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How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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Post by Kiro »

GordonS wrote: post #118
Kiro wrote: post #116

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That's what you seem to think, when in reality your opinions are extremely controversial. I don't really need to argue about this. The downvotes and flags speak for themselves.

Any opinions/arguments that go against government narrative are going to be controversial - it doesn't mean such arguments should be dismissed out of hand. FYI, you are breaking HN rules by talking about downvotes.

Then don't go around claiming that your opinion is representing the majority.

Good try but you're breaking the guidelines by instigating, starting flame wars and fighting ideological battles.

Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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pjc50 wrote: post #57
smolder wrote: post #34

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What would you do? Install a favorable dictator? Thanks to warmongering there isn't much of a diplomatic route to peace where we still need it. Petty ulterior motives held by world 'leaders' have made it hard.

Much more international response (sanctions) to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_... in 2018. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28357880 MH17 shootdown in 2014. and in the UK, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62068421 "Controversy surrounds that appointment, since it was alleged - first in a Tortoise Media podcast and then in the Sunday Times - that the peerage was granted desp…

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Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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Post by GordonS »

Kiro wrote: post #121
GordonS wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any opinions/arguments that go against government narrative are going to be controversial - it doesn't mean such arguments should be dismissed out of hand. FYI, you are breaking HN rules by talking about downvotes.

Then don't go around claiming that your opinion is representing the majority. Good try but you're breaking the guidelines by instigating, starting flame wars and fighting ideological battles.

I didn't claim that my opinion was representing the majority, you've just made that up.

I can see that you are trying to start a flame war, so I won't be discussing this topic any further with you. Good bye.

Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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Post by GordonS »

pydry wrote: post #75
wood_spirit wrote: post #39

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Isn’t history showing that letting aggressors nibble away at norms and borders and letting them get away with it ‘to avoid escalation’ is just emboldening the aggressor? Peace in our time.

It also showed us that you shouldn't support Nazis, but in Ukraine Right Sector and Azov have our full backing. I also showed us that stopping genocide matters more than anything - more than national borders, but we still support Israel's genocide.

Members of the Neo-Nazi Azov battalion were hosted in the British parliament just a few days ago. My jaw literally dropped when I saw the photo of bumbling buffoon Boris Johnson standing with them.

Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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Post by kjkjadksj »

EnigmaFlare wrote: post #87
mfiro wrote: post #33

Using technology to improve lives is one thing, but using technology to survive missile attacks is just another level. Sometime I ask myself, will humans ever stop wars once and forever.

I don't think that would be stable. No war means losing the ability to fight which means eventually it'll be easy enough for just one small group to attack somebody much bigger but weaker. If war is solved by all attacked countries surrendering immediately so one aggressor rules the world, I'm sure factions would emerge within it who are competing for power again. Maybe a solution could come from some defensive techn…

The risk of war between sacramento and san fransisco is zero. I don’t see why we can’t make that true for the world over one day.

Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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Post by sidewndr46 »

withinboredom wrote: post #100
H8crilA wrote: post #71

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Let's not exaggerate. There are APIs that distribute the list of oblasts (regions) that are deemed to be under attack (for example https://alerts.com.ua/ ). The only problem is that you don't know if the attack is expected in 10 minutes, or 6 hours, and this is something that the military intelligence has, and could share with a small amount of effort. They effectively already share it via people running those channe…

The problem is that you let the enemy know the detail of your intel. Using compartmentalization, they can locate leaks and determine how you are getting the intel. As a military, you never want to give that away. Looking at WWII, the UK/US were able to decrypt messages daily from the Germans (thanks to Turing!), but they pretended they couldn't so the Germans wouldn't change their encryption scheme.

This is a significant mistelling of the history of the German "Enigma" device. Significant usage of Enigma was done during the war in a manner that was secure enough to prohibit interception.

Turing's methods are brilliant as are the contributions of numerous other cryptographers. They relied on numerous operational failures of some branches of the military to be possible. So it was not from "the Germans", but from specific branches of the military that failed to follow already established best practices

Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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Post by numpad0 »

GordonS wrote: post #102
snowpid wrote: post #97

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There as no coup. Selensky won a free election against Poroshenko (you know the guy, who was after the maidan revolution). Just ask random Ukrainans.

No coup? Perhaps you'd be more comfortable with the verbiage "CIA-backed uprising/revolution" then?

It'll make interesting Hollywood movie, but not going to matter when it's Russia invading Ukraine.

US is going to let both collapse then rebuild New Ukraine where it is, and it'll be 100% Western country because of that. Plus few more around. All because of Russian footgun.

Re: How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks

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Post by FredPret »

pydry wrote: post #77
ajuc wrote: post #54

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Sanctioning US back then would be interesting. BTW war in Afghanistan wasn't illegal.

Sanctions barely work even if you ARE the world hegemon. In Iraq they just made Saddam's position even more secure while killing a million children. Aginst Russia they backfired spectacularly because Putin had prepared better for the sanctions contingency than Europe did. I'm struggling to think of an example where they actually led to the desired outcome.

It played a major role in ending apartheid though it took decades and there were also other factors at work - the Berlin wall fell.
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