There’s no certain numbers and I doubt that even russians themselves know for sure. Others have commented decent quesses, but if wikipedia has decent data they had about 14000 tanks in various conditions when they started the attack. Majority of those are WW2 era soviet stuff and for the condition they’re in you can just throw a dice, that should be about as accurate as any other estimation.

They’ve been hauling old soviet stock back from pretty much everywhere and manufacturing/buying new ones as fast as possible, but my personal guess is that they’re pretty much sweeping every corner to gather enough working components to hack together something that even moves.

I don’t have anything to back this claim, but for a while now the russians have been more and more willing to negotiate which, to me, says that they’re running out of hardware pretty soon, but not just quite yet.

But as the article says, some of them aren’t professional soldiers.

I think majority of people fighting for Ukraine are shopkeepers, teachers, mechanics, engineers, farmers and so on. Very much just average people, with quick training, defending their own country against violence and pretty literal existential threat while receiving news about bombing of childrens hospital. And there’s been stories around where Russians pretend to surrender and set up an ambush on the site.

I can understand why individuals choose to kill anyone with a russian uniform regardless of the situation. War is a terrible thing and it brings out the worst from us. Here in Finland if you ask a veteran on how it feels to kill a human being they’ll likely answer that they don’t know as they’ve only killed enemies. I believe many Ukrainians respond similarly.

It obviously doesn’t make it right, war crimes should be punished regardless on who made them, but I can understand why normal people do fucked up things in fucked up scenarios and war is pretty much at the top of fucked up scenarios.

I assume you don’t intend to copy the files but use them from a remote host? As security is a concern I suppose we’re talking about traffic over the public network where (if I’m not mistaken) kerberos with NFS doesn’t provide encryption, only authentication. You obviously can tunnel NFS with SSH or VPN and I’m pretty sure you can create a kerberos ticket which stores credentials locally for longer periods of time and/or read them from a file.

SSH/VPN obviously causes some overhead, but they also provide encryption over the public network. If this is something ran in a LAN I wouldn’t worry too much about encrypting the traffic and in my own network I wouldn’t worry about authentication either too much. Maybe separate the NFS server to it’s own VLAN or firewall it heavily.

I don’t think there exists a proper alternative even in the commercial sector.

There is a handful of vendors and they indeed monitor a ton more than just viruses. The solution we’re running at the office monitors pretty much all kinds of logs (dns, dhcp, authentication, network traffic…) and it can lock down clients which are behaving wrongly enough. For example every time I change a hosts file (for a legitimate reason) on my own laptop I get a question from security team if that was intented. And it combines logs/data gathered from different systems to identify potential threats and problematic hosts and that’s why our fleet feeds in data from all kinds of devices.

I haven’t seen that many different solutions which do this, but the few I’ve worked with are a bit hit or miss with linux. The current solution has a funny feature where it breaks dpkg if the server doesn’t have certain things installed (which are not depencies on the packet itself). And they eat up a pretty decent chunk of CPU-cycles and RAM while running. But apparently someone has done the math and decided that it’s worth the additional capacity, it’s outside my pay range so I just install whatever I’m told to.

Onhan tuosta viitteitä ollut ilmassa, mutta nyt tuo on ihan virallista. Jatkajasta ei ole kuin spekulaatiota, mutta eiköhän sekin sieltä selviä. Kyllähän tuo rapakontakainen pressa vaikuttaa täälläkin (ihan suoraa Suomessakin, mutta enemmän toki EU/Ukraina osastolla) elämään ja mielelläni näkisin siellä johdossa muita kuin korviansa paketoivia setämiehiä rakentamassa uutta sisällissotaa.

Jänniä aikoja.

Soviet Union had a pretty significant army on their disposal and they were a force to really pay attention to. Russia in it’s current state is a poor imitation of that. Current Russian military had 14 000 tanks (rough estimates) and 2/3 of them is currently rusting away on some field in Ukraine, most of that was ww2 era stuff, which is a sitting duck on a literal pair of fighters on a ATV with a javelin or similar as we’ve seen.

On artillery russia has been shipping their own ammunition and barrels from the 40’s back to the front lines from North Korea. Depending on which source you’ll like to cite they’ve lost either almost all of what they got or everything they’ve had few times over. The picture is pretty similar across the board.

Air force hasn’t really done anything on the front beyond bombing civil intrastructure and getting destroyed by a cardboard drones from the Ukraine. Of course any kind of mig or shukoi is a sever threat to anything operating on their reach, but their performance hasn’t really shined on the current front where the opponent has been either lacking resources or have had hands tied to polictics across the continent.

