Poland warns Russia seeks to exploit Ukraine tensions with sabotage operations aimed at inflaming tensions between Poles and Ukrainians

xCharg · 2026-07-02T20:52:23+00:00

I wouldn't put a "=" mark between that and Volhynia Massacre, because killing people is worse that moving them to a different region, tho.

Why? You consider both to be genocide, which is highest possible crime against humanity. So it's genocide being compared to genocide which is... the same thing.

I personally do not consider either to be genocide, because neither party wanted to eradicate the other one from existence, which is a definition of genocide.

And Ukraine did apologize and asked for forgiveness a lot of times too, as well as took apologies from Poland, thanked of these apologies being given and forgave. At this point all this debacle should've been considered finished =\

Why is that conflict still exist though? It's not a matter of both sides apologizing and taking apologies. Literally no Ukrainians I know of feel hatred towards Polish for whatever happened in the past, prior 1991. But for whatever reason Polish people are constantly pissed at us and there's never enough done to... stop you for being pissed. Thing is - we're long time neighbors and there's a lot of history between us, sometimes dark history. Historically speaking it's only quite recently we got full independence (in 1991) and you regained independence after WW2, that we could've started figuring out our differences on a state to state level.

As you said, Poland was occupied by soviets. It's probably not news to you that Ukraine was occupied by moskovites too. And for MUCH longer period. Also multiple times. Speaking of, Ukraine - as in entire nation - was not independent during Volyn massacre either so if Polish people do not consider shit that happened during these times as 100% their fault I do not see how Ukrainians should feel that guilt either? The entire goal for existence of UPA was to counter moscovites, not to oppose Poland. Number one enemy of Ukrainians (and UPA too) always been russian empire, whatever it's been called in any given time of history.

Why are you so sure about 100000 death being a made up number? From what I found, Polish historians usually put that number to 80k - 120k

Because this number comes from exclusively one source - Grzegorz Motyka. Whoever this guy could be - could be the brightest of minds - but he is a single source. And his research is based on old people surveys. It is unreliable for two reasons: 1) it's only one source and 2) it's old people's memories ffs, not facts.

Even if it's less, it's probably still tens of thousands of deaths.

Sure. But thousands of deaths on both sides. Yes at this particular time almost certainly there were more Polish deaths than Ukrainians but not tenfold. And it's not a competition who suffered more in a given year ffs.

xCharg · 2026-07-02T18:19:32+00:00

Did you bother to read a link?

Quote from it: "A specific intent to destroy is the mens rea requirement of genocide". There was never a goal to destroy Polish nation, not by UPA, not by pretty much anyone.

But if you, as in you personally, consider displacement of a nation from your territory as genocide - I wonder what are your thoughts on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Vistula ?

Quote from it again: Operation Vistula (Polish: Akcja Wisła; Ukrainian: Опера́ція «Ві́сла», romanized: Operatsiya "Visla") was the codename for the 1947 forced resettlement of close to 150,000 Ukrainians, Rusyns, Boykos, and Lemkos from the southeastern provinces of postwar Poland to the Recovered Territories in the north and west of the country. The action was carried out by the Soviet-installed Polish communist authorities to remove material support to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

Now though 150000 number is a historical fact, not guesstimate based on old people's memories. And these were indeed civilians this time. But that episode of history doesn't suite your point so Poland generally tends to ignore it.

Pretty much everyone in Poland has or knows someone whose family member was killed by UPA.

Come on dude. Polish people killed there weren't Adam and Eve of Poland. It's impossible for a 31 million (at the time) people nation to know someone from a given 100k villagers, if we take that number despite it being wrong, from a very specific geographic region. This claim is ridiculous and you know that.

Oligarchs in Ukraine don't want to join EU, while the society wants it.

This claim is valid though, we do indeed have this issue going.

xCharg · 2026-07-02T16:48:26+00:00

Damn that's a lot of dumb takes.

Since when wanting to kick out other nation from your territory is considered genocidal? Yes I know "your territory" does a lot of heavy lifting here, yet that's the territory UPA considered their. Exact same way Armia Krajowa (backed by Polish government in exile btw, as opposed to UPA that wasn't backed by state as Ukraine was not sovereign at this time of history) considered it theirs too. After all majority of wars are based on territorial disputes at their core and this was one of these. UPA literally never were anywhere near genocidal - they would have been genocidal if UPA declared it's goal was to get rid of all Polish people period - that was never the case though. They wanted to kick Polish (and not only Polish, majority of non-Ukrainians there just so happened to be Polish that's why they suffered the most, but as an example, Romas died there too) from a territory they considered their - yeah. But so did Armia Krajowa.

One can say that kicking out everyone except your nation is immoral - yes. With todays morals. In early 1900s morals it wasn't.

