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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Early in the full-scale war against Ukraine, when Russia still tried to convince their people of the necessity of the invasion (shortly before retreating to just arresting everyone opposing the war), they came up with loads of ridiculous and sometimes pretty funny reasons, like Ukrainians being gay nazis running secret biolabs where they breed mosquitos that can smell Russian DNA, bollocks like that. One of the many dumb things they claimed was that Ukrainians are satanists using black magic against Russians.

Now this is happening:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-witchcraft-medicine-putin-b2958910.html

Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church and famous for running around blessing tanks, missiles, drones or canisters of diesel, is not amused.

#russia #witchcraft #propaganda #ukraine

independent.co.uk

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@AnnaAnthro From the title I first thought this was an old story I've read before, I was wrong. This one is pretty crazy as well though: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-soldier-underground-bunker-sergiy-tyshchenko-russia-war-b2935045.html

independent.co.uk

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

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@hassmeister@mas.to @PWS_1@mastodon.social Ja, das ist bei Twitter seit Musk schwierig bis unmöglich geworden. Zum einen weil linke Bubbles sich nach der Übernahme aufgelöst haben und zu Bluesky abgewandert sind und somit die Unterstützung fehlt wo man früher noch mit hunderten über dumme Nazi-Tweets hergefallen ist. Zum anderen habe ich den Eindruck, dass der Algorithmus jetzt aktiv Bubbles schützt und Antworten von Leuten die nicht dazugehörigen und womöglich widersprüchlich sein könnten dem OP gar nicht mehr angezeigt werden. Anfang 2022 zum Beispiel hat NAFO es noch geschafft in solchen Massen über pro-russische Accounts herzufallen und lächerlich zu machen, dass sogar Botschafter und Regierungs-Accounts zumindest zeitweise dichtgemacht haben. Das wär heute denke ich nicht mehr möglich. Auf Mastodon hatte ich bisher noch nicht das Bedürfnis zu trollen, ich find hier bisher alle sehr entspannt. Allerdings treibe ich mich auch nicht viel im Federated Feed rum, ich hab ein paar interessante Accounts denen ich folge und wenn die andere interessante Accounts reposten dann folge ich da auch mal rein, so hab ich meine kleine gemütliche Timeline ohne große Ärgernisse. :)

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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For reference: nudist chases wild boars that stole his notebook at a Berlin nudist beach. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/07/german-nudist-chases-wild-boar-that-stole-laptop-berlin-teufelssee #berlin #nudist #wildboars

theguardian.com

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Feeling a bit stupid right now but I only just realized that latitude and longitude are given as degrees because they are, in fact, angles, not just arbitrarily numbered lines on a globe. 🤦‍♂️ It's kinda obvious, I just somehow never spent a single thought about it, despite working with coordinates quite regularly.

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 16mo ago

Last night I thought I'd check out Flutter/Dart and after a few hours of playing around this ugly-ass prototype of an Android client for @readeck@mastodon.online fell out. I know there's already one in the making but that's about as functional as mine so I think I might just keep working on it (unless I get bored) and maybe even finish it.

#readeck #android #flutter #dart

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

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@hassmeister@mas.to Mich hat hier zum Glück bisher niemand genervt. :) Ein paar wenige Accounts habe ich ohne Kontakt aufzunehmen direkt auf Sicht geblockt aufgrund fragwürdiger Symbole im Namen, aber die kann ich an einer Hand abzählen. Wenn ich Lust auf Krawall habe kann ich ja immer noch zu Twitter. ;)

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

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@hassmeister@mas.to @PWS_1@mastodon.social Hatte aus Spaß mal etwas ähnliches zu COVID/AfD-Schwurbler-Hochzeiten versucht. Einen szenetypisch aussehenden Account erstellt und mich in entsprechende Bubbles gehängt, und dann, immer wenn jemand absurde Verschwörungstheorien zu COVID, Flüchtlingen usw. verbreitet hat, erstmal zugestimmt aber direkt halbwegs subtil noch was absurderes nachgeschoben, z.B. Flat-Earther-Müll oder dergleichen. War interessant und auch ganz unterhaltsam zu sehen, wie Leute sich dann gewunden haben - zum einen wollten sie ja einen "Mitkämpfer" nicht verprellen indem sie widersprechen oder es gar als Unfug abtun, aber man hat deutlich gemerkt wie es in ihnen rumort hat und sich mancher gefragt in was für einer Bewegung sind da sind in der sich solche Irren tummeln, im Sinne von "Moment mal, Leute die das glauben was ich glaube glauben auch DAS?!" Habe nach einer Weile das Interesse verloren und es ist unmöglich zu sagen ob es am Ende irgendwen beeinflusst oder gar zur Vernunft gebracht hat, aber war zumindest interessant und für eine Zeit lang auch ganz unterhaltsam. 😋

