Idk about Ireland, but around here they don’t like to put speed limits even though the situation clearly calls for low speeds. The law expects people to drive according to the situation. You may be charged with dangerous (i.e. too fast) driving even if you’re under the speed limit along some clearly dangerous bend or something.

I don’t get it

Maybe a SOCKS proxy is good enough?

SSH can act as a SOCKS proxy and that’s pretty easy to do. Your friend just needs to be able to login onto your computer with an ssh account and run this ssh command on her computer:

ssh -D 1234 yourmachine

And then set proxy settings in the browser or whatever to SOCKS4/5, localhost, port 1234.

The “UA pov” rules there are wierd. Basically if it’s from a pro-Ukrainian channel it is supposed to be labeled UA pov, even if it’s from inside Russia. This was probably filmed by a Russian civilian and then found on a pro-UA channel. Apparently it’s geolocated to be in Rylsk, which is not under Ukrainian control.

Probably they’re loading the dead into these intact trucks. I’m not sure who has control of the scene (can’t tell), but my guess would be it’s the Russians, because (a) it’s reported as some sort of HIMARS strike, so further from the front (makes sense anyway, they wouldn’t be doing a non-armored convoy near the actual frontline I would hope), and (b) why would the Ukrainians do cleanup there anyway? So I don’t think it’s a Ukrainian fake. It’s also too elaborate to be a fake, like are they setting a dozen trucks on fire just to film this?

Oh and the answer is probably shrapnel from cluster munitions.

Edit: This is probably drone footage of the strike. It’s like 20 trucks just standing there. Looks like regular explosive rockets, not cluster munitions. And Ukrainian troops are not there; that’s like 20 km from the frontline.

The SPD-led German ministry of defense is issuing a “tradition decree” (Traditionserlass), which will allow Nazi soldiers to be honored as role models, if they worked for the Bundeswehr post-war. Though they do also note their “impressive” record during the war.

So mask off I guess. (taz | archive)

Half of German news is just stolen and translated from the American press.

idk let them do what they want to do

like i hate rpgs, but i gave up on my campaign to send every rpg developer and player to the gulag years ago, and now i’m barely even seething when someone mentions an rpg

I just thought of a metaphor for this stuff.

Imagine you have some secure compound, like a military base. It has good thick walls and fences all around, and also internally between areas, and there are checkpoints where guards check everyone’s credentials, and only allow people into areas where they have any business being. This would be good security.

Unfortunately, Windows and lots of other software is not like that, since it was developed before the internet, when you actually needed physical access to mess with a computer. So most company’s networks and computers are more like a university campus where people can just wander around as they please. So you could try to rebuild and retrofit everything to be more like the above mentioned military base, but that is hard, expensive and very disruptive.

So here comes Crowdstrike, with their sales pitch: We’ll send a couple of security guards over, and they will look out for anyone suspicious and if they see something, they sound an alarm and maybe detain the person. Of course they need access to everything in order to do their job. You need to trust them to not fuck up and cause some damage or even to not hire infiltrators which would have full security clearance.

Well in this case, they got a faulty order from Crowdstrike to shut the whole thing down, not let anyone in, and no communication in and out. So now someone with some actual authority has to go down there, and tell them to stand down. And this happened probably to some double-digit percentage of bigger companies and institutions everywhere except in China, all at the same time.