kravietz 🦇

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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2025-03-21 14:49:56

#Russia opposition activist Alexandr Skobov was today sentenced to 16 years in prison for his anti-war position, which was equated to “terrorism” by the court. Here’s his final statement:
I will not dwell on the fact that the organisation in which I have the honour to be a member - the Free Russia Forum - is referred to by the investigation as a terrorist community, although there is no decision of any state body recognising the Free Russia Forum as such a community yet. So for now we are just an undesirable organisation. But such petty cheating by my armed opponent is of little interest to me. I try to talk about important things.
And the important thing here is the platform of the Free Russia Forum, in the development of which I took a direct part and which distinguishes the Free Russia Forum from the majority of other opposition groups and organisations. Let me remind you that this platform can be summarised into three points. First. We stand for the unconditional return to Ukraine of all its internationally recognised territories occupied by Russia, including Crimea. Yes, Crimea is Ukraine.
Second. We support all those who are fighting to achieve this goal, including citizens of the Russian Federation who have voluntarily joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And third. We recognise any form of struggle against Putin’s tyranny inside Russia, including armed struggle. Of course, we are deeply disgusted by the methods of ISIS, when innocent people are targeted, as was the case in Crocus City.
But are legitimate targets of the Kremlin’s war propagandists? The Free Russia Forum has not specifically discussed this question or passed any resolutions on it. Therefore, in this case I am expressing solely my personal position. I believe that propagandists such as the TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, for example, deserve the same treatment that Hitler’s propagandist Julius Streicher received when he was hanged by the Nuremberg Tribunal. Until these outcasts of the human race are in the hands of the new Nuremberg Tribunal, the war continues. They are legitimate targets of combat operations.
The comparison between Putin’s propagandists and Hitler’s propagandists is not a purely rhetorical device for me. Much of my writing and speeches are devoted to proving the Nazi nature of Putin’s regime, with which peaceful co-existence is impossible in principle.
I have appealed and am appealing, first and foremost, to Europe to remember the origins of the current European system. Since 1945, Europe has been building a world in which predators should no longer be the masters of life. A world based on the principles of law, justice, freedom, humanism. Europe had achieved much on this path, and seemed to be rid of massacres and territorial redistributions forever. Europe used to think that this safe and prosperous world of itss was securely protected by a big and strong ally across the ocean.
Today this world is being torn to pieces by two scoundrels on both sides - the Kremlin and Washington. In the United States of America, people with a pro-fascist value orientation have come to power. We are witnessing a disgusting attempt at a purely imperialist collusion between two predators. An even more despicable collusion than the Munich conspiracy of 1938. If Putin’s annexations are legalised, it will spell disaster for civilisation. Europe, you have been betrayed. Wake up and go fight for your world! Death to the Russian fascist invaders! Death to Putin, the new Hitler, murderer and scoundrel! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes! With these words I usually end my speech.
But today I will be asked whether I plead guilty. So, here I accuse, I accuse the ruling Putin clique, stinking with corpses, of preparing, unleashing and waging a war of aggression, of war crimes in Ukraine, of political terror in Russia, of defilement of my people. And this is what I am asking the servants of Putin’s regime present here, who are small wheels and cogs of his repressive machine: do you plead guilty of complicity in Putin’s crimes? Do you repent of your complicity? That’s it for me now.
Original: https://t.me/Netvru/36955 (in Russian)

2025-03-05 15:11:56

Very sober assessment on all points
https://youtu.be/CMI6tc05Jzk?si=85bOW2PcH-j...

2025-01-09 12:26:04

My instance will be temporarily down for #FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE upgrade 🥳 This applies to Akkoma and PeerTube.

2025-01-08 12:55:52

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@nprofile…j5j7 100% agreed

2024-12-19 15:11:52

The fact that #Putin is doing his annual “open questions” show with 155th Marines Brigade in the background says more than any of his words. That’s the unit responsible for war crimes in Bucha and ISIS style beheadings of POWs in Kursk oblast.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/c7aea2369615524a9917e8d0cdf73d005643cc4859d0681f3ad76c6bc7388e00.file?name=2tcUPFwMVigXrQ.file

2024-12-10 09:23:20

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The key messages here seem to be - and you may disagree because it’s entirely subjective divination - that “Russia is close to achieving the SMO goals” and it’s not interested in prolonged attrition war. The first in reality means that Kremlin is ready to announce that the whole goal of the SMO was to capture say Kurakhove, for its eternally strategic value, and once it’s been achieved, declare total victory.