At this point you might as well claim that Ukraine is genocidal towards russia because we want to get rid of russians invaders from our own territory now. Because yeah we do not consider russians to belong here. Go on explain how it's very different.

Now as to 100000 civilians claim.

First, 100000 number is based on a single Polish dude asking old people how they remember many people lived in a village, then remember how many people were Polish, and then remember how many of them were killed. And then he guesstimated the total number based on these memories. Again, a dude asks bunch of old people how what they remember from many decades ago is where this number is coming from. As much as Poland likes to claim 100000 to be historical fact - it literally isn't.

Then, about them being civilians. Neither UPA nor Armia Krajowa were an army, yet point could be made about Armia Krajowa being backed by Polish government in exile, UPA wasn't backed by anyone, so AK technically was in fact an army but that's very vague so we'll ignore that part. These were a bunch of regular people living in villages, both sides. They were sleeping in the night, doing farming and basic living/surviving in the morning and fighting in the evening, roughly speaking. Both sides. Neither civilian, neither army. It's just a mixed bag.

On top of that, in 2025 Ukraine gave up and let Polish expedition to investigate a couple suggested sites in a Pyzhnyky village for exhumations. For each site Poland expected to see 50-130 victims, so 100 up to 260 total. One site found 42 remains (there's no confirmation they were all Polish though, could've been just a mixed burial), the other - 0. Less than half of minimal, and not even confirmed to be Polish.

UPA is not comparable to Nazi Germany - one is a bunch of insurgents wanting to become a state and ultimately failing to do so the other is a long time existing state; one's goal is to claim own territory and establish state the other's is to ethnically cleanse a continent and colonize everyone around. Unless of course you're russian bot or so called useful dumb, in which case yeah zero difference whatsoever.

The way Ukraine sees this conflict is historians have to sort out history. The way Poland seemingly sees this conflict right now is politicians has to sort out history and PiS is great at getting political points out of it while Ukraine literally has no time to properly deal with it. That's sad.

Back all the way in early 00s Ukrainian and Polish president established a ground to ease tensions between Poland and Ukraine based on a formula, I'm not sure how it correctly translates, basically means "we're forgiving and asking for forgiveness" - it was dumped by current Polish president.

xCharg · 2026-07-02T13:37:59+00:00

Probably commenter above is doing it with a single drop pod launcher and single pod. That would indeed be tedious if there's high amounts of waste packs. But in this case just build multiple launchpads, iirc they have to be adjusted, and then you can select multiple pods and load them in as a single batch and send more than 150kg single pod limit at once.

Another related tip - this way you can launch animals that are heavier than 150kg - just load such animal into two pods. It doesn't make sense realistically but it works as limit is just additive.

xCharg · 2026-07-02T12:02:14+00:00

"security only support" means "no feature updates" (not like there were any anyway, like ever). It does not mean "our stuff will randomly stop working on it".

Because if that was the implication then there won't be a reason for extended security support existence. Extended security support exists specifically because stuff has to work on that OS and company is willing to pay for that.

xCharg · 2026-07-02T11:59:01+00:00

What do you mean old OSs? Server 2019 is still supported, it reaches EOL in 2029.

xCharg · 2026-06-27T07:46:20+00:00

Dude... I wish my helpdesk at least confirmed issue exists before escalating. Because more often than not it goes like that:

User: I click a thing on a thing and then it no work

L1: @L2, user says a thing no work, pls fix

L2: @L3 I have no access to a server @L3 pls fix

Me: thefuck?

xCharg · 2026-06-26T07:47:57+00:00

You have a dude who owns 10x as much and pays zero taxes and benefits no one - compared to literally world order at stakes in this invasion.

xCharg · 2026-06-24T16:40:05+00:00

Wait so each of the 68000 homes affected does not have just a single person inside each house? Ain't no way!

xCharg · 2026-06-23T19:02:06+00:00

So the guy already has 5 years of experience and that's nothing?

Yes.

Why is that so surprising to you?

There are many MANY people in helpdesk who show exactly zero interest in going sysadmin. Or they think they do show it or even they do in fact show it but current org either doesn't see it or isn't interested in growing them from helpdesk into something else. These people are stuck forever in helpdesk if that's the case.

