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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • This is unverified, but there’s been some suggestion that Ukrainian soldiers on the ground didn’t want a whitelist either. With the current security landscape, I sure wouldn’t want an ID with my name on it listed as ‘Approved for use in Ukraine’ to be pwned by hackers.

    Especially if I was a highly successful fpv drone squad that the Russians would be very interested in pinpointing.

    Beyond that, I expect the issue will be forced now, as strikes deepen in to Russian territory, the only way to allow Ukraine to use starlink within Russian borders is to know who’s friendly or not.




  • Some of it is dark if you sit thinking about it too long. The toaster has a nightmare about choking it’s master with smoke, forks being stuffed in it, and falling in to a full bath. I wouldn’t have thought any of this is scary for a toaster, rather it shows a preoccupation with its master somehow committing suicide with it.

    On the flip side, my three year old just watched it, and is now obsessed. We’ve watched it 5 times this week. She loves it - even the “It’s a B movie show” song.


  • Please, please, please do not skip past this warning like you would on a windows box. This is not a maybe troublesome message. This is a “There is a good chance all that data would be gone.” kind of warning.

    If this is your first time doing this, your chance of misinterpreting bad instructions or clicking the wrong thing is high. I still do this occasionally, and I found a home-burned Ubuntu 2008 iso when clearing out my old CDs.

    It’s always worth being sure. Your install may not be quick. Your install may not be settled the first time. Your install may still be going at 3am with no caffeine in your system. By this point, you may be focused more on figuring out dkms wireless driver installation and how the heck grub rescue works.

    When you’re tired, annoyed and rushing through steps you’ve completed 20 times already, it’s easy to chose the wrong thing with full confidence.

    Remove the other disk and you can wipe/reinstall/whatever to your hearts content. Don’t try to save 2 minutes of effort on this one, it’s so not worth it.

    You are technically covered, assuming your backup has been recently tested, and you have practiced accessing it from Linux.








  • It still doesn’t matter.

    • They can coopt all the open source licenses they want, the development work doesn’t need them.
    • They’re not capturing all commits going forward in time, they’ll have to redo it every time they need an updated library.
    • Any legal work done later that legitimizes this relicensing will open the door for the public, open source world, and more importantly, other relicensing companies to do it to them.

    I believe the end game of legitimizing open source relicensing theft is accidentally abolishing software copyright altogether.

    https://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/image/41879001445


  • Honestly, what can you do? Most of these guys barely have time to pull the trigger without aiming before the drone is in death range. A bunch of the clips had a second drone watching from a distance, probably ready with a second charge. Maybe you get lucky once, I doubt you get lucky twice.

    You could imagine solutions to an explosive fpv drone in a test range scenario. Maybe flechette/buckshot from a 40mm grenade system. A net thrown like pocket sand.

    I don’t see how any of these are practical in the open field, or with <5s reaction time.

    EMP is basically useless here, what you could make with what you could scrounge in the field would only be useful in death range of the explosive.

    Assuming you could juryrig a signal scanner and reliably figure out what they were operating the drone on, maybe you could turn a field radio in to a jammer, if you’re lucky. But now you’re a walking black spot, that’s broadcasting its location constantly. They still only need to lose one drone to signal interference to know somewhere near there’s an artillery target - and even civvy radio operators are really good at finding illegal signals by triangulation.

    Eventually something will be thought of to provide some sort of counter, but I don’t see how that’s going to happen without extensive testing and time. Military equipment and manufacturing does not change overnight. War doctrine takes even longer to change.







  • By enabling controls? You can prevent generic internet access and installing apps. I won’t be giving my kid access unfettered to the internet until they are much older.

    And let’s be clear, the owner of my kids phone is me. My respect for their privacy extends to not looking over their shoulder when messaging friends. It doesn’t extend to letting them install whatever or scan some random qr code or calling/receiving with numbers not in their contacts.