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Nevermind, I get it now.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 14:05 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 09:06 |
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Fragrag posted:Exactly how does a TLD administrator receive e-mails? Shouldn't emails bounce if they hit a non-existant domain name? Or did he set up a marines.ml domain and e-mail server? the domain needs to exist and you need DNS admin rights for it, after that it's trivial to set the MX record to point at your server code:
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 14:06 |
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If you manage .ml, that means you are in control of the name servers for .ml. So if you want to grab every single mail sent to any unregistered .ml domain, you can just reply to anyone inquiring about the responsible mail server for any domain not in your database with "sure mate, deliver it over here".
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 14:12 |
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Fragrag posted:Exactly how does a TLD administrator receive e-mails? Shouldn't emails bounce if they hit a non-existant domain name? Or did he set up a marines.ml domain and e-mail server? In the same way that if you send something to hellothere.google.com, it first goes to Google to figure out where it should go, if you own the tld, all traffic hits your servers first and you can just send it all to the same place if you want. Edit: lol of course I'm one of 100 IT nerds jumping in to answer at once
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 14:12 |
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Yup. And depending on the mail system in question you can configure it to just dump all "nondeliverable" mail into one large bin to go through later. .ml probably gets a manageable amount of email where you can do that with the TLD. And of course you could set up mailboxes for the more popular (read: commonly misspelled) domains to shrink the bin even further to refine your data mining. I don't know much about bridgeology or the carrying capacity of an average soldier of ATGMs, but this is my time to shine!
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 14:53 |
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Some more sobering commentary coming from a guy who accompanied Rob Lee and Michael Kofman to observe the front lines. https://twitter.com/HoansSolo/status/1681240456754077697 I copied and pasted the thread here for those of you who don't want to start a Twitter account. quote:First off, we spoke to NCOs, officers, a number of brigade commanders (national guard & regular army) in the field plus senior intel & defense officials in Kyiv (alongside @DAlperovitch). It's not what I want to hear, but it does seem to check out from what we have been able to see.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 14:55 |
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Antigravitas posted:If you manage .ml, that means you are in control of the name servers for .ml. So if you want to grab every single mail sent to any unregistered .ml domain, you can just reply to anyone inquiring about the responsible mail server for any domain not in your database with "sure mate, deliver it over here". Right, so there was no need for any deliberate intent like spoofing a military website to receive those e-mails. Just some ordinary TLD administration practices
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 15:03 |
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Yeah, basically super powered typosquatting. It's somewhat unusual that an entire TLD could potentially be used, but the concept is old.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 15:07 |
A more relatable analogy might be literally writing Mali by mistake as the country on the recipient address on a piece of physical mail. You country's post office will happily send it off to Mali, and the post office in Mali then gets to decide themselves what to do with it once they realize that the rest of address is not actually valid for the country. Maybe they'll be nice and send it back with a note that you got the address wrong, or maybe they'll just open and read it out of curiosity.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 15:18 |
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Eric Cantonese posted:I copied and pasted the thread here for those of you who don't want to start a Twitter account. A good read and i appreciate the copy.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 16:14 |
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Just Another Lurker posted:A good read and i appreciate the copy. Just FYI, Nitter is working again (including search). https://nitter.net/HoansSolo/status/1681240456754077697#m
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 16:18 |
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The_Franz posted:Just FYI, Nitter is working again (including search). Good to know it's available again... until Musk throws another wobbler.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 16:20 |
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:in what realpolitik universe are us nationals going to starve if global wheat prices increase? we are paying pennies more if they do. Grain prices directly affect international stability especially in Middle East, a price spike was one of the reasons the Arab Spring kicked off. Nobody in the US is ever going to starve though though…. Qtotonibudinibudet posted:yes, WW3 over grain prices is clancychat. America don't care about them unless most of the world is already nuclear ash and we're sending our remaining aircraft carriers to annex the surviving green space in new zealand. Because we structured several international systems so that we would never be dependent on another country for grain. Multiple major systems. Farm policy, international finance, the regulation of the transportation of hazardous materials and grain all were directly affected by our national defense need to protect our grain industry. WTO died basically between the US and Europe’s protectionism /subsidy of grain. It’s a notable event when grain is imported into the US in bulk by vessel. It’s extremely rare and tends to only happen for speciality products and then they usually give up on it shortly after starting. Qtotonibudinibudet posted:outside that, potential problems down the road in locales that are affected by grain prices are but a twinkle in the eye of our foreign policy elite And no, they care a great deal. A reason Russia is playing these games is because they also sell wheat and raising the price benefits then. The Chinese are also securing farms in places like Africa. One of the reason Bolsenaro came into power in Brazil is commodity grain. It’s a hugely important foreign policy topic.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 17:45 |
