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Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by throwrqX »

sofixa wrote: post #303
magpi3 wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a very good analogy. No western country ever invaded Ukraine. When the Soviet Union collapsed Ukraine was granted its independence without a shot being fired. A better analogy would be Australia and Canada. Both were part of Great Britain and both became independent after the British Empire collapsed.

Eh, independent is a stretch. Both have the Queen as head of state, and her representative, the governer-general, has some powers. Example of the Queen's representative interfering in local politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional...

If Australians so wished they could have voted for a republic and to become fully independent several times yet they have chosen not to so far.

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Post by optimalsolver »

expertjshn wrote: post #186

Fullstack developer with Javascript experience reporting to duty. I'll unleash hell with my extensive experience in pop-ups, pop-unders, alerts, ads and auto loading loud videos.

Hopefully Russian cyberforces have never heard of uBlock Origin or NoScript.

Re: Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia

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Post by cobbzilla »

donogh wrote: post #350
belter wrote: post #346

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I am surprised this is the top comment. Not that it's not well argued but what seems to imply of the reading by most of the current situation. The joke of sanctions implemented by the EU and the US, and they are a joke, since EU continues to import gas from Russia, and SWIFT use continues by the Russian Federation, is a symptom of the same attitude seen on many Ukraine residents just 48 hours ago. A kind of cognitive…

That’s a good point. I visited Latvia a few years ago and was struck by how large a section of society there identifies as Russian, to the extent that in some places you were more likely to hear people speaking Russian than Latvian. Poland would be a more difficult target to justify than the Baltics; only 0.1% of Poles speak Russian; 30% of Latvians are native Russian speakers. I could see Putin going there next.

All three Baltic nations are NATO members. An attack on any NATO member requires a response by NATO.

So, not likely that Latvia is next.

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Post by tspiteri »

8bitchemistry wrote: post #126

Seriously, I would love to hear Edward Snowden's opinion. Not much on his twitter about it though.

He retweeted Suchkov's summary of Putin's "address to the nation regarding his decision on Donbass" (https://twitter.com/m_suchkov/status/1495831112102338563). No surprises there about where Snowden's loyalty currently lies.

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Post by reitanqild »

majewsky wrote: post #324
reitanqild wrote: post #236

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> Reminder to people who didn't grow up in the US: Americans are by and large a bloodthirsty, vindictive lot I'd take away "by and large" here. Many of them are also exceedingly generous, open and friendly and cares deeply. This holds true for both sides of the political spectrum. They've also suffered a lot to end two world wars that they didn't start.

> They've also suffered a lot to end two world wars that they didn't start. This is even more true of the Russians, and as an outsider, I'm wondering how much of their politics is informed by those memories.

That is a seriously good point.

It never ceases to amuse me how ignorant I am in my comments despite my attempts at being smart, wise and fair.

Of course you are right.

That said, this invasion is still a crime and I am utterly fed up by Russian actions in neighboring states, their constant lying, especially after MH17 was shot down, getting more or less away with state sponsored cheating in sports, simulating bombing raids against Swedish power plants etc. We should have seen this coming a long time ago.

(In my defense however, note that from the very start of this, even before the protests in Russia were known to me I think I have not said a bad word about the Russian people, barely a bad word about the men in boots and only after they started aggression and mostly - I hope - just about the leadership.)

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Post by neonsunset »

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Post by idkwhoiam »

black_puppydog wrote: post #147
jtsuken wrote: post #130

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If you don't want to engage on the offensive side, there is plenty of work on the defensive side of things. * Detect and notify the Ukrainian government about threats or upcoming attacks. * Identify coordinated manipulative behaviour on social media. * Last but not least contact Patreon's management to release the funds that have been donated to Ukrainian veterans ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30461038 ) Fee…

Sorry but what? * It looks like there won't be a Ukrainian government to speak of in a few days. * Manipulative behaviour has been identified on twitter and Facebook almost every day for the last few years, and it hasn't really led to much anything. The Ukrainian government can't do anything about that, if the independent banana republics of FAANG don't decide to act, nothing is gonna change. * Likewise for patreon.…

> No NATO state will enter into this conflict, Putin has been pretty openly threatening with nuclear annihilation This basically means 2 things: 1. NATO is dead. 2. Putin is free to do whatever he wants wherever he chooses.

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Post by rosndo »

HWR_14 wrote: post #134
weisk wrote: post #68

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You seem like a knowledgeable person. What does Ukraine really have, that Putin so desperately wants? And best of luck to you, dear friends.

So, there's a lot. For one, Putin seems to want to reassemble the USSR as a vanity project. Further, this all started (years ago) when the Ukrainians removed out their Moscow friendly president. Putin doesn't like reminders that months of sustained protests can really effect change and remove leaders, especially so close to Russia. Crimea is the only "warm water" port that Russia has access to to gain access for the…

> For one, Putin seems to want to reassemble the USSR as a vanity project

Putin has almost exclusively bad things to say about the USSR, it is the Russian Empire he wants to restore.

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Post by verisimi »

I'm no expert on this stuff, but I don't get the partisan nature of this Ukraine Russia debate at all.

Putting aside the politics of what side the US government is on...

It seems very equivalent to me to when some southern states declared secession from the northern states (in 1860), there was a civil war. To Russians, Ukraine is integral to them and their identity, even if that has been the case since 1991 (a situation forced on Russia at the time).

So, if we can leave the politics aside, accepting that there are institutions such as countries etc, what would be the right thing here?

Why should Western countries even involve themselves in this? I mean - Russia certainly is going to roll over Ukraine - how does it help anyone to arm them - isn't it just inviting more retaliation - isn't it making a bad problem even worse?

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