2024-12-10 09:14:02

#Russia head of foreign intelligence Sergey Naryshkin announced today that ‘Russia is close to achieving the goals set for the SMO [special military operation]’ because ‘Ukrainian forces are on the verge of collapse’ and the West has ‘failed to provoke the situation in Russia’. Most interestingly, however, Naryshkin says at the same time that ‘it is the West that is trying to impose a prolonged war on Russia’ in order to ‘provoke a colour revolution’ - the one that the sentence earlier it ‘failed to provoke’.
I don’t know if the Kremlin appointed Naryshkin to preach this nonsense as punishment for him hesitating on 21 February 2022, not to mention that he is the head of foreign intelligence (SVR) and not defence or foreign minister to make such declarations.
Perhaps the fact that the head of the SVR is just saying this means that this is a deliberate strategic communication representing some kind of offer to the West? Or is Naryshkin the last Russian politician tolerated by Western diplomacy?
The claim that the West is trying to impose a prolonged war on Russia is of course absurd but above all contradicts recent statements by Lavrov and Putin that the war is going so perfectly that no ceasefire is out of the question.
Nonetheless, it seems like some ice has cracked and started to move, we just don’t know where to…
Source: https://tass.ru/politika/22625025 (in Russian)

2024-12-07 14:22:39

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So, what outcomes are possible?
If the result is that Russian control will eventually spill over into Europe then from evolutionary point of view, their system will be ‘right’ and this European concept of the rule of law and human rights will prove to be an interesting but short lived mutation.
I don’t want to use the cheap example of lawmakers fiercely discussing well-being of cows while thousands of people inside EU are living in barn-like conditions and thousands of people outside of EU borders die of bombs… but I will actually use it. This kind of social alienation also is a kind of trait, for one because it increases the perception of inequality and destroys social cohesion, which gives birth to populist movements.
If, as a result of the new outbreak of Russian imperialism, Russia collapses, it means that their imperialism was a feature that impaired their ability for successful growth and was disadvantageous at this particular environmental context. That means our vision of civilisation has indeed proven right.
It is possible that Russia will survive in some badly bruised form and will have to reinvent itself, because it too is subject to all these evolutionary processes. Russian society may transform either into one focused more on its own well-being, that’s one way - or quite the opposite, one that is even more revanchist and aggressive.
And there is also the possibility that if not Russia, then there will be someone else testing our ideas for living. In biology, predators and parasites function as part of evolution and not apart from it.
Especially the role of the former is important, as they eliminate weak organisms. Nestor Makhno or Socialist-Revolutionaries in 1920’s Ukraine and Russia may have had great ideas on how to live, but they did not. They were almost literally eaten by a violent, determined and highly organised predator - the Bolsheviks.
In a social context, one thing that makes society “weak” is the loss of their internal cohesion and some kind of guiding idea that unites individuals and is what differentiates a society from a crowd of random individuals gathered in one place.
So, in summary, I don’t think Russia is in any degree “world’s cancer” understood as an extraordinary disruption of mechanisms of social evolution. Majority of what Russia did in 20th-21st century was due to the inability of its adversaries (or victims - call it what you want) to come up with a more effective strategy for survival and execute it.

2024-12-07 14:14:38

This banner, albeit likely purely metaphorical, made me think about the biological analogy here.
Note: if your first thought is “OMG social Darwinism”, it’s not - that ideology rather primitively applies strictly biological “dog eat dog” logic to human society[^1], while the actual evolutionary processes of societies are humbly studied and referred to as sociocultural evolution.[^2]
So, is #Russia really “world’s cancer”? The actual biological cancer is the result of a disruption of the mechanisms of control of cell division in a healthy organism, which have been developed by millenia of evolution. The disruption may be caused by environmental factors (mutagenic chemicals, radiation), biological factors (inflammation) or completely random mutations. There’s a few conditions here for a mutation (however caused) to develop into cancer, but that’s another story.
The idea that Russia exists somehow aside of the evolution would perfectly play with the old myth of Russian “uniqueness”, but it would also require another popular myth to be true.
Specifically, it would be the utopia that the current socio-economic system in Europe or the USA is the end of history and an ideal on which social evolution stops for all time.
I’ve asked myself a question: is a society in which people have to pay $400 a month for insulin an ideal which I would like to last forever? Okay, so let’s rather go on evolving…
The biological evolution is based on constant mutations that confront the environment and either give their carrier an advantage or not. Christianity, democracy and Enlightenment were such “mutations”, where societies invented new ways of organising themselves - and gained massive advantages.
But Russia is subject to social evolution just like any other society, it operates within the global evolution rather than somehow disrupting it. Russian kleptocracy is also certainly such an “evolutionary trait”, which, thanks to the wild money greedy British and European financial sector, has given Russian elites political influence in Europe and financial security at home.
Russian imperialism, too, is such a trait, which has flourished only thanks to the highly receptive Gerhard Schroeders of our time, and from the Russian point of view it absolutely worked. If not for Putin’s absolutely disastrous decision of 2022 Russia would continue accumulating enormous wealth, accessible to the lucky few, and enormous political influence on EU. From evolutionary point of view, they could grow forever, with serf-like society that never rebels.
Naturally, this particular social trait also holds the seeds of its collapse - inability to correct things that look like a mistake, mostly because they are a mistake. Popular Russian “wisdom” says “once we entered the fight, we need to fight till the end”. Many Russian political commentators literally use it on the single breath after confirming 2022 was a huge mistake.
But there’s a second side to this equation - the fact that Russian imperialism works is also only thanks to the weakness of European societies, which have made of the phrase “let someone else do something” an unofficial creed for the 21st century… this is precisely the process of social evolution that we are watching from the inside.
Putin’s decision was also an evolutionary one - to be precise, it tested the resolve of a system based on high-risk choices made by a narrow, authoritarian circle of command.
What happens next? Different outcomes are possible.
(continued)
[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism
[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocultural_evolution
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2024-11-29 17:11:36

