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yurish commented on Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer prm.ua/en/ukrainian-hacke... · Posted by u/doener

libertine · 8 months ago

You still failed to address the question: "little russians", "kholkhols" are ethnic slurs being used by Russian nationalists as terms of endearment?

> It says that some Ukrainians consider this word offensive which is not surprising taking into account active propaganda and lack of historical education in masses.

So not because Russians are in their land trying to kill as many Ukrainians as possible, terrorizing them, and destroying their culture? It's all because of propaganda?

yurish · 8 months ago

I addressed you phrase about Russians seen Ukrainians as an inferior ethnic group and "proving" this by "they call them "little Russians", please don't shift topics. This is BS. There is no such phrase "little Russians" in Russian language.

Ethnic slurs exists of course. In any language. And "kholkhols" is one of them. As well as word "moskal'" in Ukranian. Do you know what it means? And ethnic slurs are not used in official language, you know. I mean Russian official language.

>So not because Russians are in their land trying to kill as many Ukrainians as >possible, terrorizing them, and destroying their culture? It's all because of >propaganda? Yes, just because of propaganda targeted at low educated people. I mean you can hate Russia for starting the war and turn a blind eye to Ukrainians killing Donbass people but hating historical word referring to some lands that now are part of Ukraine? Just because it has "мало" in it? You need combination of propaganda and low intelligence here.

P.S. Not going to continue. This all conversation is just waist of my time.

yurish commented on Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer prm.ua/en/ukrainian-hacke... · Posted by u/doener

libertine · 8 months ago

What does it mean in the current Russian political environment?

> The term Little Russia is now anachronistic when used to refer to the country Ukraine and the modern Ukrainian nation, its language, culture, etc. Such usage is typically perceived as conveying an imperialist view that the Ukrainian territory and people ("Little Russians") belong to "one, indivisible Russia".Today, many Ukrainians consider the term disparaging, indicative of Russian suppression of Ukrainian identity and language. It has continued to be used in Russian nationalist discourse, in which modern Ukrainians are presented as a single people in a united Russian nation. This has provoked new hostility toward and disapproval of the term by many Ukrainians. In July 2021 Vladimir Putin published a 7000-word essay, a large part of which was devoted to expounding these views. [0]

Just to make sure, according to you, this is completely false and detached?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Russia#Modern_usage

But this is a small detail from my reply, why are people so focused on this? Even if I was wrong, which I don't see that I am, everything else still stands.

yurish · 8 months ago

So "The Russian regime (and apparently a lot of Russians) deem Ukrainians as an inferior ethnic group - they call them "little Russians"." it is? And this follows from the link? Have you read it? Really?

The term Малороссия now days is outdated indeed, as wiki says. This term was first introduced not even by Russia but by Byzantine Church and word "мало" ("little" as you "translate" here) means "original" "primordial" to distinct two church branches and then where used to denote parts of Rus' under Polish rule.

Note, the linked article does not say that Russians use this term to denote someone inferior. It says that some Ukrainians consider this word offensive which is not surprising taking into account active propaganda and lack of historical education in masses.

yurish commented on Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer prm.ua/en/ukrainian-hacke... · Posted by u/doener

libertine · 8 months ago

Not really, the point being made goes deeper.

The Russian regime (and apparently a lot of Russians) deem Ukrainians as an inferior ethnic group - they call them "little Russians".

Ukrainian authorship would mean:

- Ukrainians are competent people with agency (which they are of course, for lots of reasons) - this plays into ethnophobia;

- their government, military, etc, is competent, functional with agency - this plays into government legitimacy;

- Overall, in a lot of instances, the Russian government is incompetent, even more incompetent than the guys their propaganda has been trying to paint as corrupt, incompetent people who are being manipulated.

That's why a lot of time Russian propaganda trys to spin Ukrainian wins as "NATO/CIA/MI6/external agent did this".

For example, they tried really hard to bend reality to remove the credit for the Ukrainian drone operation that destroyed a lot of bomber jets, saying it was planned and executed by CIA, MI6, Israel, etc [0].

This is what we're dealing with here: massive ethnophobia and propaganda.

So in their propaganda, Ukraine can't be competent and stand on its merit, because that would mean they're not inferior people and that they have agency.

You should always be wary of someone making these claims without any evidence.

