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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 hermitcrab »

Inspiring and horrifying, in equal measure. When is the west going to understand that Putin respects only strength and grow a pair? We should be giving the Ukrainians everything they need. It is the right thing to do. But it is also the military bargain of the century - the Ukranians can continue to decimate the Russian Army and NATO doesn't have to lose a single soldier.

Or we can let the Russians win and have to deal with millions of Ukranian refugees. Probably followed by Russia attacking another country.

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

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Post by hnbad »

exe34 wrote: post #27
nirui wrote: post #22

It's 2024, instead of riding our personal spaceships to habitat on Mars, we use Home Assistant software to alert us about incoming missile attacks. War is the single most unproductive activity humans can do. Sure, maybe Putin has his rationale, but spiting on a cake is never how one can secure the cake for themself, because guess what, others can also spit on it and then the cake is ruined. A greater leader knows tha…

> War is the single most unproductive activity humans can do https://science.howstuffworks.com/war-drive-technological-ad... war leads to technological progress. peace leads to kerfuffles over pronouns.

This is just the same old disproven "hard times lead to strong men, strong men lead to good times, good times lead to weak men, weak men lead to hard times" nonsense.

If you paid any attention to what the talking heads driving the culture war discourse in the US have openly said about what they have been doing, it's obvious that the "culture war" is about as much the fault of progressives as the Ukraine war is the fault of Ukraine. "DEI" and "wokism" is just the current designated battleground after drag queens, "CRT", "BLM" and masks/vaccines. The goal is to frame non-issues as apocalyptic imminent threats in order to create political momentum for otherwise unpopular politics of rolling back civil justice advancements (e.g. gay rights, reproductive rights, Black rights, women's rights).

War does not lead to technological progress. War accelerates technological progress. A majority of groundbreaking research happens outside the private sector and war economies usually see more direct state control of the economy and more state involvement in R&D, supported by heavy public spending. If you want to take a lesson from war driving technological progress, you could just do this in peace times.

It sounds like the peace time decadence is not kerfuffles over pronouns but entertaining a privatized economy concerned more with ROI for investors than contributing to a shared public effort.

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

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Post by Two4 »

withinboredom wrote: post #138
sidewndr46 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 s…

I'm not sure what you mean. They used daily weather reports to decrypt the enigma for that day, so I'm not sure how that is an operational failure. If you know part of the cleartext, it's possible to brute-force any encryption given enough time. https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/how-british-cryp... gives a pretty decent summary.

Sure, but those known text attacks were made significantly easier by German operators using (and reusing) non-random and easily guessable encryption parameters. Once the keyspace became small enough to search, they were able to brute force the encryption.

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

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Post by FredPret »

pydry wrote: post #159
ajuc wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is just military production. It's like the growth you have when a hurricane destroys a city and you have to rebuilt it. It doesn't accumulate, it's just a waste. BTW look up North Korean economy growth after the war :) North Korea was always the rich part. It was developing so fast after the war. And somehow now the South Korea has Samsung and Kia and Subaru, and North Korea has starvation. https://www.researchg…

North Korea was totally isolated from the world economy after the Soviet Union fell. The only economic bloc which cut Russia off was American allies and there's nothing Russia gets from them which can't be supplied elsewhere. Russia switched from buying German cars to buying Chinese cars and changed the logo on their McDonalds and Starbucks branches. They now have access to inferior imitation brie and french wine is…

Sanctions limit supply of goods but that’s not the real way they bite. They slow down the economy a bit. Worse alternatives are used. Domestic sales are lower. That slowdown accumulates as lost growth. Brie and Mercedes’s aren’t the point in and of themselves.

And for specialized items such as aircraft parts and chips, it forces them to do without or invent an equivalent local supply chain at enormous cost.

All that wasted money is diverted from making Russia stronger.

Russia is such a poor country compared to its neighbours that it’s very easy for them to have a lot of catch-up growth.

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

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Post by brnt »

_xnmw wrote: post #43

To see some statistics about the number and duration of air alerts in all regions of Ukraine, including number of media-reported explosions by region and time period, check out https://alerts.in.ua/en , they have a statistical summary section there. Click the hourglass button on bottom of the screen, then filter by time period.

