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knox_harrington posted:Not that it's necessarily related but this attack has excellent TTPs What are TTPs?
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Icon Of Sin posted:Tactics, techniques, procedures. Army shorthand for all the things that go into a successful assault (in infantry context). knox_harrington posted:Sorry: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures. The infantry rapidly dismount and form a baseline directed towards the enemy so they are difficult to hit and can get a weight of fire down if needed. Everything is pretty slick. Thank you both!
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Pine Cone Jones posted:https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1632580401653772291?t=2aD9uJeL80IXz5PZW9pN0w&s=19 I think it’s great if Russia has a hard time sustaining more offensives since then maybe fewer people die for no loving reason, but I have a question: what does it mean when a military analyst refers to “endemic personnel and equipment constraints”? That it’s hard for anyone to support soldiers and vehicles operating in Ukraine? (That doesn’t seem to be correct, but I don’t know what else it could mean.)
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Deteriorata posted:It means they have shortages of trained soldiers and useful equipment throughout the Russian armed forces. "Endemic" means it is present everywhere, not in isolated places. Thanks, that makes sense.
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Cimber posted:Putin must be loving this. Why would Wagner do this, though? Do they not know it’s a bad idea? 12th dimensional Russian power chess?
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Cimber posted:Well, I don't think they knew this going into the fight a few months back. I suspect they thought they would be the glorious tip of the spear and would gain lots of power and prestege. IIRC they actually did fairly well at first, then their boss starte talking smack and I suspect Putin said "ut oh, we better but the boot on these guys. Last thing I want is them getting to big for their britches and being the armed force that is lead by my friends to depose me and put a friend in my place" I thought Wagner had enough autonomy to say “no thanks” to an assault like this now, but maybe they’re committed to…smashing themselves against Azol.
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So is “hit by a Russian aircraft” really.
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Mar 14, 2023 18:06
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:......skylab? So they claim!
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Mar 14, 2023 23:22
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OS/2 was the operating system of choice for many ABM manufacturers for quite a while.
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psydude posted:Much like local micro breweries, though, small scale distilling falls victim to the American alcohol distribution system and it's many failings. The result is a more homogenized global market, despite ample variety at the local and hyper-local level. Getting unusual bourbon outside the US is a very challenging task.  LightRailTycoon posted:Blocked sewers are getting serious You should have seen the Mark-2!
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Mar 21, 2023 23:28
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Crini posted:“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.” And sometimes you go to war with the army you had a much earlier time.
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Tiny Timbs posted:I graduated college well over a decade ago and I just had a “forgot to go to a class all semester” dream a few weeks ago. They’re a cultural phenomenon. I had a dream like that about a month ago too, and I never attended college. Just absorbed that nightmare form from the media or something. loving brains.
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Hopper posted:Yeah but those convicted people aren't they? No, just arrested.
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Apr 13, 2023 19:12
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“Could have amounted to an act of war” it says. I feel like firing at a plane with intent to kill it pretty much is an act of war even if your equipment fails, but I’m not a war lawyer.
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Bell_ posted:On one hand, this is definitely true. C.P. Ellis was a Klansman fighting desegregation in the early 70s, but Civil Rights activist Ann Atwater helped pull his head out of his rear end. People don’t really grow up in their physical neighbourhood these days in terms of politics as much as they grow up in the internet neighbourhood that first captures them, I think.
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Fearless posted:Not to mention that it's likely to be infested with billionaires that fled the cataclysm and have shelters dotting the islands and no doubt expect to continue to live a life of privilege and excess in whatever remains. Great marbling, though.
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Computer viking posted:Speaking of Russian opposition, here's an interesting enough news article. It's from Aftenposten, a centrist and mostly boring-in-the-good-way Norwegian newspaper, who still have people in Russia. This was a great read, thank you. The finale with the cops expressing disagreement was a great twist.
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May 2, 2023 23:33
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I just want an example from anytime in history that cost savings didn't mean gutting core services Peace dividend!
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May 5, 2023 18:39
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Blistex posted:<Russia captures a brand new 2023 Patriot battery> I think the worry would more be the battalion of Chinese forensic engineers who would descend on the device as soon as it entered Russian hands.
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May 11, 2023 00:40
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When I was in Beijing on a work trip a local fan club of our product wanted to meet up…at Sizzler. It had a pretty acceptable wine list, though.
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Lobster God posted:https://twitter.com/UnseenOps/status/1661499544297717762?t=KRn_DRjyz58NMurlD9ExnQ&s=19 This is loving incredible.
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May 26, 2023 02:02
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Handsome Ralph posted:You can't bring up the Roberts without posting the screwdriver pic. I really want to hear that story.
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May 26, 2023 04:05
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Flyinglemur posted:Well you can read about it right here! The word “screwdriver” does not appear on that page!
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May 26, 2023 04:18
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Real-time decryption of a 256-bit encryption system is a little surprising to me!
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May 29, 2023 21:54
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Yeah I thought it might have been Super Special Encryption, but don’t they have to interoperate with other makers? Key material getting compromised seems like the most likely thing but then talking about real-time decryption is weird since they’re just listening like all the other participants!
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May 29, 2023 22:07
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Antigravitas posted:But that doesn't actually mean anything. The interesting properties of a crypto system are basically anything but its "bitness". Yeah I was assuming a modern stream cipher with traditional key sizing. Key width matters for brute forcing (or assisted brute forcing via weakening attacks on the cipher that reduce the effective key size), but that’s not the only way to defeat a crypto system obviously.
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May 29, 2023 22:17
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Yeah I was going to ask if anyone had suggestions for an overview of how key management works for these sorts of systems.
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I’m honestly a little impressed that it didn’t go off behind Russian lines.
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Vengarr posted:Yeah, and I think from that list, only Canada might have its poo poo together enough to ride out the hellish societal effects of having your food, water and air poisoned simultaneously. I wouldn’t bet on it!
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Chunky Monkey posted:It's amazing to see how easily he's fit into this role, like I know he's an actor and all but I remember it being a huge joke when he was elected that Ukraine voted out Willy Wonka and voted in Adam Sandler. I strongly suspect that it hasn’t been easy at all, and has utterly consumed him beyond the limits of most leaders.
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“Hire great people and get out of their way” is a terrible way to build an organization, IMO, but giving people agency and authority commensurate to their abilities, and (importantly) their alignment with the mission, is critical.
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I don’t know anything about anything military, but in the situation in Syria with Wagner, if I were the US forces, I would not want to leave any room for the surviving attackers to think “hmm, maybe if we had a few more RPGs, or attacked them from the side, we could pull it off”. I would want to make it clear that there was absolutely no circumstance under which they would survive attacking US troops.
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waydownLo posted:Someone has to survive to tell the rest what happened to them that’s what forensic teams are for
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Message sent, message received.
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Grand Fromage posted:Sometimes you think you understand the world and then something as shocking as this happens. Truly, life is unpredictable. If you have led a failed coup with your private army against a dictator known for assassinating troublesome people, today is a good day to hug your loved ones.
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Automatic Retard posted:That’ll do, Prig, that’ll do. Beautiful.
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Slashrat posted:I'd be surprised if the commission they are foregoing haven't ended up on the books as tax write-offs instead. Maybe the Ukrainian tax code is especially weird, but I don’t know how that would be possible. Is there any jurisdiction in the world where you can write off “our prices could have been higher” against income? How do you see that working? (Not that Amazon pays taxes anyway, really.)
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