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emmessenn  

Noone could match Dame Vivienne Westwood on design + fit + point of view; when my flatmate worked at Selfridges on the designer floor I'd go in and try on the latest Westwood...I still think about a couple of those coats, gawjus. Anglomania is the collection everyone cites.

Mother of Punk and endlessly passionate about climate change and saving the NHS I never stopped paying attention to her.

Rest in power.

#viviennewestwood #fashion #climatechange #rip

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the grugq  

@jonn the whole red orchestra thing is amazing. There was one source that was reporting to Switzerland which was from the German high command. They took an enigma machine and a code book and gave it to a Russian agent in Switzerland. Taught him how to use it. Then to send messages they just encrypted them and put them into the army radio transmission queue for sending from the army HQ radio. So the messages went out with all the regular traffic lol

It’s the perfect cover. Having the place that sends encrypted radio transmissions send out your encrypted radio transmission.

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Technology Connections  

Fire Ants
Fine Arts

That's all. I just think that's neat.

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Jons Mostovojs  

Today I have learned that toxic sh****le by the name of linux.org.ru has a mastodon instance. It's called lor.sh and doesn't advertise affiliation. At least one of their moderators is advertising the enemy of Ukraine and the West @drq on their peertube instance.

Remember, the situation with (a supposed liberal TV channel) doing fundraising for is just an example of a general trend of pseudo-liberals waging information war (admittedly, sometimes inadvertently, by virtue of carrying deep-rooted imperialist worldview). In case of they were stupid enough to go overt, but the plague still spreads via , and other media. Remember that under Mr. are openly using nazi tropes to paint Baltic states and Baltic people as a threat to russia and russians. They sneak this into criticism of putin and many people overlook it. But that's exactly how good propaganda works. It needs to penetrate deeper than shallow "us vs them", it plants tropes, ideas, concepts and then, when the time is right, it utilises those to achieve whichever goal those with power need to be achieved.

Social media accounts employing propaganda tropes, slurs towrads Ukrainians, nazi slogans, regardless of intent, are ticking time bombs, as propaganda waves ripple through social networks, causing an avalanche effect.

Don't fall for covert russian , defederate mastodon.ml, call out and report overt rushism, keep track of the enemies of the West.

We have to not repeat mistakes of and make sure that those supporting russia and/or putin don't have a way into the Western society. We failed with letting nazis roam around freely after the .

We fucked with , let's at least not fuck up with accountability for the enemies!

Slava Ukraini! Death to occupiers!

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John Bull  

I'm assuming we're all agreed that the quote of the year is:

"I need ammunition, not a ride."

🇺🇦🇺🇦

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Jons Mostovojs  

@lpil btw, I noticed that you're on the mastodon instance of linux.org.ru. Can you, in a couple of words, explain the choice?

They're friends[1] with the @drq@mastodon.ml guy who uses nationalist slurs against Ukrainians (while declaring that he's "against the war", whatever that means).

In general, linux.org.ru is known for having a lot of right-leaning on it.

They're also running and hosting @rf bot, the profile of which I've dissected in another toot of mine[2].

When I called them out for using slurs and anti-Ukraine sentiment while declaring the "pacifist" values (as if you can be pacifist in the face of nazi germany or putin's russia), they really have revealed their true colours. I have a set of screenshots where are barking at me for calling out the slurs and pro-soviet-alignment / usage of soviet symbols in their community.

I strongly suggest people to defederate mastodon.ml, and after looking at the "devil's advocate" in the profile of lor.sh's admin @dump_stack, I wouldn't be surprised if I'll have to defederate it as well (and strongly suggest fellow Western instance admins to follow suite).

[1]: v.lor.sh/w/oG6Fqe3JJdD5xaCmYNS
[2]: social.doma.dev/@jonn/10958228

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the grugq  

@jonn to be fair he was operating in Switzerland and it didn’t matter that much. Things were much worse with other parts of the red orchestra. Like the whole network that got collapsed because the code for encrypting data was incorrectly executed.

