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rainworld··on New drones are sneaking past jammers on Ukraine's front lines
Yes, even in still limited numbers they have been highly effective. Hundreds of Ukrainian assets destroyed, and they have no real answer. Played a big part in Kursk becoming such a debacle. And Ukrainians cannot hope to match these numbers. All of this is why they are so obsessed with that one Russian fibre optics plant that’s in attack range. Which, however, is at most a minor source of drone fibre.
rainworld··on Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says
Yeah, it wasn’t the mass murdering of civilians with full material (several Hiroshimas worth of conventional explosives, free of charge) and poltical support of the ruling Democratic party that divided voters. Wasn’t the senile president and his joke of a replacement. It was Russia. Via their unstoppable social media wurlitzer. If you disagree you’re part of it, ipso facto. And a bot.

>HN'ers probably don't see it

Takes a very special mind to see it.

rainworld··on Ukraine's DIY drone makers are helping fighters on the front lines
KYIV, Ukraine — In the courtyard of a group of ordinary-looking Kyiv apartment blocks, a stairway leads down to a small basement apartment.

With the windows cracked open, children's voices from a nearby kindergarten fill the room. "But don't worry," he says, "we don't show our drones to the children."

Bragging about putting a military target next to a kindergarten, among countless other civilians.

rainworld··on Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers
Does Linux 6.8 in fact ship ABI v5? At least it’s not guaranteed (Ubuntu 24.04, 6.8.0-55-generic). This post suggests 6.10: https://lore.kernel.org/landlock/20240716.yui4Iezai8ae@digik...
rainworld··on Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers

  // If we have no rules, just return
  if len(rules) == 0 {
      log.Info("No sandbox rules to apply")
      return nil
  }
Really cool and well-written project, but I disagree with this choice: No rules should mean no rules (everything denied).

I would have suggested support for more fine-grained file/directory permissions—good to see that’s already planned.

rainworld··on End the Ukraine war? Neither side is ready
That bio is out of date but, fine, he’s not literally a think tanker, he operates on the academic side. Pretty much the same job, though, especially when writing such “opinion pieces”.
rainworld··on End the Ukraine war? Neither side is ready
Think tanking is a fantastic grift.

At first, representatives of the General Staff told a lot, confusing, but very interesting. Then there were more reports. But most of all I remember Budanov's answer. Someone asked him how much time we still have. And Kirill says with his cold smile: "If there are no serious negotiations by the summer, then very dangerous processes for the very existence of Ukraine may be launched," recalls one of the participants of the meeting in a conversation with the UP.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2025/01/27/7495371/

rainworld··on Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens are on best behavior (2024)
CIA-Larry has been representing and pushing these ideas for a long time:

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/view/larry-ellisons-golden-ag...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core

rainworld··on Accidents, not Russian sabotage, behind undersea cable damage, officials say
http://archive.today/bUsFH
rainworld··on Russia's Hidden War Debt
>low budget propaganda

That’s really what it boils down to for people like you: the production values. No contest, the US is unbeatable in that department. Anything but to be seen as a sucker.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8...

rainworld··on Russia's Hidden War Debt
No, worse. They trusted their experts and they trusted what the Ukrainians reported. They smelled blood and giddily thought they had the opportunity to humiliate Russia—without getting their hands too dirty. Culminating in the resounding failure of the 2023 Kontr.

By fall 2023 they knew the score. But they couldn’t get out then and they still can’t.

rainworld··on Notre Dame Cathedral reopens
They are hideous and repulsive.
rainworld··on President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden
>I genuinely regret it.

But he doesn’t regret anything. None of them ever do.

Stop writing fan fiction, stop falling for the same lies and theater every 4/8 years and start facing the reality of how America is ruled.

rainworld··on Ukraine fires UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at Russia for first time
>Something that I never expected to hear and see

Then you never understood what the German Greens were and are.

rainworld··on Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia with Long-Range U.S. Missiles
Bit of “media literacy” for you: The media you read does not exist to inform you. Trump’s lead would have had to have been overwhelming for published polls to indicate that he would win.
rainworld··on Russia's War Economy Is Hitting Its Limits
There’s the new line.

Yeah, things are bad (but not that bad) and we were wrong [that is, lied] the last six times but if we can just get Ukraine through 2025, Russia will definitely be exhausted. Pinky swear.

rainworld··on TSMC will stop making 7 nm chips for Chinese customers
>Why does China’s near abroad matter to them? Why do they care about national unity? Why would they want unobstructed access to the deep-water Pacific?

Are questions that answer themselves. But they are the wrong questions.

It’s not China that’s the hostile actor here. It’s not China that’s meddling in distant affairs. This very thread pertains to an unilateral, unprompted hostile action by the US against China. And note that it’s not Trump’s doing. He’ll just do more of it, more openly.

And all of this is very much in line with America’s (at least) seven decades old strategic posture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_chain_strategy

rainworld··on TSMC will stop making 7 nm chips for Chinese customers
>The US now has an isolationist regime.

