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Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by eptcyka »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #66

I run a small home lab, about 30 services One day I decided to change my main disk and used the opportunity to rebuild everything from scratch and from backups. I was up in about an hour. And then I spent a week fixing this and that, ah yes I changed that too and, crap, I cannot remember why this thingie is set up this way. And some more. This is a one-man lab, with simple services, all on docker. I also work in IT.…

Yeah, I had similar experiences, but now I use nix, which solves these problems.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by ceejayoz »

praptak wrote: post #55
joules77 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not called Resilience if you pick on someone weaker. Western support to Ukraine has been a real joke - https://carnegieendowment.org/europe/strategic-europe/2025/0...

You can help instead of waiting for politicians to "do something about it". It's not that hard to find a reputable organization that helps Ukraine and send it some money.

Unless that’s Musk or Bezos’s alt account, that’s like fighting a forest fire with a squirt gun.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by wiseowise »

v5v3 wrote: post #53
victorbjorklund wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Russia has 1 million in casualties and has failed to capture Ukraine. You really think you can claim it was a "win" because now all their experienced soldiers are dead and their strategy has been reduced to "run towards the enemy and hopefully some of you won't be killed and thus we can capture another field"?

Russia has a population of 144m. 1m is not a lot Edit: as per my comment below, casualties are not deaths. It's a wider definition.

It always surprises me when calculation is done on a basis of formula that goes something like this. Total population - Casualties = Number

1 million casualties is an absolutely massive number, regardless of your total population. How many of your fellow citizens would you be willing to throw into the meatgrinder until you say “that not ok”?

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by CapricornNoble »

simion314 wrote: post #99
v5v3 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Russia and all non-usa allies have been the winner. China etc have seen the strategies used in sanctions. They know how to limit their impact now. It's also brought Russia/China/Iran/North Korea and wider Brics together. It's been a disaster for the west. The measure of success was Russia weakened and ideally Putin weakened or gone. And instead Russia have shrugged off the sanctions, and Putin is much stronger. And t…

Maybe if Ruzzia where the logic is always reversed Putin caused 1 NATO to get 2 new members, gg Putin 2 NATO to invest more in weapons, gg Putin 3 killed or wounded 1 million Russians while the population was already in decline and I would bet the birth rate is decreasing because of the war 4 economy is fucked, Gazprom reported first time ever no proffits, interests rates increased 5 the idiots managed to hit again a…

> Ruzzia advances in Ukraine slower then a snail, check the numbers. and there are more than 1000 Ruz casualties for square km

Net Russian gains in June 2025 were 572 km^2.* In order for your statement to hold true, Russia would have suffered over half a million casualties in June alone. Where is your evidence to support such an assertion?

* https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1lpspn...

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by libertine »

taway1a2b3c wrote: post #22
pyrale wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We’re talking about Ukraine and Russia, there has been a war going on for years now. Nobody needs or wants plausible deniability here.

I think the point being made is that Western agencies (5-eyes) would give Ukranian intelligence the button to push (indirect action) and not push it themselves (direct action).

Not really, the point being made goes deeper.

The Russian regime (and apparently a lot of Russians) deem Ukrainians as an inferior ethnic group - they call them "little Russians".

Ukrainian authorship would mean:

- Ukrainians are competent people with agency (which they are of course, for lots of reasons) - this plays into ethnophobia;

- their government, military, etc, is competent, functional with agency - this plays into government legitimacy;

- Overall, in a lot of instances, the Russian government is incompetent, even more incompetent than the guys their propaganda has been trying to paint as corrupt, incompetent people who are being manipulated.

That's why a lot of time Russian propaganda trys to spin Ukrainian wins as "NATO/CIA/MI6/external agent did this".

For example, they tried really hard to bend reality to remove the credit for the Ukrainian drone operation that destroyed a lot of bomber jets, saying it was planned and executed by CIA, MI6, Israel, etc [0].

