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Rastal

@Rastal@mastodon.social
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Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer.

Also, cycling. 🚴
And occasional geopolitics. 🌍

#linux #sysadmin

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Joined March 24, 2019
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Jul 18, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @juliette@mastodon.green
@juliette@mastodon.green Lock your bike to the trolley park (on the outside of it not the inside). Supermarkets usually have a dozen trolley parks well positioned in the car park, covered by CCTV and trolley parks have people coming to it to drop off their trollies every 5 seconds or so, making it hard for someone to steal your bike without having plenty of witnesses who saw the whole thing. But be mindful, some customers are dumb and will park their trolley right alongside your bike. #biketooter #cycling
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Jul 06, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @Tutanota@mastodon.social
@Tutanota@mastodon.social They need to do it for the whole country. If Germany can do this, EU can do this, UK can do this. China has already done this. Kick American tech firms out! ✊ #digitalsovereignty #dontbeavassal #opensource
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Jun 25, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @dalfen@mstdn.social
@dalfen@mstdn.social This is huge coming from UAE who thoroughly supported Israel UAE is now against war with Iran UAE & GCC countries realised US can't protect them Trump acknowledges he did Iran war for Israel. He then lost the Iran war. US will ultimately realise Israel is it's biggest liability UAE & #gcc will make friends with Iran Iran will be the new regional hegemon And to top it all, if US made friends with Iran they'd be better off in every conceivable metric than with Israel #iran #iranwar
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Jun 13, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @Tutanota@mastodon.social
@Tutanota@mastodon.social Perfect time for people to jump ship and upgrade to LaTeX which is free and open source. It can do everything MS Word and PowerPoint can do and about a million things more and you can choose your editor. This is a decision you will never regret. Or if you just want a free and open source alternative, or need the full office suite, then there's Libre Office. As always, screw Microsoft. #libreoffice #latex #microsoft #foss #opensource
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Jun 10, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @SusiArnott@mastodon.green
@SusiArnott@mastodon.green @BBCRadio4@social.bbc Starmer is simply playing his part. He's a loyal trilateralist. Starmer and Musk pretend to be enemies but they are in it together. They each stir up their respective sides to fight each other and the end result will be Musk's Technocracy / the Digital ID surveillance state in UK, which the #uk government will buy to quell the violence the two of them instigated. It's the Hegelian dialectic: create the problem to sell the solution to the public. #ukpol #civilwar
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · May 27, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Also please always give the option for full RSS feeds not Atom feeds. Rarely, do I want to read only a couple of lines. #rss
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · May 15, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @PoliceStateUK@mastodon.me.uk
@PoliceStateUK@mastodon.me.uk The irony being the elderly used to be the poorest generation in #uk - Successive governments brought in a ton of measures to give them free public transport, winter fuel payments, priority for council housing, if they do any work there's no NI contributions, attendance allowances, free prescriptions, money for being disabled (read as elderly), free rail transport, tie pension rates to inflation, etc. What emerged is an elderly population that is by far the wealthiest generation.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · May 14, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @KimPerales@toad.social

@KimPerales@toad.social #Iran from the start allowed ships to pass through the Strait provided those ships:

  1. Weren't aligned with the side waging war against them
  2. Pay a toll in yuan, price on spectrum

Ships were mainly stopped by:

  1. Their own insurance companies
  2. US blockade
  3. Iran, if ship was aligned with US-Israel & didn't pay toll

Chinese ships could traverse #straitofhormuz right up until US launched its blockade for paying ships. China wasnt stopped by Iran, it was stopped by US

