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

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Post by woodpanel »

jncfhnb wrote: post #282
Kapura wrote: post #249

Cyber warfare is really reaching a new peak in Ukraine, and not just the more-traditional cyberattacks like this. The target is of note; the drones themselves are the thing that's setting this war apart from all of the primarily human powered wars of the past centuries. Drones have revolutionized reconnaissance, sabotage, and munitions interception. Relative to their material cost, they can be terrifically destructiv…

Remains to be seen if the lessons of this war extend to other possible wars though. It is possible that FPV drones are showing up as so important because Russia is committed to a disgusting meat sluice of fodder to achieve its marginal territory gains. Most countries don’t have the appetite for those kind of losses. Most countries, frankly, don’t have the audacity to set these kinds of war aims. I predict they won’t…

Oh my, one thing wars are good at is to get rid off or at least contain such thinking („Russia evil, thus no worry“) to the playgrounds (eg public commentariat): FPV drones are the defining weapon in this war, are used by both sides, and were the defining weapon in other recent conflicts as well (eg Nogorno-Karabach), they are already being picked up and used as weapons by Mexican-Cartels (all former military).

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Post by worldsayshi »

morkalork wrote: post #189
worldsayshi wrote: post #60

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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.

I would argue that excel being "fixable" by regular office workers is half the reason why these projects fail in the first place. I've worked on migrating people's reporting to BI platforms before and what looks like a simple spreadsheet produced monthly is often really 12 different sets of formulas, special cases, kluges, hard-coded data and long-gone sources etc. etc. Because instead of correcting the source of dat…

Yes, important point. I wonder if a system could be made that made things properly fixable. As in, a regular office worker spots an error. Can fix it in post. But in doing so they will also create a change suggestion for the source data that can be approved and committed by master data admins.

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Post by wiseowise »

jacquesm wrote: post #404
fennecbutt wrote: post #155

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Yup, I feel like Ukraine has been trying to break away from the society is a meat grinder culture of Russia for a while and the war has made if clear who's on what side locally. My only qualm with them is their not so great support for gay people, but then during the war ofc the party line is now they love their gay soldiers. Would have been nice to see more action around that beforehand but I get it. Even other firs…

This goes for all of Eastern Europe though.

And guess what is common in Eastern Europe and why it lags behind Western one!

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Post by wltr »

Ray20 wrote: post #242
wltr wrote: post #112

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Keeping the war longer by a decade by not willing to hold your promise is vastly improves things, that’s for sure. Instead of showing the bully the force, be done with that pretty quickly and returning to your non-war economy pretty quickly. Ever considered that option, huh?

Russia has nuclear weapons and good means of delivering them all over the planet. That is a fact of reality that does not allow us to "be done with that pretty quickly".

Good means are being …?

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Post by drysine »

sofixa wrote: post #73
v5v3 wrote: post #34

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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…

> And the Russian military has gained real battle tested knowledge. Yes, on using human wave attacks, trenches, and cheap Iranian drones. Oh, and at the cost of almost all trained troops and modern equipment. Not a very good deal. > 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 str…

>cheap Iranian drones

You say "cheap" like it's a bad thing.

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

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Post by littlestymaar »

Mashimo wrote: post #170
littlestymaar wrote: post #85

> The attack destroyed over 47 TB of critical data, I'm very dubious that there would be such an amount of “critical” data pretty much anywhere, besides the banking and insurance sector. And particularly not at a drone manufacturer.

Probably added all raw disk sizes together. Or all the data, including duplicates.

Exactly.

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Post by dennis_jeeves2 »

frumplestlatz wrote: post #411
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #206

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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…

> It still triggers me. This was in August 2022. I wrote pages and pages of my memories and thoughts about it, and it still makes me angry for about ten different reasons. As someone who was arrested in his PJs at 4am due to a false accusation that the police did not investigate and for which they did not have probable cause, I feel this in my bones. $15k in legal fees, a day in jail, and three months later, the char…

>It completely changed the way I see the police and the criminal justice system.

Well,hopefully it has also changeed the way you see society in general, it's terrifying how common people willingly ( even when they have options) defer to the govt./authorities. The system didn't get be this this way overnight. Covid was one example of the tyranny of the majority.

