m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@pointlessone
Interesting theory!
I'd say the timing is a bit odd. Now, having F-16s it might've made sense to weaken Russian airforce first, making ground forces less vulnerable during such a raid. But as I don't have all the information, something else might've contributed to choosing this moment. In any case, it's a bold move.
I hope there won't be many civilian casualties — the officials are of course claiming they are evacuating people, but according to other sources it's all bullshit 😩

@pointlessone
No, I mean tactics-wise — there might be some targets and they might've been lacking range for suppressive fire so they had to cross the border, but even Western think-tanks seem clueless as to what that might be.
More likely this operation is either an attempt to divert forces from other fronts — or indeed, to sow dissent and cause the panic to disrupt the military operations in the adjacent regions 🤷
Either way — only time will tell.
> Other are less so.
Yes, sadly…

@threat
Да многие мне кажется VPN освоили — на телефоне настроить вообще ничего сложного, многие даже платят. Моя давняя подруга платила за Nord ещё года с 2016-ого кажется — хотя к технологиям она никакого отношения вообще не имеет, уж не знаю чем она сейчас пользуется.
Да и в Instagram видно, что люди сидят, не во Вконтакте же им идти или в Одноклассники: «Не солидно» 😂
А Instagram вроде блокируют вполне официально — но как-то же они им пользуются 🤷

@lina @mint

@ALoiteringFlaneur
Анжела Дэвис уже не та 🤪
@neural_meduza

@threat
А замедление — с тех пор, как они начали это делать, я скорее положительную динамику наблюдаю: то ли из-за того, что они свои ТСПУ-коробки постоянно перенастраивают, то ли они просто перестали справляться с нагрузкой, но сейчас даже обычный WireGuard заработал, которые они раньше фильтровали, и с теми узлами, которые они обычно блокировали по адресу.

@lina @mint

@threat
Я напрямую Интернетом не пользуюсь года с 2014-ого — с того момента, когда они только начали Грани блокировать, так что я такие вещи обычно даже не замечаю.
С другой стороны, сам YouTube теперь постоянно разломан, да так, что он у меня в браузере даже с Enhancer for YouTube перестал открываться. Но я его и не особо часто смотрю.

@lina @mint

@pointlessone
"Ukrop^W Ukrainian flag" 🤣
If not a PsyOp, it's both entertaining and insightful.
I'm not the proponent of calling everything a PsyOp, but the whole incursion into Kursk only makes sense in this context, not in the traditional military sense. Even according to the ISW, the Kremlin is shooting itself in the foot by both overblowing the what's happening internationally to blame Ukraine and downplaying it domestically to prevent panic — they might lose the trust of people.

@rvps2001
Didn't mean to barge into your newsflow, you're doing one hell of a job, but… This is just too funny 😂
I'm currently reading a book about early investments into Russian and Ukrainian Internet sectors and there is a whole paragraph about how bad the barter was and how everyone was happy when it was left in the nineties. But certain geostrategician brought even that back now 🤦

@kaia
Conserving energy by utilising lubricant to reduce friction? 🤓

@rvps2001
Now they are looking into the options to transition to barter: https://www.reuters.com/markets/first-russia-china-barter-trade-may-come-this-autumn-sources-say-2024-08-08/
That is exactly what bilateral trade between two great superpowers looks like in the new multipolar world! Pooteen's dream comes true 🤣

@kevinrothrock
Good post! But I will still report you to the alt.text enforcement squad. Not everyone can read this, now mostly forgotten language, you know 😜

@trdebunked
But that is beside the point, which is: neither China, nor Elon Musk are trustworthy 🤷

@trdebunked
Starlink for one is being used in Ukraine now, that's a rather extreme case, but it demonstrates the field of application quite well. Rescue teams use satphones during floods, fires, massive power outages, including in the areas where communication isn't available even under normal conditions. Having broadband Internet as an option? Why not, it's good! Of course it doesn't come without downsides, for one, space debris looks like a problem.

@trdebunked
Worse and more expensive than what, submarine communication cabling? I don't think that either of these two is supposed to replace already existing and reliable infrastructure in urban areas, same as satphones didn't replace regular cellphones, but they exist and are very useful where there is no infrastructure or when it goes down in case of emergencies.

Would you rather buy space broadband from a billionaire, or Communist China?
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/china_qianfan_launch/

I hate that South Park episode, but isn't this indeed like choosing from giant douche and turd sandwich? 🤔

@romin
What a week, huh? 🧓

My dudes! 🐸

@Tony
It's only good if everything works, it something doesn't it might take even a tech-savvy person some effort to fix it — they have made things too complicated. I suppose that is why Arch is so popular: a lot of these ad-hoc fixes are documented on their wiki.

@dommymommy

@mre
Go became less portable since it became fully self-hosted, I don't want that to happen to Rust. On the other hand being buildable with LLVM 18, which is now only buildable with GCC 13 doesn't make it much better 😅