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That's not quite correct. There were also 'Latvian vikings', the Curonians. Latvia was also ruled by Sweden for centuries. There's not much difference there, apart from language. T…

I care very little what you do with this rather uncivil "doxxing" here, Mr. J.Č and certainly plan to take no action.

> No proper term in Latvian can be found in this example [by yours truly] FTFY.

The word for independence ("neatkarība") in Latvian is a calque from the German Abhängigkeit ‎("dependence")[1]. Thus, "atkarāties" and "karāties" ("to hang"). Thus, the English ex…

Calque of German abhängig ‎(“dependent”), coined at the end of the 19th century from atkār(t) ‎(“to hang down”) +‎ -īgs (with atkārt from at- +‎ kārt ‎(“to hang”)), together with t…

> Latvian for "independence" is "neatkarība" which itself is wrong pair, because "independence" means not being dependent, and therefore free, while Latvian word means more like "i…

I am talking about the general principle of translating a text with developed and precise terminology that is steeped in tradition for which no reference point exists in the langua…

I don't find it strange at all, it plays very well into the "divide and conquer" approach to ethnic politics that Russia has put to use both in the past and more recently in Georgi…

Indeed, there are so many words of French and German origins in the Russian language, that linguists have lost their count. This is to do with the Russian nobility, at different pe…

Why, thank you, I speak Russian fluently. It doesn't matter whether the text has been translated from Traditional Chinese or Sanskrit, the issue remains the same: Buddhist terminol…

Indeed, Latvian is a somewhat formalized version of Latgalian, so I'm not sure how that can be "truth worth discovery [sic]". If you haven't kept up with news back home, it might b…

> try to translate a piece of classic buddhist text to Latvian Here is a translation of a classic buddhist sūtra in Latvian: http://www.ugis.info/?t#sutra_ > You will simply have n…

As a native Latvian speaker, I have no idea what you're talking about. In comparison to other languages spoken on the European continent, Lithuanian and Latvian have retained more …

Vodafone's also actively pushing for "network management" (read, MITM) for HTTP/2. Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9422311

OpenBSD (+LibreSSL) folks have been uncomfortable with unpredictable compiler optimizations for quite a while too. Here's a previous discussion on compilers in OpenBSD: https://new…

MinimaLT http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/minimalt-20130522.pdf

It may be misleading but also in the sense that there's no recommendation to just drop VPN altogether. How about we just stop relying on terribly over-designed protocols such as VP…

- Tab sandboxing - No phoning home - In-built privacy protection

I would never have my private keys leave a smart card. I'd assume your PGP private key on hard drive, located in your home directory no less, is as good as compromised.

> Bash would have been more appropriate A script that is compatible with POSIX Bourne shell (/bin/sh) would be more appropriate. FreeBSD, for example, does not come pre-installed w…

That's wrong. NSAs new IDS also protects enterprises that the state considers to be "critical infrastructure", such as banks.

> I'll email you a list of my designs and essays on there Yes, please.

So, basically anyone providing online services to customers then? Who's threat model should not include intelligence agencies? Online pet shop?

There's no contest between physical vs. virtual isolation. Theo de Raadt and @thegrugq are right when they're saying you shouldn't put much trust in virtualisation-as-isolation mod…

It's a Russian newspaper-in-exile. It wasn't hard to find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meduza#Censorship