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1·7 hours agoThey don’t blow me away either, but I’d still rate them above what Microsoft’s actually using.
There are some 3d demoscene programs that use miniscule amounts of disk space but still need a fair bit of memory for working space.
261·10 hours agoI doubt that that was intentional from a Russian institutional position. Sounds like random low-level Russian soldiers running amok.
It does kind of highlight the fact that the law-and-order situation in the area is probably not great and there are probably a number of soldiers doing a number of unpleasant things to people in the area. Not that that really needed a lot of clarification at this point, but you figure that stuff like this has probably been happening to people in the occupied territories throughout the war. Been years of that by now, and that this one only grabs attention because the guy was a visible media figure working for a major Russian state-run media outlet associated with the war effort…
“This is one of the most important political questions facing America right now,” posted former Trump administration official William Wolfe. “Answer it wrong, we will go the way of Europe, where the native-born populations are being utterly displaced by third world migrants and Muslims. Answer it right, and we can renew America once more.”
America has run a much higher rate of immigration than Europe over her lifetime and her rise in the world has in significant part been driven by that. At the time the US was founded, the US had about a fifth the population of France. Today, the US has about five times the population of France.
Hell, one of the 27 enumerated grievances in the Declaration of Independence, the reasons for creating the US, was that the UK wasn’t as amenable to immigration to the colonies as we wanted:
Grievance 7
“He [King George III] has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.”
There had been a large influx of German immigrants immigrating to America, and the King wanted to discourage such immigration. The Government was concerned over the increasing power of the colonies and the widespread popularity of republican ideals among German immigrants. After the peace of 1763, few people settled west of the Alleghenies due to these restrictions, and immigration had almost ceased by the time of the revolution.[3]
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https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/6657372c-9680-42c0-9372-de89e69d5e58.webp
I mean…
I mean, Windows has had windows since day one.
There are a miniscule number of presidential candidates running in a given year, so I assume that the UX on the process isn’t very optimized.
I have already looked in XMPP, but it required SSL certs and I did not have the mood to configure them.
There are definitely XMPP clients that do end-to-end encryption that do not rely on TLS for key exchange, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_the_record_messaging
Off-the-record Messaging (OTR) is a cryptographic protocol that provides encryption for instant messaging conversations. OTR uses a combination of AES symmetric-key algorithm with 128 bits key length, the Diffie–Hellman key exchange with 1536 bits group size, and the SHA-1 hash function. In addition to authentication and encryption, OTR provides forward secrecy and malleable encryption.
The primary motivation behind the protocol was providing deniable authentication for the conversation participants while keeping conversations confidential, like a private conversation in real life, or off the record in journalism sourcing. This is in contrast with cryptography tools that produce output which can be later used as a verifiable record of the communication event and the identities of the participants. The initial introductory paper was named “Off-the-Record Communication, or, Why Not To Use PGP”.[1]
I’ve used Pidgin with the libOTR plugin that implements that protocol.
4·1 day agoI mean, you can stick a light switch with a motion sensor on it that’ll flip on automatically.
https://www.amazon.com/motion-sensor-light-switches/s?k=motion+sensor+light+switches
Probably easier to make your machine do what you want than it is to make global human behavior be what you want.
That’s not to mention the optics.
#4 is the optic for the RWS. This cannot be used to aim the main gun, but it can be used as an alternate form of CITV, especially since it’s so damned high off the ground, it may be able to see over obstacles. Not as good as CITV in the thermal range, though.
That being said, some civilian vehicles are gonna have their own camera systems too, so…
5·1 day agoThe soldiers brought two High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, with them.
I was reading about how the Marines were interested in HIMARS for that WRT China. Any conflict with China would likely be in large part maritime, but HIMARS is big enough that it can launch munitions with enough range that it can take out ships, act in an area-denial role.
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Here’s someone mentioning that.
Black Sea Drill Again Validates HIMARS as an Anti-Ship Weapon System
This isn’t the first time that the U.S. Army and the U.S Air Force used this tactic as the HIMARS RO-RO concept dates back years with the idea of landing C-130s into the field, having the HiMARS drive off, park at a distance, set up, fire, and then drive and reload back into the cargo planes for immediate take-off without the need to reload or refuel. The U.S. Marines operate in similar fashion with their HiMARS and U.S. Marine Corps KC-130Js.
