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• In 2024, over 60 Russian agents were deployed to spread disinformation across three continents. At least 17 of them are former members of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s network.
• The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service now oversees their activities and provides financing through two front companies. This investigation reveals the identities of two Foreign Intelligence Service agents in charge of operations.
• The network, internally known as the “Company,” has established five offices abroad, including in Bolivia in 2024.
• With the help of “counter-agents” recruited in the field, the network also carries out intelligence missions.

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Since Yevgeny Prigozhin died in August 2023, his sprawling network of propaganda agents has come under the control of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service. A data leak has allowed Forbidden Stories to identify more than 60 of its agents tasked with expanding Moscow’s disinformation efforts across three continents.

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Dude, Where Is My Beer? is a point and click aventure in which you play a middle aged man who just wants to drink a normal pilsner. At the beginning of the game you arrive in Oslo per bus and want to use your beak time to get a cold beer. But it gets clear relatively quickly that everyone in this damn city is young and hip and drinks fancy craft beers. At first that sounds like a fun game, but is it? (tl;dr I don't think so)

It's a relatively short game that (obviously) focuses on its humor. But there are two major flaws with this game:

First: The humor. This game makes fun of hipster tropes and the culture of different kinds of bars. I thought I would like that. But after only 15 minutes I thought it was just annoying. It just feels like it's just the same joke on repeat over and over and over. You get in a bar, you ask for a pilsner, the bartender says you are old and unhip and offers you beers the wildest of names. There are multiple different bars that represent different tropes of drinking culture. A sports bar, a bar with some pub quiz going on, ... It feels like all forms of this joke has already been told before the game was released. It got dull way to early for the game to be fun.

Second: Speaking of fun, let's get to the gameplay. It's a point and click, a genre notorious for it's weird puzzles that reach to the point of being basically unsolvable without just mindlessley just clicking everything. And for me, this game is just this. I played on normal difficulty where it is possible to get some hints. But those hints are often missing if you are already in the middle of a puzzle without knowing. Or the hint is "just explore more". And this is the most frustrating thing about this game. In most adventures when you solve a puzzle you get some kind of clue or item which leads to the next puzzle. That's barely the case in this game. Lete give you an example: A woman needs a pen. So you try to find a pen. Some puzzle solving later you give her the pen and what happens? She just starts a phone call. That's it. No reward, no real interaction, nothing. So what are you doing next? Explore the whole map again and see if something changed. The game is too often completely unresonsive to your actions, I found it rather frustrating. At some point I just opened the guide if it took too long to find out what I have to do next.

That's my review/rant about Dude, Where Is My Beer? Has anyone else played it and a similar experience? Or do you disagree with me? And what is your favorite beer?

Ah, and before I forget, the positive things about this game: The soundtrack was okay, I guess? It did not get annoying in 4,5h of playtime? Also,... nah, I think that's it.

Id like to share my implementation of the signal protocol that i use in my messaging app. The implementation is in rust and compiles to WASM for browser-based usage.

https://github.com/positive-intentions/signal-protocol

Its far from finished and im not sure when its a good time to share it, but i think its reasonable now.

The aim is for it to align with the official implementation (https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal). That version was not used because my use case required client side browser-based functionality and i struggled to achieve that in the official one where javascript is used but is targeting nodejs.

There are other nuances to my approach like using module federation, which led to me moving away from the official version.

I am using AI to do this so its important to be clear that im not asking you to audit or review my vibecoded project. While i have made attempts to create things like audits and formal-proof verication, i know better than to trust AI when it tells me its working correctly.

Sharing it now if there is feedback about the implementation. Anything i may be over looking? Feel free to reach out for clarity on any details.

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I am harassed by numbers starting with +870 (Satellite calls). How can I ban them?

I have an Android phone. I can't find an app on f-droid, ...

Israël possède la plus grande « banque de peau » : celle des Palestiniens

https://europalestine.com/2026/02/22/israel-possede-la-plus-grande-banque-de-peau-celle-des-palestiniens-video/

> Khalid Touré, directeur exécutif de CAIR Ohio (USA), déclare, devant la commission judiciaire du Sénat américain, qu'Israël écorche les Palestiniens qu'il tue, et possède ainsi la plus grande banque de peau humaine au monde, surpassant la Chine et l'Inde. (Vidéo sous-titrée par Fd pour Europalestine) CAPJPO-Europalestine
#palestine
#gaza
#occupiedWestbank
#zionistWarCrimes
#zionistsAreTerrorists
#skinRobber
#skinBank
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@palestine@tagpush.app
@gazanotice

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Statement in Support of Special Rapporteur Albanese (United Staff for Gaza, 2026-02-13)

https://assets.zyrosite.com/Y4LP2KW3VJhGbb17/united4gaza-s-2026-001_support-for-francesca-albanese-6XQisf8AwL8xtVYW.pdf

About United Staff for Gaza https://un4gaza.org/
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>> United Staff for Gaza regrets that the French, German and other Foreign Ministers have, based on evident dis- and misinformation, levelled unwarranted accusations against the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese. We appeal for a rectification of these errors and call for an end to personal attacks, threats, and disinformation targeting United Nations agencies, mandate-holders, and personnel...

#FrancescaAlbanese #Disinformation #UN
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/Hrmbee on 2026-02-21 22:35:56+00:00.

Hezbollah said on Saturday that the group “no longer has any option” but to defend itself after the deadliest Israeli strikes in weeks hit eastern Lebanon on Friday.

The strikes killed at least 10 people, including a Hezbollah military official, in the Bekaa Valley region, in another violation of the ceasefire signed in November 2024. Twenty-four people, including three children, were wounded.

In a speech broadcast on Hezbollah’s television channel Al-Manar, the deputy chairman of Hezbollah’s political council, Mahmoud Qamati, described the attacks as “a new massacre and a new aggression.”

https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116111505546606451

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43439862

Modern oligarchs like Musk, Bezos, Gates, and Zuckerberg are exactly like medieval lords. The top 1% controls all resources, and it is almost impossible to buy an apartment today. We own nothing and just pay rent or subscribe to their platforms. These billionaires have total power to fire thousands of workers anytime and buy politicians for their own interest. They say they work for humanity, but it is just fake marketing. For example, they are silent on wars in Palestine and Ukraine. Majority of ordinary people and developers are too naive. They believe these lies and fail to see the real system

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