kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

Kind of obvious from the very beginning but nice to see that documented :)

The GRU's MH17 Disinformation Operations Part 1: The Bonanza Media Project

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/11/12/the-grus-mh17-disinformation-operations-part-1-the-bonanza-media-project/ #mh17

@FiXato

NextCloud has a pretty good photo gallery, map based on EXIF GPS tags, face recognition and OCR apps.

Random facts: Vesna Vulović was a Serbian flight attendant who holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 m (33,330 ft; 6.31 mi). She was the sole survivor after a briefcase bomb exploded in the baggage compartment of JAT Flight 367 on 26 January 1972, causing it to crash near Srbská Kamenice, Czechoslovakia.

There's a number of fascinating medical details in the article that might have contributed to her survival.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87

@Wetrix Seems like Mastodon generally attracts this kind of people! 👍

@Wetrix So while Putin would do a great favour to the vaccine company by just keeping his mouth shut, Russian scientists are generally very active in the global scientific community on par with their colleagues from other countries. They're taking part in large international research such as ITER or CERN and nobody is making fuss about it - thankfully Putin prefers to boast already sanctioned companies like Almaz Antey thus keeping scientists safe from his anti-Midas touch 😀

@Wetrix Depending on what you define as "Russia".

Pfizer is an US company so you could just as well say "how can you trust Trump's US about a vaccine".

The difference of course is that even Trump never really resorted to micro-management of private US companies for political gain while Putin is doing that routinely.

The latter of course lead to total lack of trust in Russian companies as reliable partners, ready to fulfill their business commitments.

"The two billionaires live with their teenage daughter in a modest apartment near their office. They ride bicycles to work. They do not own a car."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/biontech-covid-vaccine.html

Sorry, you can't be a "we turn you into radioactive ash" macho *and* try to sell stuff to the world at the same time...

I personally do believe Russian vaccine is genuine but you need to be totally detached from reality to believe haggling about ±2 percentage points is the way to win the markets.

Putin and his whole entourage is totally bipolar in this aspect.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUKL1N2HW1RN

@neil Pre-ticked wouldn't be as bad, look what they're actually doing - it's pre-ticked and to be honest I have no idea whether I should untick or leave ticked to opt-out.

https://social.privacytools.io/@kravietz/105188194795064468

Good morning England!

* no filters or edits, just as my crappy camera captured it at 7:00!

At this moment, Germany is importing 3.3 GW of #nuclear power from France due to calm wind and no sunlight in Germany and much of Europe, plus burning coal and fossil gas like crazy...

Ryanair, are you drunk? A typical dark pattern - making a question so confusing that the victim doesn't know what to click...

@neil I use Aftershokz since a friend (from Mastodon!) recommended them and absolutely pleased. In a plane they require ear plugs as the background noise is too loud but all taken together they are much smaller and more durable than any over-the-ear headphones.