Hi, All!

And a little present for those who loves Christ ;-)

https://vk.ru/wall84467442_29

Bye, All!
Alexander Koryagin

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Alexander Koryagin:

And a little present for those who loves Christ ;-)

May everybody have a most merrily mirthful and soul-
mellowing Christmas!

https://vk.ru/wall84467442_29

Wouldn't open for me even 128-tailed FireFox
(115.31.0esr), not to mention such decent browsers as
Dillo[1] or Kristall[2]. JavaS'creep to blame!
____________________

1. https://dillo.org/
2. https://kristall.random-projects.net/

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Hi, Anton Shepelev!
I read your message from 25.12.2025 20:20

And a little present for those who loves Christ ;-)

May everybody have a most merrily mirthful and soul-
mellowing Christmas!

https://vk.ru/wall84467442_29

Wouldn't open for me even 128-tailed FireFox
(115.31.0esr), not to mention such decent browsers as
Dillo[1] or Kristall[2]. JavaS'creep to blame!

Hmm. It is a well known "Vkontakte" messenger and video is there. Maybe, if you tried to see it at your office you could meet the messenger blocking - a very usual policy now in many offices, at least in Russia now. You can try Tor browser - it still allows watch what you like to.

Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2025

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Hello, Alexander!

Friday December 26 2025 10:11, you wrote to Anton Shepelev:

Hmm. It is a well known "Vkontakte" messenger and video is there.

Well known to Putin's ass-lickers? ;) VKontakte is a shithole of Russian propaganda.

Now they block connections from abroad! Don't you know that???

in Russia now. You can try Tor browser - it still allows watch what
you like to.

Sounds funny when a guy from a country where the Tor Browser is blocked advises others to use it :)

Sasha-boy, you are such a putin-style person :)))

Best regards,
dp.

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Hi, Dmitry Protasoff!
I read your message from 14.01.2026 04:25

Hmm. It is a well known "Vkontakte" messenger and video is
there.

Well known to Putin's ass-lickers? ;) VKontakte is a shithole
of Russian propaganda.
Now they block connections from abroad! Don't you know that???

in Russia now. You can try Tor browser - it still allows
watch what you like to.

Sounds funny when a guy from a country where the Tor Browser is
blocked advises others to use it :)
Sasha-boy, you are such a putin-style person :)))

A poor crazy liar and provocateur. ;-) Vkontakte messenger now is the main mean of communication for the Russian people and their relatives abroad, voice calls including.

Bye, Dmitry!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2026

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Hello, Alexander!

Wednesday January 14 2026 09:50, you wrote to me:

Sounds funny when a guy from a country where the Tor Browser is
blocked advises others to use it :)
Sasha-boy, you are such a putin-style person :)))

A poor crazy liar and provocateur. ;-) Vkontakte messenger now is the

Fake news, Sasha-boy :) You're just like our old idiot Putin - telling absolute bollocks every time you open your gob :)

1. I am not poor - I'm doing alright actually, especially compared to you ;)
2. I am not crazy - Russia officially allows me to have weapons :)
3. I am always telling the truth and you're constantly parroting Russian propaganda, which is so badly made that only old idiots in Russia believe it :)
4. I am not a provocateur - it's your lovely Putin's regime that's created a situation where you can get jailed up for 10 years just for saying something in favour of Ukraine!

main mean of communication for the Russian people and their relatives abroad, voice calls including.

Fake news again :) Only tech-illiterate people use it when they've got no other option - I'm personally giving VPN access to hundreds of Russians (for free) to use WhatsApp and Signal, because VKontakte messages can be bought from corrupt FSB officers for a fistful of dollars ;))

Best regards,
dp.

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Hi, Dmitry -- on Jan 14 2026 at 14:58, you wrote:

Wednesday January 14 2026 09:50, you wrote to me:

Sounds funny when a guy from a country where the Tor Browser is
blocked advises others to use it :)
Sasha-boy, you are such a putin-style person :)))

This kind of personal attack, along with your other comments to Alexander, has no place in this echo. We don't do politics, religion, or other controversial topics here. Please take your disagreement with <insert name here> to some other echo; don't drag them into here.

Thank you

Cheers... Dallas
Moderator

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Hello, Dallas!

Wednesday January 14 2026 10:46, you wrote to me:

Sounds funny when a guy from a country where the Tor Browser is
blocked advises others to use it :)
Sasha-boy, you are such a putin-style person :)))

This kind of personal attack, along with your other comments to
Alexander, has no place in this echo. We don't do politics, religion,

So you'd rather spread lies, as Alexander is doing here, then?
Is "spreading disinformation and promoting mass surveillance" actually Canada's modern agenda? Trump was right?

Best regards,
dp.

