kravietz

kravietz, 7 hours ago

@szescstopni

Moi rodzice też taki kupili wtedy 🤩

kravietz, 7 hours ago

@szescstopni

To niesamowite bo mają dokładnie taki sam. To przecież prosty odlew gipsowy, a ludzie to kupowali.

kravietz, 7 hours ago

@bperruche Bo się ma czytnik z podświetlaniem (nowocześnie) albo czołówkę (oldskulowo) ☝️

kravietz, 7 hours ago

@bperruche

I co, może jeszcze nie masz apteczki? 😆

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Nie masz?! 😳

kravietz, 7 hours ago

@bperruche

Nie no, to i tak pro 👍Ale tak bez czołówki? A co jak, dajmy na to, będzie ciemno?

kravietz, 7 hours ago

@bperruche

No jak nie, zapraszam do Walii! Wcześniej nie zapraszałem bo leje od października nonstop ale teraz zapraszam.

kravietz, 7 hours ago

@bperruche

Ja do Francji to w ciemno. Na południowym wybrzeżu, jeżeli dobrze pamiętam?

kravietz, 6 hours ago

@bperruche

A to niedaleko, na weekend nawet można 😃

kravietz, 7 hours ago

@Fotoptikon

Mój ulubiony mem z Runetu:

kravietz, 8 hours ago

@feld It’s not like they’re literally “running out” (approaching zero) but their resources are highly depleted and being replaced slowly. IIRC out of the ~3000 tanks Russia had in working order in 2022 there’s now zero left, but they of course had more in long-term storage which they’re now restoring, plus ~400 new produced per year. It’s now war of attrition where the speed of repleting resources is what wins - fortunately, on the economic side Russia isn’t looking too well either.

kravietz, 9 hours ago

@opendna

Technically, Fatah is just one party in Palestinian Autonomy Authority, just as it was Hamas until its armed coup in 2007. Removing Hamas from Gaza would just return it to its pre-coup state.

kravietz, 8 hours ago

@SeverianX

The Totskoye nuclear exercise was a military exercise undertaken by the Soviet Army to explore defensive and offensive warfare during nuclear war. The exercise, under the code name “Snowball” (Russian: Снежок, romanized: Snezhok), involved an aerial detonation of a 40 kt[1] RDS-4 nuclear bomb. The stated goal of the operation was military training for breaking through heavily fortified defensive lines of a military opponent using nuclear weapons.[2][3] An army of 45,000 soldiers marched through the area around the hypocenter soon after the nuclear blast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totskoye_nuclear_exercise

From 1949 to 1989, residents of the former Soviet oblast of Semipalatinsk lived under the shadow of a mushroom cloud. Over that time, at least 456 nuclear devices – both atmospheric and underground – were detonated at the 18,000-square-kilometer site known as Semipalatinsk-21.

https://www.rferl.org/a/soviet_nuclear_testing_semipalatinsk_20th_anniversary/24311518.html

@pthenq1

kravietz, 12 hours ago

@feld

U.S.-supported Color Revolutions abroad.

This is 100% Russian propaganda language and the whole article is built on this narrative 🤮

kravietz, 12 hours ago

@feld

And?

kravietz, 11 hours ago

@feld

The problem is that the article does not point to any specific surveillance or backdoor issues in Signal code which, as we all know, is open-source. It does not even point to any specific legal or organisational issues which could lead to tampering the software. And because the author does not have any such arguments, the whole premise of the article is built on top “look, she worked there” and the rest is left to the reader and their personal paranoias 🤷

And these references to “regime changes” and “color revolutions” only confirm author’s own political bias and highly insulting to everyone in these countries where people fought for their own freedom.

Adding Durov’s quote on top of that is rather ironic, as the messenger is known to cooperate with FSB requests and completely opaque as it comes to its operations and server-side code.

kravietz, 11 hours ago

@feld

Telegram provides reproducible build instructions

Client-side only, because server-side is closed source. Telegram client by default doesn’t use E2EE and it had a rather serious backdoor in its proprietary encryption scheme so I don’t think it’s the hill to die for :)

kravietz, 11 hours ago

@feld

in which crypto fits into America’s imperial machine

Okay, let’s just stop here… Everybody can use whatever messenger they like, if Levine prefers he can use VK or Telegram to discuss his paranoid ramblings. I will stick to Signal and Matrix.

kravietz, 7 hours ago

@Hyolobrika

Many. Good summary:

Matsapulina’s case is hardly an isolated one, though it is especially unsettling. Over the past year, numerous dissidents across Russia have found their Telegram accounts seemingly monitored or compromised. Hundreds have had their Telegram activity wielded against them in criminal cases. Perhaps most disturbingly, some activists have found their “secret chats”—Telegram’s purportedly ironclad, end-to-end encrypted feature—behaving strangely, in ways that suggest an unwelcome third party might be eavesdropping. These cases have set off a swirl of conspiracy theories, paranoia, and speculation among dissidents, whose trust in Telegram has plummeted. In many cases, it’s impossible to tell what’s really happening to people’s accounts—whether spyware or Kremlin informants have been used to break in, through no particular fault of the company; whether Telegram really is cooperating with Moscow; or whether it’s such an inherently unsafe platform that the latter is merely what appears to be going on.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-kremlin-has-entered-the-chat/

The main problem with Telegram is lack of E2EE by default, you have to specifically set these “secure chats” and it’s burdensome enough to discourage users from doing it. And the above paragraph talks about these “secure” chats being compromised.

@feld

kravietz, 7 hours ago

@thatguyoverthere

From personal experience (albeit from 1980’s), it’s quite easy to distinguish:

• a protest that lasts months, with specific, reasonable political postulates, continued regardless of arrests and police violence is unlikely to be driven by an external force or disinformation - think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan
• a protest that is intense but short-lived, with no reasonable postulates is likely to be driven by external disinformation or sponsored - think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_case_of_Lisa_F.

@feld

kravietz, 12 hours ago

@rato Are you serious? There’s a war going on but your main concern is “poor people” who illegally try to cross from Belarus, country participating in the war and hosting hundreds of “Wagner” soldiers? How do you know who these “poor people” even are? If they’re actual economic migrants, how did they appear in Belarus in the middle of war?

kravietz, 12 hours ago

@rato

Once again, it’s 2024. There’s a war going on for two years now. How do you know who are the people storming the border today?

kravietz, 11 hours ago

@rato

This is 10 April 2024, a group of over 200 people, exclusively men, mostly masked and well equipped, literally stormed the border fence, engaging in fight with Polish border guards. In the past they routinely attacked Polish guards with strobe lights, tear gas, stun grenades and other non-lethal weapons usually only available to special forces. You seem to have missed two years of updates, as there’s no families, women or children seen on the border since the war started. You have no idea who these young men are, some could be actual migrants, some could be “Wagner” soldiers.