The newsgroup has gone ominously silent
It's not my end; I've checked "alt.test"

I wonder is it something to do with

-No more Linux problems (a miracle has occurred)

-Covid

-Putin

-something else

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faeychild
Running plasmashell 5.20.4 on 5.15.23-desktop-1.mga8 kernel.
Mageia release 8 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-8-x86_64-DVD.iso

On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:43:12 -0500, faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> The newsgroup has gone ominously silent
> It's not my end; I've checked "alt.test"
> I wonder is it something to do with
> -No more Linux problems (a miracle has occurred)
> -Covid
> -Putin
> -something else

Likely Putin. I've kept up doing things like adding advisories to svn, and reading
the mailing lists, but have been spending quite a bit of time following the invasion
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60542877

Regards, Dave Hodgins

On 1/3/22 10:36, David W. Hodgins wrote:

> Likely Putin. I've kept up doing things like adding advisories to svn,
> and reading
> the mailing lists, but have been spending quite a bit of time following
> the invasion
> https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60542877
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins

I wondered if it is not a good time to invade anyone in Europe
temperatures in Ukraine are hovering around zero.

It least the mud stays frozen and maybe Putin wont be repeating the Nazi
invasion of Russia. That would be poetic

I am currently embroiled with Handbrake re-enabled "autocrop"
I only discovered this after processing several hours of TV stream.
It pales into insignificance against the Ukraine disaster, though

regards

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faeychild
Running plasmashell 5.20.4 on 5.15.23-desktop-1.mga8 kernel.
Mageia release 8 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-8-x86_64-DVD.iso

faeychild wrote on 1/3/22 1:06 pm:
> On 1/3/22 10:36, David W. Hodgins wrote:
>
>> Likely Putin. I've kept up doing things like adding advisories to
>> svn, and reading the mailing lists, but have been spending quite a
>> bit of time following the invasion
>> https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60542877
>>
>> Regards, Dave Hodgins
>
>
> I wondered if it is not a good time to invade anyone in Europe
> temperatures in Ukraine are hovering around zero.
>
> It least the mud stays frozen and maybe Putin wont be repeating the
> Nazi invasion of Russia. That would be poetic

I had wondered about his timing, myself!!

At least he waited until after the Winter Olympics!! ;-P
--
Daniel

On 1/3/22 21:49, Daniel65 wrote:

>
> At least he waited until after the Winter Olympics!! ;-P

Ah yes! The pharmaceutical games
Whose undetectable performance enhancing drug will win gold :-)

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faeychild
Running plasmashell 5.20.4 on 5.15.23-desktop-1.mga8 kernel.
Mageia release 8 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-8-x86_64-DVD.iso

Op 28-02-2022 om 22:43 schreef faeychild:
>
> The newsgroup has gone ominously silent
> It's not my end; I've checked  "alt.test"
>
> I wonder is it something to do with
>
>      -No more Linux problems  (a miracle has occurred)
>
>      -Covid
>
>       -Putin
>
>       -something else
>

For me it is that "something else", I've only very occasionally been
active here, after trying to catch up with the mailing lists there was
only too rarely time to post here. And now that XS4ALL is more or less
dying and is completely ending its usenet support, I doubt I'll take an
account somewhere else. My new ISP doesn't intend to enable access to
news groups.

Anyway, good luck to you all!

Kind regards,
Marja

On 02.03.2022 at 14:25, Marja van Waes scribbled:

> Op 28-02-2022 om 22:43 schreef faeychild:
> >
> > The newsgroup has gone ominously silent
> > It's not my end; I've checked  "alt.test"
> >
> > I wonder is it something to do with
> >
> >      -No more Linux problems  (a miracle has occurred)
> >      -Covid
> >       -Putin
> >       -something else
>
> For me it is that "something else", I've only very occasionally been
> active here, after trying to catch up with the mailing lists there
> was only too rarely time to post here. And now that XS4ALL is more or
> less dying and is completely ending its usenet support, I doubt I'll
> take an account somewhere else. My new ISP doesn't intend to enable
> access to news groups.

news.eternal-september.org is completely free of charge, Marja. You do
have to register for an account at their website but registration is
free, and access is unlimited, except that they don't support binaries.

