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  • What open-ended question should everyone be able to answer for themselves? And what is your answer?

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  • "If you could retire from work right now while retaining the same income for the rest of your life, what would you spend your time doing?"

    Personally I could see myself doing several things:

    I would start buying used camera gear, verify it to be working and set up a camera library, where members could learn how to use cameras and borrow them for their own projects, it would require a membership fee, but nowhere near the cost of actually buying a proper camera and lens. After a while I could see the library expanding and setting up a studio for simple but professional video productions, and so on.

    Another option would be to start traveling Europe and take photos of cool stuff, maybe write an online journal or so, exploring modern history and other cool stuff.

    A third option would be to start building suitcase model railways.

    Anyone saying that they would just stay at home watching TV or gaming are idiots, you need a goal to work towards, else you can just check into a care home facility and ignore the rest of the world.

  • Russia was never supposed to have Starlink, so why did SpaceX wait so long to cut it off?

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  • There are military purchased ones, then there are civilian purchased ones, then there are donated ones, and even ones purchased by soldiers for their own use that the military isn't aware of.

    The Ukrainian soldiers when pressed from above, didn't want to register their unofficial dishes for fear of losing them for other military purposes, so between that, and all the other potential problems, the military decided not to do it. It would also need to be country wide including civilians, so you'd need some country wide process that every new dish needs to go through, and every dish is kept tabs on should it be captured.

    These are really good points, and shows how spoiled I am, I am used to a working admin, I am a civilian and here in Sweden, beurocracy tends to work ok for the most part.

    I also didn't consider the risk of Starlink systems being reallocated after being registered by the government.

    Thank you for pointing this out to me, I genuinely didn't consider either of these points.

  • What are some improvements that could be made to reduce US dependence in your country?

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  • I already do that, I have never had an account on Meta systems.

  • Russia was never supposed to have Starlink, so why did SpaceX wait so long to cut it off?

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  • I sm not sure why this is supposed to be a problem.

    Whitelist every official Ukrainian station for use in the region, deny everyone else.

    Done.

    If that doesn't work, do traffic analysis and only allow connections to specific pre approved IP adresses for units in the area.

  • Don't Forget To Daydream

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  • And for a few weeks during summer, it is super nice and cool so you can cool off and sleep.

    For years I have thought about getting a small portable AC unit for the summer so that I can pre chill my bedroom before going to bed, but every year I feel it is too expensive, and keep using the shower and a sheet to cool down

  • Don't Forget To Daydream

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  • Same here, doesn't really matter as it is immediately washed away.

  • Allegations fly as FBI head's past comments haunt him: 'Kash is part of a massive coverup'

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  • Sadly they got it wrong, he isn't part of a cover up, he leads it

  • What are some improvements that could be made to reduce US dependence in your country?

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  • As it stands now, one huge part that few people realize is an issue is all networking gear.

    Companies like Cisco, Ubiquiti, Extreme, Netgear, Alta Labs, Juniper, and more are all located in the US, they make fantastic products, but with the current unreliable regime in the US, we should look into European brands like Mikrotik, they have an extensive offerring across the network, and have been active in the markets for a long time.

    There is also Teltonika, they are more focused on industrial stuff, but damn they make some sweet tech.

    Lately I have been tempted to get a few pieces of Mikrotik and Teltonika equipment and experiment with to learn.

    I do have an old Mikrotik branch touter somewhere at home, I bought it, tried to set it up and gave up, but these days I feel more ready.

  • Dutch authorities seized one of Windscribe VPN's servers – here's everything we know

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  • Absolutely, I was just thinking about how to do it cheap and simple.

    There was an old Defcon talk about something similar, how to make a system to physically destroy hard drives using a mechanism inside a server that could be triggered automatically or remotely.

    They tried a bunch of things from thermite to acids, but didn't get anywhere really.

    It made me think however....

    What about injecting sand into the drives and actuating the read/write head?

    I have seen photos of a hard drive crash, where the head grinded off all of the magnetic layer from the platters.

    My idea was to inject sand as a grinding agent and use the read/write head as a grinder to do the same thing.

