I’ve been wondering if those fiber reels are glass or plastic. Glass wouldn’t be a big deal when it breaks down but covering whole forests with pieces of plastic is a bit another matter.

War obviously isn’t the environmentally friendly thing in the first place but that’s just something what I’ve wondered with these videos.

From Wikipedia:

The 22nd General Conference on Weights and Measures[27] declared in 2003, “The symbol for the decimal marker shall be either the point on the line or the comma on the line.” It further reaffirmed,[27]

Numbers may be divided in groups of three in order to facilitate reading; neither dots nor commas are ever inserted in the spaces between groups

That is, “1 000 000 000” is preferred over “1,000,000,000” or “1.000.000.000”. This use has therefore been recommended by technical organizations, such as the United States’s National Institute of Standards and Technology.[28]

I came to suggest HGST but apparently I’ve been living under a rock, it’s been sold to WD over a decade ago. And yes, I know Hitachi is not European. Brand name is still around and the drives seem to be pretty decent, but they (too) are owned by US company and manufactured in China/Thailand.

Or they’re just rubbing it in. “Look here, we found these drones from local hacklab and threw them on a truck and it took out sizable portion of Russias planes over the weekend” -kind of way. All of that is pretty simple to figure out anyways, it’s a huge PR victory to reveal everything (with the obvious military victory) and there’s no easy nor cheap way for Russia to prevent that from happening again at somewhere else. Maybe next time it’s not a truck near airfield but a van in Moscow or a tractor trailer at some field nearby training grounds. There’s just no way Russia could monitor and defend everything across their country.

I can’t. And you can’t. Real numbers are not provided. “you must trust the numbers given to you”

I can if I really want to. Down to the last receipt, excluding someones personal information and stuff like that, but in here all that data is public. Not in a sense that everything besides accounting and other “bigger picture” things would be online, but it’s public information anyways and it has to be accessible. Sure, I would definetly annoy the shit out of some poor secretary (or more likely multiple of them) digging up everything and it would take a long time, but it’s still public.

MAFN (Make America Finish Now)

As a Finn, no thank you. You’re free to visit and study on how actual democracy works (with it’s flaws obviously) and implement it on your side of the pond however you see fit. Maybe even get our government involved to send some ambassadors to help you with that. But that’s it, we’re quite happy as we are.

I haven’t dug in to the details about this deal, but what I’ve gathered doesn’t seem all bad. Joint operation with US to benefit both countries, where Ukraine brings in their resources and the US brings in capital to actually make something useful out of it.

And sure, I don’t like how the deal was more or less force fed and the initial draft was an insult to the Ukraine, but at the end there’s at least a silver lining. Plus now there’s US incentive to not allow any land for Russia as a lot of those resources are in currently occupied areas. Some might argue that it was even a good deal, at least considering how twisted the power balance was on negotiations where Trump and his circus seemed to be willing to throw all western principles out of the window.

But in the long run, I really hope that EU can get their heads out of their asses and actually do something instead of endless discussions. EU, with Ukraine, would be a pretty significant global power if they choose to be.

The Trump plan included a ton more land than Crimea alone (actually pretty much exactly the areas Russia claims to be theirs) plus a freaking nuclear power plant which Ukraine should just give to the US to make profit out of.

Quite a deal maker and negotiatior this orange pensioner.

“There is nothing to talk about. It is our land, the land of the Ukrainian people,” Zelenskyy said.

That’s pretty much it. At first you get slapped on the wrist and if you just treat it as a cost of doing business without any changes you’ll soon find out that it’s not a one time fee, nor that it stays the same. I think with GPDR the maximum (one time) fee was up to 10% of companys turnover (not gross profit). With Apples ~390 billion revenue that would roughly round up to 40 billion per fine.

And even if you have endless supply of money there’s still options to shut the whole business down if it’s deemed illegal. It might be a damn slow process, but if you just stubbornly try to fight it with lawyers and money it just doesn’t work.

In our company we (at least IT department) get to choose our own bags (within reason). I have some generic lenovo backpack they had laying around when I started and it’s decent enough. Maybe a bit smaller side on what I’d like, but it carries my laptop, headset, random cables, power supply, notepad and stuff like that just fine. And it doesn’t have any kind of visible logo on it at all, unless you count the Think® colour scheme on zipper tabs.

And it’s also a security thing. Should someone steal my backpack it does not have any logos to pinpoint which company it belongs unless I’ve left my lanyard in the pocket with my rfid-tag. And of course if you open the laptop it has AD forest name on there, so it’s pretty trivial to figure out, but at least I’m not advertising ‘steal my things if you want access to this company’ everywhere.

Half decent tactic when you’re pushing enemy in an urban area, in buildings and stuff like that. On the wide open field very much not so. Good for Ukraine, they can spare some ammunition when you can just shoot trough the conga line and get multiple hits in one shot when you aim properly.

I agree, specially on the ‘not intent’ part. Wording is not the best, but the underlaying question is still valid. However on the article the same lieutenant says that Russia is ramping up operations, so maybe (hopefully?) he or Ukrainian army in general are just getting better on what they do.

