Putin has been saying NATO was already at war with Russia, so what is it, bub? You can’t start a war that is already started, supposedly.

Hell, there was even a Ukrainian video released from Kursk of some old dude telling Ukrainian soldiers that he expected US troops… because the TV said it was the US that was invading Russia.

Oh. When I said “the west” I was squarely pointing the finger at France. China is playing the longer game there because Russia has stationed Wagner down there already. It benefits both Russia and China if the population is focused on removing French influence. China gets a long term investment hedge against France and Russia gets more cheap mercs for Ukraine.

Now, I don’t really want to spend much time doing a full research project on what is basically a game of thrones’ish style side bet. It’s insanely complicated, I would imagine. After a few African countries went full-on coup d’état a few months ago, I realized there was much more going on.

Edit: I wasn’t downvoting you. I suspect that some people might be trying to launch some instability of their own. Lulz.

Chad has some decent gold fields. They aren’t the biggest the world, but they are substantial enough to draw attention. The cheap labor and zero environmental regulation is a value multiplyer as well.

When you add a little flavor the to pot by destabilizing the country and giving the west a bit of a headache, it’s now even more attractive.

The politicians are fine. China probably just bribes them in foreign currency and they sign the deal without even blinking at the interest rates. (Chad has a corruption index of 20 out of 100 with Senegal just a little better at 43.)

Yeah. Russia did the same to protesters who held blank signs after the invasion of Ukraine.

Future chips not affected by THIS cpu bug yet.

He is fine with the aid he received, anyway.

Honestly, the North Korean artillery shells Russia has received prematurely wear out their barrels and have a higher chance of blowing up in those barrels. Given that Russian tank and artillery barrels are notoriously bad quality, the artillery men are probably at a higher risk of dying than their targets.

This is just a supplemental aid package which usually doesn’t make the news. It’s mainly just ammo, spare parts and a few vehicles. These updates happen frequently.

Big packages that are billions of dollars usually include many full weapon systems, lika full Patriot systems.

I suspect that a the line item for “demolition equipment and munitions” was high explosives and grenades for drone use.

Here is a rough list of this particular package:

Bad title, btw.

If people want to protest peacefully about whatever, that is fine with me even if they are just digging for reasons to protest. Some people just like to get mad about everything. What a waste of epinephrine.

It’s for bullpup fans. Anything and everything must be bullpup, to some. (I don’t see the need unless I really need something super compact and even then, it would need to be something a little more than a .22LR.)

This might be helpful: https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye

I got it working with a Pi Zero a few months ago.

Having the new cookbook online grants access to just about everyone. Back in the day, finding a BBS that actually had a real copy was a chore and was part of the mystique.

To limit accessibility, you could used some dried out wood pulp and some kind of black, staining liquid for lettering. Actually needing a physical copy of something would probably be just as confusing for kids as it would be for the feds.

Since the only things sent via USPS these days is home refinancing opportunities and people asking for money, sending something useful through the mail would go unnoticed.

I have my doubts that China needs Russia for anything other than cheap oil and military weapons designs. With Russia tied up in Ukraine any posturing at this point is kind of a silly drill, IMHO.

Who knows… It could be something bigger later, but not now or for a few years after the Ukraine conflict is over.

“Thanks, Steve!”

Like, we go bomb the shit out of them and keep the country in limbo long enough for the power vacuum to be filled with a couple of larger terrorist groups?

Same. I support AI completely as a tool to solve specific problems and that is about it. What is really cool is that AI libraries and such got a massive boost of needed development so plebs like me can code simple ANN apps in Python with little skill. Documentation has improved 100x and hardware support is fairly good.

LinkedIn seems to be an interesting indicator of where tech is in its hype cycle. I guess LinkedIn went from 100% AI-awesome-everything about 2 months ago to almost zero posts and ads about it. I suppose most of the vaporware AI products are imploding now…

Of course, algorithmic feeds are a thing, so your experience might be different.

Supposedly, yes: https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/t14-first-combat-ukraine-reports

I seem to remember seeing a video of a T-14 in Ukraine myself, but can’t confirm. (Russia keeps its T-14’s and SU-57’s far away from the front as those getting destroyed would undermine all the hype and kill export value.)

There are few BMPT Terminator destruction videos out in the wild, if you were curious.

Russia’s “best” tank was actually the T-14 Armata Wunderwaffe.

FYI, you can download your photos in bulk with Google Takeout, but you need to have enough space in Google Drive to do it. (Takeout zips up all your photos and will drop 10GB chunks in Drive.)

I was doing something similar to you recently. I downloaded all my photos and de-duped by generating MD5 hashes for all the pictures that were downloaded. (I was moving all of my photos to a local NAS, so it wasn’t quite what you are doing.)

If your dups have consistent MD5 hashes, that might work for you but it’s hard to say.