More like Father Ted.

Not really, no.

More like precisely the plot of a Black Mirror Episode, and some rather plausible rumours about David Cameron. Have you not seen them?

The one with Sacha Baron Cohen running in elections?

Really, rust folks should stop using original projects names. It's not related to sqlite, it's very loosely inspired.

s/rust/llm/ doesn't really matter which language the slop is produced in

No one is going to build minefields, too populated area, too many wild animals. It's mostly about automatic mining - https://www.hsw.pl/produkty/pojazd-minowania-narzutowego-bao...

> The BAOBAB-K Mine Laying Vehicle allows the laying of minefields of various sizes, mine densities, and self-clearance times.

The self-clearing is interesting and I hindsight auch an obvious thing to implement.

There's also BLIK - alive and kicking. But since it's made in the EEU it's ignored in Brussels:)

Build libraries, not frameworks.

Managed sqlite?

The Washing-Machine Tragedy was a prophecy.

Peels are rich in fiber.

Comparison with the lockdown data would be interesting.

Poland has a high alertness status for like 5 years now. So there was time to be prepared.

There's some news about some psy-op or some damage every couple of days. We hear about "Russian trolls" and influencing the political discourse.

I wonder if there is any symmetrical response to this happening. How about unleashing psy-ops and "Western trolls" in Runet? Is Europe in purely defensive mode?

It's the openness needed in western societies.

The lack of political will to create and fund covert offensive operations over the internet.

Russia has had this down for _years_, it's not illegal to hack non-Russian targets, so people do it. They have command and control systems where they can give out tasks like "find me vulnerabilities for Siemens XYZ hardware" and then a team will pick that up and do it.

They also practice infiltration, exfiltration and coordination with their attacks. Every kiddie can get in with maximum noise, the truly skilled ones get OUT without leaving any definite traces.

And I'm not talking out of my ass: https://youtu.be/jbIR7YVAYnc - I'm talking out of Marina Krotofil's ass, she's been investigating and dissecting this for a long time.

I think Europe hasn't developed this kind of political manipulation ability. Europe seems to operate in the mode where as long as the political institutions are still standing, everything is felt to be alright. US democrats also operate in this mode.

Russia is perfectly capable of trashing itself without anyone helping.

FWIW it seems Russia's trolling activities took a pretty significant hit after Prigozhin fell out of a window in 2023, as the "Internet Research Agency" was one of his ventures.

Probably just caused outsourcing to india and china.

It did. There are loads of "Polish" patriots on X located in India.

EU-based troll farms are for long time in RUnet already (i.e. FRF) along with EU-aligned russian language media who spread certain narratives.