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@richard@hemmer.land Ich bestell mittlerweile lieber direkt in den Paketshop meiner Wahl, dann weiß ich zumindest wo es ist und muss nicht die Nachbarschaft nach einem Nachbarn Schulz oder so abklappern der das Paket angenommen hat um dann festzustellen, dass Schulz ein Barista in irgendeinem Café ist der an dem Tag Schicht hatte und unterschrieben hat.

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

Boosted by @kagihq@mastodon.social

Browsing through @kagihq@mastodon.social's #smallweb with all the cool nerd projects, niche hobbies and other random obscurities is so fun it kinda makes me want to start my own blog. No idea what I'd write about and if anyone would ever want to read any of it, I just somehow want to be part of it. 😛

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Next up: #Trump will declare he needs to own Vatican City for global security, the #Pope / Swiss Guards will buy air defense (expertise) from #Ukraine.

You heard it here first.

EDIT: #FIFA will declare Trump football pope/Jesus.

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

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@PogoWasRight The thing I was referring to was at least ~2 years back I think. Didn't have any luck finding it yet but this might also be interesting. Most concerning thing here IMO is that apparently companies make less backups, or if they do then in a way that gets them corrupted by ransomware along with their production data. Data recovered from backups after a ransomware attack at the lowest point in six years. 🤦‍♂️ https://assets.sophos.com/X24WTUEQ/at/9brgj5n44hqvgsp5f5bqcps/sophos-state-of-ransomware-2025.pdf

assets.sophos.com

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

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@PogoWasRight Will do. Assuming that you did some online research and didn't stumble across it I'm pretty sure it was a German-language thing. I also vaguely remember that they interviewed authorities (either regular cops or probably BKA/BSI if it was Germany) and they grudgingly admitted that when contacted for help by victims of ransomware they actually regularly recommend (to the individual victims/companies, not to the general public of course) paying the ransom because realistically they can't do jackshit to help you get your data back and most of the time the attackers hold up to their promise. That's all just from memory though, I'll let you know if I find the source again.

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

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@PogoWasRight I remember similar research about the odds of actually getting your data back in case ransomware encrypted/deleted it with very similar outcome. They pretty much always deliver because otherwise people wouldn't pay anymore and they'd be killing their own business model. That was a couple of years ago so no link, sorry.

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

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@fabienmarry @kagihq The "Gen Z" translator is pretty good as well!

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 7mo ago

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@alice @briankrebs Just out of curiosity, in a competition or record attempt, does it matter whether you're single pin picking or raking, are they separate disciplines? And if so how do they verify? Asking because I for example usually start raking/zipping with a flat hook before bothering to fiddle with individual pins, which works for a huge amount of cheapish locks, so technically I'm raking but not using a rake. I'm not planning to compete or anything, I'm just curious if a jury could tell the difference and disqualify me, or if they even care at all. :)

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

RE: @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

This might actually happen sometime soon. 👀

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 9mo ago

Replying to on fosstodon.org

@notesnook@fosstodon.org Still not working for me.

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@larsmb@mastodon.online @kagihq@mastodon.social No idea if this works but maybe instead of adding individual shops you could add price comparison sites like idealo.de, geizhals.de and so on and then filter Amazon results.

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@kagihq@mastodon.social Well if you ever bring it to Android, please make sure that not only the address bar is at the bottom of the screen but also the tabs in the tab switcher. @firefox just broke the latter one and browsing is just shit for one-hand use now. Even went to abandon Firefox but the others are just as bad regarding UI. Browser speed is completely irrelevant if you need seconds to press a stupid button because someone thought it's clever to put in places no thumb can ever reach.

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 1mo ago

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@randahl@mastodon.social The free world doesn't even dare firing warning shots at Russia, despite Russia openly attacking them with ballistic missiles on Poland, drones on German airports and so on. And North Korea is far away, what would they do, send a boat around the world or what?

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Brambleminster Gollyhatch @gollyhatch@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

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@Bellingcat@mstdn.social Your RSS feed is broken/gone.

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