The U.S. Marines do not have any tracked MLRSs in inventory) and the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps’ (U.S.M.C.) HIMARS are seen as one of the pivotal key launchers for the current and future United States’ strategy and tactics for an Anti-Ship land-based weapon system that can counter peer nations’ shipping and breach Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) in the Pacific.
With future land-based Anti-Ship Precision Guided Weapons in development and available now, such as the Naval Strike Missile, the U.S. Army’s tracked MLRS, 6×6 HIMARS, and 8×8 Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT), and the U.S. Marines’ 8×8 Logistic Vehicle System Replacement (LVSR) and HIMARS, when modified and outfitted as Anti-Shipping rocket or missile launchers, are poised to become the “Go to” system for LBASM and LRPFs to prevent enemy ships and amphibious assaults on allied-protected islands and shores
83·7 hours agogood protection for the crew
It’s completely unarmored. Unless your concern is sunburn, inclement weather, or possibly indecent exposure, it isn’t gonna provide much by way of protection.
Also, nothing like having to check whether the post I’m reading is from !Ukraine@sopuli.xyz, !NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works, or !NotTheOnion@lemmy.world. 2024, man.
If we send rocket(s) up and can fiddle with its velocity enough, we could keep it.
I feel like if you capture a new moon, you should also get to name it.
If McDonalds will sponsor it, we could have Luna and 98 Big Macs.
A YouTube representative confirmed that the practice will now become commonplace “as we’ve seen…strong viewer response.”
I have often lamented about those boring times when I have to suffer through a plain old paused screen, with nary an ad to be found.
Russia, Iran, North Korea
Ehhh.
I mean, North Korea doesn’t have the resources to do much most of the time. Yeah, they’re well-positioned for this conflict, because they’ve spent a relatively-high chunk of resources they do have on artillery and maintained that over time, built a stockpile. Artillery is a bottleneck on Russia in Ukraine. So they’re potentially a factor in Russia’s invasion in Ukraine.
But they just don’t have the ability to change much in the world, most of the time.
Not that Iran or Russia are exactly in prime condition either, but they aren’t at the kind of level where feeding the population is regularly a problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea
Per capita GDP: $640
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
Per capita GDP: $5,310
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
Per capita GDP: $14,391
Big difference between those.
Any resources they want to spend on fighting with other countries needs to come out of that, and they have some basic costs like feeding their population that they have to cover before the option to do other things with remaining resources comes up.
I recently commented on NCD with a twelve-year-old, humorous-given-present-context review I found of that radio on eham, when apparently counterfeit IC-V82 radios were a serious problem:
https://www.eham.net/reviews/view-product?id=5046
Watch out for fake v82’s! Only buy from authorized retailers or someone who did.
Words of wisdom there, eham.net.
https://jpost.com/breaking-news/article-820808
The walkie-talkies linked to explosions targeting the Hezbollah terrorist group that killed 20 people in Lebanon and injured hundreds of others could not have made the exploding devices, the Japanese company said on Thursday.
“There’s no way a bomb could have been integrated into one of our devices during manufacturing. The process is highly automated and fast-paced, so there’s no time for such things,” Yoshiki Enomoto, a director at ICOM, told Reuters outside the company’s headquarters in Osaka, Japan, on Thursday.
ICOM has said it halted production of the radio models identified in the attack a decade ago and that most of those still on sale were counterfeit.
“If it turns out to be counterfeit, then we’ll have to investigate how someone created a bomb that looks like our product. If it’s genuine, we’ll have to trace its distribution to figure out how it ended up there,” Enomoto said.
There’s no one single model doing projections.
Five Thirty Eight’s, which is one prominent one, has favored Harris somewhat for a while.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/
Harris wins 64 times out of 100
in our simulations of the 2024 presidential election.
Trump wins 36 times out of 100.
There is a less than 1-in-100 chance of no Electoral College winner.
Nate Silver – who started Five Thirty Eight and is now off doing his own thing and runs a fork of the model that Five Thirty Eight used to run – had them, last I looked, had Harris and Trump at about about even chances.
Both Silver’s model and Five Thirty Eight’s model agreed that the debate improved Harris’s chances.
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Or even a dead one.
Flash at about +4.167 seconds, explosion sound at about +11.7 seconds, speed of sound ~340 m/s, so figure the camera is about 2.5 km or 1.5 miles away from the ammo dump.