Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.
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The pictures looked pretty ugly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTJGhuWWnGo (right at the start) for Sasova. https://youtu.be/L6FMWTKk8W0?t=1287 for satellite image - half of it is completely gone, and the rest is probably not useable anymore after the fire with all the particulate all over the sensitive equipment, which will just short it out when they get power again, if they haven’t already.
Edit: here a quick screenshot:
Not too shabby. I guess they’ll have to test the rest, it’s high enough value to test each individual graphics card etc
Yeah, but i can clearly remember a LAN party back in the 2000s where my girlfriend at the time had the bright idea of burning anti-mosquito-candles indoor because we were under siege - it caused a monitor and 2 power brick failures within 24 hours. And this stuff is a lot more sensitive, and the fire was causing a lot more crap in the air.