#iranwar

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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · May 10, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Problem is mainly with insurance companies because complications after treatment fall back into the category of diagnosis. Insurance policies for health are often "treatment only" or "diagnosis + treatment" so if your policy is the former insurance companies will expect the #nhs to pick up all the work of diagnosis, whilst treatment will be transferred to private. Any complications and it's back to diagnosis, means back to NHS. Patient gets treated like a tennis ball back and forth.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @petergleick@fediscience.org
@petergleick@fediscience.org Let's be fair, in the final results the winner of Iran war is [or will be] Iran. No American on either side of the political aisle will ever be able to deal with that, so for the Left oil companies and their American investors won; for the Right America [somehow] won because the orange baboon says so. #iran #iranwar
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · May 07, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @lzg@mastodon.social
@lzg@mastodon.social He should also be speaking in Attic Greek, with a dactylic hexameter rhythm.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · May 07, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social
@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social That is because women had comprehensive rights in Islam 1400 years ago including property ownership, inheritance and marriage consent. European women didn't get these same rights until the 19th and 20th century. Islam influenced Liberalism. Only in 20th century Europe overtakes Islam and grants more rights to women, which is how we get to today, where the narrative is non Muslim women have more rights, but not long ago, in the recent past, the opposite was true.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @wood5y@mastodonapp.uk
@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk Go to GBnews on YouTube, go to comments. Whatever the headline is the audience agrees with it. If the headline says the opposite two days later, the audience agrees with the new headline. Easiest gaslit audience of all time. Their audience are either bots or humans with minds as programmable as bots. Human bots. It's all emotion. No thought allowed. All outrage. All clickbait - and the audience believes every word without question every single time... GBnews is a psyop. #uk
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · May 04, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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A simple Perl script to wish you well on Star Wars Day!

Or to run it directly:

perl -e 'print "Do you like Star Wars? (yes/no): "; $|=1; $a=; chomp $a; print lc($a) =~ /^(yes|y)$/ ? "May the Fourth be with you!\n" : "Have a great day!\n"'

#maythefourthbewithyou #mayThe4th #perl #starwarsday

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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Part of this refusal of funding is likely to be because of the internal conflict of factions of elite in US. The internal war between the US dollar and finance on one hand, and AI on the other. Perhaps the financiers in US are waking up to the fact that funding AI is the same thing as funding their own downfall... 🤔 In Trump's America, if the global economy crashes, it won't be the banks that get the bailout, it'll be AI. #uspol
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 22, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @davidaugust@mastodon.online
@davidaugust It's not really propaganda though, there's no lies or misleading information in it. It's more like deliberate truth bombs, which may be uncomfortable at times for the other side to watch. #iran #iranwar
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 22, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @gallowaylass@mastodon.scot
@gallowaylass UK price for context of private healthcare is £100 per 15 minutes GP appointment. #uk #ukpol #nhs
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @dalfen@mstdn.social
@dalfen In WW2 between 1942-1945 car production was banned, car manufacturers were used only for production of military hardware. Of course they have yet to officially name this #ww3 but it's going to be using the same playbook.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 13, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @AGT@mastodon.scot
@AGT@mastodon.scot If Israel gets to become Greater Israel and builds 3rd Temple, they will make Trump the Messiah, because whoever builds the temple is the Messiah. When Trump posts such things on TruthSocial or posts the group prayer rituals with him center stage and the laying of hands, it's because this really is the plan and this really is what Israel has promised him, and he really is dumb enough to believe that's his destiny. #iranwar #iran #trump #eschatology #uspol
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 13, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @b9AcE@todon.eu
@b9AcE Thing is, the extent of the destruction done by Israel has completely wiped everything off the land. People's homes, hospitals, universities, schools, etc no longer exist. There is nothing for people to return to. So, if the map displays that erasure as there's nothing there anymore then it has some merit to it, it's accurate, that's a genuine reflection of how bad the destruction has been. #palestine
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 12, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @fj@mastodon.social
@fj 💯 This. Less screens, more books!
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 08, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @ErikUden@mastodon.de
@ErikUden Bankers.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 07, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @pallenberg@mastodon.social
@pallenberg No, Netanyahu openly declared genocide first. And Trump is doing this for Netanyahu. #palestine
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 06, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @Casey@newsie.social
@Casey It's Musk that benefits from this because most companies which produce electric vehicles use the proprietary Tesla charging port. Every EV sold, irrespective of manufacture, makes money for Elon Musk. 🤑 Funny how a war on oil, makes the richest man even richer. #ev #musk #elonmusk #electricvehicles #tesla #iran
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 06, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
@ChrisMayLA6 Yes and the toll system isn't one set fee as is often quoted in UK media, the amount payable is on a spectrum from paying the equivalent of $0 upto $2 million. The solution to "opening" the #straitofhormuz is simply not to aid US-Israel in their war against Iran... This is harder than it sounds for US vassal states, such as #uk who dare not say no to their master (US) and it's pet (Israel). #iranwar #iran
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 05, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @Strandjunker@mstdn.social
@Strandjunker@mstdn.social If the 25th were used, you'd get JD Vance as President. This would be worse. He is Peter Thiel's pet. If USA stays the course with Trump and Trump continues acting like a loud mouthed two year old throwing temper tantrums every day, that is the incentive for Americans to vote Democrat.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 04, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @Lightfighter@infosec.exchange
@Lightfighter Neoliberalism. That's why. That's what changed with Reagan (and in #uk Thatcher) and continues to today. Imagine if people in USSR had never heard of Communism - that's what we have today in the West with Neoliberalism. This Hayek ideology has run the West since 1980s, it affects every aspect of Westerners daily lives, every political party (uni-party) believes it, yet few Brits or Americans can name it, or much less identify it as the reason things went downhill. #ukpol #uspol
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 04, 2026
Rastal
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Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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@eunews@mastodon.social So basically, he's predicting Iran wins the war.

