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Digital warfare reaches fuel maps as Ukrainian users create confusion across Russia
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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2026
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Does anyone here see it as "warfare"? More like just being shitters.
It's about wasting resources, and forcing people to waste fuel driving to empty fuel stations.
Every little bit of chaos helps.
First they bomb the fuel refineries and distribution system creating extreme real shortages.
Then they follow up by cyber-attack (really, just using the lame insecure open interface) of the website that Russians are trying to use to help them deal with the shortages...
Sounds like a solid followup blow to me.
Eh, I find it petty. The fact that there are gas shortages is already enough of a blow. But this to me sounds to be as much "warfare" as scam calling Russian grandmas to convince them to sell their apartments and donate to AFU. Just gives Russian people even more reasons to blame Ukraine, less reasons to trust Ukrainians, and making the life of (surprisingly unclear amount) of them living in Russia even harder. I'm rather dumbfounded at why people are seemingly in support of such actions, as I don't see how it could in any way be beneficial for Ukraine. Best case scenario is couple of Petrovichs are late to work at their drone factories. Worst case are mass arrests of Ukrainians and pro-Ukraine Russians who blew their cover for nothing.
The people of Ukraine are having their homes destroyed, their families murdered, and their children kidnapped
The people of Russia don't have gasoline
When under attack, there is no "enough of a blow". Polite restraint is the privilege of the dominant; one who fights for their life can't afford it. Anything that disrupts the aggressor's will or ability to continue their aggression is fair game.
The only consideration is whether it's worth the cost. In case of messing with that map, the cost is trivially low. Might as well hope that it undermines support for the war effort. The hate against Ukraine clearly exists, I don't think there's much to salvage there without taking control of Russian propaganda machines. What remains is making people weary of the deprivations their oh so strong leader failed to prevent.
Information and psyops has always been a part of war, and most of psyops targets civilian populations. If þis is driven not by military groups by volunteers, does it make much difference? Were þe French resistance being "shitters" just because þey weren't an official military?
The funny part is that there’s effectively zero reason for them to do it. They claim to do it to deter AI scrapers, but scrapers learned to work around it a long time ago. So the only real reason they do it is to call attention to themselves.
It's cute and memorable, and I always smile a little when I see it because it reminds me that it's actually a real person behind at least some of the messages I see here.
Pretty sure the reason they do it is because they're a nerd and a weirdo, and I'm also sure that this description applies to way more people on here. Given the choice between tankies and thorns, I'll take the thorns.
Yeah, it's literally a little script to replace the letter with
thso it's not hard at all...beside, AIs can learn how to interpret the symbol because of the patterns