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@nprofile…92y4
Absolutely yes, and if the tax man comes you can always argue it’s to survive the blackouts 🤷
@nprofile…63md @nprofile…7hh7

2024-11-29 17:06:48

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@nprofile…7hh7
That’s a great case study I need to find and suggest to my colleagues who do hypothermia training in mountain rescue courses! We’ve done some near-hypothermia exercise outdoors to test various casualty insulation techniques, but never drunk 😉
@nprofile…63md

2024-11-29 16:57:35

A friend from #Ukraine posted a photo of how windows in his Kyiv district look like when there’s a blackout - this one already lasts 6 hours. Some people rely on gas or battery packs, but he started using a bio-ethanol fireplace for heating and basic light.
He says it works surprisingly well in terms of heat produced, which makes sense because ethanol (C2H5OH) has a pretty high energy content of 30 MJ/kg as compared to ~10 MJ/kg for most wood.
Ethanol burns cleanly, producing no ash or carbon monoxide (CO), only water vapour (H2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) so it doesn’t require a chimney. After a while, it will increase humidity in the apartment but with ventilation that most flats have, it won’t deteriorate air quality too much.
The biofuel is unsuitable for consumption as it may also contain highly toxic methanol, but many people in Eastern Europe also distil their own ethanol which is cheap and easy, especially if you have a garden with apples, plums or any other fruits. This is indeed a great way to heat your house at low cost.
At this point my colleague asked “okay, but why do I need a fireplace at all if I have all the moonshine”? But here’s a catch: alcohol, when consumed, does warm you up by the benefit of calories ingested, but then it also dilates your blood vessels leading to much faster heat loss. This is precisely why, when drunk, people get a red face and generally feel very warm. The process of losing heat is much faster than the calories produced from alcohol metabolism so net, you’re losing calories.
If you drink in a properly heated place this is not a problem, but drinking in a cold place in winter is generally bad idea because you first lose all your body heat and then fall asleep due to intoxication, which can be potentially deadly.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/3b46114b3eec594ce76a8699be201f206634d03cfda2b6bb4bf6684269d0b6c5.png?name=Rb1r-Y8v6DF6VA.png
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2024-11-23 12:48:31

#Poland pro-#Russia party “Konfederacja” and “Oszukana Wieś” (Deceived Village) started another protest against 1) local taxation rules, 2) EU-Mercosur proposed agreement. The protest happens on… the border #Ukraine which has literally nothing to do with either of these subjects and happens on the day of remembrance of #Holodomor which killed millions of people in rural Ukraine in 1930’s. It would be difficult to find any more pro-Moscow gesture than this… 🤮
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/e02075efc631e2fbaa1787884146a678f66e4432379f4bacf080c26f7365275f.png?name=n4Awx3KBkwb62A.png

2024-11-21 10:08:58

#Russia had fired RS-26 “Rubezh” ICMB at #Ukraine #Dnipro today which had been received as a “nuclear warning”, because the rocket could “potential carry” a nuclear warhead.
But I don’t think it was the primary objective of the demonstration - one thing that is widely ignored by the Western audience is the sentiments inside Russia. And these are not good, to put that lightly - in the eyes of Russian military hawks, Russia only humiliates itself by voicing horrible threats of what happens when “red lines” are crossed but doing nothing in response. As a reminder, the first “red lines” in 2022 that, in Kremlin’s words, justified nuclear response, were supplies of tanks or aircrafts to Ukraine. Since then, the list of toothless threats only grew.
As it comes to “warnings”, Russia had been pounding Ukraine for three years with Kh-101 missiles, which were also designed to “potentially” carry a thermonuclear warhead.

