In a really twisted sort of way, it shows how a country can make really smart moves (social media war/propaganda, Hormuz choke point, etc) once your elderly leaders are removed (in this case, by bombs).

To be fair, China isn’t very good at communism and the US isn’t very good at capitalism.

China has way too many billionaires. And the US isn’t a well regulated, free market.

I’ve sometimes thought that WW2 flak cannons (~artillery) with a programmable fuse (set immediately before “launch” by radar) could be effective. You would get longer range than C-RAM or laser and artillery shells are cheap. Shahed/Gerans are not particularly fast or durable. It wouldn’t take much to make it fall out of the sky: close enough is good enough.

Again, this particular DIY radar has no application in Ukraine. It does not have a 50+km range (10km). It can not direct or interface with an interceptor missile, of any kind, to shoot down TBMs, Shaheds, etc. The critical issue really is how many interceptor missiles Ukraine has and far less about janky early-warning radar coverage.

Acoustics are used for FPVs, which have a tiny radar cross section and can fly at tree top altitude or lower. A basic/crude DIY radar would not be effective there and at $12,000 vs $Free, acoustics win hands down for FPVs. The Gepards (AA gun) have their own onboard radar already for cruise missiles/shaheds. No one is proposing or expecting acoustics to track missiles or bombs. These are two very different problems.

The Russian Navy stays way, way the hell away from the Ukraine coast these days. The drone-boat bombs have them running scared. Even Sevastopol in Crimea is too risky.

This doesn’t have any practical application in Ukraine.

Ukraine detects FPV drones with numerous distributed and networked microphone/acoustic sensors. You’re not going to get any cheaper than a used phone paired with a $2 USB solar panel.

The larger Shahed/Geran and above stuff isn’t limited by radar detection. What they need are cheap interceptors to deal with swarm attacks.

“I’m not here because it’s the right thing to do. I’m here because I expect to get something out of it.”

The minute the deal doesn’t look good, they drop you like a sack of bricks. It happens in ever facet of how they act.

Instead of a convertible, we get a lame attempt at a metaverse and VR goggles?

Yeah, I hear ya. I can’t watch Jon, Colbert, or any comedian really because it’s all too depressing. Before, you had this naive assumption that it’ll get fixed eventually. The “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”, blah blah blah. I don’t know if Dr King knew just how long he was talking about.

Since this is Lemmy, I can’t tell if you’re talking Meta/X or EFF and Jon…

Nah? Battle of Stalingrad wasn’t even until 1943, after Operation Torch (N. Africa) had started.

The UK did more with less. Escorting supply convoys to Russia, fighting in N. Africa and the Middle East, keeping the Wermacht pinned to defending the French coast. You could argue they contained Germany on 3 sides/fronts where Russia only had the one (which was heavily supported by the US/UK).

Christianity post-Jesus but pre-Constantine. They met in small groups in a person’s home. It was a book club for how to be a better person because (setting atheist skepticism aside) that was Jesus’ original teaching.

Once it became a state religion, it was all about the power. After the fall of Rome, the Catholic Church was effectively a nation state - controlling territory, collecting taxes, etc.

Is there a tap to pay system that works on custom ROMs? I thought those really required SafetyNet/PlayIntegrity/Whatever-it-is-now.

I would rather not give up tap to pay but I will if I have to. It seems like trying to Magisk my way into getting Google Wallet to work would be a PITA.

3D printers are even less useful here though. The rocket bit can be replaced with a cardboard tube and some balsa fins. The important parts are the active control and circuitry.

But I guess logic doesn’t really enter into the conversation anyway.

What’s up with the UK in that image? Did they finally figure out Brexit was dumb?

Also, can you imagine looking at Brexit and thinking it’s a better situation than this? WTF.

I don’t see how web 1.0 style sites are resistant to AI or bots. It’s kind of the opposite. Bots/AI are really good at pure text stuff.

Old fashioned forums are old fashioned. Circular logic but there’s a lot holding them back.

• Create a new account for every single niche forum? No thanks. We need a federated solution.
  • Lemmy/Piefed/etc is almost there
• Antiquated restrictions (e.g. Log in to view images)
• Antiquated UI - People want emojis, reactions, rich media, etc
• PHP paid the bills once upon a time but now it’s hard to get anyone excited to make big new features for forum software

Russia is getting a huge advantage from the Iran-US war. Trump, as a Russian asset, had the excuse he needed to lift sanctions on Russian oil.

Ukraine needs to cut off Russian oil, which means stopping the Iran threat.

originally built to protect them from soviet imperialism

Uhh, citation needed? Maybe a little bit during the cold war but I think it was the Gulf War that did the trick. Everyone looks at it through the hindsight of a seal clubbing victory but that’s not how it looked going in. Saddam’s military was legitimately terrifying and the US wasn’t sure how Desert Storm would shake out.

After ‘91, you clearly wanted to be on the US’ good side. They decided if you were safe or if you were a target. If you stayed in power or if the opposition-of-the-day (Arab Spring, ISIS, CIA, regional enemy) toppled your government.

Self-hosted Planka. I use it for personal boards and it’s plenty for me. Integrates with Authentik/SSO too.

At least 100 of those employees implemented the feature to autocorrect JIRA to Jira, just to be haughty insufferable ass.