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·4 maanden geleden·discuss
The defence against russia is something that Trump administration is trying to dismantle currently: https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-wont-divert-patriot-a...
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·4 jaar geleden·discuss
My first PC was a 286 with a SVGA.
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·4 jaar geleden·discuss
I was a kid from a small town in '80s Poland (the poorest part of it). The local secondary school had a whole Elwro-equipped classroom. Many of my friends had 8-bit computers: the first one I encountered in 1986 was a ZX Spectrum, owned by my friend whose father worked in UK. I recall visiting classmates between 1986-89 and playing for hours on their Spectrums, C64s and Ataris (800XL, 65XE). The local community centre had Atari 520ST (or maybe two?) and it was available for the local kids to play with. I estimate that in '89 my town of 5k had at least 20 computers.

Pegasus arrived in 1991 but many of the 8-bit owners already upgraded to Amigas, which were really common in my area.
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·4 jaar geleden·discuss
I am in the same situation. Sometimes I wonder if I should have responded to a bit higher offer sent by someone who possibly was a super wealthy Saudi kid (I am talking racing-lambos-in-the-desert-rich kind).
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·4 jaar geleden·discuss
I have a short instagram handle.

In 2016 someone figured out how to successfully repeatedly reset the password without my knowledge (via support maybe?). But since my e-mail was not compromised they didn't manage to change the password (or I was quick enough to set it again before they executed some second step of their scheme). I upgraded the security measures to 2FA and some insanely long password and it ceased.

Since November 2020 I am subjected to a brute-force attack - someone is trying to log in and I am getting an email notification about it each time. In the beginning it was once every five (!) minutes, later every 15 minutes. It went like this for over a year, now it seems to be throttled with emails arriving once every few days.

I am suprised that for such a long time Instagram didn't implement anything to counter such activities.

But luckily, no pizzas yet.
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·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Unit 3 was just behind a wall, but 1 and 2 were quite far away (300-500m).

They all had multiple serious incidents before and after the Chernobyl Disaster (1982 - partial core meltdown at #1, 1984 - incidents at #3 and #4, 1991 - fire at the turbine hall of #2). This was the most unsafe nuclear power plant in the whole USSR and the operators were in grave danger all the time.
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·5 jaar geleden·discuss
I made the same mistake reading the title and felt a rare emotional mix of being enraged and puzzled at the same time.
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·5 jaar geleden·discuss
This "World Passport" document is on the official EU list of fantasy passports to which a visa may not be affixed: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/list-known-fantasy-and-cam.... No EU country recognizes it.

I just checked the scan "confirming" that it is accepted by Poland and that proof is a temporary 14 day visa issued in June 1990 in Berlin embassy by a 65y old communist diplomat/spy (according to publicly available documents). With a stamp of "Polish People's Republic" - a name that was changed to "Republic of Poland" at the end of 1989. I guess that was a moment in time where anyone in that embassy could happily stamp an outdated visa on anything for $50.