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Hi, Dmitry -- on Jan 14 2026 at 19:23, you wrote:

So you'd rather spread lies, as Alexander is doing here, then? Is "spreading disinformation and promoting mass surveillance" actually Canada's modern agenda? Trump was right?

You have obviously misunderstood the purpose of this echo. Please consider youself no longer welcome here. Future messages from you will go unanswered and deleted.

Dallas Hinton
Co-Moderator

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Hello, Dallas!

Wednesday January 14 2026 22:10, you wrote to me:

So you'd rather spread lies, as Alexander is doing here, then? Is
"spreading disinformation and promoting mass surveillance"
actually Canada's modern agenda? Trump was right?

You have obviously misunderstood the purpose of this echo. Please

You have clearly misunderstood the purpose of your existence!

As Churchill declared: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"(C).

If you have personally chosen to capitulate to disinformation and falsehoods and allowed the English language to cease being the language of Freedom - that is your personal choice, not the choice of others who wield this language in the fight for truth!

Canada has evidently become a refuge for the lily-livered! Meanwhile, the UK remains steadfast and resolute.

So let me instruct you in proper British English, rather than the insipid North American dialect of Canada.

Best regards,
dp.

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So you'd rather spread lies, as Alexander is doing here, then?

Maybe you and Alexander could both move to a more appropriate echo to
continue the debate/discussion? Here are a few FIDO suggestions:

ALL-POLITICS
CONTROVERSIAL
DEBATE
POLITICS
POL_DISORDER

That way you can continue your discussion freely with others who might be interested.

Mike


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Hello, Mike!

Thursday January 15 2026 10:24, you wrote to me:

Maybe you and Alexander could both move to a more appropriate echo to continue the debate/discussion? Here are a few FIDO suggestions:

I will be more than happy if he stops posting fake news in this echo. Sounds grammatically correct, right?

Best regards,
dp.

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Maybe you and Alexander could both move to a more appropriate echo to continue the debate/discussion? Here are a few FIDO suggestions:

I will be more than happy if he stops posting fake news in this echo. Sounds grammatically correct, right?

It is correct as far as I can tell. ;)

Mike


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Hello, Mike!

Thursday January 15 2026 20:10, you wrote to me:

I will be more than happy if he stops posting fake news in this
echo. Sounds grammatically correct, right?

It is correct as far as I can tell. ;)

Amazing!


And if I may say something about English - I was amazed by the enormous amount of terms used to describe different sea regions. We have almost zero analogues in Russian - the British were in fact great sailors:

Trade Winds
Roaring Forties
Furious Fifties
Screaming Sixties
Horse Latitudes
Doldrums
Westerlies
etc.

Or the classical:

The sun is over the yardarm.

My favorite ;)

Nothing even close exists in the Russian language.

Best regards,
dp.

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And if I may say something about English - I was amazed by the enormous amount
of terms used to describe different sea regions. We have almost zero analogues
in Russian - the British were in fact great sailors:

Trade Winds
Roaring Forties
Furious Fifties
Screaming Sixties
Horse Latitudes
Doldrums
Westerlies
etc.

Or the classical:

The sun is over the yardarm.

My favorite ;)

Nothing even close exists in the Russian language.

Intersting observation. I have heard many of those English terms, but only know what some of them mean. Others I am not so sure about. ;)

Mike


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Hello, Mike!

Friday January 16 2026 08:42, you wrote to me:

The sun is over the yardarm.

My favorite ;)

Nothing even close exists in the Russian language.

Intersting observation. I have heard many of those English terms, but only know what some of them mean. Others I am not so sure about. ;)

I also think English is much richer than other languages in several other areas:

1. Law.
2. Business
3. Sport
4. IT/telecom

Basically, in areas where English-speaking countries were very advanced.

Best regards,
dp.

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Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:

Wouldn't open for me even 128-tailed FireFox (115.31.0esr),
not to mention such decent browsers as Dillo[1] or
Kristall[2]. JavaS'creep to blame!

Hmm. It is a well known "Vkontakte" messenger and video is
there.

Yes, I know.

Maybe, if you tried to see it at your office you could meet
the messenger blocking -- a very usual policy now in many
offices, at least in Russia now.

Nope -- my employer does not employ any such blocking. The
problem is that these "apps"[1] are what I call web-trash,
authored by web-destroyers. They only work in major browsers,
and even then stop working as soon as you skip a few updates
-- the proverbial upgrade treadmill! There is total and
universal abuse of Javas'Creep, and I am thankful to websites
that raise awareness of it, e.g.:

<https://eldritchdata.neocities.org/>

In the way of messengers, I should consider IRC (+ZNC),
deltachat, and mailing lists (e.g. GNU Mailman2). Failing those,
there are "contemporary" solutions, such as the XMPP protocol.