Ukraine stopped the original attack with a handful of troops and they’ve been more and more successfull as the training with experience is getting more and more effective. If Russia can be stopped with pretty much with their own equipment from the soviet era what do you think will happen if they try to attack someone who’s been preparing on that since 1945?

Current state in Europe is a very bad excuse on what we should have, but even that, with 60 years of preparation, is well enough to counter anything what former ghost of the Soviet Union has to throw against EU. China, India and the rest of global south are the real threat and if things escalate to global war then it’s a whole different scenario, but Russia taking over europe is not a part of that.

Bullshit. My country has fewer people in total than many of the metropols in western europe and still we have the most powerful artillery in the western europe. Finland traditional artillery, on own our land, is almost close enough to hit Moscow and we have enough barrels and trained personnel to use them to cover pretty much for the whole 1300km of our border. Estonia isn’t far behind of us.

That combined with the very capable air force form Finland, Sweden and Estonia covers the northmost corner of the map, marines included. Below that is Poland who aren’t fucking around either and next to them is Ukraine. We’ve already had this fight in the 1940s, other countries a bit later, and there’s absolutely no question if there’s enough manpower to keep the border where it is right now.

There’s no way Russia could gain any land north of Poland borders even without any EU-wide co-operation and should Germany, France and UK join the fight the chances are pretty much nonexistent. They might take a village or two close to the border after turning it into rubble, but full scale war in EU wouldn’t last too long.

Current situation in Ukraine is a complex matter on many fronts, politics very much included, but it’s vastly different from a direct attack on any of EU members. The hardware alone is vastly superior on whatever Soviet remains we’ve seen on Ukraine for the last couple of years.

Just based on the numbers on the play it’s just stupid to spread the propaganda. Maybe you get paid for it, maybe you’re just playing as a devil’s advocate, but the reality just doesn’t align with russia attacking on the parts of global west europe.

Pikaisella haeskelulla Meriläisen pössyttelyt on vuodelta 2003 (julki 2004) ja Madventures on ollut Jamaikalla 2005. Että karkeasti samassa aikaikkunassa.

Itse en madventuresia ihan alusta asti erityisen aktiivisesti seurannut, mutta kyllähän Riku&Tunna aika avoimesti viettivät paikallisen kulttuurin mukaista elämää valkoisen länkkärin korostuksella, eli viina ja muut päihteet näkyivät ruudullakin, enkä muista että tuosta aivan hirveitä kohuja olisi noussut. Vettä on toki virrannut noiden jälkeen, eli aivan mahdollista ettei tuommoisia vain enää muista ja jos siitä nyt jossain seiskassa on kohistukkin, niin minä olen kyllä ollut kohdeyleisöstä ulkona jo silloin.

I wouldn’t say easily. If the russians were crazy enough to try that they’d find out that EU itself has pretty decent armed forces combined and should they attack on any EU country, let’s say Estonia, they’d find out pretty fast on what it means when there’s no political bullshit limiting on attacks to the russian soil. One of Putins villas is 30 minutes (give or take) away for handful of countries to pay a visit with a very modern fighter jet. To Moscow that’s a bit less.

They just don’t have the hardware to protect their troops, command sites, service locations and everything else needed to even attempt anything.

Oho hups. Pilvihallittujen palveluiden riskit realisoituvat ja kun kaikki on globaalisti sekä automatisoitu että riippuvaista ristiin ja rastiin toisistaan niin sitten menee kerralla paljon nurin kun joku hikka iskee.

Louneallakin oli kaikki yhteydet muutaman tunnin nurin, oma liittymä mukaanluettuna, mutta en tiedä liittyykö tuo samaan asiaan vai onko vain sattumalta ollut yhtäaikaa vika päällä. Eipä tuo näin lomallaollessa paljon puristellut, mutta kyllähän sitä aika riippuvainen nykyään internetistä on kun uutiset, musiikki, töllötin ja kaikki muukin pelaa sen varassa että IP-verkoista saa dataa haettua.

Mielenkiinnolla odottelen, että milloin joku isoista pilvitaloista sählää jotain ja miten ihmeissään sitten ollaan jos AWS tai Azure on kokonaisuudessaan tontissa eikä huoltoäijät pääse tiloihin kun fyysisiä lukkoja ei ole enää missään, kuten metalle tuossa taannoin kävi.

As we don’t have much to work with (error messages from apt/dpkg or anything), at first, try:

apt clean
apt -f install

and post results.

Yes, Ethernet, not Wifi, which would have been understandable.

Back in the day there was ‘software NICs’ on the market which required separate (driver-ish) software to do anything. Also there was RTL chips which required propietary parts from a driver and all the fun stuff. On wifi it’s still a thing now and then, but everything works far better today, and it’s at least partially because hardware is better too. Of course even in late 90’s when ethernet started to gain traction you could just throw something like 3c509 or e100 to your box and call it a day, but standards were far less mature than they’re today.

