kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@lnx Data breaches happen everywhere but in Russia it's practically a full-scale market where employees of all kinds of private and government enterprises (law enforcement, telcos, airlines etc) are selling personal details from their databases. Funny thing, shortly after the Navalny investigation was published (and it was based mostly on such data), Russian government introduced a proposal to make data of gov operatives secret, basically confirming it was all true 😂

Sometimes you can get an impression that Putin's Russia truly managed to materialize the old hackers' iconic phrase "information wants to be free" as you can buy literally *any* data on the market, including details of any person, vehicles, flights, properties, hotels etc etc.

https://phreedom.tk/@navalny/105379717927719279

The UK’s quest for affordable fusion by 2040

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201214-the-uks-quest-for-affordable-fusion-by-2040

@morenonatural

Yes, the unlock code is a pain in the ass due to Windows-only app, but otherwise it was instant.

@dump_stack I've just looked up ecchi 😂 and I like the association. The original history of the name is long and convoluted, and I just periodically forget it, but the ROM is just good so I don't really care.

P.S. I've also tried OnePlus 6T but its camera drives me mad, and wanted Redmi 7 Pro but instead got Redmi 8 Pro as the older one is no longer sold, while the newer is not supported by /e/...

Finally, after numerous trial-and-error attempts, I finally found a phone that works perfectly well with e.foundation #Android - it's Redmi 4X. Very handy size, conveniently placed fingerprint reader and installing /e/ is a breeze, and I get Android 9 on a 2017 phone that runs perfectly well with fully de-googled and debloated OS.

@hypolite @Angle

So while the "USSR only collapsed due to Western conspiracy" argument became quite popular since 2010 revival of Russian imperialism, back in 1990 the reasons for its collapse were obvious for everyone, and especially for anyone living in Eastern Europe. The truth was that USSR foreign policy was extremely aggressive and assumed absolute supremacy of Marxist socio-economic system, even while secretly taking loans from Western countries.

@hypolite @Angle

In 1917 the United States hadn't even had a fraction of the power they had after WW2. And while Western countries certainly weren't friendly towards Bolshevik, it's hard to imagine anyone being friendly towards a country that starts with an armed putsch and Red Terror, and then promises everyone else in the world the same, and then for decades actually incites "revolutionary terrorism" in neighbour countries and everywhere else.

@hypolite @Angle

A very interesting account also comes from Bertrand Russell who visited RSFSR in 1920 and then published a book that was very pessimistic on where it's all heading:

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17350

Surely, the plan was for the dictatorship to be temporary but since the criteria for its existence were vague, the very same quotes from Marx and Engels were used by Stalin some 20 years later.

@hypolite @Angle

If you read Lenin's "State and the Revolution" (1917) it's quite clear that the dictatorship has been the plan from the very beginning, and it was quite extensively supported by quotes from Marx and Engels.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm#s4

@hypolite @Angle

There was not many families left in control after the October Revolution, while it was definitely the case after USSR collapse 1989-1991 when the "communist nomenclature" was generally left in peace (apart from few cases like Ceaușescu).