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Pyörä parkissa puuta vasten sohjoisen puistotien laidalla, takana jäinen Porolahti ja Tammisalo
Tänään oli upea päivä pyöräillä kesäkumit alla.
#pyöräilydontti
RE: https://journa.host/@timkmak/116187079518104680
I almost posted a really dark comment on this. No amount of sarcasm markers would make it clear what I really feel.
Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/
Trump, by contrast, runs on ego and domestic political imperatives, both of which Iran can exploit. But what happens if his ego injuries and other setbacks mount? If he were to become sufficiently panicked about a quickening political bleed, would he order a nuclear strike in a last ditch effort to stanch it? Are you sure? Have you seen gas prices over the past week? The labor market? His own assessment of the increased risk of asymmetric counterstrikes within the U.S.?
And then there's the more domestic politics opinion from Brian Beutler which I would also agree with, if I was American and that partisan electoral analysis was in my wheelhouse.
https://www.offmessage.net/p/no-quarter
Interestingly, Trump’s statements about Iran’s future and the Iranian people have been conspicuously absent in his rhetoric about Ukraine. In his most recent post about Iran, Trump described how: We, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. “MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!) At no time during his second administration has Trump shown the same kind of empathy for the people of Ukraine.
For additional strategic geopolitics analysis I recommend Mick Ryan's latest.
https://mickryan.substack.com/p/selective-belligerence-and-unconditional
Toplines Russia is reportedly sharing intelligence with Iran to support Iranian attacks against US forces in the Middle East in contrast to the Kremlin’s recent attempts to frame Russia as a potential US ally and US-Russia relations as increasingly friendly. Three officials told the Washington Post on March 6 that Russia has given Iran the locations of US military assets....
Russia informing Iran of the locations and movement of US military assets apparently does not bother the American leadership.
*And there's agentic vibe-coding like "Wasteland of Gas Towns" where there are thousands of different LLM agents competing. You put in a "pull request," and the code-base in question gets yanked-sideways a little, and you don't know or care who or what "did the work"
It’s both disingenuous to celebrate Proton (who are a business making money in a friendly nation) as bulletproof, and to compare them to Google, who make money by mining your email content. Understand your threat model and message accordingly […]
🇺🇦 Ukrainian defense company The Fourth Law presented the autonomous interceptor drone "Zero-8" for combating enemy drones.
The vertical takeoff device reaches speeds of up to 326 km/h and can intercept targets flying at up to 270 km/h.
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Disgusting to see a terror regime responsible for the injuries of tens if not hundreds of thousands and abductions of as many children be recognized on an international sports arena. Shame, IPC. Shame, Milan-Cortina […]
Hey! That's cruel & unusual punishment!
Kai se nyt on päivänselvää kaikille, että "vanhan ja luonnontilaisen metsän" määritelmä tehtiin sellaiseksi, että mikään nykyinen metsä ei sitä täytä, eikä mikään voi sellaiseksi myöskään ikääntyä, koska se kaadetaan ensin.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20212734
Those with accountability over information security decisions should carefully consider the implications of this chain.
(3) Monday: US Supreme Court declined to hear appeal on decision stating that AI generated art can be denied copyright. That was art, but the precedent will apply to code and data […]
(2) if you need a review of successful data exfiltration attacks over the years, sorry, you’re not the audience of this note.
(1) yesterday: “A GitHub issue title compromised 4,000 developer machines” - by installing OpenClaw on them. This is just the latest development in the style of Shai-Hulud. This one did nothing post-install - the next one will act on a prompt […]
This year, a major corporation will find its systems breached by an agentic software supply side attack (1), which will exfiltrate all of its data and IT assets (2), and they will not be able to prosecute because it will turn out those assets had no copyright protection (3).
Sounds far fetched? […]
For those who want to read the full speech: official translation of Macron’s nuclear speech
www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-...
I'll be more blunt: where mere weeks ago it was clear that USA was no longer a reliable strategic ally, now their capability for operational planning and sound tactical actions are also in doubt […]
Tongues have wagged how Zelenskyi should demand gratitude from Vance in exchange for Shahed interception. Let's be practical though.
1. Trump must force Orban's hand, oligarch to oligarch.
2. Witkoff must go as a "negotiator".
These two acts would actually help Ukraine immensely.
RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/116177606495989457
I didn't read Simon's post about this until after. As most others discussing this, he explains the complex part in more detail.
But the simple part is simple. There appears nothing here that can have a license applied to it, thanks […]
Can an AI rewrite of a software package be relicensed? It's complex, AND simple.
It may be impossible to prove it's not a derivative work, hence un-relicensable.
However, separately (US) Supreme Court upheld decision that machine generated code does not have copyright. Thus it also can not be […]
In honor of Donald & his couch humping VP, Ukrainian drone interceptors should be named after cards or card games.
♠️♣️♥️♦️🃏
RE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/116178907234995553
You know who else had a combat ineffective Navy at a time they were attacked by a superior military? I'll give you a hint: 3 years and 11 months ago they sunk a flagship of the latter.
Don't think it couldn't happen just because the […]
A screenshot saying Proton helped FBI unmask a protestor
For all the Proton fans
New data shows Tesla's German factory is running way below capacity: fewer than 150k vehicles were made there last year, down 30% from the year before, for an estimated utilization rate of about 40%.
The factory is likely structurally unprofitable.
ecomento.de/2026/03/02/t...
#Russia real budget deficit is actually 40% larger than the official figure, says #Germany intelligence:
> The BND put Russia’s federal budget deficit at 8.01 trillion roubles compared to the official figure of 5.65 trillion that equates to 2.6% of GDP […]
russian GDP is contracting according to the russian Ministry of Economic Development
www.interfax.ru/business/107...
Lol, just heard from a German friend who is calling the backup in the Straight of Hormuz right now the "fossil fuel dunkelflaute."
Niche humor.