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@ petrescatraian @libranet.de

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Ce să vă zic, mă, bine ați venit? bine ați venit, rău ați nimerit. La locu' ăsta îi zice șerpărie, de la șerpii care umblă pe-aicea. Dracu' știe cum au ajuns...

  • Art of the War

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  • Yo dawg, I heard you like blockades. So I put a blockade in your blockade so you can blockade while you blockade and jack up oil prices.

  • My phone was just stolen (update: new phone arrives by 10 p.m.)

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  • Use this (if you have an iPhone) or this (if you have an Android) to locate your phone. And do report this to the police.

  • My european setup

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  • Ah, I see. Well, I hope that helps too. Plus there are apps that use the @transitous database. Maybe your city is there too.

  • CoMaps listed and rated on european-alternatives.cloud

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  • I tried öffi. Nothing works in my country besides regular passenger trains, which I don't take that often. If neither OM and Co work with public transit, then I would rather recommend any app that pulls its information from Transitous. I tried it with Träwelling just for the fun of the game, but it did work really great

  • My european setup

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  • Use Bolt instead of Uber. An actual European service from Estonia.

    Edit: and if you want to be more European in this regard, use your city's public transit. There might be an app for it too.

  • CoMaps listed and rated on european-alternatives.cloud

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  • Yeah, I have a similar experience with Organic Maps. We don't have anything like the S Bahn yet in Bucharest, but we have a metro and it works with it. However the vast majority of my trips are made with the surface transit (buses, trams and trolleybuses) and that's where Organic Maps doesn't help.

    Looks like they're working on an integration with the GTFS feeds, albeit I would've been happier if they used an already established project like @transitous instead

  • CoMaps listed and rated on european-alternatives.cloud

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  • CoMaps is an interesting project, but I've gotten so used to Organic Maps 😁 are there any other features it has that could make it stand out from Organic Maps? (Besides the map colours)

    And most importantly: does it feature public transit navigation options beside the metro?

  • World News @beehaw.org
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    Around the world, residential institutions for people with disabilities are being shut down. In Russia, reform has stalled.

    meduza.io /en/feature/2026/04/15/around-the-world-residential-institutions-for-people-with-disabilities-are-being-shut-down-in-russia-reform-has-stalled
  • World News @beehaw.org
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    Radu Jude, the Bard of Bucharest

    www.newyorker.com /magazine/2026/04/20/radu-jude-the-bard-of-bucharest

  • More Americans are moving to Central and Eastern Europe. Here’s why

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  • Moving past the obvious slurs in your comment, those migrants might actually get more of a red carpet treatment - sorry to spoil your vengeful dreams. In part because they are who they are, but also because of the spoken language making it easier to get higher paid jobs, probably at multinational corporations too (English is pretty commonly spoken as a foreign language, so it's not so well paid and sought as other foreign languages, but if that's your native language you're definitely getting an edge over the locals).

    Patriots (also called sovreignists here in Romania) will do what they do the best: label them as sexo-marxists invading our country and too snowflake to stay with Trump. But outside those pricks, people here are very open towards migrants.

    We have an ongoing collective memory of us taking the road to the West after the fall of communism, along with all the hardships we faced, and the fair treatment of migrants is, from my experience, pretty well promoted publicly (at least so far).

    If the far right gets in power in two years from now, which is highly likely given the current political situation, things might take a turn to the worse. But until then, the orchestra is singing on the Titanic.

    And as a personal opinion, I think it's wrong to put all the American migrants in the same pot. I think the people leaving the US behind are exactly those who saw the things coming, who understood what Project 2025 was about and did all they could to prevent this from happening. Throwing them in concentration camps similar to those in El Salvador, degrading them or being xenophobic to them in any way will teach them no lesson and will definitely teach the usual MAGA supporter no lesson, or at least not the lesson you're looking for. I'm rather pro treating these people well, especially since (despite all the shortcomings), during these whole decades when America was truly free, it represented a safe haven for people looking to escape prosecution in their homeland, especially due to their etnicity or religion. So taking these people as they themselves flee from political prosecution is more of an acknowledgement of the role the free America had on making the world a better place, sometimes even helping make entire countries free and independent from other countries.

  • More Americans are moving to Central and Eastern Europe. Here’s why

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  • World News @beehaw.org
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    More Americans are moving to Central and Eastern Europe. Here’s why

    edition.cnn.com /travel/central-eastern-europe-american-relocation
  • Romania @europe.pub
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    HARTĂ | Pe unde va merge trenul Ucraina – România – Bulgaria

    clubferoviar.ro /harta-traseu-tren-ucraina-romania-bulgaria/
  • Romania @europe.pub
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    Prima locomotivă cu ecartament standard a trecut Prutul spre Republica Moldova

    clubferoviar.ro /locomotiva-ecartament-standard-prut/

  • Request for messenger suggestions

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  • You're welcome. Stay safe!

  • Request for messenger suggestions

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  • I think you're in luck here. You can use XMPP or Matrix as the other person said, and pick from the myriad of different servers to let the authorities play whack-a-mole with them. If you're picking XMPP, suggest them one of the clients that support OMEMO (it uses the protocol used by Signal too; edit: most apps that support it are modern and in active development). Briar is another good option, since it uses Tor, but you both need to be online in order to receive messages from each other since it uses no servers (unless they and you use something like this on a spare phone).

    An option that would likely be a better fit for what you're looking for, but which I haven't tried yet is SimpleX.

    Whatever you pick, I think it would be a great practice for you to teach them to use a panic button app such as Ripple (not sure if that's maintained anymore though).

