The cyberwar is wild.
Russians plunder $5M worth of tractors and combines from JD dealership in Melitpol, Ukraine, then transport 700 miles to Chechnya -- to find they've been remotely disabled. Story: cnn.com/2022/05/01/eur…
How rotten is Russia’s army?
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/04/30/how-rotten-is-russias-army
Bang.
#Ukraine: Footage released by the 92nd Mechanized Brigade showing a Russian tank being destroyed by dropping an explosive from a drone.
(via @KyleJGlen)
This is a neat iOS feature.
iOS: Settings > Accessibility > Guided Access lets you restrict all or parts of the screen / buttons with a passcode
Use it to prevent exiting from the screen you want to show law enforcement if they need to take the phone
(Ideally don’t give the phone at all if avoidable)
Ellopunk @Ell_o_Punk
This May Day remember Louis Lingg, whose alibi in the Haymarket trail was that he couldn't have thrown the bombs because he was at home making other bombs. His sentencing statement was "I despise you, I despise your order, your laws, your force propped authority. Hang me for it."
Well, can’t argue with this.
I coined a new term: Technocratopian
A technocratic, elitist utopianism characterized by an aversion to universal social programs and an erroneous faith that arcane bureaucratic systems can accurately distinguish the “deserving” from “undeserving” in the allocation of benefits🧵
Fascinating research.
Neanderthals are cool af.
Neanderthals were sprinters rather than distance runners, our study surprisingly suggests via @TC_Africa
Something something cyber war. I guess now the consensus is turning towards “they could’ve had a Hollywood style cyber war, but Russia chose not to…for whatever reasons.”
Cyber experts say the analysis suggests hidden depths to Russia’s cyber operations in Ukraine, because although it has the capability to launch more damaging cyberattacks, it has chosen to inflict less harmful ones for the moment.
the odds of chief of the general staff of the russian armed forces valery gerasimov getting wasted by a hand grenade dropped from an off the shelf drone piloted by some 19 year old ukrainian uber driver are not zero
and i love that for him
The Covid lockdown in Shanghai is a big deal in government civilian relations.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/29/world/asia/shanghai-lockdown.html
Crypto. Scam… wait, what? An attack was stopped. That’s a nice change of pace.
🧵 on the Rainbow Bridge attack today.
TL;DR: attack was stopped automatically, no bridged funds lost, attacker lost some money, bridge architecture was designed to resist such attacks, additional measures to be taken to ensure the cost of an attack attempt is increased
This is a very interesting development.
Russia looks to be taking over internet routing in areas they are occupying now. Forcing occupied Ukrainians into Russian information bubbles.
Scary.
NetBlocks @netblocks
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics indicate that internet connectivity on provider Skynet (Khersontelecom) in Russian-occupied Kherson, south Ukraine, has been partially restored and rerouted via Russia's Rostelecom instead of Ukrainian infrastructure.
📰 Background: netblocks.org/reports/intern…
PsyOps in the modern age.
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NSO - No Sane Operations? New Stupid Operations?