The server is located in Germany, and they offer a number of freely
accessible newsgroups — i.e. that you can read and post to without
logging in — for support.

https://www.eternal-september.org

You use the SMTP of your ISP for sending, and a news client of your
preference for reading. They support both encrypted and non-encrypted
connections. All of the details are provided on their website. ;)

--
With respect,
= Aragorn

On 2/28/22 21:06, faeychild wrote:
>
>
> I wondered if it is not a good time to invade anyone in Europe
> temperatures in Ukraine are hovering around zero.
>
My eyebrows went up as I read that. Seemed much colder than I would have
expected. Then I realized, far too slowly, that my American farmer brain
was thinking in "F" while you, like the rest of the civilized world,
were very likely talking "C."

I know little of that part of the world, but if it's anything like
Upstate New York, this time of year a temperature of 0 degrees C would
feel like a nice early Spring day. Very comfortable, especially for
younger folks, after the weather that is usually experienced in January
and February.

TJ

On 3/2/22 07:03, TJ wrote:
> On 2/28/22 21:06, faeychild wrote:
>>
>>
>> I wondered if it is not a good time to invade anyone in Europe
>> temperatures in Ukraine are hovering around zero.
>>
> My eyebrows went up as I read that. Seemed much colder than I would have
> expected. Then I realized, far too slowly, that my American farmer brain
> was thinking in "F" while you, like the rest of the civilized world,
> were very likely talking "C."
>
> I know little of that part of the world, but if it's anything like
> Upstate New York, this time of year a temperature of 0 degrees C would
> feel like a nice early Spring day. Very comfortable, especially for
> younger folks, after the weather that is usually experienced in January
> and February.
>
> TJ
The soil is frozen hard enough to support tanks. War in Winter is how
the USSR beat the NAZI in WW II. But then aside from the anti-semites
the Ukraine was on the same side.
Putin assumed that he could crush the opposition in one bold
stroke and failed to plan for an extended war. This is logistic mistake
equivalent to the Hitlerian Armies failure. Putin is a Fascist and
follows their errors to the letter.

bliss

--
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On 3/2/22 14:25, Marja van Waes wrote:
> Op 28-02-2022 om 22:43 schreef faeychild:
>>
>> The newsgroup has gone ominously silent
>> It's not my end; I've checked  "alt.test"
>>
>> I wonder is it something to do with
>>
>>       -No more Linux problems  (a miracle has occurred)
>>
>>       -Covid
>>
>>        -Putin
>>
>>        -something else
>>
>
> For me it is that "something else", I've only very occasionally been
> active here, after trying to catch up with the mailing lists there was
> only too rarely time to post here. And now that XS4ALL is more or less
> dying and is completely ending its usenet support, I doubt I'll take an
> account somewhere else. My new ISP doesn't intend to enable access to
> news groups.
>
> Anyway, good luck to you all!
>
> Kind regards,
> Marja

Marja,

I'm reading this newsgroup on news.kpn.nl, so they still support usenet
groups.

All the best,

Marc.

On 3/3/22 02:58, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

>     The soil is frozen hard enough to support tanks.  War in Winter is
> how the USSR beat the NAZI in WW II.  But then aside from the
> anti-semites the Ukraine was on the same side.
>     Putin assumed that he could crush the opposition in one bold
> stroke and failed to plan for an extended war. This is logistic mistake
> equivalent to the Hitlerian Armies failure.  Putin is a Fascist and
> follows their errors to the letter.
>
>     bliss
>

I always like the observation about failure to study history condemns
one to repeat it.

I'm sure some of his advisors have tried. But there exists some
situations where it is inadvisable to suggest that the fearless leader
may be wrong. :-[

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faeychild
Running plasmashell 5.20.4 on 5.15.23-desktop-1.mga8 kernel.
Mageia release 8 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-8-x86_64-DVD.iso

On 02.03.2022 at 07:58, Bobbie Sellers scribbled:

> On 3/2/22 07:03, TJ wrote:
> > On 2/28/22 21:06, faeychild wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I wondered if it is not a good time to invade anyone in Europe
> >> temperatures in Ukraine are hovering around zero.
> >>
> > My eyebrows went up as I read that. Seemed much colder than I would
> > have expected. Then I realized, far too slowly, that my American
> > farmer brain was thinking in "F" while you, like the rest of the
> > civilized world, were very likely talking "C."
> >
> > I know little of that part of the world, but if it's anything like
> > Upstate New York, this time of year a temperature of 0 degrees C
> > would feel like a nice early Spring day. Very comfortable,
> > especially for younger folks, after the weather that is usually
> > experienced in January and February.
> >
> > TJ
> The soil is frozen hard enough to support tanks. War in
> Winter is how the USSR beat the NAZI in WW II. But then aside from
> the anti-semites the Ukraine was on the same side.
> Putin assumed that he could crush the opposition in one bold
> stroke and failed to plan for an extended war. This is logistic
> mistake equivalent to the Hitlerian Armies failure. Putin is a
> Fascist and follows their errors to the letter.