For privacy and anonymity, I recommend:

GNUPG : <https://gnupg.org/> and
OmniMix: <https://danner-net.de/omd.htm>

There are builds of GPG that still work on my Windows XP,
and my mail client (Sylpheed) has excellent integration
with gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.9 (Gpg4win 1.1.4) . Omnimix supports
Windows XP as well.

You can try Tor browser -- it still allows watch what you
like to.

Yes, I am using it with some bridges I recevied in response to
an e-mail to bridges@torproject.org . But then again, this Tor
Browser is based on Firefox, so it is not updating on older
versions of Windows, even post-XP. I am also using SOCKS5
proxies with browsers, e-mail, IRC, and Usenet clients, because
our blessed govt. are blocking or throttling all my IRC, NNTP,
SSH, and IMAP connections (except Gmail!).

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1. <https://koshka.love/babel/words-i-hate.html>

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Hi, Anton Shepelev!
I read your message from 31.01.2026 18:46

Wouldn't open for me even 128-tailed FireFox (115.31.0esr), not
to mention such decent browsers as Dillo[1] or Kristall[2].
JavaS'creep to blame!

Hmm. It is a well known "Vkontakte" messenger and video is there.

Yes, I know.

Maybe, if you tried to see it at your office you could meet the
messenger blocking -- a very usual policy now in many offices, at
least in Russia now.

Nope -- my employer does not employ any such blocking. The problem
is that these "apps"[1] are what I call web-trash, authored by web- destroyers. They only work in major browsers, and even then stop
working as soon as you skip a few updates -- the proverbial upgrade treadmill! There is total and universal abuse of Javas'Creep, and I
am thankful to websites that raise awareness of it, e.g.:

<https://eldritchdata.neocities.org/>

(I was impressed to see the PGP SIGNATURE ;-))

I agreed that after the programmers gave up smoking their programs started demand constant bug removing and updating. I remember the time when the smokers made good operating systems in assembler codes! ;-)

But as a Russian proverb says "If you live among wolves you should howl like them." ;-) The the world is not perfect, but surely there are some people who are not very bad, and you can make some efforts and use the modern means of communication software. :)

In the way of messengers, I should consider IRC (+ZNC), deltachat,
and mailing lists (e.g. GNU Mailman2). Failing those, there
are "contemporary" solutions, such as the XMPP protocol.

Vkontanke like Facebook is not just a messenger -- it creates your own space in the Internet where you can post different materials for the wide auditory. You can make friends, join different groups etc.

For privacy and anonymity, I recommend:
GNUPG : <https://gnupg.org/> and
OmniMix: <https://danner-net.de/omd.htm>

Well, but I don't need any additional privacy or anonymity. At least unless I start a big political activity. ;-) But, IMHO, from another side -- any anonymous opinion worths much less than an opinion of a concrete person.

There are builds of GPG that still work on my Windows XP, and my
mail client (Sylpheed) has excellent integration with gpg (GnuPG)
1.4.9 (Gpg4win 1.1.4). Omnimix supports Windows XP as well.

I don't like AI. It a useless thing, unless you want to undress somebody. ;=) Even such a thing as robot call centers make me mad.

You can try Tor browser -- it still allows watch what you like to.

Yes, I am using it with some bridges I recevied in response to an
e-mail to bridges@torproject.org. But then again, this Tor Browser
is based on Firefox, so it is not updating on older versions of
Windows, even post-XP.

I am also using SOCKS5 proxies with browsers, e-mail, IRC, and

AS Usenet clients, because our blessed govt. are blocking or
AS throttling all my IRC, NNTP, SSH, and IMAP connections (except
AS Gmail!).

NNTP you use when you use Tommy's fidogate. Tor indeed is based on Firefox, but it works well at least on Windows 7, even if it tells that there are no more updates available on this operation system.

I use my desktop only for old things, FIDO, for instance or CBuilder -- my old friend ;-). If I need bank applications and something like that I use modern smart phones and update the important apps often. And I recommend you that, too.

Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2026

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Hello, Alexander!

Monday February 02 2026 09:33, you wrote to Anton Shepelev:

I agreed that after the programmers gave up smoking their programs
started demand constant bug removing and updating. I remember the time when the smokers made good operating systems in assembler codes! ;-)

I don't remember any good original Soviet operating systems, they were all trash.

Vkontanke like Facebook is not just a messenger -- it creates your own

VK is a messenger for Russian idiots - our FSB has very simple tools to search through all user-generated content and people are constantly getting jailed for writing via VK.

Well, but I don't need any additional privacy or anonymity. At least

You don't need anything that is not allowed by our totalitarian State. That's fair!



Best regards,
dp.

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