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at0mic22··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
What do you mean by that? Stealing someone's sim? Doable, but detectable.
at0mic22··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
I would assume having supply chain in place and aircraft manufacturer's like antonov, Ukraine is hiding its supersonic bombers somewhere.
at0mic22··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
In 2022 Ukraine reported Russia has missiles for 3 days. Trustworthy.
at0mic22··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
This incident only shows the mistake of SU-30 crew which detected the sea drones from the long distance and for some reason got into the shooting range. Usually those drones are destroyed with something like X-38MT missiles, from the 50-70km range. Otherwise you would have seen a lot more interceptors taken down
at0mic22··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
Price-based they are.
at0mic22··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
It does not really matter, as long as it is not cumulative, its spreading smaller particles around.

The proven historical rule of thumb is take ukrainian reports, take russian reports, and the truth is in the middle. You'd have to question your own sanity to trust numbers from either side blindfoldingly

at0mic22··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
I would assume this event was a one-time hack, it does not scale. Actually most of the “miracle weapons” from the very beginning of the conflict have faded away.

Bairktars? Gone. Sea drones? Haven't heard of them in a while. What else?

Russians in comparison are great at scaling. Rockets flying daily, vespa-drones - daily, FAB bombs got wings and flying daily. That's the consistency what wins wars, not the greatest talent.

at0mic22··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
AFAIK fiber drones are specifically short range, couple of miles only. The spool size itself is the limiting factor
at0mic22··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
Very much depends on the purpose, supersonic aircrafts coming from 60s are a great way to demonstrate power over a long distance along with aircraft sea carriers

But they are vulnerable both in the air and on the ground. Recent Iran attacks over Israel and everyday Russian attacks show that shakhed flying vespa-drones can overload any air defense and deliver ammo for real cheap

at0mic22··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
Starting July 1st all SIM cards in Russia need to have the owner register his biometry and passport details, otherwise the number is blocked. Ukrainians had a window to perform this operation but I doubt they'll have the same approach possible in future.
at0mic22··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
I find it more interesting seeing tires on the wings.

Would assume that drones do not drop cumulative ammo, but the shrapnel ones. Those tires in theory should have protected from smaller pieces flying around causing a mess of a damage.

Russian media reports of 2-4 planes being destroyed while others are damaged. Think this dumb cheap hack actually helped a lot in minimizing the effectiveness of the strike.

at0mic22··on Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
Curios enough, drones definitely produce interference from rotors apart from sensible noise. A modern anti-drone system should not rely on traditional reflection-detecting radars but try detecting electric motors, radio signals from 3g/4g modems etc. And it does not necessarily have to work for many miles.

I would see it as a reasonably sized box loaded with interceptor drones, they don't even have to explode. That's something we will see en masse shortly from the Russian side.

Actually nobody should take Russians as dumb and clumsy. They adapt fast. And they can benchmark fast too, thanks to ukrainians. The only open questions is whether the rest of the world accepts new situation, or will continue spending billions on less effective F35s

at0mic22··on BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)
Lets be honest - the amount of fraud coming from UA makes it unwelcome for payment processors.

As long as UA authorities keep ignoring this problem, the situation will get worse.

Baltic states report a horrendous amount of phone scam coming from UA, no surprise Wise just does not want to deal with claims.

at0mic22··on Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative
It's not exactly true. You don't need to solve the challenge per each request as PoW systems provide you with a session token which is valid for a while.

Basically you need session-token generators which usually are automated headless browsers.

Another not-exactly-valid point is you don't need a botnet. You can scrape at scale with 1 machine using proxies. Proxies are dirt cheap.

So basically you generate a session for a proxy IP and scrape as long as the token is valid. No botnets, no magic, nada. Just business.

at0mic22··on How to vibe code for free: Running Qwen3 on your Mac, using MLX
Is there a way to achieve the same with ollama?
at0mic22··on The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2
Strange the HolaVPN e.g. Brightdata is not mentioned. They've been using user hosts for those purposes for decades, and also selling proxies en masse. Fun fact they don't have any servers for the VPN. All the VPN traffic is routed through ... other users!
at0mic22··on Google Is Winning on Every AI Front
Remember Google tried to play this trick with ChromeOS?
at0mic22··on Fast columnar JSON decoding with arrow-rs
How does it compare with serde, which AFAIK uses the same approach
at0mic22··on H3: For indexing geographies into a hexagonal grid, by Uber
I would assume you wouldn't care a lot about overlapping squares as the representation on the screen is mostly square, you don't order uber from the globe.

Thus most screen projections are derived from wgs84. The idea behind h3 (as I see it) that when moving the map to lets say top-right, you'd need to fetch 1 leaf comparing to 3 leafs with rtree

at0mic22··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
Can we get downvoted comments look regularly and not faded completely out? Silencing people cause their opinion is not popular seems very redditish
at0mic22··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
Great idea!

Though we learned the hard way what "dontate to ukraine" means

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/estonia-biggest-charity-helping-u...

at0mic22··on Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January
I have worked for 7 years in market research running such surveys. You would always want to aim for many-fold higher coverage especially when balancing by traits.
at0mic22··on Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January
We are very much shifting away from Tesla/Musk topic.

Here in Europe we've all seen what happens when you inflate the socialistic bubble, especially with government jobs. Greece have not yet fully recovered to this day.

at0mic22··on Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January
Took me a while to find poll results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1kdcXmy8B1zajwnb6...

2k respondents is not very representative tbh

at0mic22··on Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January
But immigrants do not vote unless they become citizens, do they?
at0mic22··on Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January
It is not about subreddits and their count per se, it’s about the fuzz around some topics. Algorithms detect boiling shit very well and apparently today there's no reason for Elon supporters to throw shit on the fan.
at0mic22··on Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January
Just a reminder: People supporting Elon do not typically post here or on reddit. Do not fall into illusions that DOGE team is loosing support.
at0mic22··on Tesla sales in Europe down 45% in January
DDR is not a proper Germany, cant count them
at0mic22··on Thinking About Why YouTube Is a Monopoly
I used to follow the peertube project years ago. Unfortunately it never rocketstarted despite the fact, that P2P for video streaming is by far the most efficient way to distribute content.
at0mic22··on Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
I believe the main intent is to block SERP analysers, which track result positions by keywords. Not that it would help a lot with bot abuse, but will make regular SEO agency life harder and more expensive.

Last month Google have also enstricted YouTube policies which IMHO is a sign, that they are not reaching specific milestones and that'd definitely be reflected over the alphabet stocks

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