there can be a strong state, that must then disappear. The USSR was like that, but it didn't get to complete socialism.

So liberalism is a centrist ideology. For some topics it's left of center, for some topics it's right of center.

Wow! This is the first time I've heard about Knaben Database, but it looks handy. Thanks a bunch for the recommendation.