  • Request for messenger suggestions

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  • Hmmm, that's true. Probably OP checked this, but now that you mentioned it, I would do the same 😁

    Screw that, they were reading all the foreign mail coming through. And you could still be unable to see if they opened your envelope because they were either carefully opening it and close it back, or simply use another one.

    What happens with ordinary email by the way?

    I expect it was previously appealing based on the fact that only the vendor had access (of course, now it no longer applies).

    Maybe another option is to use one of the private providers that do not track you and are less mainstream than Proton. Let's say Tuta or Mailbox.org (if they are not blocked already too). Probably encrypt the emails with PGP too for more security.

  • Request for messenger suggestions

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  • Tbh I'd probably use snail mail letters for anything private on the theory that the RU govt doesn't have the resources to open all the envelopes

    Hahahaha!

    I'm not a Russian, rather Romanian. But I heard stories how all the mail coming from the outside was checked and "vetted for anything suspicious" at the border during communism. Since we and USSR were on the same team I suppose they did the same. And how the way the public institutions work barely changed, nowadays, given the current situation, I expect them to return to that practice.

    So yeah, I wouldn't trust snail mail with anything sensitive.

  • Request for messenger suggestions

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  • XMPP is more niche but on the other side more established. It has been used by both Facebook (now Meta), Google and WhatsApp (now part of Meta) to develop their platforms on. Up until recently you could still communicate with someone on Hangouts through an XMPP client, despite only with someone that was also on Hangouts (that was until they pulled the plug on that app). It didn't support all the features but hey, it was there.

    XMPP does have some modern clients too, but indeed, Matrix has been more designed with the 2020s in mind.

  • Romania @europe.pub
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    Fostul antrenor al naţionalei Mircea Lucescu a încetat din viaţă

    rfi.my /Cawo.bs
  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    Reuters reports Russia’s NORSI refinery halts operations after Ukrainian drone strike

    meduza.io /en/news/2026/04/07/reuters-reports-russia-s-norsi-refinery-halts-operations-after-ukrainian-drone-strike

  • How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets

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  • Then I don't get why is that person not reporting stuff like that to the police, especially on streets where this is a more common occurrence...

  • Ukraine asked to ease attacks on Russian oil refineries amid Iran war price surge, Budanov says

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  • I'm gonna steal this meme so hard, just like Russia stole Ukrainian land and toilets. Thank you!

  • How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets

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  • In Romania, bikes are treated as vehicles in the legislation. That means that if you don't have any amenities you are required to ride on the first lane of every road, as close to the curb as possible. Of course, some people take the sidewalk too, but they're really risking it. If they encounter a policeman that is actually determined to do their job that day, they're kinda screwed.

  • Ukraine asked to ease attacks on Russian oil refineries amid Iran war price surge, Budanov says

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  • @supersquirrel oh, wow, the dick of consequences went too far inside Trump's ass, who would've thought?!?

  • Some text messages between Zuckerberg and Musk

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  • Think about all these people jumping ship from X to Threads lol

  • Romania @europe.pub
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    Parchetul European: Fraudă de 9 milioane de euro în România, din bani UE, pentru achiziționarea de echipamente medicale în timpul pandemiei

    romania.europalibera.org /a/parchetul-european-frauda-de-9-milioane-de-euro-in-achizitionarea-de-echipamente-medicale-in-timpul-pandemiei/33717286.html
  • Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    The only tram route in Reșița from one end to the other

  • Romania @europe.pub
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    România recunoaște parteneriatul penal, în care ambii soți sunt hoți

    www.timesnewroman.ro /life-death/romania-recunoaste-parteneriatul-penal-in-care-ambii-soti-sunt-hoti/
  • Memes @sopuli.xyz
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    Ok, let's go!

  • Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    Purple Bozankaya tram in Timisoara - Romania on February 28, 2026 at 5:50 PM heading towards Traian Square.

  • Romania @europe.pub
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    Ghemuiți în cuști spre Occident: „Nu mai e mult, stai liniștit”. Cum a devenit România hub al traficului de migranți

    moldova.europalibera.org /a/ghemuiti-in-custi-spre-occident-nu-mai-e-mult-stai-linistit-cum-a-devenit-romania-hub-al-traficului-de-migranti/33695084.html
  • Romania @europe.pub
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    Nu sunt sirene, sunt urlete! Azi are loc primul exerciţiu naţional de dat la c*i

    www.timesnewroman.ro /life-death/nu-sunt-sirene-sunt-urlete-azi-are-loc-primul-exercitiu-national-de-dat-la-ci/
  • Memes @sopuli.xyz
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    Those who know, know

  • Romania @europe.pub
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    INSCOP: Reziliența României în fața propagandei ruse, în scădere

    www.rfi.fr /ro/interna%C5%A3ional/20260219-inscop-rezilien%C8%9Ba-rom%C3%A2niei-%C3%AEn-fa%C8%9Ba-propagandei-ruse-%C3%AEn-sc%C4%83dere
  • Romania @europe.pub
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    Nicușor Dan va participa la reuniunea Consiliului pentru Pace de la Washington

    www.veridica.ro /stiri/nicusor-dan-va-participa-la-reuniunea-consiliului-pentru-pace-de-la-washington
  • World News @beehaw.org
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    China’s ‘Rat People’: When Education Can’t Deliver on Its Promises

    thediplomat.com /2026/02/chinas-rat-people-when-education-cant-deliver-on-its-promises/
  • Music @beehaw.org
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    Moon Walker - You're Next

  • Political Memes @lemmy.ca
    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    We all know these people