@zaitcev (In order to destroy all Russian tanks with Javelins, you'd basically need every javelin missile ever manufactured, assuming about 33% of them fail or are used on non-tank transport. And many of those have already been fired in other theaters.)
@zaitcev What I mentioned to others in the early days when I looked at the sum total of Javelins that had been shipped to Ukraine vs the total number of tanks that Russia had on paper was that they only had enough Javelins to take out maybe 5% of Russia's tanks (they only had about 1500 missiles at the start of the war, and ended up getting another 4000ish over the course of the war.) Of course, they've gotten a bit more since then but I doubt it's enough to take out the remainder. Add the other anti-tank weapons they received that were Swedish-made (NLAWs) and they're still likely at less than 33% max. And we've seen some of those get wasted by firing at too short of ranges to the tanks, and not fully arming themselves before hitting the target. Of course, not all of Russia's tanks that they had on paper were fully operable either. They're now fighting in a much more wide open, less forested area of the country, so shorter range weapons like the NLAW are far less useful in that area. That's why they're asking for longer range weaponry that can be operated beyond the horizon. Biden isn't wanting to send them anything over 75 miles range because he and the state dept are worried that it will escalate things with Russia. (Even 75 miles could escalate things, because they can reach targets within Russia.)
The battle for the Donbas region's natural gas fields is much tougher since it plays to Russia's artillery strengths.
The battle for the Donbas region's natural gas fields is much tougher since it plays to Russia's artillery strengths.
My Jellyfin server is definitely not up to spec for best practices. Garuda Linux? Lazydocker? Yeah, this stuff would never hold up in a corporate setting.
Attempts to use AirBNB to travel was pretty much a disaster. I think I'll just stick to normal hotels from now on.
@fribbledom Is the head of the household there? I'd like to talk to you about your car's extended warranty. Would you like to buy raffle tickets to support your local police. This call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes. (Generally, when the phone rings it's nothing important, just spam.)
@splitshockvirus Is this a redundant btrfs file system? If it's not redundant and your disk is having errors, then there's no source for good data when it encounters an error while doing a scrub. If it's redundant, then it will go check the other copy and move it to a different spot in the drive. Other file systems aside from zfs and btrfs will just quietly corrupt your files rather than catch that there's a corrupted sector
https://youtu.be/rkuhWA9GdCo Why capitulating on Ukraine wouldn't have been the end of things.
@pro I recently found out about a tool to upgrade the database on postgres, called pg_upgrade, at least on Artix/Arch. You have to have the old version installed somewhere (there's a package on artix/arch that will install the old postgres versions under /opt/) then you just give it the path to the old and new database, and old and new postgres binaries, and it handles moving the data over. Of course, that wasn't necessary on Ubuntu since it handled it automatically, but needs must
@stuff I had the vaccine very early on and didn't have any of those issues, but the vaccine was still for the current strain back then. I wouldn't get a booster now until they re-tune it for the Omicron and Delta strains. Last I heard Moderna was working on that.
@Bro-Drillard @zaitcev @AlbinoMutant From what I understand, in certain parts of the country they have already started with the scorched earth plan, especially in areas where they were retreating in the north, and more recently around Kharkiv. They only have so many members of the Wagner Group to go around though to enact that plan.
@zaitcev @Bro-Drillard @AlbinoMutant There's a defender's advantage as well. All of these combined make aggressive wars of territorial conquest less likely, and hopefully obsolete. China might have enough people to overcome that at least in the short term, but they're quickly converging on their own population crash because of the bill for Mao's incompetence coming due.
@Caernon Yeah, that's one thing that we definitely need to stop doing. Either don't make the promise, or keep it.
@Caernon Help can come in many forms, and providing tools is one of those. Though the confidence that our allies has in us right now in the region is a bit low due to the Scarborough Shoals mess. We negotiated a deal between the Philippines and China, then declined to enforce the deal we negotiated in any way when China didn't follow the agreement.
Global IPv6 user adoption hit 40% for the first time on 2022-04-30
@Caernon It's probably useful for us to also help defend other democracies as well, such as Taiwan. It's not very useful for us to try and implement democracy on our own elsewhere.
I've always thought we should be an example, not an implementor, of democracy. We should defend our own and be a friend to others.
In the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's time for Europe to step up and America to step back https://reason.com/2022/05/02/after-the-war/ via @reason
@fribbledom I believed they first showed this stamp off and issued it right around the same week that they sunk the ship.
@requiem I decided to go super low end on the hosting side for my blog. The machinery around it is complex for easy updating, but it can work all the way down to just a dumb webhost with no cgi. The parts that are necessary are Hugo and Git. The nice-to-have parts are GitLab, Cloudflare Pages and Forestry.io. The main way is to edit in forestry, then push to GitLab, which triggers Cloudflare Pages two download the git repo and build the static pages. Backup is vi and rsync.