The big difference of course is that Hitler didn't possess any nukes.
Putin does, and he won't have a qualm using them either. He's the kind
of guy who would rather go out in a ball of fire than to admit defeat.

He's already using cluster bombs and thermobaric bombs right now, and
the Chernobyl installation was the first thing the Russian military
took control of after the invasion. Brief radiation spikes were
detected as they were doing so. It's not unthinkable that Putin
decided to make Chernobyl into the world's biggest dirty bomb, just in
case.

--
With respect,
= Aragorn =

On 2022-03-02, TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> wrote:
> On 2/28/22 21:06, faeychild wrote:
>>
>>
>> I wondered if it is not a good time to invade anyone in Europe
>> temperatures in Ukraine are hovering around zero.
>>
> My eyebrows went up as I read that. Seemed much colder than I would have
> expected. Then I realized, far too slowly, that my American farmer brain
> was thinking in "F" while you, like the rest of the civilized world,
> were very likely talking "C."
>
> I know little of that part of the world, but if it's anything like
> Upstate New York, this time of year a temperature of 0 degrees C would
> feel like a nice early Spring day. Very comfortable, especially for
> younger folks, after the weather that is usually experienced in January
> and February.

0C is melting weather, ang the soil of the Ukraine can turn into gumbo
making driving of trucks/tanks etc across fields an exercise in
futility, as the Germans ( and earlier invasions) discovered. I believe
that was what was being referred to.
>
> TJ

On 03.03.2022 at 08:20, William Unruh scribbled:

> On 2022-03-02, TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> wrote:
> > On 2/28/22 21:06, faeychild wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I wondered if it is not a good time to invade anyone in Europe
> >> temperatures in Ukraine are hovering around zero.
> >>
> > My eyebrows went up as I read that. Seemed much colder than I would
> > have expected. Then I realized, far too slowly, that my American
> > farmer brain was thinking in "F" while you, like the rest of the
> > civilized world, were very likely talking "C."
> >
> > I know little of that part of the world, but if it's anything like
> > Upstate New York, this time of year a temperature of 0 degrees C
> > would feel like a nice early Spring day. Very comfortable,
> > especially for younger folks, after the weather that is usually
> > experienced in January and February.

What it feels like is less important than whether tanks and other
heavy/armored vehicles can propel themselves across the land without
getting stuck.

Russian troops are commonly used to very low temperatures. They
themselves won't have any problems with that.

> 0C is melting weather, ang the soil of the Ukraine can turn into gumbo
> making driving of trucks/tanks etc across fields an exercise in
> futility, as the Germans ( and earlier invasions) discovered. I
> believe that was what was being referred to.

If the average ambient temperature is 0°C, then the soil will still be
several degrees Celsius colder than that — anywhere from -2°C to -10°C,
depending on whether it's exposed to direct sunlight or whether it's
cloudy and perhaps if there's a shade. Not quite at the thawing point
yet.

If it's 0°C on the ground, then the ambient temperature will commonly
already be around 4-5°C, and then you do of course get a thaw, and thus
a muck on the ground.

--
With respect,
= Aragorn

On 3/3/22 03:25, marchugo wrote:
> On 3/2/22 14:25, Marja van Waes wrote:
>> Op 28-02-2022 om 22:43 schreef faeychild:
>>>
>>> The newsgroup has gone ominously silent
>>> It's not my end; I've checked  "alt.test"
>>>
>>> I wonder is it something to do with
>>>
>>>       -No more Linux problems  (a miracle has occurred)
>>>
>>>       -Covid
>>>
>>>        -Putin
>>>
>>>        -something else
>>>
>>
>> For me it is that "something else", I've only very occasionally been
>> active here, after trying to catch up with the mailing lists there was
>> only too rarely time to post here. And now that XS4ALL is more or less
>> dying and is completely ending its usenet support, I doubt I'll take
>> an account somewhere else. My new ISP doesn't intend to enable access
>> to news groups.
>>
>> Anyway, good luck to you all!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Marja
>
> Marja,
>
> I'm reading this newsgroup on news.kpn.nl, so they still support usenet
> groups.
>
> All the best,
>
> Marc.

I have noticed that the ng has never been active daily. I thought that
it was normal.