2024-11-15 18:17:19

Why do I find it unlikely that #Putin is interested in any truce at this stage? Because a truce without recognising the occupied territories and removing sanctions is a death sentence for the Russian economy. And not only that:
the end of the war (truce, ceasefire) is the end of ‘war communism’ with its euphoria and moral boosting in the media
a million men return from the front with PTSD and - above all - first-hand knowledge of the crimes of Russian commanders against their own soldiers, corruption, looting and crimes against Ukrainians; dozens of their relatives, acquaintances etc. learn about it first-hand
these people are returning to cities with failing infrastructure and widespread corruption, and it is highly doubtful that they will let any official yell at them
the attitude of civilian Russians towards the participants of the “SMO” (special military operation) is ambiguous and far from the myth of the ‘hero’ spread in the media
In conclusion, the participants of the ‘SMO’ would return …. to what? To an USSR with its economy as it was in 1970-1980, with galloping inflation, an economy dominated by military industry and a ‘hydrocarbon bonus’ belonging to a long distant past. Those who survived will probably return, and have a sigh of relief…. but what next?
The belief in the inevitability of a truce at this stage stems, in my opinion, from the Western perception of the Russian economic and military situation, which is objectively dire. Any rational government in this situation would seek to save statehood, if only through a truce. But rationality means using logic to deal with the facts in a specific conceptual grid. The fact that the very decision to launch an ‘SMO’ was irrational for us and fully justified for Putin means that he lives in a drastically different conceptual grid in which the preservation of statehood in general is not necessarily the highest value. As Putin himself used to say, ‘why would we even need a world without Russia’ - and he means that Russia without a victorious leader, personified by Putin, is not a ‘proper Russia’ anymore.
The above means, in my opinion, that regardless of the hopes of some of the world’s leaders, no truce will take place any time soon, primarily because in the formula I described above (without the removal of sanctions) it would benefit everyone except Putin in the long run. And Putin does not want a formula that benefits anyone but him. In his conceptual grid, win-win does not exist.
Unless Trump’s and the EU/NATO’s intentions include some actually treacherous towards Ukraine plan for the allies to capitulate to Moscow in order to force Ukraine’s surrender (after a long and extremely bloody resistance on its part) then the war, even with the current, relatively ‘lukewarm’, level of military and economic support for #Ukraine, will have to drag on for a few more years, but will end in the actual collapse of Russia as it did in 1991.

2024-10-28 09:49:36

#Poland President Duda responded to calls from some Western politicians who say #Ukraine should accept the loss of certain territories:
If you are so generous to Russia, why not give a piece of your land? Why should any sovereign country satisfy Russia? On what grounds does Russia deserve something — especially someone else’s territory?
Original: https://www.prezydent.pl/aktualnosci/wypowiedzi-prezydenta-rp/wywiady/wywiad-prezydenta-rp-dla-the-sunday-times,93375 (in Polish, but originally appeared in The Sunday Times in English)

2024-10-12 17:36:46

Parcel locker service reached Moscow #Russia, someone describes their user experience “you can a QR code, they issue orders, parcels” and ends with a clear sense of ultimate superiority “now show me something like this in Europe! not to mention Ukraine”. They just simply can’t do anything without highlighting their absolute supremacy in everything 🤷 Except I don’t know about other countries, but in Poland first such machines appeared in 2011 😂 And I just now checked - in #Ukraine it was 2014 🤷
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/2926e33d47d25a1cf18186ae3e2ceb69200f8f4a6530b7562de50edce30a1305.png?name=1Qeipa-LrjS1rA.png

2024-10-07 09:30:50

#Linux hint - if you’re using #nftables and #Docker you’ve probably noticed they mess with each other. Docker assumes 100% control over -t nat and drops tons of dynamic rules there, so if you manage it yourself, you’ll overwrite them and everything stops working.
The most reliable solution I’ve found so far is to make iptables a link to iptables-legacy, which can be done using update-alternatives on Ubuntu:
update-alternatives --set iptables /usr/sbin/iptables-legacy
Docker will continue using iptables for managing its dynamic rules, while your actual firewall can be continued to be managed using nft, and they will both coexist in the kernel, while being in separate “namespaces”. Both will be executed, but they won’t overwrite each other.
P.S. #FreeBSD with jails does it a bit more elegantly because pf has a feature called anchors - which is essentially a separate rules namespace which can be linked from the main ruleset so that it doesn’t mess with the application-specific ones. Of course this would be also doable with nftables but Docker project doesn’t seem to care.

