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kravietz

@kravietz@agora.echelon.pl

I run an information security consulting company in the UK and EU. Long ago I studied chemical engineering, still interested in science and engineering (pro-nuclear and pro-renewables) and politics of EU and Eastern Europe. I mostly post in English, occasionally in Polish, which is my native language, sometimes also in Russian and Ukrainian. I've been to Russia and Ukraine a lot over the last ~20 years, actively supporting Ukraine's defense effort since 2014. I almost always follow back. I prefer to discuss any views as long as they are supported by arguments and evidence, I do ban for insults and hate speech. Once 2:486/23 on #Fidonet

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Zenek73, to random Polish
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Zastanawiam się nad telefonem DECT internetowym. Mam już jeden u rodziny od Fritz! Jest coś fajnego w posiadaniu numeru domowego. Bo tak zawsze dzwonisz do Tomasza czy Mariolki a ty chcesz zadzwonić do Państwa Kowalskich.

kravietz,
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@Zenek73

Miałem taki przez wiele lat bo mieszkam w UK a chciałem mieć polski numer dla rodziny, ahem, mniej ogarniętej cyfrowo. Numer miałem z ipfon.pl i kosztowało to grosze. Bramek VoIP na tradycyjny telefon jest sporo i działa to fajnie.

kravietz, to random
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A little known event from #USSR that happened 91 years ago, in May 1933. It’s hard to imagine any country could do it, but Soviets did - they dumped 6700 people on an uninhabited island on a river in Siberia… and left them there for 13 weeks with no food, tools or even clothes. 4000 people died, with the survivors resorting to widespread violence and cannibalism.

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

kravietz, (edited ) to random Polish
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Taka drobna obserwacja, sprowokowana przez ostatni post @szescstopni o “gipsowym dysku bioenergetycznym”.

Ukraiński biznes czeka jeszcze sporo nieprzyjemnych niespodzianek przed wstąpieniem do Unii - o jednej z nich codziennie przypominają mi ukraińskie stacje radiowe, gdzie nagminnie reklamują się producenci różnych magicznych remediów, leczących raka, kataraktę, impotencję i w ogóle wszystkie choroby świata.

W Polsce temat jest trochę zapomniany bo odpowiednia regulacja zakazująca umieszczania w opisach produktów spożywczych deklaracji o charakterze medycznym bez naukowego dowodu na takie działanie weszła jeszcze w 2009 roku. Oczywiście, w atmosferze wielkiej gównoburzy, którą wtedy producenci magicznych olejków sprytnie przeprowadzili pod hasłem “Unia zakaże ogródków przydomowych!” Jeżeli macie déjà vu to dlatego, że niedawno “Konfederacja” też używała tego hasła do dyskredytowania UE.

Wtedy, w 2009 roku, narracja była budowana na tej zasadzie, że skoro UE zakazuje reklamowania proszku z suszonej kapusty jako “leku na raka” (ten etap skrzętnie pomijali), to jest to równoważne z ograniczeniem sprzedaży “naturalnych suplementów” (co było logiczne, bo mało kto kupi suszoną kapustę jak będzie na niej napisane po prostu “suszona kapusta, nie leczy nic”), co jest równoważne z zakazem hodowli własnych ziół (w sumie nie wiadomo dlaczego), co jest równoważne z zakazem uprawy przydomowych ogródków w ogóle (bo dobrze brzmi).

Oczywiście, to że te niespodzianki będą nieprzyjemne dla biznesu nie znaczy, że będą one nieprzyjemne dla konsumentów - wprost przeciwnie. Tego typu “przedsiębiorczość” ma skłonność do stawiania zaporowych cen a dzięki namolnej i kłamliwej reklamie prowadzi do drenowania kieszeni ludzi, którzy już są zazwyczaj w tragicznej sytuacji bo mało kto sięga po “alternatywne terapie” będąc zdrowym.

kravietz, to Russia
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channel coordinating the work of trolls called “Digital Army of Russia” has posted a task: on Victory Day, remind the people of Eastern Europe what nightmares the German “Plan Ost” was preparing for them, from which the saved them: physical extermination, genocide by means of artificially induced famine, deportation of masses of people to Siberia, the Caucasus, etc., extermination of educated elites.

That certainly sounds terrible, but there is only one minor problem: most of these genocidal policies were carried out by the USSR itself. Mass executions (Katyn, liquidation of NKVD prisons, the Great Purge), the Ukrainian Holodomor, the deportation of hundreds of thousands of people to the same Siberia (including, for example, the ‘Polish NKVD operation’), mass murder of the intellectual elites of Poland, Baltics, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia itself. There’s simply no crime against humanity that the Soviets wouldn’t commit in Eastern Europe during the 70 years of their ruling.

