DefederateLemmyMl @ SpaceCadet @feddit.nl

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This is how I found out Google harvests the URLs I visit through Chrome.

Got google bots trying to crawl deep links into a domain that I hadn't published anywhere.

all you need is to get a static IP for your home network

Don't even need a static IP. Dyndns is enough.

Seeing the Brussels Times, I thought it was going to be about this guy: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Vervloesem (sorry no english link).

The rubel is massively devalued

The ruble's exchange rate is on the level of 2020-2021: 0,011 euro to the ruble. Shows how much you know.

Also, most of the military production is internal... so the exchange rate of the ruble is meaningless to determine relative military strength, which is precisely why a PPP conversion is needed.

Then move troops there

We can't put all our troops in the Baltics, nevermind the fact that we don't have all that much troops and ammunition. Most of our money is spent on high tech weapons in limited numbers.

The European NATO members already outspend Russia in terms of military investments

Not really.

In terms of Euros spent, yes, we outspend them, but when adjusted for purchasing power we're scarily close to parity: 100 rubles in Russia buys you a lot more than 1 euro in Europe. And our militaries are hopelessly fragmented, and behind in the rearming race.

Anders Puck Nielsen has a very informative video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxq-TvgNCBU

1. Russia doesn't need to make it into Germany to make it a disaster for all of Europe.
2. Sure, NATO as a whole is bigger than Russia, but the troops and equipment are mostly not at the eastern border where the fighting would take place. We certainly don't have anything near the size of the Ukrainian army stationed in the Baltics. Take the US out of the equation, because let's be honest: under Trump they're not going to stand up for Europe, and the military balance suddenly looks a lot less favorable. I'm not so sure the European NATO states could mount an effective and timely response to an incursion into the Baltic states, or into Poland around the Suwalki gap.

PC gamer no longer means tech savvy. My zoomer stepson is a hardcore gamer but can't figure out shit when something's wrong with his computer, and does not understand basic concepts regarding hardware, operating systems, networking, ... and he doesn't seem to care about any of it either.

Basically: Si vis pacem, para bellum

I mean, they're not entirely wrong ... but that also highlights the limitations of LLM based AI, and why it's probably a technological dead end that will not lead to general purpose AI. It will just become another tool that has its uses if you know how to handle it properly.

Biden is at fault here too though. He was way too timid in his support for Ukraine, slow rolling aid and self-imposing all kinds of imaginary red lines. For more than two years he acted as if he was going to be president forever, with vapid statements like "we will support Ukraine for as long as it takes", and didn't take into account that there was a good chance that the next president would again be a buffoon who would try everything to undo previous policies.

Don't agree with the aircraft carrier bit. The point of aircraft carriers has always been that they can sit way the hell back, because the aircraft are projecting all the firepower. The F-35 and Super Hornet for example have a combat radius of well over 1000km.

They have always been vulnerable in the sense that it doesn't take much to destroy them, a few torpedoes or ASMs suffice. The hard part is getting those weapons on target. That means either getting close enough in a very hostile electronic warfare and anti-air environment, or acquiring a weapons grade lock on a moving target from hundreds of kilometers away.

Both are very hard problems to solve, and $10k drones do nothing towards solving that. The threat to worry about here is not drones, but hard to intercept hypersonic missiles that are self guiding through passive electro-optical sensors that allow them to intelligently pick out an aircraft carrier to home in on.

Or he does have an idea, and the nonsensensical lies he spews just serve to reenforce the talking points for his MAGA base.

I don't know which one is scarier.

Never mind developers who, in 2025, still think their project is special enough for a $HOME dotfile/dotdir

Well, Firefox is pretty special 🤡

You're thinking of Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0

Yes, we had social media back then, just not with Nazis, bots, and ads.

We did have plenty of usenet trolls and usenet wars.

I haven't had to compile a kernel in 20 years.

You'll be lucky if there are actual VMs.

Mods should ban any account that has external links meant to sell something

There is r/nofans

I think cars peaked ca. 2010. Anything added after that are annoyances or things being taken away.

If I could get a brand new facelift E90, that would probably be my next car.

Do not allow username/password login for ssh

This is disabled by default for the root user.

    
$ man sshd_config

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       PermitRootLogin
               Specifies whether root  can  log  in  using  ssh(1).   The  argument  must  be  yes,  prohibit-password,
               forced-commands-only, or no.  The default is prohibit-password.
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