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Totally agree with that. Also good to note that in general it it easier to create a backdoor for FOSS because of the general code availability. For a proprietary product, you'd have to somehow gain access to the closed source, which is harder. Also, many FOSS projects have few maintainers doing a great amount of job for free, so with a bit of social engineering you can pressurise them into accepting code they don't entirely understand.

On the other hand, many FOSS projects have more than one maintainer, so more eyes watching the code. Also, you have to find a way to conceal the backdoor, so that it can't be easily identified.

All in all, open-source is certainly better, because you don't have to blindly trust some company, but there are many factors which come to play in both camps. Ultimately, trust is not the only thing that matters since even a trusted repository can be compromised/hacked. Then you can only rely on fast mitigation of consequences, that is hope that the compromised code hasn't been there for long.

It is not unusual for niche communities (forums, wikis, etc.) to get targeted by spammers. I think they expect to find less moderation or something.

If it is about covering a basic need, I don't see why this would be wrong. Of course, there is the aspect of supporting a private enterprise vs. a public service provider but, since it is an imformed and weighted choice that comes out of a need, I see nothing fundamentally wrong with it unless you want to be dogmatic (which a communist should not be). As a person living in a country where healthcare is in a similar state, I understand that sometimes you don't have much choice unless you want to take risks with your health. Unfortunately living in a capitalist society means that even as a marxist you sometimes have to play by the system's playbook.

bypass the social right of a child to the motherhood-fatherhood relation as an evolving biosocial relationship

the interrelated motherhood-fatherhood relation, resulting from the complementary function of man and woman in the process of procreation

So they are fighting for protecting a social construct that marxists historically want to abolish? This kind of arguments are strange to hear from the communist party of a country. I doubt that this can be considered a truly scientific or dialectical stance.

I have tried to learn Esperanto. Its grammar is as easy as people claim it to be. The most difficult parts, as with any language, are learning vocabulary and finding somebody to practice (unfortunately hard for what strives to be an international language).

Still, at least to me, it feels more like a strange mixture of various european languages than its own thing. One could say it makes it easier to learn, but for me it shows that Esperanto cannot be considered truly international, as to people who are neither from Europe nor from an English-speaking country (who might even be using a diffrernt writing system) it still feels as foreign as English (albeit easier to learn).

I still like the ideals that inspired Esperanto and find conlangs to be a lot of fun. Still, if any language is going to dethrone English in coming years, existing languages like Chinese and Russian have more chances to do so. Meanwhile conlangs like Esperanto, Lojban, Interlingua and Toki Pona are still a very great way to meet like-minded people.

Yes, indeed. That's sad, I don't want to create an account and I find Minecraft awkward to play on a computer :(

The rise of politically right parties worldwide is quite worrying. The election of Milei was a big but not totally unexpected shock. It is amazing how masterly these parties use media (mass- and social-) and campaigns to make their opponents seem feeble and powerless while trying to present themselves as the only solution, even promise miracles (a lot of people want to believe in easy solutions). Milei did all of those: openly accusing the opposition and promising the amelioration of Argentinian economy in a very very short time.

It's important to note that ruling parties the influence on the media can be much more immense, so that sometimes the only thing the government has to be effective in is communication with the electoral base, no matter how incompetent it is (e.g. Greece). That is, Milei might only has to persuade and reassure the people that voted for him that the government is effective in order to get re-elected. That seems hard to achieve now, but remember how Milei suddenly got tremendously more popular just before the elections. Political parties' communication departments can often work miracles in producing believable propaganda, much more so when it can harp on the worries of the people in hard times. Let's hope the strike is a sign that Milei won't stay for too long.

Strange, it keeps saying "Please log into Xbox to join this server" each time I try to join.

Do I need a (Microsoft) account in order to join?

I also wish Minetest was considered. It is totally configurable with a plethora of mods, all of which are optional, and is totally free. And I just find it much nicer than Minecraft in general.

But I understand that hosting a server is not easy, and personally I don't think I could host a Minetest server at this time.

Really depends on the language. Besides the obvious big players there are often websites dedicated to self-learning for a single language. Have you checked them out? I'm sure there should be a bunch of those for Russian.