Joskus kansanedustajat ja ministerit ovat ihan itse lähteneet kävelemään kun ovat todenneet että eivät enää nauti kansan luottamusta. Laissa on myös joskus ollut vaatimus, joka nykyään on enemmän yleinen käytäntö, että edustajat ja luottamushenkilöt käyttäytyvät arvokkaasti ja nuhteettomasti myös istuntosalin ulkopuolella, mutta tuo taitaa mennä enemmän nostalgisen haaveilun puolelle.

Wikipediassa on oikein lista eronneista ministereistä ja eroamisen syistä. Suuri osa on toki siirtymisiä muihin tehtäviin, mutta listalla on viimeajoilta mm. Kulmunin ero esiintymiskoulutusten kanssa.

I’ve never really checked, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t.

Not that you asked, but you can get a .eu domain for ~9€/year (assuming you live in the EU). It’s obviously more than 1USD, but I still have few for around my hobbies as it’s not that big of an expense.

Tuo luvitus on ehkä mennyt vähän mutkia suoraksi vetäen jos ne kerran jossain suojelussa on olleet ja museoihmisiä ei ole kuultu, mutta sen varmaan joku viranomainen joskus selvittää onko virheitä tapahtunut. Noin muuten osittain romahtanut hirsitalo jossain hevonkuusessa, jota ei oletettavasti saisi modernisoida millään tapaa, ei taida olla oikein matkailu- tai mikään muukaan valtti. Itse olen aikalailla sillä kannalla että kaikki vanha ei automaattisesti ole historiallista.

Oma kotitalo on vanhempi kuin tuo uutisen rakennus, kurkihirressä on kaiverrettuna muistaakseni 1909, mutta ei se ole mitenkään kulttuuri- tai muutenkaan historiallinen tönö, varsinkaan kun se on edelleen asumiskäytössä. Samaten oma mökki on alkujaan suunnilleen tuolta ajalta, mutta sitä ei päällepäin huomaa kun vuosien mittaan on edelliset omistajat tehneet isoakin remonttia. Saman henkinen hirsirunko molemmista kuitenkin löytyy seinien sisältä, ei toki yhtä kelottuneena.

Jotenkin tuntuu että tuokin historia pääsisi ehkä paremmin esille, jos noiden seinähirsien viereen tehtäsiin vaikka aakolmosen esite kehyksiin valokuvineen missä olisi seloste raaka-aineen historiasta ja siihen liittyvästä rakennustavasta jne. kuin että talo seisoisi tyhjillään siihen asti että romahtaa oman painonsa alle.

Kyllä tuossa viestin leipätekstissä lukee edelleen .xzy. En ehkä oikein ymmärrä kysymystä, mutta kyllä c/suomi new sisältö vaihtuu ihan tasaiseen tahtiin. Ei täällä toki aivan valtavasti väkeä ole, mutta sen verran että ei alustaa missään nimessä kuolleeksikaan voi julistaa.

These days they run some kind of busybox on any smart device, so technically any smart device could run doom.

That’s true, but I don’t think it’s the same to shove in attiny/arduino/whatever in place of original motherboard/cpu and building your own ‘doom-machine’ with off-the shelf parts, specially if you replace/recreate user interface too. The masturbator on the post link is obviously a different thing, even if it’s using a separate hardware to actually run doom there’s some hacking involved to get the toy to ‘fire’ based on game events, but even then the toy itself doesn’t run doom.

The better, but less clickbaity, title would be ‘I hacked my sex toy to respond into game events’ or something like that. And that on itself is a interesting enough topic to go with, regardless if it runs doom or not. And as a side note, I bet there’s people who would pay actual money to get a hold of that kind of gadget. Actually, I’m surprised if there isn’t any on the market already which would tap into force feedback commands from directX or something to provide ‘haptic feedback’ with a toy like this.

How is pregnancy test running doom if there’s nothing else but the plastic casing remaining of it and the ‘running doom’ part doesn’t have a single part from the original hardware? On this case it’s at least using the original display and buttons (I assume) while keeping the original hardware in place for ‘kill indicator’, but that toy itself isn’t running doom either.

I dont keep any gates, but if it’s enough that a case remains from the original hardware you can get anything bigger than your fist to run doom by ripping the guts of original out and replacing it with a raspbery pi. And in that case the only ‘hardware hacking’ is the hot glue keeping the thing together.

The original challenge is to get doom running on random devices with their own hardware. If that wasn’t the case I could just duct tape a laptop to a stick and claim that the stick is running doom.