some context for the bottom row https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/16/exiled-russian-accused-of-spying-on-opposition-including-navalny-movement https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/11/04/russian-pro-democracy-activist-detained-in-poland-admits-to-working-for-fsb-en-news

tldr openrussia didn’t learn that there’s no such thing as former fsb agent, and now there are consequences

dude, people join irl face to face cults, of course they do

NEOM is the building the foundations for a new future - unconstrained by legacy city infrastructure, powered by renewable energy and prioritizing the conservation of nature. We are committed to developing the region to the highest standards of sustainability and livability.

lol, this is saudi, they found a way to make half of their water supply to riyadh nonrenewable

the talk about water content in soil was bad but the topic itself was interesting

things that fella got wrong: TDM moisture meter works by measuring what effectively is electrical length of waveguide formed by 2 electrodes and soil around it. more water = higher dielectric constant = longer delay for reflection, this only measures as deep as probe goes and the rest is fitted from model

neutron detector works just like geiger tube except gas has large cross-section for reaction with neutrons, that gives charged products that begin a spark which is counted. in train, steel doesn’t interfere but diesel fuel will. the trick is that cosmic neutrons are counted separately from reflected neutrons, because cosmic neutrons are hot and reflected neutrons are thermal and how much of reflected ones is there depends on water content in the soil. helium does not run out. the more helium you have the faster counts go and you can move faster while measuring with decent precision. the lead shield in train is for getting rid of radiation from granite aggregate under rails, because it contains tiny amounts of uranium and gammas from decay chain would add to noise - lead does not interfere

fella didn’t even introduce himself other than with link to github which might be not his strictly speaking

so far (in the order i’m watching) the worst offender https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-quick-stop-at-the-hostileshop

you can edit it

Can’t get too green

We’re British

important point lol, 90s sucked in eastern block https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cross_(demography)

also a couple of east asian countries like at minimum japan, south korea, taiwan were proper tinpot dictatorships until 90s

thank you for your service

Must have been Japanese torpedo ship

neess more piss filter

this meme is about piss

roughly tube with a very thick wall and spherical ending (it has to survive 100+ atm under high temperature and neutron irradiation - weakens everything over time)

at least this one https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-chaos-communication-chemistry-dna-security-systems-based-on-molecular-randomness#t=1112 and the next slide

a chunk of software was vibecoded unless i misunderstand something about it https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines#t=2629

lowkey disappointed to see so much slop in other talks (illustrations on slides mostly)

energy goes in, energy goes out. you can’t explain that

as i understand, this is what bellingcat uses as a major source of data when reporting on russian activities

“It is one of the paradoxes of modern Russia: on the one hand, these services are illegal and rely on leaked data, yet on the other, they are far more convenient for day-to-day police work than the multitude of official departmental databases,”

gaben on piracy: “We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,”

independent of that, take time to piss on jack welch’s grave, as he was first high profile ceo who fired people to please The Line, in otherwise profitable and healthy corporation, among some other horridly toxic things to do in workplace

is that the superexponential growth that lw tried to warn us about?