    Then I realized that if you are a huge customer, you can probably have custom hard drives on order, these drives could have a dedicated physical grinding arm, designed so that once deployed it would quickly grind the magnetic layer off of the platters.

    Now SSD have made these concepts mostly redundant, but still a fun thought experiment.

  • Dutch authorities seized one of Windscribe VPN's servers – here's everything we know

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  • Ah, yeah, didn't think of that, good point!

  • Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards

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  • Mainland Chinese tourists are infamous for their lack of manners.

  • Dutch authorities seized one of Windscribe VPN's servers – here's everything we know

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  • I have seen devices that can allow an American power plug to be transfered from one powered outlet to another, specifically to allow police to capture running servers so the RAM isn't cleared.

    I have also heard of RAM being frozen with liquid nitrogen while powered on to allow later analysis.

    The first part is less of a problem in this case as the outlets are different here, but to completely defeat this sort of power manipulation servers can easily be designed with internal switches that releases as the server is pulled from the rack, cutting the power internally.

    That also reduces the effectiveness of the second attack, which is easy to reduce further by simply making the case take longer to open.

  • Have you ever momentarily forgotten a word, so you just make one up?

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  • Yeah!

  • Have you ever momentarily forgotten a word, so you just make one up?

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  • Swedish is awesome with compound words, say that you forget the Swedish word for "computer", "dator", you could just use "informationshanteringsmaskin" instead!

    I used three words to make one compound word, the words I used was:

    "Information", "hantering" and "maskin"

  • yea

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  • The problem is not only that, but that those who want to leave the world better when they die can't seem to agree what "better" means...

  • Brilliant, innit?

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  • . <---- Do you see this violin? It is what I am playing for you now.

  • HIDEOUS

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  • Ok, now you have changed the argument, I never said that wind farms are the most exposed and vulnerable of any power infrastructure.

    I simply said that being exposed was a problem for wind farms, this does not discount any other issues with other energy types.

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  • The difference is how exposed they are.

    It is kinda like, would you rather build a powerplant on the border of Russia, or far more centrally.

    Both can be destroyed, but one invites destruction faster

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  • The only issue I see with offshore wind power is the risk to national security if you become dependent on it.

    Offshore wind farms opens up a big weakspot where an enemy can just take a sub and torpedo the plants themselves or the underwater cable connecting the windfarm to the gird.

    I have never understood why people think that they are ugly, they are actually a bit cyberpunk/sci-fi when you see the advanced modern, sleek structures among the nature.

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    Stockholm Östra station - pre 1932 seen from Valhallavägen - modern comparison in the description

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    Evening in Stockholm - 1945

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    The gas works at Värtahamnen in the the north east of Stockholm in the 1910s

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    Earlier I posted historical photos of my old stomping grounds, this is a historical photo of my current way to work, the lock in Åkers kanal

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    Dusk over Slussen, Stockholm, during winter in 1964

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    Arieal photo of Viggbyholm station in 1936

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    Yesterday I posted an image of my old home train station, Viggbyholm, here it is again 20 years later....

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    My home train station when grew up, but way before I stomped around there - Viggbyholm station on Roslagsbanan in

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    Interior photo of the 1897 General Art and Industrial Exhibition in Stockholm

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    Interior photo of the 1897 General Art and Industrial Exhibition in Stockholm

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    Ballooning at the 1897 General Art and Industrial Exhibition in Stockholm

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    Ballooning at the 1897 General Art and Industrial Exhibition in Stockholm

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    AB Separator contribution to the 1897 General Art and Industrial Exhibition in Stockholm

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    AB Separator contribution to the 1897 General Art and Industrial Exhibition in Stockholm

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    The hall of industry at the 1897 General Art and Industrial Exhibition in Stockholm

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    The hall of industry at the 1897 General Art and Industrial Exhibition in Stockholm

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    Uppsala main square with trams

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    Uppsala main square with trams

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    Ramhäll's mine - an old iron mine in Uppland, Sweden

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    Ramhäll's mine - an old iron mine in Uppland, Sweden