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Post by libertine »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #418
libertine wrote: post #416

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> The peace deal will very likely force Ukraine and consequently its allies to recognize acquisitions at least de facto Who is forcing it, Russia? lmao

There’s no one else to force anything in that deal.

Russia had a military coup 2 years ago, the regime can collapse at any moment, they're in no position to force anything on anyone.

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Post by sjw987 »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #403
libertine wrote: post #266

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> Higher energy prices, and increased defence spending Energy prices are going down, and have been going down consistently ( https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil ) and the new US Admin wants them even lower, and they're not alone. So that's settled. Defense spending will also be met with investment, jobs, etc. But if you think Europe is having it bad in terms of using taxpayers money to fund wars... what…

I think you are exaggerating Russian problems quite a bit. It’s certainly more stable than in 1990s or early 2000s. The peace deal will very likely force Ukraine and consequently its allies to recognize acquisitions at least de facto (Crimea may get formal recognition). Even if they won’t, there’s no plausible scenario in which Russia will lose this territory. Demographics — yes, but immigration may solve it for a wh…

I'm not sure all of the previous posters points were thought out.

The 1,000,000 casualties thing keeps popping up, but nobody can confirm this. We have to take Ukrainian sources at their word. Regardless of who you support, during a conflict you have to take BOTH sides claims with a pinch of salt. They are both producing fanatical numbers right now, because those numbers have the dual purpose of inspiring morale amongst those still fighting.

The brain drain caused by the mass exodus of Russians fearing conscription isn't permanent. Already many of these people have returned.

The Wagner Coup didn't amount to much. It got half way before they worked out they didn't have the means, stopped, and the leader was killed and the group restructured within the Russian military.

They lost influence with neighbours, but honestly did they ever really have much in Europe anyway?

In my view Europe loses, because it's completely beholden to Russian energy interests. Now that those are gone, they are paying higher back-marked rates for the same oil and gas (via other routes), or more expensive American energy. This is exacerbating cost of living crises continent wide and is boosting fringe political parties who will cascade the damage (and who are also, in many cases, Russian influenced and funded).

I don't have any stake or real investment in this (although I don't think invading forces should get what they want), but I feel the other poster does.

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Post by libertine »

yurish wrote: post #425
libertine wrote: post #415

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You still failed to address the question: "little russians", "kholkhols" are ethnic slurs being used by Russian nationalists as terms of endearment? > It says that some Ukrainians consider this word offensive which is not surprising taking into account active propaganda and lack of historical education in masses. So not because Russians are in their land trying to kill as many Ukrainians as possible, terrorizing them…

I addressed you phrase about Russians seen Ukrainians as an inferior ethnic group and "proving" this by "they call them "little Russians", please don't shift topics. This is BS. There is no such phrase "little Russians" in Russian language. Ethnic slurs exists of course. In any language. And "kholkhols" is one of them. As well as word "moskal'" in Ukranian. Do you know what it means? And ethnic slurs are not used in…

I didn't say "Russians" I said the Regime and a lot of Russians (extreme nationalist ones), which are the ones running the propaganda machine.

It has been used has a derogatory term, like other ethnic slurs.

> And ethnic slurs are not used in official language, you know. I mean Russian official language.

If they are part of the Russian State propaganda language, then they're part of the official language. You, in particular, might not like it and feel uncomfortable with it, but that doesn't mean it's not happening. So you're misguided in your assessment, the problem isn't the new derogatory meaning of the word "little russian", it's the people using it while supporting the genocide in Ukraine.

> As well as word "moskal'" in Ukranian. Do you know what it means?

Oh I'm sure there are plenty of slurs from Ukrainians towards the people invading their land, killing and raping, destroying their livelyhood and culture in an attempt to erase them from the map! How do you expect people to react towards the people committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide?

> I mean you can hate Russia for starting the war and turn a blind eye to Ukrainians killing Donbass people

So your take is still the propaganda hook? Russia has killed more Ukrainians in the Donbass than anyone else since 2014 - they're the only ones to blame. They can try to spin it, but all the evidence points in their direction.

As for "hating an historical word" I don't even know what that means. Words in itself are not subject of being hated, its the people who use them with bad intentions that are the problem here.

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