This is what we're dealing with here: massive ethnophobia and propaganda.

So in their propaganda, Ukraine can't be competent and stand on its merit, because that would mean they're not inferior people and that they have agency.

You should always be wary of someone making these claims without any evidence.

[0]https://uacrisis.org/en/rospropaganda-zaplutalas-v-pavutyni

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by bilekas »

eptcyka wrote: post #121
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #66

I run a small home lab, about 30 services One day I decided to change my main disk and used the opportunity to rebuild everything from scratch and from backups. I was up in about an hour. And then I spent a week fixing this and that, ah yes I changed that too and, crap, I cannot remember why this thingie is set up this way. And some more. This is a one-man lab, with simple services, all on docker. I also work in IT.…

Yeah, I had similar experiences, but now I use nix, which solves these problems.

> but now I use nix, which solves these problems

Um, sorry but what do you mean ?

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by libertine »

v5v3 wrote: post #4

>Ukrainian cyber activists, in cooperation with military intelligence... So the foreign intelligence services gave them a button push so it's not a direct cyber war on Russia.

No, it clearly says Ukraine.

Do you have any evidence that it was foreign intelligence services?

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by bilekas »

v3ss0n wrote: post #111
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #66

I run a small home lab, about 30 services One day I decided to change my main disk and used the opportunity to rebuild everything from scratch and from backups. I was up in about an hour. And then I spent a week fixing this and that, ah yes I changed that too and, crap, I cannot remember why this thingie is set up this way. And some more. This is a one-man lab, with simple services, all on docker. I also work in IT.…

Thats why Infra as Code is very very important.

Not really, the OP was already using docker, but even with IAC on a small home lab like this you're going to modify one or two small things manually here and there over the years.

Sure it can help, but it's just not a one fix solution people thing. If you want a good test of your IAC, just provisioning a brand new environment first time using only your iac.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by dotancohen »

hu3 wrote: post #102
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #66

I run a small home lab, about 30 services One day I decided to change my main disk and used the opportunity to rebuild everything from scratch and from backups. I was up in about an hour. And then I spent a week fixing this and that, ah yes I changed that too and, crap, I cannot remember why this thingie is set up this way. And some more. This is a one-man lab, with simple services, all on docker. I also work in IT.…

This is why documenting is so crucial. Even on a software architecture level. A few months from now, I'd love to have written down decisions for my current project: - Why did I decided to use Kysely over Drizzle, Knex, Prisma, TypeORM or other ORM/SQL tool? - How am I going to do migrations? - Why am I using one of Deno/Bun over sticking to nodejs? - Why did I structure the project as a directory per feature over con…

Every project I work on has a technical-decisions.org file. Also a daily-notes.org file with every failed experiment, test, install command, etc. The top level headings are dates.

Technical decisions used to be in the daily-notes.org file, but keeping in a separate file makes it more accessible to LLMs. I actually started that practice before LLMs were in common use, I struggle to remember why.

Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

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Post by MrGilbert »

hu3 wrote: post #102
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #66

I run a small home lab, about 30 services One day I decided to change my main disk and used the opportunity to rebuild everything from scratch and from backups. I was up in about an hour. And then I spent a week fixing this and that, ah yes I changed that too and, crap, I cannot remember why this thingie is set up this way. And some more. This is a one-man lab, with simple services, all on docker. I also work in IT.…

This is why documenting is so crucial. Even on a software architecture level. A few months from now, I'd love to have written down decisions for my current project: - Why did I decided to use Kysely over Drizzle, Knex, Prisma, TypeORM or other ORM/SQL tool? - How am I going to do migrations? - Why am I using one of Deno/Bun over sticking to nodejs? - Why did I structure the project as a directory per feature over con…

We just recently started using ADRs (Architectural Decision Records). They are deliberately stored (in markdown) in the same repository as the source code for our SaaS business lives. If we can recover the source, chances are high that we can also recover the "why's". If we cannot do that, we are screwed anyways.
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