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Eric Cantonese posted:Some more sobering commentary coming from a guy who accompanied Rob Lee and Michael Kofman to observe the front lines. Very interesting. If training and integration are such major factors in the failure of the counter-offensive to make gains, it seems obvious that Ukraine should halt the counter-offensive and spend some months training their forces on the equipment they are being sent. And enough equipment needs to be sent to make these new formations large enough to be decisive.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 18:27 |
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Enjoy posted:Very interesting. If training and integration are such major factors in the failure of the counter-offensive to make gains, it seems obvious that Ukraine should halt the counter-offensive and spend some months training their forces on the equipment they are being sent. And enough equipment needs to be sent to make these new formations large enough to be decisive. I'm no expert, but that thread makes it sound like the major issue is their ability to execute their doctrine/operational plans, and not their ability to operate particular pieces of equipment, although they're obviously not completely unrelated.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 19:09 |
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Quixzlizx posted:I'm no expert, but that thread makes it sound like the major issue is their ability to execute their doctrine/operational plans, and not their ability to operate particular pieces of equipment, although they're obviously not completely unrelated. Yes. Ukrainian units seem to be pretty solid tactically: call it company-sized actions and smaller (~150 or fewer soldiers). Operations--which is all about sequencing and synchronizing actions by different units with different capabilities--is where they are struggling. Think about it this way: ideally, a battalion assault would have these events happen at the right time. If they happen too early, or too late, it doesn't work:
This stuff is hard and takes battalion and brigade staffs with people who have literal years of experience learning and practicing. Many Ukrainian brigade and battalion staffs are full of former Soviet-style officers, or people with very little military background.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 19:26 |
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Perun taught me a lot about artillery yesterday. Prior to it I had always thought artillery in 2023 was for bunker busting. I had no idea artillery was the main cause of causalities. For whatever reason I was convinced that for most causalities you had to personally catch a bullet with your name on it or be in the radius of an IED/landmine. Thank you first person shooters for creating all this confusion.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 19:45 |
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artillery has been the main cause of casualties in battle since 1803
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 19:59 |
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Ynglaur posted:Yes. Ukrainian units seem to be pretty solid tactically: call it company-sized actions and smaller (~150 or fewer soldiers). Operations--which is all about sequencing and synchronizing actions by different units with different capabilities--is where they are struggling. Additionally, U.S. officers spend a large portion of their formal military education learning to be cogs in a headquarters staff wargaming these steps. And they still gently caress it up badly, quite often. Synchronizing efforts from multiple specialist organizations is hard. Especially when you don't personally have experience with that specific skill or you're dealing with unfamiliar equipment.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 20:29 |
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Dirt5o8 posted:Additionally, U.S. officers spend a large portion of their formal military education learning to be cogs in a headquarters staff wargaming these steps. And they still gently caress it up badly, quite often. Synchronizing efforts from multiple specialist organizations is hard. Especially when you don't personally have experience with that specific skill or you're dealing with unfamiliar equipment. Exactly. Fun fact: Second Lieutenants in the US Army are not really there to lead platoons. They're actually there to learn how platoons work, so that when they're a staff officer in some battalion or brigade or division headquarters, they have an idea of how things work on the ground. Good lieutenants understand this and pray for a good platoon sergeant to teach them. (Most platoon sergeants are pretty good.) Bad lieutenants don't understand this. That model is predicated upon a strong non-commissioned officer corps capable of managing most tactical tasks. This is something Ukraine started, but did not complete prior to 2022. Further, a lot of the Ukrainian soldiers who learned and started practicing this model have become casualties, and have been replaced with Ukrainians who served before 2014.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 20:49 |
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Eric Cantonese posted:Some more sobering commentary coming from a guy who accompanied Rob Lee and Michael Kofman to observe the front lines. Thanks for copying the thread. Grim reading and I agree it does fit.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 22:25 |
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Antigravitas posted:If you manage .ml, that means you are in control of the name servers for .ml. So if you want to grab every single mail sent to any unregistered .ml domain, you can just reply to anyone inquiring about the responsible mail server for any domain not in your database with "sure mate, deliver it over here". at least currently they're only handling known likely misdirected domains code:
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:16 |
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Eric Cantonese posted:Some more sobering commentary coming from a guy who accompanied Rob Lee and Michael Kofman to observe the front lines. I have to wonder if another Kharkiv direction operation might have had more of an opening for success than advancing directly into the most heavily fortified and prepared Russian positions in occupied Ukraine.
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 03:08 |
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Vox Nihili posted:I have to wonder if another Kharkiv direction operation might have had more of an opening for success than advancing directly into the most heavily fortified and prepared Russian positions in occupied Ukraine. The North Luhansk direction has like half the Russian army.