2024-09-25 09:29:30

#Russia “fact checking” had been an oxymoron for a while now, but this one is a new record - Russian “War on Fakes” channel debunks the claim that “Russia invaded Finland during WW2, as stated by Finnish president Alexander Stubb”.
How do they debunk it? “Truth: in the night of 22 June 1941 German bombers starting from Finland airfields bombed Soviet territory”.
The problem with this “debunk” is that Soviet invasion on #Finland started on 30 November 1939, two years earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
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2024-09-19 07:26:05

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@npub17he…2u8r
A wiesz skąd się bierze wysoka temperatury wody w odwiertach geotermicznych? 😉

2024-09-14 12:49:07

No, this is no a new CAPTCHA, this is a new malware vector which tricks users to open #Windows command line and paste a command to download some harmful stuff.
Just reported by Mohamed Aruham on Twitter.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/e5b0ebe1e27cd9654d198f19d0e2d8d5d93c2b2a74a02bfd1103a801bbbbe7ed.png?name=wyDCHijCUOa7Fw.png

2024-09-12 06:26:13

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@npub1waf…acly
My phone, my apps.
P.S. „side loading” is a neologism invented by Apple to vilify what is called „installing software” on any other OS

2024-09-07 22:01:37

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@npub1t69…zanc
OMG 😱

2024-09-07 20:53:32

#Russia elections official in Ryazan oblast collapsed into a pit latrine, which was the only sanitary facility on the local polling station located in an ancient, wooden house. She survived. The article doesn’t clarify if there are any objective reasons why a significant share of housing in Russia is missing indoors toilets and are generally unsuitable for living, so we can guess Russian state has other budget priorities.
Source: https://news.rambler.ru/incidents/53374677-... (in Russian)

2024-09-03 16:10:46

Tragedy of Polish school children 😂
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2024-09-01 11:16:35

Reading hydro electric plant
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/c109144b74b536a4a7b7885edeb6dfc931731e6600389ce8c366607c36661beb.file?name=0xbA9iPPUnnHGw.file

2024-08-31 17:23:34

LOL co za ciule… #Newag 🤦
https://oko.press/newag-hakerzy-dragon-sector-pociagi-impuls

2024-08-19 19:56:12

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@npub1j6z…qtp8
“Mój stary jest fanatykiem wędkarstwa…” 😉

2024-08-19 19:55:40

The bad news is #Russia has not one but two pontoon bridges across Seym river after all three permanent bridges were demilitarised.
One is near Zvannoe, another near Glushkovo.
The good news is that the latter is where the red dots are shown on FIRMS today 😉
P.S. FIRMS is Fire Information for Resource Management System based on NASA satellite data detecting large fires.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/035201cd533589752087d2e71cf0dd4bb08a16100991e62d531c79305dceed55.png?name=qu1x7nX-wwRohA.png

2024-08-19 18:50:46

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@npub14ua…saes
I don’t expected long life expectancy for Milchakov after the war ends or Putin dies 😉 One of them - Yan Petrovsky - is already jailed in Finland.

2024-08-19 08:25:58

Musk has a point about many people falling for Kadyrov’s rather obvious trolling about “donated Tesla truck”…
Kadyrov’s stunt was intended to cause outrage in the West and it worked 100% simply because neither Western media nor Western media consumers can resist the temptation to compulsively share such a story even if it’s complete bullshit 🤷

2024-08-17 13:35:51

Klasa Sołtan od dłuższego czasu monitoruje sieć arabskojęzycznych grup, w których organizowany jest przemyt ludzi do UE różnymi kanałami - w tym także przez Białoruś do Polski. Bardzo ciekawy wywiad, w którym opowiada o “kuchni” przemytników i perspektywie ich klientów: jak się organizuje wjazd do Białorusi i do Rosji, komu i za co płacą klienci przemytników, co myślą o Polsce, jaka jest ich motywacja i czy uważają się za uchodźców.
https://youtu.be/YPkJLfLpJEk?si=GTd5hkqdvDpL3GTY

2024-08-15 17:04:44

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@npub1fvv…yw2w Gurulev already told them it’s OK…

2024-08-15 12:15:54

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@npub1mqg…4tp8
You’re 100% right - but technically, it’s interesting :)

2024-08-15 07:17:44

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@npub1df3…ttmt Dokładnie tak.

2024-08-14 19:51:18

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@npub1azu…dd3y
100% agreed and no idea why they did. I can only suspect it was some tribal games between them and PiS but harmful in every aspect.

2024-08-14 17:39:52

#Germany electricity production CO2 intensity with and without #nuclear - last year, Germany’s average annual intensity was ~400 gCO2eq/kWh while France’s was ~50. But if Germany kept nuclear power running, it’s average annual emissions would drop four times to ~100 gCO2eq/kWh.
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2024-08-13 10:57:40

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@npub122j…h3wh Honestly, they could have rounded the number…

2024-08-13 10:56:18

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@npub1gdt…nnef
There’s also a certain legal ignorance at play - she seems go be unaware of the fact that global brands may have local branches legally registered :)

2024-08-12 12:57:50

Jprdl 🤦
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2024-08-12 10:21:47

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@npub1yzd…yl0x Yes, that was what Ukraine’s Nikopol (opposite across Dnipro river) administration stated yesterday. And it made perfect sense.

