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They went on to reassure other team members by claiming that the risk was “minimal” given that they had already undertaken previous projects for Rolls-Royce using developers in Minsk without any problems.
Oh, great.
Britain’s nuclear submarine engineers use software that was designed in Russia and Belarus, in contravention of Ministry of Defence rules, The Telegraph can reveal.
It seems to be a popular trend.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/german-sub-navigation-system-russian-controlled/
German media has reported that the Russian controlled ‘Navi-Sailor 4100’ has been installed on at least 100 vessels operated by Germany’s military, including the submarine fleet
Bild reports here that in 2005, under Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, around one hundred vehicles, including aval platforms, were equipped with new navigation systems from Russian company Transas.
https://www.wartsila.com/ancs/integrated-vessel-control-systems/navigation/navi-sailor-ecdis
- Real time monitoring
- Remote support 24/7 chart and service support with a complete history of records and remote diagnostic option
- Connectivity + Cyber security
Those seem like things that maybe it’d be a good idea to get from somewhere that isn’t Russia.
I remember poking around a while back when that story broke and discovering:
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The Navi-Sailor package directly connects to radar and positioning systems, so there are external radios interfacing with it. That is, their behavior can depend on what they receive from an externally-accessible radio, even independent of any explicit datalink systems.
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The supported maps by the Navi-Sailor package include formats specified to permit flagging map information as classified, including classification COSMIC (which is specifically used for information shared at NATO level that’s TOP SECRET-level and disclosure of which would be “gravely damaging to NATO”). Now maybe the German Navy does a really great job of restricting what information goes to the software, but I sure wouldn’t bet on it.
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It’s driving their warships. Lot of room for things to go badly there.
I’d seriously like to see some double-blind tests on how effectively people can tell the difference between artificial sweeteners and sugar.
Like, there have been some pretty damning studies on wine with double-blind tests that have shown that while people may well have a different experience with different wines, they tend to link it with price when they know what they’re drinking, and the desirability becomes pretty disconnected from price once the labels are out of the picture.
I can tell the difference between straight stevia and sugar, because that’s got a bit of a flavor. But for other sweeteners?
I don’t notice the difference between Diet Coke and regular Coke, and that’s one that people tend to say that they can, much less Coke Zero.
But, okay. Say some people legitimately can taste the difference between sugar and a specific sweetener.
I kind of wonder how practical it’d be for those mix-at-drink-time machines to let you choose not just the drink you’re using, but also the sweetener. Want aspartame, use aspartame. Want Splenda, use Splenda. Want cane sugar concentrate or corn syrup concentrate, use those.
I mean, it’s pretty common in the US to have several types of powdered sweetener for coffee, let the customer choose. I’d think that we could do it with liquid sweeteners in soda too. Hell, let people adjust how sweet they want the drink, if you’ve already gone that far.
Unless things have changed, North Korea doesn’t have a whole lot by way of Internet. I think they used to have two Class C netblocks, 256 IP addresses each.
kagis.
They’re apparently up to four.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea
As of February 2023 North Korea has four IPv4 subnets, all announced by AS131279, named “Ryugyong-dong”.[52] The subnets are:[53]
175.45.176.0/24 (175.45.176.0–255)
175.45.177.0/24 (175.45.177.0-255)
175.45.178.0/24 (175.45.178.0–255)
175.45.179.0/24 (175.45.179.0–255)
The regime doesn’t like people having access to outside information.
I mean, that’s basically just paid DLC, and I’m not complaining about there being paid DLC for the Fallout series and Skyrim. I’m fine with content being sold.
But I would like the value to be reasonable. A lot of game developers that sell content in small chunks sell a pretty minimal amount of content for pretty significant prices.
!coffee@lemmy.world has 8k subscribers…just that there’s a lot of lurking. Could go and post, probably enough people there to have conversation. When people do post, they get comments.
!espresso@infosec.pub isn’t as big, but same thing – when people post, it looks like they do get comments.
Exists, but not a lot of posts on it.
Ditto for !rct@lemmy.world, though that’s apparently for all the RCT series, not just OpenRCT2.