#iran #iranwar #france

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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Apr 04, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Did anyone really believe US-Israel started #iranwar to liberate Iranians? 😂

Narrative starts:

"We're going to liberate Iranians from a brutal oppressive regime"

Narrative now:

"We're going to blow your stuff up that allows you to function as a nation" - Lindsey Graham

"We're going to take the oil and make a fortune" - Trump

"We're going to obliterate all their electric plants, oil wells and possibly desalinisation plants" - Trump

"We're sending you back to the Stone Age" - Trump

#iran

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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 30, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us People aren't just angry with Labour, people can't even articulate what they are angry about, but let's sum it up in one word: Neoliberalism. Ideology of Conservatives: Neoliberalism. Ideology of Labour: Neoliberalism. Ideology of ReformUK: Neoliberalism. Ideology of LibDems: Neoliberalism. Neoliberalism, which cannot be named, is the reason all #uk political parties are a uni-party. #hayek #neoliberalism #labour #tory #reformuk #ukpol #ukpolitics
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 26, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @Strandjunker@mstdn.social
@Strandjunker The 77% are exactly the right people to become soldiers. The 23% should go do something better. You shouldn't need to be an intellectual or to have a clean criminal record to be cannon fodder.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 18, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot Same thing by America in South China Sea.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 16, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @Mimesatwork@wandering.shop
@Mimesatwork@wandering.shop @koen_hufkens@mastodon.social There no appetite for war in #uk at all, right across the political spectrum. Even so called "far right" simply want other people to go fight the war whilst they sit at home on the sofa. And they openly say they will refuse conscription. Conscription will be necessary and mandatory, because UK does not have either the military industrial output or the service personnel required to go into a long drawn out war, which this will absolutely be. #iran #iranwar
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 16, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @DrALJONES@mastodon.social
@DrALJONES yes and I agree mostly.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 16, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @DrALJONES__dup_3675@mastodon.social
@DrALJONES The "new world order" is Greater Israel becomes the hegemon and relieves America from its position at the top Thanks to Netanyahu and the #iranwar the world gets to see America the paper tiger, and it subsequently cannot sustain its hegemony in that light At least, that's Netanyahu's and Trump's objective through #iran #lebanon #palestine to create Greater Israel the new hegemon. But whether Americans willingly allow the suicide of their own country depends on whether they wake up.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026
Rastal
@Rastal@mastodon.social

Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @ItWasntMe223@social.epic-worlds.com
@itwasntme223 US did prepare in the sense that they've been planning an #iran war for decades. RAND, Brookings and other military focus think tanks have come up with every strategy imaginable, they've also war gamed all those strategies and the consensus, which is replicated right across the board is 1. A lack of military industrial output can't sustain a drawn out war. 2. War ends not in a win. That's why, despite planning for decades, despite Israel lobby, no US president has done an #iranwar
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026
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Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @nuwagaba2@mastodon.social
@nuwagaba2 The more countries get involved, the more likely it is to escalate into a global rather than regional conflict. #ww3
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026
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Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @TJ1001__dup_35787@mastodonapp.uk
@TJ1001 A war that you've supposedly already won, doesn't need escalation. A war that isn't going well, needs escalation. #iran #iranwar #uk
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 14, 2026
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Replying to @floe@hci.social
@floe @quinn Actually, it was Carnegie and Rockefeller in 1960s.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026
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Computer nerd. Mostly doing Linux systems administration. Software tinkerer. Also, cycling. 🚴 And occasional geopolitics. 🌍 #linux #sysadmin