I work in statistics, and rarely do I wish for fewer data points...

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

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Post by rfoo »

sureIy wrote: post #140
rfoo wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I checked (for those unfamiliar with western terms, this is 南沙諸島) and it seems like Taiwan also has territory claims there, does it mean Taiwan is also attacking foreign soil right now?

Taiwan is not building cities on the islands. China is. They’re also attacking Philippines vessels that come nearby

What's the difference? Do you mean that Taiwan's claim is purely on paper and they actually admit it's Philippines territory because they did nothing to vessels around?

Also, according to Wikipedia page [1]:

> The Republic of China (ROC), which ruled Mainland China before 1949 and has been confined to Taiwan since 1949, also claims all of the Spratly Islands.

and under "Military occupations":

    > Occupied by Taiwan (ROC)
    >   Centre Cay, Zhongzhou Reef
    >   Itu Aba Island, Taiping Island
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands_dispute

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

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Post by onethought »

_djo_ wrote: post #142
onethought wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So we should tell the US to stop driving its ships and planes right on the Chinese border? And directly through the Taiwan strait. Who is the aggressor in your mind here? Note: China don’t have any military assets off the US west coast… meanwhile then US has multi thousands of soldiers within staging distance of Chinese coast line from the very bottom to the very top.

US ships and aircraft stay in international waters and airspace near China, or in the territorial waters and airspace of allies who give it permission. That includes the Taiwan strait. Allowing China to prevent US or other aircraft to operate in such international waters or airspace would amount to giving them control over it, which is why it’s important to have regular freedom of navigation sailings and flights. Chi…

I see because the US border is near there? Not on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

Anyone familiar with history, recall that Mexico was bigger? Did the Chinese get involved in that conflict? I guess what we are saying is they should have to stop an aggressor annexing territory? Oh wait, but that was actual land, where as the annexing you are talking about is ocean… ocean that the US has filled with military bases. Do you think the conflict between China Vietnam and Philippines is unrelated to US activity? Maybe you should lookup a map if US military bases and perhaps you’ll change your mind in who the aggressor is.

China, except for Tibet and Korea (Both neighbouring countries) has never invaded another country. Should we look at the US? Just in that region It’s invaded Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Laos, China directly. Philippines indirectly.

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

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Post by exe34 »

hnbad wrote: post #162
exe34 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> War is the single most unproductive activity humans can do https://science.howstuffworks.com/war-drive-technological-ad... war leads to technological progress. peace leads to kerfuffles over pronouns.

This is just the same old disproven "hard times lead to strong men, strong men lead to good times, good times lead to weak men, weak men lead to hard times" nonsense. If you paid any attention to what the talking heads driving the culture war discourse in the US have openly said about what they have been doing, it's obvious that the "culture war" is about as much the fault of progressives as the Ukraine war is the fa…

> If you want to take a lesson from war driving technological progress, you could just do this in peace times.

that's exactly the point though. unless we're threatened with annihilation, or at least loss of access to valuable resources, we as humans don't seem very good at this kind of thing. we'd rather spend it on corruption, bullshit jobs, vanity projects, etc.

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

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Post by shepherdjerred »

nirui wrote: post #22

It's 2024, instead of riding our personal spaceships to habitat on Mars, we use Home Assistant software to alert us about incoming missile attacks. War is the single most unproductive activity humans can do. Sure, maybe Putin has his rationale, but spiting on a cake is never how one can secure the cake for themself, because guess what, others can also spit on it and then the cake is ruined. A greater leader knows tha…

> War is the single most unproductive activity humans can do.

I think I totally disagree with this. So many inventions have been the result of war, even outside of WW2/the Cold War.

For example, what would Israel look like today if there was no threat of since its founding? I doubt it would be anywhere near as advanced as it is today.

War is terrible, and I'm not advocating for it, but I don't think you could necessarily say it's unproductive.

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

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Post by lionkor »

lawn wrote: post #150
lionkor wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

are you ignoring years of conflict before the invasion on purpose, to help your argument?

Are you paid to promote Russian propaganda or are you just a useful idiot?

Im just a guy who knows people on both sides....? The "russian bot" argument is crazy weak, the only prevalently parroted opinion here is the opposite.
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