Weird thing: the timestamp on the upper right part of the camera is "01-02-1970" :thinking_face:
One day or one month past UNIX Epoch
Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer
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Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer
#292>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.
> foreign intelligence services gave them a button push so it's not a direct cyber war on Russia meanwhile, russian intelligence services have already directly attacked nato countries, with barely any real deniability.
The Shadow Brokers are a great example, very likely Russians.
Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer
#293Weird thing: the timestamp on the upper right part of the camera is "01-02-1970" :thinking_face:
Day 1 after the start of the Unix epoch. Looks like a clock with unset/reset date that has had one day pass.
Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer
#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because that would still be a disproportionate response and make NATO the aggressor, playing right into Russian hands. The Russian military is already being destroyed in Ukraine (and even in Russia). The proportionate response is to give Ukraine everything they need to destroy Russia in a war that Russia chose to start. A war that they opened with a surprise invasion, no less. They are unambiguously the aggressor in…
NATO attacking Russia would definitely not be playing into Russia's hands. Very bad for Russia, very costly for NATO, long war would make the voters unhappy, and India and China would feel rightly threatened. Russian and Ukrainian militaries are being destroyed, but it also matters how fast they are being rebuilt. As mentioned above, Russia and Ukraine are debugging all their outdated military doctrines. The survivor…
What I meant was any direct NATO aggression against Russia would validate Russia's current "victimhood" narrative, and provide after the fact justification for their invasion of Ukraine in the first place.
They are very intentionally doing things that would not justify a full military retaliation by NATO.
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#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use GitHub Issues for this. It works so well - any time I make a decision I drop a comment on the relevant issue (often formatted as "Decision: ..."). Now they are archived, searchable, accessible via API and easy to navigate to from my source code because my commits all reference the issue number that relates to the change.
What do you use for archiving github issues?
you could just call the github API
Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer
#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the USA? Where you can be sued if someone slips on your sidewalk? Can't you sue the gvmt?
The government has endless resources; you would go bankrupt unless a law firm saw a huge payout in taking your case. The system is rigged in favor of the government. They could have burned down his house and the neighbor's house, and not been responsible. Land of the free, God Bless America......
Also, there is almost no deterrent effect. The people who authorized or perpetrated the abuse are not punished if you sue and win a settlement. They don't even have to hire and pay the lawyers. The payment comes out everyone's taxes, perhaps with interest if the government has to pay by issuing debt.
When the police abuse their power, it's the community that pays their salaries that feels the pain.
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#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
In 2024, charitable giving in the US was $592 billion. $392 billion of that was from individual donations.
The US is a rich and (despite all you may hear) generous country. If 1% of our donations went to Ukraine, that's not a number to casually dismiss.
Interestingly, $35 billion of that went to 'International affairs'. I would assume Ukraine was a significant part of that, but I don't know for sure.
https://givingusa.org/giving-usa-2025-u-s-charitable-giving-...
Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer
#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why did they raid you?
Short version: Possibly the worst thing to be raided for: distribution of CSAM. Apparently based purely on the 'evidence' of my IP address being on some list - that's the only explanation I ever got. Funny thing is, they did so little background research they didn't even know to expect kids in the house when they raided at 6:30am. It still triggers me. This was in August 2022. I wrote pages and pages of my memories a…
That's absolutely horrifying! Glad to hear you've managed to move past it, as it would have absolutely broken me.
My home was searched by the police for something much less serious (buying lab equipment, completely legally), and the experience left me having panic attacks every time there was a knock at the door.
Re: Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer
#299Working for a company in Germany which is planing production 3 months in advance using printed Excel sheets. The migration of ERP system gone wrong and nobody knows how to fix it. Production management tries to hide this fact and does not talk to the engineering department. This will go for years, consultants will gather their fees for non functional system. Obviously IT infrastructure is not needed for manufacturing…
Excel has the benefit of being understandable and fixable by a lot of regular office workers. It's a bit surprising that we don't have that feature as a requirement for most IT infrastructure. It would make it so much more usable.
The fact that every office worker understands excel, does not mean that every office worker understands every excel sheet.
Most of the projects we did in consultancy dev, was turning that one critical excel sheet nobody but 'the excel guy' understands into a simple to use web application, so that everybody could use it and the business won't explode when mr. excel would leave the shop.
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#300I 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.…
Chamath's new company 80/90 is targeting this pain. Large firms often have no idea what their software is trying to do. Rebuilding it is cheaper and leads to better software.