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UberWaffen9000 wrote

I thought the problem was the same as with all the current Linux controversies. The woke PsyOp agents have infiltrated the major Linux distributions and are attempting to exorcise them of all rationally minded and free thinking people, creating instead a communist religion based on sexual deviancy.

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redjard wrote (edited )

Both localmonero and agoradesk state they have wound down last month.
Do you know what alternatives there are now?
Is openmonero.i2p reputable?

Edit: I see someone claiming the associated clearnet site openmonero.co is a scam, I will mask the link for now.

Edit Edit:
openmonero .i2p and .co are scams, I reached one of the sellers whose info had been copied. I found success in using retoswap (haveno-reto).

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z3d wrote

Without more information about what you want to learn and what your objectives are, it's hard to recommend specific sites. Do you have any idea what language you're aiming to take up, and have you got a specific project in mind?

Here are some basic guidelines if you're just looking to get involved:

  • Before just diving in, work out what you want to achieve. Sometimes it's easier to take an existing project and work on adding features than starting from scratch. Identifying your area of interest will help narrow the selection of languages you'll want to focus on.
  • Start small. Don't take on big projects until you're comfortable achieving tasks you set yourself. Running code on a webserver is a good way to start seeing immediate results. Choose a language that suits, and hack something together. Javascript, html and css are a good entry into coding, and the results are immediate, no compilation required, just a webserver and and browser!
  • Find a text editor that you're prepared to invest time learning. VS Code / Codium might appear daunting at first, but if you're committed to learning, it'll pay off in time by helping you write and format your code with inline help, syntax highlighting, autocomplete, and error checking etc. For something simpler but still coder-focused, Bluefish is a lot less capable but a lot easier to pick up, and still has syntax highlighting and support for various languages.
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Saint_Cuthbert wrote

  1. What do Russians think of (anti-Ukraine war) Americans? That is, the people who want it to be quickly resolved so we can dig ourselves out of debt?
  2. How religious is Russia? And what do they think of the secular societies of the western nations?
  3. Is western literature and media heavily censored?
  4. My friend's mom was Russian, and she said that they had to forage for food when she was young. How applicable is that to the general (Soviet-era) Russian population? Was there a lot of scarcity?
  5. How is personal liberty there? Certain things that are guaranteed in the US Constitution, such as the 4th amendment (freedom from illegal search and seizure), the 2nd amendment (the right of the people to keep and bear arms), the 1st amendment (freedom of speech), aren't available there. Are those prohibitions nominal? Could someone "get away" with exercising any of those rights, or would it be certain to lead to penalties?

And yes, I know that I mostly echoed the guy below me.

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