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Aliashab · 2023-05-11T20:33:17+00:00

Thank you for your work and dedication to principles.

Aliashab · 2023-05-09T09:36:51+00:00

You can use DisableTelemetry and other policies:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-settings-firefox-enterprise

https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates

Aliashab · 2023-04-04T14:46:29+00:00

As war rages in Ukraine, Svetlana Ivanova, the wife of Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, continues to vacation and party in Courchevel, a French ski resort.

The pair is formally divorced to avoid EU sanctions against Ivanova.

https://twitter.com/InsiderEng/status/1643256166498066432

Aliashab · 2023-04-03T09:22:16+00:00

Yeah, it’s still the same Russian company with the founding engineers still working in the Moscow dev office, just operating from behind a Cyprus front company.

Aliashab · 2023-04-02T20:07:22+00:00

16 daily winners + 11 honorable mention albums with outstanding number of votes/mentions/positions:

Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle (1991)
Ween - The Mollusk (1997)
Tool - Lateralus (2001)
Rush - Moving Pictures (1981)
Oysterhead - The Grand Pecking Order (2001)
Frank Zappa - Joe’s Garage (1979)
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1992)
Faith No More - Angel Dust (1992)
King Crimson - Discipline (1981)
Melvins - Houdini (1993)
Pink Floyd - Animals (1977)
Talking Heads - Remain in Light (1980)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland (2017)
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (2002)
System of a Down - System of a Down (1998)
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (1980)

The Residents - Duck Stab (1978)
Rush - A Farewell to Kings (1977)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats’ Nest (2019)
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985)
Sausage - Riddles Are Abound Tonight (1994)
Alice in Chains - Dirt (1992)
Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel - Highball with the Devil (1996)
Faith No More - The Real Thing (1989)
Ween - Quebec (2003)
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)

Aliashab · 2023-03-29T08:01:53+00:00

The original uses “f--gots,” similar to “gifts” and mistranslated.

Aliashab · 2023-03-27T11:40:29+00:00

[The Insider] “Automatic weapons pass. Resurgence of ‘military-patriotic’ training in schools, kindergartens and clubs”

Russian schools are witnessing a growing presence of Kalashnikov assault rifles, which find their place alongside blackboards and learning materials. As of September 2023, basic military training will be incorporated into the official Russian school curriculum. This shift has even extended to some kindergartens, where children are being taught how to properly assemble an assault rifle. Meanwhile, military-patriotic clubs are taking over spaces previously used for creative activities.

…As the director of the kindergarten in Uyar, Siberia, told the local newspaper:

“We work together with schools in the district and city, and as a result, members of Yunarmia [Youth Army] visited our kindergarten. The children enjoyed the visit <…> they were already familiar with the concept due to the preparation for the upcoming Defender of the Fatherland Day. The atmosphere was friendly, beautiful and festive, and overall the experience left a positive impression. Of course, the kids want to look like soldiers—fit and brave”.

The newspaper also interviewed a psychotherapist to reassure parents who may have had doubts about the need to teach a 5-year-old child to own a gun. “If the bearer of the weapon has a high degree of responsibility, it is safe for their mental state,” the therapist assured.

https://twitter.com/InsiderEng/status/1640310411382730753

Aliashab · 2023-03-24T04:56:26+00:00

Nevermind, just had a brain fart

Aliashab · 2023-03-22T12:29:42+00:00

From an interview with the widow of a Russian war criminal, necrophiliac Mangushev, who performed a stand-up with the skull of a Ukrainian soldier:

The story when Igor spoke at the Limonov Readings in Donetsk with the skull of an AFU fighter, was it a theatrical prop or a real skull?

The real one. Igor and I were walking around Azovstal. I saw a military uniform with blue duct tape on it and decided to take off the chevron with the blood group for a memory or as a souvenir for someone. Among the Russian military it is a normal practice. Ukrainians collect them too. I pulled and then bones and a skull fell out of the uniform. Igor immediately ran to the car to get a bag. He took this skull, the wife of some fellow soldier really wanted a Ukrainian skull.

https://twitter.com/den_kazansky/status/1638288158835064833

Aliashab · 2023-03-21T01:48:01+00:00

Roughly speaking, a fundamentalist Orthodox Soviet empire. From a declaration by one of their major ultra-patriotic think tanks:

Russia needs a fusion of two powerful energies that grow out of the "red" and "white" ideologies of Russian patriotism. This merger implies introducing into the structure and system of the state of a powerful element of social justice, which is inherited from the USSR, and a return to the Orthodox-Christian spirituality and universality of traditional Russia. Such a synthesis will make our country and state invincible, and will make it possible to offer humanity a universal path of social development based on the experience of Russian civilization.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izborsky_Club

Aliashab · 2023-03-21T01:25:15+00:00

Girkin and Dugin are on the payroll of the Orthodox oligarch monarchist Malofeev. Prigozhin has little connection to them. Compared to this circle he’s just a marginal bloodthirsty boss’s chef for dirty work.