[0]https://uacrisis.org/en/rospropaganda-zaplutalas-v-pavutyni

yurish · 8 months ago

Please stop spreading this BS. Малороссия ("little" Russia as you say) does not mean what you say.

yurish commented on Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods americansunlight.substack... · Posted by u/nsoonhui

mjburgess · 8 months ago

I can give you the relevant facts here that will undermine your confidence in this position, but I'm not talking about ukraine -- i'm talking about LLMs and the base of facts they use; and how people feel about sets of alleged claims.

I invite you to reflect that this sensation your feeling is not about the status of facts in the world, its about "morality" as you say -- you have connected, in your mind, a sensation which accompanies justice to the need to believe certain claims. This is just the emotions of tribal affliliation and identity -- and it shows that our psychologies are not of a suitable makeup for this kind of adjudication of "what is true" --- this is why in liberal democracies, we have tried very hard to deprive the state from control over the press. But in matters of foreign policy, the media is entirely controlled by the state.

Nothing I believe about russia/ukraine comes from russia: it's by having listened to american senators on cspan as they were disposing the ukrainian government in 2013 -- its having listened to the tapes of us state department officials discussing who they will replace the leader with at the time. I mean, you can go and find interviews with Kissinger discussing in the 90s what would happen if the US tried to intervene in ukraine.

If you want to know what actually happened: the US has been using bribes and threats across eastern europe to turn those states into allies, placing armies and missles in them, for decades. Russia has been protesting this for decades too, and was too weak to do anything about it in the 2000s. They were very afraid they would lose their naval base in crimea (which was always, officially, their land) when the US participated in the overthrow of the elected government in 2013, by siding with one half of a civil conflict. When that happened they took crimea to ensure the US wouldnt gain control of that base -- subsequently, the ukrainian goverment became extemely hostile to russian populations in ukraine, and engaged in lots of destabilising actions against crimea (shutting off water, etc.) --- all the while arms, soliders etc. were flowing in from western states into the country (against agreements france/germany made, which they violated to do this). In the backgrond the entire time, the far-east of ukraine has not been controlled by kiev. After 2014, the ukrianian arming by the west, their increased hostility to internal russian populations, and the on-going civil war in the east reached a critical point where russia decided the detabalisation on its border was a greater threat than a show of force. The original russian plans were just to quickly surround kiev and effect a reigeme change quickly, not to enter a war -- the war was escalated to its current scale in large part by US/UK pressuring ukraine not to regotiate and promising massive arms/aid backing. About two years ago UA fell into a stalemate/loss posisition, and now it may be to late to negotiate terms with putin not to take a much larger area. In part, putin is interested in taking an area of land that puts moscow outside of missle range from ukraine, which is up to about half-way.

yurish · 8 months ago

Ii is rare to encounter such an opinion on HN. Thanks.

yurish commented on Poland's Most Famous Dish: Pierogi culture.pl/en/article/pol... · Posted by u/danielam

OfSanguineFire · 2 years ago

While what you say is true, it is irrelevant in the context of the discussion here about the popular misunderstanding of pierogi ruskie. This confusion is due to multiple factors than just “Russia stole”, including that the Ukrainian-language literary canon is centered around “Ukrainian” as the ethnonym, instead of making any attempt to preserve or revive the ethnonym “Rus”. While some Rusyns did maintain the ethnonym, other Rusyn speakers have preferred to identify with another ethnonym instead. If East Slavs other than Russians and Belarussians did not stand up for the ethnonym en masse, no surprise that peoples elsewhere no longer have the ability to distinguish.

yurish · 2 years ago

It's not even true. Just a piece of modern Ukrainian propaganda.

yurish commented on Reverse-engineering the electronics in the Globus analog navigational computer righto.com/2023/03/revers... · Posted by u/rcarmo

IYasha · 3 years ago

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К сожалению, доступ к странице ограничен.

yurish · 3 years ago

Хм, проверил еще раз. Все равно работает. Может быть временная блокировка со стороны Cloudflare?

yurish commented on Possible reasons for 8-bit bytes jvns.ca/blog/2023/03/06/p... · Posted by u/cpach

loeg · 3 years ago

Do C compilers for those platforms transparently implement this for your char pointers as GP suggests? I would expect that you would need to do it manually and that native C pointers would only address the same words as the machine itself.

yurish · 3 years ago

I have seen a DSP processor that could address only 16-bit words. And C compiler did not fix it, bytes had 16 bits there.

yurish commented on Reverse-engineering the electronics in the Globus analog navigational computer righto.com/2023/03/revers... · Posted by u/rcarmo

IYasha · 3 years ago

Ironically, this page is blocked in Russia...

yurish · 3 years ago

It is not blocked for me. I am in Russia.