2024-08-12 09:55:03

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@npub1368…6s7z
s/<space>/ /g
s/<space>/^V^T/g
:)

2024-08-11 15:22:27

Mamy na Fediverse pana Marka Meissnera @npub1cfl…zg2g analityka wojskowości - zapraszam do podpisywania się!

2024-08-11 15:02:49

#Russia bombs with “For Kursk” dedication, dropped on Russia’s Kursk oblast. You can’t make this up.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/aee067b1bba0367f6cea85b8f256008f446925087e5e5fa4c1bb196303dbc6b4.png?name=lh5dRqamqEgqIQ.png

2024-08-10 22:03:09

Daily wisdom from Noam #Chomsky - of course it’s a joke, but representative.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/28d8376478bf4e5a5b0c78ca1f41409eb41a06b148cc6eae703fc04f23a91aeb.png?name=dhwTQcVZK0LoyA.png

2024-08-10 20:08:14

British croc expert jailed for sexual abuse of dogs
> He tortured at least 42 dogs, killing 39 of them, according to court documents seen by the BBC. The files only detail his crimes over the 18 months before his arrest, but still fill more than 90 pages.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33nv8x...

2024-08-10 09:57:38

Oh, PeerTube can directly import Telegram videos! 👍👍👍

2024-08-09 17:48:58

My instance outage was not a server side failure, this time. Apparently Suricata rules upgrade used up all memory on the edge firewall and, of course, the first daemon to crash had to be HAproxy…

2024-08-08 07:22:52

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(of course paywalled and not yet on SciHub)

2024-08-07 15:06:27

This came as a surprise 😲
Nigerian authorities have arrested seven Poles for raising Russian flags during anti-government demonstrations held in recent days in Kano state in the north of the country, Reuters reported on Wednesday, following a spokesman for the security forces. The Polish consul quoted by the agency confirmed that the arrests had taken place.
https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/sily-bezpieczenstwa-nigerii-siedmiu-polakow-aresztowanych-za-wznoszenie-flagi-rosji (in Polish)
#Nigeria #Poland #Russia

2024-08-07 14:48:32

Technically, #Ukraine could now perform a referendum in #Sudzha where local residents would vote for the whole #Kursk oblast, including Kurchatov (Kursk nuclear power plant) and capital of Kursk (town) to join Ukraine.
That would be a proper equivalent of the #Russia “referendums” of 2023. As Russian example has taught us, a proper referendum doesn’t really require that residents of the region’s capital participate in it…

2024-08-07 12:31:04

#Russia channel:
Information is coming in that the town of #Sudzha is under AFU control. Information, requires confirmation. We hope for the best 🙏
Original:
Приходит информация, что город Суджа под контролем ВСУ. Информация, требует подтверждения. Надеемся на лучшее 🙏
Source: https://t.me/rodnaya_sudzha/8901

2024-08-07 08:15:55

Some sobering summary of #Russia advances in #Donbas from Christopher Miller
Kyiv’s forces liberated roughly 321 sq km between June 1 and September 1 2023, or an average of 24 sq km each week, Paroinen found. But Russia’s offensive this year has erased those gains: between May 3 and August 2 this year, the Russians seized about 592 sq km, or more than 45 sq km every week.
No paywall: https://archive.is/F5JMS
Original: https://www.ft.com/content/c716482f-c032-4993-aa12-985a4828ff9d?shareType=nongift

2024-08-07 07:46:51

#Russia Maria Zakharova: “#Ukraine attack in Kursk oblast’ is another terrorist act against civilian population”. She clearly forgot about two years of Russian attacks in… the whole Ukraine? 🤔
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/ef21fbe1f6493dc3c75a2be445c9baaa5f274a791ad1677d1ff3c50862eab7db.png?name=giq9Bu6aM9ecTA.png

2024-08-05 10:50:47

There’s a video circulating of a group of thugs killing and beheading people with pickaxes described as “Wagner” group violence in #Mali but it’s a fake. The original video was posted in 2019 and is related to drug gang wars in #Mexico
https://elblogdelnarco.com/2019/02/03/video-donde-grupo-sombra-descuartiza-a-cuatros-con-una-hacha-al-estilo-de-los-zetas-y-manda-mensaje-a-chapulines/

2024-08-05 10:44:44

#France has exported 40 TWh of low-carbon electricity in the first half of 2024. The largest recipients were United Kingdom, #Italy #Germany and #Belgium.
https://montelnews.com/news/319b9a84-c5f8-4a73-a900-86090e4f81e7/france-sets-net-power-export-record-in-h1-tso
France has CO2 emissions intensity of only ~50 gCO2eq/kWh thanks to large share of #nuclear and #renewables.

