”This is part of Russia's hybrid attacks, which are not dissimilar to the bomb threats emailed to schools and cyber attacks… The public does not talk about what is happening in other countries. I would say with high confidence that such action has not only been against Estonia but has also been against other countries. Here we are no different… It is a broader trend today that both Russian and Chinese special services are approaching people through social media”

ERR

ISS: Russian special services behind attack on Estonian minister's car

The Internal Security Service (ISS) said it has identified the people who vandalized cars belonging to the interior minister and a journalist last ...

”Russia probably managed to recruit approximately 300,000 contract soldiers in 2023. This massive recruitment effort did not create significant tensions in Russian society, unlike the partial mobilisation in 2022. Rebuilding the military forces through mobilisation and recruitment has been one of the most crucial strategic lessons for Russia from the war in Ukraine. The outcomes of this effort are expected to inform its conduct in future conflicts, both in Ukraine and elsewhere…. Russia aims to increase its military personnel from 1.15 million to 1.5 million soldiers by 2026… In 2022, Russia’s production of new artillery ammunition alone reached approxi- mately 600,000 units, roughly equivalent to the combined output of the United States and European Union member states… President Putin’s publicly announced plan to restore 2,000 old tanks by 2026 may well be feasible…” https://www.valisluureamet.ee/doc/raport/2024-en.pdf

”Germany is the most important economy in Europe, but it relies on imported energy and borrowed military strength… The question each European nation needs to ask itself is this: are you prepared to defend yourself? And the question the US must ask is: if our European allies can’t even defend themselves, are they allies, or clients?” https://www.ft.com/content/3c87ef13-122f-4e78-a7af-54c75c30a91d

”Outmanned and outgunned, Ukrainian ground forces are in perhaps their most precarious position since the opening months of the war Russia’s assault has split into five major lines of attack, spanning towns and cities across much of the front in eastern and southern Ukraine” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-map.html

An English version with more pics

ERR

Gallery: Exhibition showing destroyed public space on display in Tallinn

Billboards depicting destroyed public spaces are on display in Tallinn's Õismäe, Mustamäe and Lasnamäe.

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”it is entirely possible that the world’s three largest democracies — India, the US and Indonesia — will all elect admirers of Putin as their leaders this year. Prabowo Subianto of Indonesia, Narendra Modi in India and Donald Trump in the US are all notable for standing aside from the international condemnation of Putin — for reasons that go beyond realpolitik.” https://www.ft.com/content/e801a8e4-8a17-4e56-b06a-7fef9e311d7a

A brilliant way to get the message across. This should be done with every city in the EU.

”FinX says the linear propulsion consumes less energy than traditional rotational propeller systems and also claims the design produces less noise and agitation in the water, making it a less impactful on marine life… With the accompanying 72-Ah 48-V lithium battery, the FinS delivers an estimated top speed just under 7 mph (11 km/h). It's made to run at top speed for up to an hour and 45 minutes before draining the battery. Dialing speed back to 3 mph (5 km/h), the system can deliver up to eight hours of on-water time per charge. Estimated ranges come in at 10.5 and 21 nautical miles (19 and 39 km) at those respective speeds.”

New Atlas

Biomimetic electric outboard ditches propeller for fin-driven thrust

French startup FinX was founded on the idea that the best way to preserve nature is to look to it for inspiration. Toward that end, it's developed ...

Any suggestions how can I search across ActivityPub and turn it into a RSS-feed or straight up API request?

”Pegasus gives operators complete access to a mobile device, allowing them to extract passwords, photos, messages, contacts and browsing histories, and to activate the microphone and camera for real-time eavesdropping.”

AP News

Poland's PM says authorities in the previous government widely and illegally used Pegasus spyware

Poland’s new prime minister says he has documentation proving that state authorities under the previous government used the powerful Pegasus spyw...

”Europe is at war. Failure to recognise that, and more delays or hesitation in supporting Ukraine could have drastic consequences for the whole of Europe in the very near future.”

Friends of Europe

It is time to mobilise European industry for Ukraine's victory - Friends of Europe

”A block on Proton Mail will be the second major blow to the Switzerland-headquartered firm, which had to remove Proton VPN servers in India in 2022 in response to a local law that required virtual private network operators to disclose their customers’ information to New Delhi.”

TechCrunch

India may block Proton Mail | TechCrunch

Proton, the Swiss privacy-focused software maker, says it has received a notice of a "possible block" of Proton Mail in India after the service was...

”Looking at Nvidia’s HGX boards, the chipmaker is able to achieve around 900 GB/sec of bandwidth, which works out to 7.2 Tb/sec, between each of its accelerators using NVLink. By comparison, Harris claims Lightmatter has a project coming out that’s 60 Tb/sec leaving the chip, which is 7.5 TB/sec of bandwidth per chip.” https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/04/how-lightmatter-breaks-bandwidth-bottlenecks-with-silicon-photonics/amp/

”The Russians were willing to pay up to $39,000 for the planting of pro-Russian commentary in major media outlets in the West… Practically everywhere this will be columnists, leaders of public opinion, former diplomats, officials, professors and so on,” a note attached to the price list states.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/16/russian-disinformation-zelensky-zaluzhny/

Idefinetely means less than 4 years or is it the other alternative? ”Set your price for Pro before Oct. 7th and we'll honor it indefinitely.”

1.8K views · 25 reactions | Exciting Pro update! We're extending the set your own price offer. Set your price for Pro before Oct. 7th and we'll honor it indefinitely. Learn more from our CEO and Founder, Linden Tibbets. | IFTTT

Exciting Pro update! We're extending the set your own price offer. Set your price for Pro before Oct. 7th and we'll honor it indefinitely...

Something rotten in Italy, France and Spain

”As Putin’s regime grows more bloodthirsty and more arrogant, there are yet those in the West who want to reason with the dictator. They bury their heads in the comforting sand in the hope that Russia will somehow sort itself out, one day returning to normalcy. It won’t.”

The Spectator

Hope for Russia has died with Navalny

It was brave. It was foolhardy. It was almost unbelievable. After his near-fatal poisoning by the Russian Federal Security Service, Alexey Navalny ...

Has someone already built this feature on Nostr?

Feature Requests | Descript

Give feedback to the Descript team so we can make more informed product decisions. Powered by Canny.

(It’s by https://canny.io/use-cases/feature-request-management) If you could list notes (as user requests) and instead of upvotes it would be showing zap totals. Could be with a minimum target or just showing the total. Was thinking how to take feature request but channel them in a way that would prioritise the once that users are really committed? It this would be on Nostr might drive some people to try zaps and set-up a Nostr account. Ofc, this can be done manually by creating notes and embedding them into some web-page but it’s a bit messy and hard to maintain.

Is it fair to assume that those supporting Trump (and Kremlin) have a kompromat that they try to keep hidden?

”Now the rules will apply to nearly all online platforms, marketplaces and “intermediaries” with users in the 27-nation bloc. Only the smallest businesses, with fewer than 50 employees and annual revenue of less than 10 million euros ($11 million), are exempt.”

AP News

The European Union expands digital crackdown on toxic content, dodgy goods to all online platforms

The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook to almost all online platforms in the bloc.