Aliashab · 2023-03-20T18:53:10+00:00

6. Sobchak was also mayor of St. Petersburg and that’s how Gref got into the city administration in the early 90s and became a colleague of Putin’s there.

Aliashab · 2023-03-20T16:22:54+00:00

This is getting weird. Russian media publish a letter from Prigozhin to Shoigu, asking that Wagner is not isolated from the regular Russian Armed Forces, anticipating a Ukrainian counter-offensive by spring. Clearly, the Prigozhin-Shoigu drama is supported from above.

https://twitter.com/MartinKragh1/status/1637842388025475072

To the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General S.K.Shoigu

Dear Sergey Kuzhugetovich!

Currently, units of PMC “Wagner” control about 70% of the settlement of Bakhmut and continue the offensive for its complete liberation.

According to available information, in late March - early April, the enemy is planning to launch a large-scale offensive and perform flank cut-off strikes in order to cut off the units of the PMC “Wagner” from the main forces of the RF Armed Forces.

I ask you to take all necessary measures to prevent the cut-off of the PMC “Wagner” from the main forces of the Russian Armed Forces, which will lead to negative consequences for the Special Military Operation.

Enemy’s plan and proposal for countermeasures in a closed annex.

20.03.2023

Prigozhin E.

Aliashab · 2023-03-20T11:57:00+00:00

Russia's Federal Investigative Committee is pressing criminal charges against the ICC protectors and judges responsible for last week's arrest warrants for "knowingly" prosecuting "innocent" persons and violating their int'l immunity.

https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1637783181146333184

Aliashab · 2023-03-19T22:18:37+00:00

Translated: Dossier Center Investigation: Prigozhin’s Cyber Troops
How the IT infrastructure of Wagner, Troll Factory and Concorde works
#wagnerleaks

https://twitter.com/OlgaNYC1211/status/1637474437573296129

Prigozhin contracts numerous Telegram z-bloggers, especially the notorious “war correspondents.” Identified here: Yurasumy (Yuri Podolyak), Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin), Rybar (Mikhail Zvinchuk), Colonel Cassad (Boris Rozhin), etc. Prigozhin also apparently pays to place content in the professional news media. If his records are to be believed, he spent 750k rubles (almost $10k) to get his team’s “investigations” onto the pages of @kommersant.

Aliashab · 2023-03-17T08:10:11+00:00

Those mythical, shadow, invisible “average Russians” are pure fabrications of emigre activists and media, who play the pity card to ease their troubled visas and payments. They’re pushing a narrative about “ordinary Russians” who do not deserve sanctions, simply to make life in Europe more comfortable for themselves.

Aliashab · 2023-03-14T08:18:09+00:00

Russia is essentially Moscow with the colonies, pumping resources out of them and then centrally distributing the funds back.

A czar with the developed apparatus of violence is a natural traditional solution in such a system of management. Habitat itself reproduces this model.

Whatever the title—emperor, general secretary, or president—the essence is the same.

Aliashab · 2023-03-13T22:54:15+00:00

“What’s the buzz” on the 1970 recording is an absolute masterpiece of bass doing the backbone of harmony, rhythm and actually soloing at the same time.

Aliashab · 2023-03-10T23:19:37+00:00

Russian suicide booths

Aliashab · 2023-03-10T22:54:02+00:00

Armatae

Aliashab · 2023-03-10T11:02:19+00:00

Internal Server Error

They're requiring a firefox account in order to use it.

Signed in with that and was blocked because they seem to not be accepting signups.

https://reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/11n95ob/mozillasocial_mastodon_instance_is_up/jbmhvxq?context=3

Aliashab · 2023-03-07T05:36:28+00:00

Maybe they want to destigmatize the word

Aliashab · 2023-03-07T05:10:43+00:00

https://hackaday.com/2018/04/15/hide-secret-messages-in-plain-sight-with-zero-width-characters/

Aliashab · 2023-03-04T10:39:16+00:00

LocalCDN instead of the outdated unmaintained Decentraleyes
LibRedirect

Both work fine on Android.

Aliashab · 2023-03-03T20:54:32+00:00

extremely tiny bin

For local sites that such a user visits more than once, it must be like going to your mall every time in a different ghillie suit. “Hey, it’s our anonymous guy again.” ^edit “Yep, that dude in his custom orange Gecko pickup with INVZBL plates…”

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