@loweel @sl007 USSR's propaganda worked much better than Russia's and there was no internet. All communication channels were controlled by the government. There was no easy way for a regular person to broadcast something to a large audience. There was no easy way to find out what life is like in other countries. Everything was censored, and it was easy to implement bulletproof censorship.

There were also much fewer products complex enough to require the participation in the global economy.

@sl007 I mean, with literally the entire international community, INCLUDING TALIBAN, condemning Putin... I can't see this go on much longer. He's fighting with the rest of the world here really. There are some Russians who support him. There are some like me and my friends who hate him with a burning passion.

Not to mention that he's relying on other people to bring his stupid dreams to life. The supply of people who are capable of doing it is diminishing every day. He'll be alone soon.

@sl007 everything is alright, everyone is outraged and reading news way too much but we're safe.

My home ISP seemingly doesn't implement any blocking whatsoever. For public networks and mobile data, I have a VPN on my server in Germany. After the government tried and failed to block Telegram for 2 years, we're all well prepared for this kind of stuff.

Twitter isn't completely blocked, but slowed down a lot, at least by my mobile carrier.

I realized that I can use the iOS app on my mac. It works a bit better than I expected.

This whole "run iOS apps on your M1 mac" thing feels to me like more of "because we can" so far.

Though the weird part is that it runs in an iPhone-sized window that doesn't resize. But menus that open out of buttons are native for example.

And the obviously-desktop stuff like dragging an image into the compose screen or pasting one doesn't work. Not sure if it can work at all.