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 03:20 |
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Vox Nihili posted:I have to wonder if another Kharkiv direction operation might have had more of an opening for success than advancing directly into the most heavily fortified and prepared Russian positions in occupied Ukraine. Ukraine stalled after the initial Kharkiv rout for a reason; they ran into better prepared Russian troops. And they can't really cut off Russian supply lines there like they potentially can in Zaporizhzhia. I'm sure they considered it, they still intend to attack there some day to reclaim everything. And they will still do probing attack just in case something breaks, but it's not much surprise that northern Luhansk is not the main focus at this time.
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 03:27 |
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Eric Cantonese posted:
I guess the silver lining would be none of these were unforseen problems. I wonder who was telling them Ukraine is having problems with combined arms/organizing attacks, the NCOs or brigade level commanders? Like others have said, it is a big challenge for any military and in time of war the cost of learning is blood. I hope this puts more pressure on the West to supply/train Ukraine with more AA, SEAD, and some drat fighter jets as it seems they cannot even gain local air superiority and that is a big reason why your combined arms is not working.
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 05:01 |
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Here's a nice breakdown on how the US Army trains to do breaching operations. You do not achieve a useful level of proficiency in months. The Western equipped brigades that aren't on the front line? They're working on exactly this, and they're expecting to take huge casualties doing it when the time comes. Have all the best weapons won't help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-sCT_maAQ What will help get through Russian lines in the short term is what they're doing. Economy of force operations to roll up to the main defense lines as cheaply as possible, disrupting logistics and command as much as possible, and keeping the pressure on every Russian formation to create the possibility of getting a force into and through Russian lines somewhere. Oh, and counterbattery, counterbattery, counterbattery.
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 05:39 |
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mllaneza posted:Here's a nice breakdown on how the US Army trains to do breaching operations. You do not achieve a useful level of proficiency in months. The Western equipped brigades that aren't on the front line? They're working on exactly this, and they're expecting to take huge casualties doing it when the time comes. Have all the best weapons won't help. That's a nice, clear desert to practice a breach on. Now do it over muddy grounds with just a few roads, no air support, no swarm of Apaches and a lot of the enemy artillery still operational due to not having air support.
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 06:42 |
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CeeJee posted:That's a nice, clear desert to practice a breach on. Now do it over muddy grounds with just a few roads, no air support, no swarm of Apaches and a lot of the enemy artillery still operational due to not having air support. I just realised what could do this- Battlemechs. Battlemechs with jump jets. Jump over the mine fields.
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 06:48 |
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I think more apt would be to look at the many WW2 breaching operations, mainly on the Eastern front, but the US had some rough ones in France particulary around Nancy. It is also telling that a good portion of these battles contain 'meatgrinder' in their descriptions.
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 06:49 |
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Comstar posted:I just realised what could do this- Battlemechs. Battlemechs with jump jets. Jump over the mine fields. Square cubed law says no
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 07:16 |
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:Square cubed law says no I hate that I know this but mechs are light bubbles of future tech. They're extremely light for their size
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 07:23 |
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CeeJee posted:That's a nice, clear desert to practice a breach on. Now do it over muddy grounds with just a few roads, no air support, no swarm of Apaches and a lot of the enemy artillery still operational due to not having air support. Yup. Ukraine is going to have it way worse than this in practice. We aren't seeing a whole brigade in a breakthrough operation for a long time. When they can create the conditions for maneuver warfare, we'll see the Western AFVs in numbers. Until then those units are training and waiting.
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 07:29 |
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Massive missile strikes on Odesa overnight, partly targeting the grain terminal, with some stuff getting through.
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 09:02 |
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https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1681427243816615940?t=s1KIll0jCwEI_wmvBYiY5w&s=19 Also uhh some mad science (morons asking for money to burn) https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1681365386992779264?t=bHdARHFKd-QiamDcfw0Nlg&s=19
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 09:20 |
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fatherboxx posted:https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1681427243816615940?t=s1KIll0jCwEI_wmvBYiY5w&s=19 Are they trying to rediscover ICBMs?
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 09:23 |
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Icon Of Sin posted:Are they trying to rediscover ICBMs? At least it is not Colony Drops yet
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 09:28 |
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Good luck hitting anything smaller than Ukraine from orbit, unless you’ve got a guided missile in which case just use ur planes lmao
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 09:39 |
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Making something that looks and acts exactly like a nuclear-armed ICBM in order to do a job an ordinary cruise missile can do seems like a great idea.
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 09:41 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 09:06 |
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Obviously the superior mad satellite thingy would be like the microwave power plant in Sim City 2000, where the microwave beam from the satellite sometimes misses the power station and sets your entire city on fire.
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 09:52 |