Russian trolls shot themselves in the foot simply because they are unaware of all these colonial and genocidal policies of the USSR - this knowledge appeared in Russian education system briefly during 1990-2000’s but then was gradually reverted and NGOs documenting the historic repressions (e.g. “Memorial”) outlawed.

szescstopni, to random
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Found this weird plaster disk going through old junk and it brought memories of really bad times. I bought it over 20 years ago for something like a quarter of my monthly income, but my partner insisted. It was supposed to cure her cancer. Of course it didn't, but it gave her a bit hope. The things that helped were surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. She lived four or five years longer than the doctors initially expected. I was going to throw the disk out, but it turns out it helps to prevent diseases. We keep in on a small table on our porch. When we come home with , our dogs, from a walk through meadows and forests we sit at the table, smoke cigarettes, and pick ticks from the dogs. We put the ticks on the table and crush them with the disk. So it prevents boreliosis, babesiosis, and a number of other tick-carried diseases. A bit expensive device – we used cheap plastic lighter to crush ticks, but somehow this is more satisfying. And it's a good reminder – fuck quacks who make money on useless magical cures.

kravietz,
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@szescstopni

Moi rodzice też taki kupili wtedy 🤩

kravietz,
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@szescstopni

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

bperruche, to random
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We flixbusie światła nie ma. To sobie poczytałem. A niech pierón trzaśnięcie podróże na budżecie. Bieda upokarza...

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

kravietz,
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@bperruche

I co, może jeszcze nie masz apteczki? 😆

…

Nie masz?! 😳

kravietz,
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@bperruche

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

kravietz,
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@bperruche

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

kravietz,
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@bperruche

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

kravietz,
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@bperruche

A to niedaleko, na weekend nawet można 😃

Fotoptikon, to random Polish
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Znajomy lekarz:

  • No cóż, może wystąpi u ciebie samoistne wyzdrowienie pomimo usiłowań lekarzy.

kravietz,
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@Fotoptikon

Mój ulubiony mem z Runetu:

kravietz, to Russia
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Demilitarisation and denazification in pictures — 9 May victory parade in 2021 and 2024.

Source: Money and Rounds

kravietz,
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@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.

opendna, to random
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Been reading Machiavelli again and it has me wondering what's the best play for Biden re Gaza.

Leaving Hamas in power is undesirable; they reliably regrow and cause problems. Permanent Israeli occupation of Gaza is undesirable; occupation by an alien force will be non-stop problems. If Fatah controlled Gaza, that might be... okay?

Machiavelli would suggest giving Gaza to Fatah would create a weak state, but allowing Fatah to defeat Hamas in Rafah would create a stronger state.

kravietz,
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@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, (edited ) to random
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Soviet actor Georgi Burkov in his memoirs first released in 1998 (found by Maxim Mirovich):

The Bolsheviks need the atomic bomb to stay in power, i.e. against their own people. It won’t be long before they start blackmailing the whole world, so that the whole world begs us, the people, not to make a revolution and to tolerate these ghouls and support them

Very much to the point both then and now.

kravietz,
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@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, (edited )
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@SeverianX

US dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to instantly end WW2 which otherwise could take years, costing the Allies thousands of their own soldiers. Japan could have surrendered before the bombs but they chose not to and preferred to fanatically fight to the last soldier. Soviets put the lives of thousands of their own citizens at risk… essentially out of curiosity.

But this is not the point of what Burkov said: what he describes is the utterly degenerate nature of the Soviet system which was oppressing primarily its own citizens and blackmailing Western powers to be allowed to continue the oppression. Burkov knew what he was talking about, because he was a Soviet citizen himself. And the similarities to today’s Russia are numerous.

@pthenq1

kravietz,
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@SeverianX

As a reminder, USSR joined US and UK in the war on Japan in February 1945. In July 1945 the Allies (including USSR) called Japan to surrender, which they duly ignored. US dropped nuclear weapons only in August, which was followed by Japan’s capitulation in September.

@pthenq1

kravietz,
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@SeverianX

Of course, because Rosenbergs haven’t stolen them yet. Other than that Soviets never had any reservations against killing large numbers of people, in 1930’s they’ve just starved a million of people to death and then jailed and executed another million.

kravietz,
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@SeverianX

I’m sure you didn’t know about this one, for example:

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

kravietz,
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@SeverianX

If you’re unironically reading Illuminati articles then I guess even book encyclopaedia won’t help you 🤷

feld, to random
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This is making the rounds re: Signal being run by activists of the US state dept for regime change

https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher-problem

kravietz,
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@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

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@thatguyoverthere

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

@feld

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