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Replying to @bontchev__dup_55953@infosec.exchange
@bontchev@infosec.exchange US has not achieved any definitive lasting victory in any major conflict since WW2: ❎ Gulf war, US goals met but no clear win ❎ Korea war, stalemate ❎ Vietnam, withdrawal of US forces ❎ Afghanistan, inconclusive outcome ❎ Ukraine, US drops them for Israel ❎ Relevant to Iran, US Navy couldn't even defeat the Houthis of Yemen Now US-Israel try to create #ww3 through #iran with no clear objective/plan to even know when they've won. Their goal is also evidently not regime change.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 09, 2026
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Replying to @overholt@glammr.us
@overholt@glammr.us Student: "Is it ok if I cite a paper from the last century?" Teacher: Yes. Student: "Williams and Jones' landmark paper in 1999 stated..." Teacher: 😳
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 07, 2026
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Replying to @AverageDog@mastodon.social
@AverageDog@mastodon.social Wars generally happen when there is an overproduction of elites, giving rise to different factions, and through war these factions fight it out. The irony is, to get rid of a faction of billionaires (elites), you actually need a war to destroy their faction. Either that, or you need a revolution.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 06, 2026
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Replying to @statsguy@mas.to
@statsguy@mas.to By rights, the #uk should make noise about how the US administration, which claims to be "Christian", wholeheartedly believes they are initiating this war to bring about biblical Armageddon. Is in lockstep with Israel which orchestrated #iran war and genocide in Gaza in order to bring about Greater Israel, coming of their Messiah, aim to build the 3rd temple, usher in End Times. This is #religiousextremism to the point of insanity by US-Israel. How many Brits are apocalypticists? 0?
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026
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Replying to @AlisonCreekside@mstdn.ca
@AlisonCreekside It is very debatable which side of this conflict India will take. On one hand it's a key player of BRICS alongside Russia and China. On the other its the only country in the world that has consistently cheered on and fully supported the genocide against #palestine Indian-Iranian relations are complex at best. But, bombing India's unarmed invited guests probably doesn't do the Israel-US side any favours.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026
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Replying to @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social The precedent for killing children with precision strikes was set in #palestine
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 03, 2026
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Replying to @BrianJopek@mastodon.world

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world The reason why the Israelis target children and babies in war is biblical:

Now go, attack Amolek, and proscribe, kill and dedicate to YHWH, all that belongs to him. Spare no one, but kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings, oxen and sheep, camels and asses

As Netanyahu stated at the beginning of Israel's genocide on #palestine their objective was killing Amolek. Now they attack #iran in the hope of creating Greater Israel and the third temple for their Messiah, literally!

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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026
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Replying to @smlx4@mastodon.nu
@smlx4@mastodon.nu Actually, they started by bombing a children's school and killing 165+ children THEN they went on to do precision attacks to kill Khamenei.
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026
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Replying to @brotherpsyche@mastodon.social
@brotherpsyche @MarkHoltom It's by design. As long as the education sector teaches Americans the worldview that the most important thing is to believe that money is god, and the second most important thing is to be a consumer, then capitalism will thrive. #capitalism
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026
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Replying to @marijn@mastodon.social
@marijn@mastodon.social To be fair, China woke up to this issue long before #eu and has been trying to move away from US tech into #opensource As a result, US decided to pump everything it has into AI and LLMs - which are themselves an attack on open source The real target of that attack is every country who tries to move away from US tech and use open source software or develop their own #digitalsovereignty. - It's the digital version of America's Wolfawitz Doctrine, not allowing any competitors to emerge!
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Rastal @Rastal@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026
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@mullvadnet To be fair, Whistleblowers should be using a more secure setup than just a VPN.
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