kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Putin says Russian "harsh and decisive" military operation in Crimea was necessary to prevent "tragic events that we now see in Donbass.

There is just one problem:

GRU started occupation of Crimea in February 2014 and conducted "referendum" in March 2014.

First FSB armed group lead by Girkin entered Donbass in April 2014, two months *after* GRU operation in Crimea.

FFS the levels of ignorance are just shocking: this guy was just confronted with the fact that Germany already has two deep geologic repositories that keep highly toxic arsenic, cyanide and mercury waste.

His answer is a mix of wishful thinking and complete nonsense from chemical, physical and biological point of view:

Why backup when you can sell and then "explore replacing"?

This is awesome 😂 Starts with this beautiful forest, idyllic landscapes... and then MONEY IS EVERYWHERE CHAINSAW GO BRR HAIL BIOMASS 🤑

Russian Roscomnadzor agency for the first time enabled country-wide bandwidth restriction to Twitter traffic in Russia to blackmail it into submission on censoring content considered illegal in Russia.

This resulted in a exquisite clusterfuck as mobile subscribers in Russia couldn't access Russian gov websites due to crappy DPI $95m technology, while some politicians blamed... the West in cyberattack on Kremlin 🤷🏼‍♂️

Роскомнадзор замедляет "Твиттер". Как это работает?

https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-56346954

How Line built fact-checking into its encrypted messaging app

The company is proving private messaging platforms can do more to moderate harmful content.

https://restofworld.org/2021/how-line-is-fighting-disinformation-without-sacrificing-privacy/

Society of Editors UK:

> UK media is not bigoted

UK media:

"I prefer mineral water X as it only has 0.5% fluorine. Unfortunately water Y which I liked has over 0.17% of fluorine"

🤦‍♂️

(original in Polish)

Remember that meme about soldiers treating wounds with "essential oils"? Well, that wasn't a joke... Here's a publication that describes application of essential oils for treatment (not) of strokes...

In case feral burgers rise against the family

In case of PV and wind production, this would be respectively 11 and 5 million tons of CO2 respectively, when compensated for low capacity factor by adding extra nominal power, but ignoring additional storage which would also result in CO2 emissions.

With this 70 GW nuclear power in China their annual lifecycle CO2 emissions will be around 2 million tons, as compared to 226 million tons if they went for fossil gas or 408 million tons if coal. Comes out, #nuclear reduces their #co2 impact 100-200x times.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-05/china-gives-nuclear-power-a-fresh-push-in-the-drive-to-go-green

Why would even anyone need extensive Internet surveillance laws if the cybercrime actors are imbeciles? 🤔

> cybercrime community are now discussing moving away from using emails

> authentic information, which he was able to use to link several Maza users to public social media profiles

> usernames, emails, account passwords, and social media IDs (ICQ, Skype, AIM, MSN, and Yahoo)

https://therecord.media/maza-cybercrime-forum-hacked-user-data-dumped-online/

I have just started using FluffyChat for #Matrix comms on #Android and it's so comfortable I just switched to it on all devices and set up LiberaPay donation 👍

https://fluffychat.im/en/fdroid.html

9 March 1931, a summary (in Polish) of Soviet "Pravda" article ranting about Mahatma Gandhi being a reactionary traitor and suggesting he should now be very careful about attempts on his life.

#ussr was just angry about peaceful resolution of years of protests which culminated in Gandhi–Irwin Pact in 1931.