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People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account (newrepublic.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm on Twitter because all the OSINT people who track the invasion/war in Ukraine basically only use Twitter. I like following OSINT info to get a real perspective on what's going on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'd like in on that perspective but I'm not going to twitter for anyone. Shit is toxic and stupid.

On Ukraine, got any non twitter suggestions for perspective? Also, not familiar with OSINT. Care to enlighten me? Open source intel tools?

[–] BombOmOm 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

On Ukraine, got any non twitter suggestions for perspective?

Suchomimus does a good job covering OSINT in the Russo-Ukraine War; attacks, geolocation, battle damage assessment, etc.
Oryx catalogues every pictured Russian loss. They are up to 3,200 tanks, 4,300 IFVs of Russian loses already. Every single one has a picture. Click on a few, scroll and scroll and scroll.
Right here on Lemmy, the [email protected] and [email protected] communities get quite a bit of Russo-Ukraine war coverage.

not familiar with OSINT

Exactly what you said! Open Source INTelegence. Basically people taking publicly available data and using it to confirm attacks. Things like NASA FIRMS data can be used to verify where fires are; and when combined with videos of a fire in the direction of an airfield, for example, can be used to confirm that yes, on this specific date, these parts of an airfield are on fire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Understandable, I don't know of anyone off of Twitter but maybe some of the people I follow are on Mastodon. I'll try and find out sometime and get back if they are.

And yea pretty much, just stands for open source intelligence, people just use publicly available data (mostly drone videos, and paid satellite imagery) to analyze progress from both parties in the conflict giving a real, semi live perspective on advances on the ground, what kind of equipment and quantity of that equipment that have been destroyed.

This site by oryx is the main one I know of that tracks destroyed Russian equipment that's confirmed through imagery, so the numbers are likely fairly lower than reality, and the destruction numbers are still staggering.

Ops I see someone below already linked oryx and some other good sources!

[–] njm1314 -2 points 5 months ago

Maybe it would behoove you to remind those people that they're on a website run by someone who has a material and vested interest in the destruction of Ukraine. That they should change to another website.