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Ugh. Are we prepared for relativistic reprisals?

Pedos and hate peddlers and political hacktivists. Nothing to see here, move along.

It's a mixed bag, judging by TikTok videos. Some are 'on vacation', some are ex-mil with private contractor experience. Starry-eyed idealists (in Syria, these would generally be with Kurdish YPG/PKK), and those who'd enlist in French Foreign Legion (hint: you don't want to look at their past).

Calling BS on two points

a/ journalist - NYT disavowed him, looks like he NOC'ed in Ukraine.

UPDATE: It's the Time now apparently. Doesn't make it more believable, I'm afraid - lots of cloak'n'dagger folks out there risking their lives.

b/ russian - this is more plausible due to a/ Still murky, though.

Oh, for f**k's sake. Of course it's not - it's Soviet-made and operated from Odesa. Technically correct, but looks like another drone was launched into Crimea and shot down by russian air defense. And yeah, these things are ancient like the pyramids.

So long, ducky. I have switched to Brave (until they give in to the propaganda machine, that is) and won't be coming back. This is a terribly misguided decision.

Previously on HN 8 yrs ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6798561

...why: if there's a nuclear war, Internet access may be a bit disrupted. Gotta read something useful after ducking.

'sleepwalking'? We are running into it eager to 'outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes' [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBow1ToJBFE

Do we have public webcams aimed at Ru embassy in D.C. and American embassy in Moscow to spot document burning?

Asking for a friend.

José Manuel Albares, Spain’s foreign minister, said Nato 'will discuss' a possible intervention in Ukraine, including a potential no-fly zone.

The upside is there's no reason to start writing a will - there'll be nothing to bequeathe and nobody to bequeathe to. Thanks for all the fish.

UPDATE: Stoltenberg denies plans to impose an NFZ. With all the activity of top brass along Polish-Ukrainian border, though, some sort of intervention may well be in the works. 's a fine line here, and an easy one to cross - with no way of going back.

Yes. Definitely. At the start of the war Biden promised to stay out, now NATO countries (with implicit approval from D.C.) are scrambling to supply arms and fighters to Ukraine. This is an escalation and will be answered by Russian nukes. Hope I'm proven wrong, though, and hotheads from Brussels manage to back down gracefully.

To anyone delusional enough to call Putin irrational/bluffing/terminally ill: this is not about Putin. Beltway policy wonks have been talking about this for a decade - Russian army went through a _doctrinal_ shift that drew the lines Putin was talking about and simultaneously offered a possible solution in terms of nuclear demonstrative actions.

You'd be amazed at how much etiquette there is on nuclear weapons use.

_High-altitude_ explosions create EMP. And nuke yield can be dialed down to Hiroshima levels.

Launching a missile to explode over the ocean to show resolve to use nukes. Next, launching a missile to explode over some Alaskan waste, if the previous step doesn't induce NATO to start the negotiations. Something like that.

This is how you get to DEFCON 1.

Not only that. European countries are keen on giving Kiyv more weapons [0], which is what Putin has been warning against.

[0] https://twitter.com/Bundeskanzler/status/1497632817450266632

Liveuamap.com is much more current, this map is hopeless.

Start with watching actual TikTok clips.

0/ https://twitter.com/ELINTNews

1/ https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet

Looks like a genuine reaction to this travesty. Folks don't like being disenfranchised (removal of dislike counts).

Frame challenge - neither, use Emacs for hackability.

Civvies with armed drones... what could possibly go wrong.

TL;DR - there's a revolution/mass protest/riot going on across the country (9th largest country of the world by land area and an oil/gas exporting autocracy). Several cities (including the old capital) have already fallen to the protestors.

HN relevance: two years ago the government tried to MITM the whole population [0]. Looks like it failed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20472179

'secure hashes like MD5': very amusing.

RUAG?

A talk at Mountain View:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJhBLvqKUKU

Looks like drone-mounted GPRs are en vogue nowadays. Gotta scale out to reduce labor costs.

First posted 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29672203

Hoping for more visibility.

Notable stuff: SLS as a baseline. Quote chance unquote meetings with Boeing and MSFC. Preference for Jupiter Gravity Assist over a solar propulsive maneuver. The first truly multi-generational spacecraft. A potential Kuiper Belt flyby target (cf Arrokoth/Ultima Thule with New Horizons).

Unfortunately, the submission did not receive much traction a week ago. It's a pity since scientific spacecraft are the ultimate hackers' tools to find out how the Universe works.

After reading the report for a bit, SLS sticks out like a sore thumb.

SAGE is missing. Tactical information displays are missing.

Greenspun's 10th rule? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

Ugh. A lengthy rambling politically charged rant with a thinly veiled call to make science the handmaid of ideology. Not an ode by any stretch of imagination.

Signed, Samuel L. Clemens

By the way, Merry Christmas