There was a double encryption pass, and then an encryption pass that was changed every day. There were 31 “keys” and it was meant to be used as a 1:1 mapping to the day of the month. But the guy using it thought it was a rotating key. So the first two months everything is fine. On day 31 he uses key 31, and then he rotates and starts at key 1 which is for them the day 1 key. But then there is the 30th (key 30) and then the 1st .. for him key 31, and for them, key 1. And they can’t decrypt. Then the 2nd, for them key 2, but for him key 1. And so it gets more and more out of sync and they don’t know what has happened.

So they sent the address of the guy running the radio to another agent with the instructions to go over there and figure out wtf is going on with the crypto codes. the Germans record all these messages, and it turns out that the “go to this address” gets broken some months later. And the Germans go to that address. And it all falls apart.

I always found it interesting how the problem was a mistake in training on the encryption, followed by the mistake make while trying to fix the first problem. Mistakes only accumulate.

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Ange  

My file formats dissection repo should be now up-to-date.
github.com/corkami/pics/blob/m

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batkaren  

The museum's terracotta warriors all snap to attention and speak in unison. “Initializing.”

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Sergey Mohov  

On February 24, under bombs, millions of Ukrainians received messages ranging from “I hope you die” to “don’t worry, our army will liberate you from nazis soon.” They were sent by former classmates, relatives, coworkers, and friends in Russia.

The same thing happened in 2014.

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Sergey Mohov  

The better and more personally you know Russia, the more you hate it. Most Ukrainians used to have Russian friends and family before the war.

Most of them are dead to us now because of what they did, what they didn’t do, and what they said.

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Sergey Mohov  

Can we at least agree to stop giving awards to people who are arguing that the fact the Russian army is badly equipped due to corruption is a major tragedy of this war? Maybe stop inviting them to things? Maybe stop financing them?

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Jons Mostovojs  

location mechanics brainstorm.
• stake
• search
• ransack
• enter (as in b&e / sneak through back door)
• bug (plant a gadget or a mole)
• subdue (use combat or suggestion to coerce someone)

Extracted from locations are:
• surface Intel (it's a laundry machine shop based in a space, rented from XYZ Corp by John Smith)
• deep intel (it's a drop-site for some people)
• critical intel (you extract a drop containing a map of the suburban area with some locations marked)

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Jons Mostovojs  

My design motto: be rules light, but be precise enough to pivot into a board game at any point.

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Jons Mostovojs  

QT: raggedfeathers.com/@signalstat

I've got this adventure and it rocks!
I was a bit befuddled by the fact that it assumes a system I didn't know, but turns out it's also a really cool system.

Here is the review with some actual play: whodaresrolls.com/rpgs/trophy-

I researched this system and its predecessor and I'm very glad that the adventure targets the newer one. The black version is too storygamey.


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Janice Selbie  

5 SHOCKING TRUTHS:
1. As an adult, parents remain in our lives by invitation only. We do not have to maintain family ties. 2. Forgiveness is not required for healing & growth, and it is often weaponized by abusers. Acceptance of reality is more important. 3. No one is coming to rescue you; you must save yourself. 4. You can do everything right & still experience pain & loss. 5. There is no such thing as “karma,” but there are consequences - and they often look pretty similar. #SecularHumanist

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Jons Mostovojs  

@thegrugq have you seen the soviet -era opsec? Literal second-hand embarassment.

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Michael of Ragged Feathers  

So many crabs (promoting an RPG thing I wrote) 

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Evan Prodromou  

I think we should all be clear on the stakes.

Journalists who cover Elon Musk had their accounts suspended *last week*.

Twitter announced a policy disallowing outlinks to other social networks at the same time.

They are giving full access to DMs and private accounts to conservative journalists.

It is a really fucked-up system. It's not just another social network.

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Evan Prodromou  

"Calling out", or "name and shame", is also a really strong response. I don't think I'm there yet, even with individuals and organisations that should be supporting this network.

I'm at a point, now, where I'm pretty disappointed to see friends here posting there. And I've told one or two as much, privately.

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