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> The promise of NATO membership in 2008 No, that was a polite "no" without any timeline, and was widely criticised as such at the time, and nowadays widely called a mistake, inclu…

> It is not "greatest hits", it is simply a view much closer to truth than the western (US) version of events. No, it is the political equivalent of Viagra-advertising copypastas t…

This greatests hits compilation of a Russian troll factory has become awfully stale.

> Doing all of the piracy stuff with VPNs and navigating torrent sites and getting a setup where you can play files on your TV is an order of magnitude more work. It's not 2003 any…

Ask HN: Is every headline just a Betteridge headline now? We analyzed 10M articles and found most questions don't need answers I built a classifier that tells you if a headline end…

> Then Ukraine chose to abruptly end the talks following the intervention of the West, allegedly Boris John in particular. Didn't happen. You keep repeating a misquoted soundbite f…

> They seem utterly bewildered by the fact Ukraine is even attacking Russia at all, it doesn't seem to make any sense to them. There was a recent comment chain on HN that showcased…

Announcement: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr2607... Public survey: https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/

> Things were accelerating rapidly on the Ukraine-NATO front. They weren't. Ukraine is still nowhere near getting a membership action plan, which is the formal start of membership …

No, that's just an impotent power fantasy. Even among the hardcore nationalist crowd (the so-called "Z-society"), support for the use of nuclear weapons remains a fringe position, …

1. Wanted in 2008, did not get an invitation, and that was the end of it. Russia invaded in 2014 because of deepening Ukraine-EU trade ties. 2. Most of Eastern Europe has been in N…

> Why do you see that institute as the authority on the secession of Donetsk and Lugansk? It is one of the most respected courts on the planet, and the verdict is long and detailed…

> With Donetsk and Lugansk, Russia did not annex; those areas seceded from Ukraine, declared independence and fought a protracted war against the Ukrainian Army for some years. The…

> Russia shouldn’t tolerate NATO troops stationed on one of its longest land borders. There weren't any anywhere in Eastern Europe before Russia invaded Ukraine.

> NATO is certainly participating: > * It supplies most ammunition and arms and much of the equipment. NATO is a coordination office. Its purpose is to provide the higher levels of…

Rechargeable batteries have become very good and very cheap. IKEA sells 4xAA batteries for 8€, made in Japan, last 500-1000 cycles. Many "non-user-serviceable" devices actually hav…

"The Great Patriotic War" is a propagandistic term that selectively frames the war as something that happened between 1941 and 1945, to obscure USSR's role in the first few years o…

What a load of nonsense. When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the citizens of the USSR had to choose their future. If they were in countries that declared independence from the USSR as…

> And Estonian patriots enthusiastically helped[0] German Nazis make Estonia the first judenfrei (free of Jews) country if you don't count Luxembourg.[1] They famously didn't. The …

It is not about the longevity of the medium, but control and preservation. If something is on a disk and can be played or viewed without requiring a revokable permission, then you …

Steam is an exception. It's privately-owned and reasonably well-managed. In another 20 years, private equity might very well take it over and give it a customary milking. You have …

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Thank you! That was not available the last time I checked.

Does Immich support read-only source folders yet? I'd like to keep the original files intact, but allow Immich to index them.