It doesn’t. But as the Empire’s grip on the world is slipping it will become more brazen, aggressive, openly selfish, erratic. Quod licet Iovi etc. A role Trump was born to play. But, as Europe’s economic woes after four years of D rule should tell you, it’s not just him who’s happy to cannibalize the Empire’s subjects.

rainworld··on Paper mills: the 'cartel-like' companies behind fraudulent scientific journals
>cartel-like

Billion dollar pot calling the small fry kettle black. Scientific publishing used to be like this (and may still be in some fields) and this state of affairs didn’t come into being by accident: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b...

Yes, that Robert Maxwell. Israeli[0] arch-spook. Father of Ghislaine and other spooked up kids.

[0]: Fair to call them his primary customers but he’s had others.

rainworld··on Ukraine has lost about 40 German-made Leopard battle tanks
Let’s cut to the chase: you and the shrinking fandom bubble want it to be true. You, like Zelya, are desperate for Western intervention.

But why is that? 32 months of non-stop winning—what has changed?

rainworld··on Ukraine has lost about 40 German-made Leopard battle tanks
Glad we agree that there is zero evidence of North Koreans in Ukraine, and that Ukraine and Western media were lying, and that you were wrong.

>“are in Russia”

Omitting the part where it says “Russia’s far east.” So about as far from Ukraine as one can be.

Since Russia and North Korea have recently signed a mutual defence pact with stronger guarantees than NATO’s “Article 5,” the possible presence of North Korean soldiers in Russia should come as a surprise no one.

rainworld··on Floating megabomb heaves to near the English coast
“The [Ukrainian] commanders estimated that 50 to 70 per cent of new infantry troops were killed or wounded within days of starting their first rotation.“

https://www.ft.com/content/b9396112-585a-4f7e-9628-13d500c99...

http://archive.today/WKqxz

rainworld··on Russia built covert trade channel with India, leaks reveal
Finally something we can agree on. Couldn’t stand the thought of my hard-earned tax Euros funding death and destruction so I quit my job and try to be as big of a drain on the system as I can.
rainworld··on Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog
Also, there’s an existing, moderately well supported format for JSON feeds: https://www.jsonfeed.org
rainworld··on Ukraine's F-16s Have Scored Their First Aerial Kills
What we do know is that they already lost an F-16 pilot, though not necessarily in the air:

https://newformat.info/news/u-lutsku-povidomyly-pro-zahybel-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonfish_(pilot)#F-16_involvem...

rainworld··on Jam-Proof Fiber Optic Drone Testing in Ukraine
And yet this stuff has existed for decades: https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2023/05/fibre-optic-guided-mi...

Real problem is price: 10 km of fiber is going to costs quite a bit more than the rest of the drone and the whole point of FPVs as the are used right now in the war is their relative cheapness.

rainworld··on United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency
What other goals would that be?

>carefully worded

The Project 2025 promise: A Russian under every American bed.

rainworld··on Russian death camp: Three stories of Ukrainian prisoners
[Replying to a now deleted post misquoting https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Address_concerning_the_events...]

>claims these things

What he actually claims:

I would like to emphasise again that Ukraine is not just a neighbouring country for us. It is an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space. These are our comrades, those dearest to us – not only colleagues, friends and people who once served together, but also relatives, people bound by blood, by family ties.

>criticizes Lenin and Stalin

He criticizes the Soviets for creating Ukraine as we know it—Donbass, Crimea and so on. Artificial borders, a people divided; precisely to prevent the SU from becoming synonymous with Russia.

And it wasn’t just the Soviets who sought to use Ukraine against Russia.

Every day Ukraine-supporters whine about what they consider lackluster support from the West. What’s actually happening is obvious but wishful thinking and a quality reality distortion field prevent enlightenment: While there are real limits of supply, and at times they might have in fact entertained the idea of “winning,” the basic goal is and has always been to cause as much death and destruction as possible without actually getting into a shooting war with Russia. And, of course, most of that death and destruction happens in Ukraine.

And then they have the gall to cry “scorched earth.”

rainworld··on Russian death camp: Three stories of Ukrainian prisoners
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Brigade You know, the ones with the funny tattoos. I’m sure your ancestors would have recognized those.

>Soviet

Equating modern Russia and the SU is a widely deployed sleight of hand at the moment. Same with pre-Soviet Russia. No matter how little sense it actually makes. “Show me on this map where the Tsar/Stalin hurt you.”

But there is a common thread: Russia was, is, and will remain for a long while the predominant regional power. Pays to have a friendly relationship with them. Ami will go home. Sooner or later.

rainworld··on Sweden says Russian warplane violated its airspace
>like Turkey did and Russia will send a delegation to apologize

Which is not at all what happend. Turkey-Russia relations nosedived for a couple years and as a result quite a few Turks and Turkish allies died in Syria. And if anyone ended up apologizing over the incident it was Erdoğan.

Wait, Putin did apologize, later. “Oops.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Russian_Air_Force_Al-Bab_...

And again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Balyun_airstrikes

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