2024-08-02 10:25:48

#Russia media boasting about downing of #Ukraine #F16 using a photo from actual F-16 crashed in Kansas (USA) in 2014.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/43ee940dc61990062c385e0e7c8cc7146697a8c12b38ae3168addddc98724c52.png?name=VK995ELFnI8w8g.png
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/ed646c105a658c0f7ed22c2ec0e2afe90093b37354ae66fef8db5f0ecc1c8e94.png?name=i25Jm-3qARcOWQ.png

2024-08-02 09:47:35

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@npub1cjy…uzys
It’s not really difficult, people from the Haniyeh circle aren’t too shy about their wealth, quite the opposite, they show around with it a lot.

2024-08-02 09:28:59

I’m pretty sure those shouting “kill the rich” didn’t really mean Ismail Haniyeh who was worth 4 billion USD 🤫

2024-08-01 11:32:58

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@npub13t4…az88 Awesome! Climbing has been giving me tons of confidence (and fun!) equally at 14 and 44 years old :)

2024-08-01 11:10:09

#Russia state news today:
Danish citizen came to Russia because of disagreements with western values, then he signed a military contract. Now he went to court, explaining that he did not want to go to war, does not speak Russian, and is bullied by Nepalese soldiers» He also was beaten while in military.
Source: https://www.rbc.ru/politics/01/08/2024/66ab44989a794716c722a1eb

2024-08-01 08:56:42

Lots of social media noise about #F16 in #Ukraine but:
the “photo of F16 above Lviv” is likely manipulated
the “photo of Petro Poroshenko in F16” is authentic but actually done in Mig-29

2024-08-01 08:52:14

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@npub1zva…e2q5 There’s numerous debunks indicating this is likely a manipulated photo.

2024-08-01 07:47:48

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@npub1hpf…wl4q A single molecule of water contains exactly two hydrogen atoms, per its chemical formula H2O or H-O-H

2024-07-30 14:52:23

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@npub1ddg…8twf There were even larger protests after his last “elections”, ultimately nothing happened.

2024-07-30 10:57:17

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@npub127r…8c52
Czyli lepiej jednak było sprzedać je do burdeli bo tam będą krócej cierpiały? 🤔

2024-07-29 10:33:44

Olympics in the context of war, Oleksiyy Kustvskiy, 2024
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/1b38e9ecd2cff759a8dede8581b1c049e638a406e63fab6c0cf9f2946a22474d.png?name=cADkx8j-1o7dVA.png

2024-07-25 12:58:54

Caving at -300 m #Montenegro
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/761457a5d793cb161a2485c0ca90303a6a1b412e21dd403f55e52c50d65cd2db.file?name=KYRFsT8xbyjeFw.file

2024-07-16 06:21:10

My home for the next two weeks (not counting the time spent in caves) #Montenegro
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/b8f3d331c4b0d0d93e58ca9ec600362b305b3bddaf780d1b07037a663b97d9f0.file?name=8QG6sQE5MW6-lw.file
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/2c0adbd51f771afdf7103440ab850ddfd14e72da43a08a4eeebedb59bcda655f.file?name=5gdzgLieIyIv4w.file

2024-07-11 21:45:10

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Actually seems like Semtech SX1280 can do LoRa, FLRC, (G)FSK but it works over 2.4 GHz
https://www.semtech.com/products/wireless-rf/lora-connect/sx1280#documentation

2024-07-11 20:30:25

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@npub19sn…2m78
I know I know. So why freak out when someone says they don’t like “Russia”? The poll didn’t ask about “Russians”.

2024-07-11 19:50:29

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@npub1vsp…h82u
I agree, but this works both ways.

2024-07-11 18:11:14

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@npub19sn…2m78
Where do you see “Russian people” there?

2024-07-11 17:46:39

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@npub1vsp…h82u
This could play the same role as Pearl Harbor played in WW2

2024-07-11 17:41:20

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@npub19sn…2m78
You can apply median to any discrete value 🤔

2024-07-11 12:59:19

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@npub17kv…9q8v This chart looks very limited, possibly the original poll had all the countries but I don’t have time now to find it.

