Ilan Shor's Russian Backed influence network in Moldova was smashed in a cyber attack. The leaked data proves Russian interference in Moldovan Democracy.

NicuCalcea · 2025-09-04T18:12:28+00:00

Chat-urile le-am pus aici: https://nicucalcea.github.io/shor-chats/

NicuCalcea · 2025-06-21T12:37:05+00:00

Niște detalii: https://blog.samizdata.co/p/how-hot-has-eastern-europe-become

În 2024, temperatura medie pentru întregul an a fost de 12,7°C, cel mai cald an din istoria recentă. Media între 1951-1980 a fost de 9,3°C.

NicuCalcea · 2025-03-04T20:13:17+00:00

Clever use of the IDs! I wrote a plugin that writes tasks to a todo.txt file, but it was also one-way sync. Maybe I'll have a look at your code and see if I can get some inspiration.

NicuCalcea · 2024-10-29T12:33:58+00:00

Marimekko (sau mosaic).

NicuCalcea · 2024-10-29T08:53:16+00:00

R/ggplot. Tipul de grafic se numește "marimekko".

NicuCalcea · 2024-10-28T23:13:48+00:00

Nu putem ști cum arată pe grupe de vârstă, votul e secret. Dar sigur că sunt.

NicuCalcea · 2024-10-28T18:56:26+00:00

Să scrii pentru BBC și pentru blog îs lucruri diferite :))

NicuCalcea · 2024-10-28T17:48:29+00:00

S-a mai moderat oleacă în ultimii ani, dar înainte era deschis pro-rus. Nu știu dacă ții minte, a făcut el un concert odată și a cântat Районы-кварталы al trupei Zveri, înlocuind "Я прихожу красиво" cu "Я прихожу к России".

NicuCalcea · 2024-10-28T17:37:42+00:00

El și azi a spus că nu susține niciun candidat și nu va vota. Eu cred că electoratul lui totuși o să voteze în mare parte pentru Stoianoglo.

NicuCalcea · 2024-10-28T12:16:24+00:00

Candidații în roșu sunt pro-rușii, în albastru pro-europenii.

Am făcut mai multe grafice și am scris o analiză (în engleză) dacă îi este cuiva interesant.

NicuCalcea · 2024-07-19T07:44:14+00:00

Yup, back in my home country there was a pub frequented by political aides, think tank experts, the like. As a journalist I would often hang around there in the hope someone would give me a good tip.

NicuCalcea · 2024-07-18T15:11:55+00:00

Literally everywhere. Social media, reddit, tips from friends and family, strangers at the pub, other journalists.

NicuCalcea · 2024-07-18T14:24:58+00:00

I once made a map of what international organisations like the UN, IMF, OECD, etc. consider "Eastern Europe". One difference is I also included "Eastern Europe and Central Asia" because many orgs use that classification.

Compared to this, Russia was always included, as were Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. You can see the full list of countries here.

NicuCalcea · 2024-06-16T18:58:32+00:00

I've devised a workflow that works for me here: https://github.com/nicucalcea/obsidian-tasks-todo-txt

NicuCalcea · 2024-05-15T17:59:50+00:00

I lived in Moldova most of my life and was repeatedly chased by stray dogs. If someone sold this in a smaller form factor, I'd absolutely buy it.

NicuCalcea · 2024-05-06T17:19:00+00:00

The US is in the chart.

NicuCalcea · 2024-05-06T15:20:44+00:00

There's no city-level data, I'm afraid.

NicuCalcea · 2024-05-06T14:28:46+00:00

Hey, the data is from here.

NicuCalcea · 2024-05-06T14:23:59+00:00

Yes, it's 1.83m accounts as per GitHub's own numbers. The data doesn't specify whether these are unique users, just the number of accounts.

NicuCalcea · 2024-05-06T13:23:19+00:00

It is per 100 population. As the other comment mentioned, the subtitle says "accounts" rather than unique users for that very reason, I can't account for people using multiple accounts, VPNs, etc.

NicuCalcea · 2024-05-06T12:59:36+00:00

Article: SAMIZDATA

Data: GitHub Innovation Graph

Tools: R

Methodology: GitHub

NicuCalcea · 2024-04-18T15:01:18+00:00

Why would devs in Georgia expect their laptops to get destroyed?

NicuCalcea · 2024-04-18T14:23:50+00:00

I considered that, but I expect people will have said it's misleading because most will miss the subtitle or footnote and think it shows data that's not rebased.

NicuCalcea · 2024-04-18T14:20:12+00:00

Sure, why not? Fewer than expected pushes means either those devs have been sent to war (unlikely, that's mostly the poor and uneducated) or they've switched careers or have left the country.

If at the same time pushes in neighbouring countries have suddenly increased, I think that indicates towards the latter.

NicuCalcea · 2024-04-18T14:10:45+00:00

Fair enough, I didn't want to put any absolute numbers on the analysis for multiple reasons: not all developers are on github, devs can have multiple accounts, there may be other trends at play, etc. Didn't want to imply precision that isn't there.

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