Either way, good news. And there’s plenty more promising news from the front, I really hope that Ukraine can keep it up and that Europe can get their head out of their ass and start actually producing ammunition and other gear for them instead of just endless negotiations.

And maybe, when all of this is over, Russia has collapsed under it’s own madness and future generations in Ukraine will prosper in peace.

I’m pretty sure that Zelenskyi or Ukrainians in general are not stupid. But they’re in the hard place right now and as USA support is still pretty big deal for them it’s necessary to keep the negotiations going. And also they most likely need and want outside capital on rebuilding, where mineral deal (or any other deal on resources) made with both parties interest in mind might make sense.

So, my best quess is that they’re actually looking for a deal which benefits both countiries equally, but they won’t sign off their wealth just for a vague promise. Also keeping the negotiations going, pampering Trump every now and then and in general showing of a good faith is all beneficial for them right now. They can agree on peace fire, they can agree on joint negotiations with anyone and then either declare that there’s “minor details” to iron out or (more commonly) show off to the world that they’re willing to find a solution while Russia just denies every proposal.

So, their current strategy might benefit Ukraine in the long run and even if it didn’t it still makes Russia look bad in comparison as they won’t never be as willing for actual negotiations. In my opinion that’s well spent time for few ambassadors right now.

I totally agree. Setting up an email server is pretty trivial, but setting up a good email server with long lifespan and managing it is another matter. I absolutely recommend doing that, that’s the one front we can take back from the giants if enough people decide to go that route, but it’s not something you should just spin up by following a random youtube tutorial and leave it be.

I do host my own emails, but I’ve been doing that commercially too for a decade or so and make my living as system administrator, so I’ve cut my teeth on this quite a while ago. You need to understand quite a few things, set up backups, clear your IP from various blocklists every now and then, manage the ever growing spam problem, make sure that no malicious actors can access your systems and so on.

It is very much doable and at least I personally enjoy the freedom I have for not relying on anyone else on my communications. Go for it, but be prepared to jump in to the deep end without floats.

Yes, something like that. I’ve undestood that snap-on is just for tools while Würth does a crapload more than that. You can get shoes, gloves, jackets and pretty much the whole wardrobe from them. And then there’s würth electronics (or something like that) where you can get vaious kinds of common electronics components and so on.

I’ve seen some shit. But I’m also old enough to not care. I’m a freaking system administrator, not a surgeon. No one has died if their email is unreacable for an hour or two. Shit happens, then you deal with it and that’s all. Difference between a junior and a seasoned veteran is that old guys with battle scars is that the seasoned guy knows that something will break, shit will hit the fan and everything might turn up into a chaos and plan accordingly. Juniors will either endure and learn along the way or crumble.

When you’ve been in the business for few decades it’s not that big of a deal to cause an outage. You know how to fix your shit, you know how to work with a severely crippled environment and you know how to build the whole circus from the ground up. And you also know that no matter how disappointed or loud the C** suits are, they’ll calm down once you get them out of the hole.

Just today I had a meeting with discussion on what to do if some obscure edge-case ruins our ~5k users and few continents wide AD tree. Sure, if that would happen, it would most definetly suck balls to get back up and it would hurt the company bottom line and it would mean few nights with very little sleep, but no one would still die and our team is up to the task to build the whole crap out of nothing if needed. So, it’s just business as usual. But all of us have been in the business long enough that we know how to avoid the common pitfalls and we trust eachother enough that should the shit hit the fan in the big way we could still recover the whole situation.

And still, even if the whole thing burns up in the flames, I’ve got the experience and skillset under my belt which will be valuable to some other business entity. I just don’t care if the main office building is on literal fire. It’s not my problem to fix immediately and when it is it’s still just work. I put in the hours they pay for me and do whatever I can but when I’m off the clock the employer doesn’t really exist in my world.

To be honest, their stuff is pretty damn good. It’s a bit like Knipex or Festool. Pretty much the best quality tools around, but their pricing is also premium. No matter the brand, they are really good, but not all of their stuff is really worth the money, but if you’re buying with a company credit card it doesn’t really matter either.

For a home gamer it’s of course different scenario, but for a company it’s nothing to throw 100+€ for a side cutters since you still need to pay for someone to go and pick them up from a retailer and when you pay the premium they last for a very long time no matter how badly you abuse them so you don’t waste time and money on replacing stuff.

And würth has reasonable priced tools as well. I have serveral utility knives with break away blades, welding gloves and other stuff around in garage. I could get the cheaper ones too, but even if würth (or knipex) ones are often way more expensive than competition the quality is just so much above anything else that coughing up the cash is really worth it.

Würth. I’m sorry for your wallet.

Reddit has always been down every now and then. And it’s pretty much back online after few hours of DDOS or whatever. When I was an active user there (10 years or so) this kind of thing happened at least once or twice every month, it’s nothing new. And next one will come sooner or later. Business as usual.

Downdetector shows that they have some problems, but as @[email protected] already mentioned, this is not the right community.