2024-07-11 12:46:37

#Poland political analyst Andrzej Kohut commenting on the recent Pew Research polls on different nations views on #Russia:
You can be almost sorry for the Russian agents in Poland - 97% of Poles have unfavourable view of Russia, out of which 87% “very unfavourable”
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/9d5c5a2673f12acc5293fc63688631873f40e68604ec78d355a929239d600f66.png?name=a1XULepZX1l2sQ.png

2024-07-11 12:20:30

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@npub1tx3…kxnn
Per your request:
https://krvtz.net/posts/hope-this-email-finds-you-well-maintenance-of-pam_tacplus.html

2024-07-11 08:07:40

Boris Grokh, “Military target”, 2024
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/46f838dcb1c645d40eeaad2dc9ee9c11811d96b6695e6783a29ecb3f7c5baacb.file?name=jVv7e6gc8BqSfQ.file

2024-07-10 06:40:13

Map of 1442 healthcare facilities that #Russia attacked in #Ukraine since 2022 — the children hospital in Kyiv was not an exception, it was a continuation of Russian tactics of war.
https://www.attacksonhealthukraine.org/

2024-07-09 17:44:02

New York boasting „trash revolution” by introducing… trash bins. In 2024. Laughed at by a newspaper in a country where „double glazed window” is still sold as a luxury and asking about separate hot and cold water taps earns you a half hour lecture about loft water tanks in 19th century 🤔
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/am...

2024-07-09 15:35:02

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@npub1tx3…kxnn
I don’t but I can easily post it - give me a day :)

2024-07-09 09:59:23

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Further fragment of Kh-101 body found in the rubble
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/7fe82bd6cf16e0ef6acfedf55a1e1e3acab9fa637d30e3a8c3444794188ca2c2.png?name=TsytDe9NtXUpAg.png

2024-07-08 18:10:46

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@npub1q4k…564l
Not yet :)

2024-07-08 14:52:31

#Poland and #Ukraine have signed a security cooperation agreement, text in Polish, Ukrainian and English is posted here:
https://www.gov.pl/web/premier/polsko-ukrainskie-porozumienie-w-dziedzinie-bezpieczenstwa

2024-07-08 13:24:23

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@npub15c3…y8g2 Thank you, duly boosted!

2024-07-08 11:58:27

#Berlin #Germany demonstration in front of #Russia embassy at 19:00 in protest against today’s attack on Kyiv children hospital.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/ed9751be0957653f6f26cafdaccccd5d0ea401ad9991c0be5c5e2ca483dbd8b8.png?name=jNH0SWKszj2KDg.png

2024-07-08 10:54:07

Donations to the Kyiv children hospital “Okhmatdyt” can be given on their website:
https://www.ohmatdytfund.org/en/donate

2024-07-08 10:32:41

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@npub1xzr…tvcg Sorry to hear that. Sometimes it’s better not to read any news for some time…

2024-07-08 10:11:15

Meanwhile, #Kyiv again is under rocket attack from #Russia for the second time today.

2024-07-08 10:10:06

OSINT analysis of the Kyiv #Okhmatdyt children hospital today - most of the Toxicology Department building was simply turned into a heap of rubble. Reports from the ground are that the department was fully active with patients and personnel inside. This doesn’t look like a falling debris damage, it looks like an actual warhead explosion to me?
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/827db6c29c6c9c9fbc935d1f7e6d3b75950e1c5c757603fc0d2a9590160faf20.png?name=yIe1UQZDx9t2bw.png

2024-07-08 07:48:06

#Russia just launched a massive rocket attack against Kyiv #Ukraine in the middle of the day, which has no other justification than maximising terror and civilian casualties. That should be an especially valuable lesson for anyone who believed in Putin’s “peace initiative” talk.

2024-07-08 07:07:12

Reportaż Karoliny Bacy-Pogorzelskiej z Ukrainy na temat tego jak z niczego powstał zupełnie nowy rodzaj wojsk - lotnictwo bezzałogowe czyli operatorzy dronów i cała inżynieria wokół nich skupiona:
https://postpravda.info/drony-na-froncie/

2024-07-08 06:44:26

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@npub17ej…f0ng
That’s also my point — I don’t really understand how leftist values can fit in one’s head along with support for Putin. These two things are entirely incompatible🤷

2024-07-08 06:32:01

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@npub144e…404v
That’s some good news at least…

2024-07-07 23:08:31

If you’re celebrating loss of pro-Russian Le Pen in #France elections, please check what the left wing leader Meluncheon had to say about Russia, NATO and Ukraine… 😖

2024-07-07 11:15:24

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@npub17lk…l3x2
No, in Russian it’s “blyad’” (блядь).

2024-07-07 08:26:41

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@npub1gh2…la5f
No, he’s still jailed. I don’t think he’s being treated badly, the main purpose was likely to shut up his criticism of Putin as being “too soft”.

2024-07-07 08:24:17

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@npub13za…zhy4 I know some people in Navy, I’ll make sure they use it in the design of the new sonars 😂

2024-07-07 07:16:01

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@npub1rwu…w4e6
Skrzynkę pocztową widziałem osobiście — mieszkam nieopodal :)