Hopfgeist

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[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Funny how those fragments of the drones, that were supposedly shot down, still always fall on some high-value strategic target and severely damage it. As if the drone hadn't been shot down in the first place.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Turkey hasn't signed the Rome Statute, so they are under no legal obligations to arrest him.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

"Russia" would be "Russie". What it actually says is "rachysty", which is the French variant of "Rascists".

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

They are still capable SAR, surveillance, reconnaissance and personnel transport helicopters. The German ones are also equipped with anti-ship missiles and a matching radar system. When receiving three of these from the UK some time ago, Ukraine said they were needed and useful. Age alone is not a measure of usefulness. These are only slightly older than F-16, and nobody calls those old and outdated. Though not as glorious as fighters, they can still play an important role for rescuing or relocating personnel quickly.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

On the contrary. Ammunition is actually what is among the most scarce resources now. Among other things, because the EU didn't live up to its promises, but mostly because the US (more specifically: the House of Representatives, and even more specifically: Speaker Mike Johnson) has stalled aid to Ukraine indefinitely.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

I agree, except that it's not retaliation when you hit strategic targets in a country that is engaged in a war of annihilation against your country.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Yes, they are. I am very precise about the meaning of figuratively and literally and still don't like it if people use it wrong, even if dictionaries are now starting to acknowledge the wrong use. But the actions of the Republicans and Orban are causing actual deaths of actual people. "Literally" does not mean "directly". It just means "not figuratively", and there is nothing figurative about dying Ukrainians.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

So beautiful and heartbraking.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Personally just markdown textfiles on my Nextcloud server. On some of the projects I work on we use HedgeDoc.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

It's a bit arbitrary, but I have 7" tablets, so that seems to be more or less the cutoff point between tablets and phone. And the fact that phones always come with SIM capability, whereas you can have "WiFi" variants of tablets, implying no mobile connectivity. I still wonder why you would want a 7" device and also insist that a manufacturer call it "phone". To me, a defining (and desirable) feature of a phone is that it fits comfortably in one hand as well as in a trouser pocket.

I find it much more lamentable that phones become bigger and bigger on average, making them more awkward to handle single-handed.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

M113? Damn, these things were outdated when I did my military service in 1990/91. Allegedly its aluminium(!) sidewalls wouldn't even stand up to a forcefully swung axe. It only protects against 7.62 mm non-armour-piercing ammunition.

Then again, probably better than nothing.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

To add, unlike "traditional" RAID, ZFS is also a volume manager and can have an arbitrary number of dynamic "partitions" sharing the same storage pool (literally called a "pool" in zfs). It also uses checksumming to determine if data has been corrupted. On redundant setups it will then quietly repair the corrupted parts with the redundant information while reading.

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