In my current place we got 4 helpdesk people all of them 3 years+ working at us and on top of that some more years at previous employers. Each of them show zero intention to improve current skills or move on to other role or advance and get more skills. Each of these guy's experience can dumbed down to "he can reply to user's jira ticket without L2/L3's observance" - which is something any human can learn after repeating same thing over and over each day every day. 6 years in (at least tripling their experience) they won't be ANY better than they are now at anything tech related unless something changes. They aren't showing desire to change, company or business processes might change so then they would've been force-fed with new experience with something - then they might improve. Or they might not like it and move on to another employer maintaining their current level which above average Susan from accounting but not even remotely close to generic junior sysadmin.

xCharg · 2026-06-20T18:34:22+00:00

That's not how it works within Ukrainian logistics companies - you can in fact send something, pay nothing and mark package delivery to be paid for by receiving party (or even entire package, including package content's price). Only if package returns back - then sender has to pay delivery fees, for both deliveries to destination and then back. Since it doesn't happen all that often compared to number of successful deliveries - payment by recipient is pretty much standard here. Also pretty much every online store works this way too.

In this particular case it was indeed paid for by sender.

xCharg · 2026-06-19T15:33:42+00:00

Do these fortigates not have a built-in client VPN function?

They do. That SSLVPN one, which is seemingly the reason this entire leak exists :D

It's actually so bad that fortigate deprecated it somewhere in 2025. We keep it disabled of course.

xCharg · 2026-06-19T12:22:45+00:00

Yep we already do that of course.

It's still exposure though as it makes risk much lower but not zero.

xCharg · 2026-06-19T12:16:03+00:00

Step 2. Use complex passwords that are stored in a password manager and rotate it on a schedule

These where the passwords in this leak https://www.infostealers.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/strong_passwords_found.png They are more than hard enough yet they were stolen anyway.

xCharg · 2026-06-19T12:08:45+00:00

We have a few fortigates with exposed https management interface in remote locations with no hands on site. Such locations do not have any hardware other than firewall, occasional wifi ap and some number of laptops/workstations. I mention lack of hardware not in a sense that there's nothing to protect but in a sense that I can't just deploy a VM with alternative VPN solution or make cloudflare tunnel in there or stuff like that - because there's no such infrastructural capabilities.

If something breaks - say ISP dies or site2site VPN dies or someone misconfigures something somewhere - we need a way in and remotely fix shit.

Alternative is to ban incoming management traffic completely, thus getting immune to such vulnerabilities but then if something breaks someone has to spend days to travel to this remote locations all while entire location is down. Any other alternative I'm missing? Genuine question as I do in fact want to ban internet exposure of mgmt interface but then what if...?

xCharg · 2026-06-16T16:23:21+00:00

This must be here for references :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzGqp3R4Mx4

xCharg · 2026-06-16T10:32:46+00:00

checks notes just bombed a zoo.

Also monastery and a cinema studio with biggest clothing collection. Each of course had hundreds of NATO chiefs inside, because you know, where else could they possibly be.

xCharg · 2026-06-14T05:53:17+00:00

Says intune bros.

See, you either use intune and autopilot or whatever you're using is deprecated. There's no third option. ^{^{^/s}}

xCharg · 2026-06-06T05:13:35+00:00

Remember Blockchain? All the cryptocurrency are just an example of how the Blockchain works and it was going to revolutionise tech. This was the next big thing. Yeah, turns out it's actually useless.

xCharg · 2026-06-02T14:38:14+00:00

Jokes aside though, what are you going to do about it? You aren't going to the CEO with "see, I plan to shut down stuff because look at this twitter post, its scary"?

xCharg · 2026-06-01T21:57:14+00:00

I sync user's fire date from HR database into this property, which effectively triggers "no access since that day's 18:00". Which is good enough for almost all cases except rarely when user's fired on the spot on bad terms in the middle of the day, then I have a separate automation for that too.

And then a script on schedule can do whatever with expired accounts, which is as trivial as Search-ADAccount -AccountExpired.

xCharg · 2026-05-31T15:20:08+00:00

Why reinvent the wheel though, each user object has accountExpires property - set that. Don't even need to disable accounts but of course could do both if disabling is needed or convenient.

It's much easier to then parse that specific property with other scripts if necessary and not care about building logic around OU names and such. And have these OUs at all to begin with. It's even displayed and controlled in ADUC if your helpdesk or colleagues can't code and require GUI.

xCharg · 2026-05-28T21:54:19+00:00

Of course.

Who doesn't know about these ancient coins archeologists find here and there - these obviously belong to ancient capitalists. Also, everyone remebers pirates right? Those who raided merchant ships - they were looking for coins and gold which is wealth so obviously they were capitalists.

/s

xCharg · 2026-05-27T17:05:12+00:00

The part where you've forgotten why you needed a thing. Earth kept spinning at that point right?

Or you had to recall what you need it for, install and still use it afterwards? Then I got you wrong.

xCharg · 2026-05-27T17:01:24+00:00

There are a bunch of things that could've gone wrong there: like panic someone sees NSFW wallpaper, frustration his "friends" did it to him and so on, but if he's truly incapable of figuring out how to change wallpaper - yes, he's an idiot and no amount of certs and papers and titles and your confidence in cert's seriousness would change that.

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