you understand that the war that was supposed to last for maybe a week or two is now closing on 4 years, right? That all of the western powers were absolutely certain that prior to 2022 ruzzia was a world level super power with the military that was somewhere in the top 2 or 3 maybe, right? That this supposed super power was stopped by a country with 1/3 to 1/4 of the population, with 1/28 of size, with no oil or gas mining to speak of. Today ruzzia is occupying significantly less territory than at the end of 2022 as well because Ukraine got some of the territory back, for example the city of Kherson and most of Kharkhiv region.

More than that, Ukraine was able to enter ruzzian territory for whatever purpose and was able to hold some of it for about 6 months.

Currently ruzzia is actually a much more dangerous enemy than it was in 2022 to the rest of Europe, it gained enough knowledge, learned new tactics and is capable of taking out any European army in a conventional fight, I am certain of it. Should Ukraine fail and fall, putin will attack Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and then will go further and nobody will stop him without nuclear weapons if the USA decides to retreat, the Europeans are not in a fighting mood and will not be dying for their homes, they will be enslaved by putin if nuclear weapons are not used, this is certain. Europe's best chance at preventing this is seriously helping Ukraine, at this point with some man power as well.

As to the story we are talking about, ruzzia does not have factory capacity to build a new 8U216 service cabin and this has nothing to do with 'brilliance of people they are attacking', you are not reading me correctly. I am saying they do not have the capacity, they do not have the resources to manufacture this cabin unless they actually stop the war, retreat and restart normal manufacturing. It is also unclear that this type of a cabin can be built at any of their plants, maybe at the Cherepovets metallurgical plant. There is a reason why the USSR was manufacturing this thing in Kramatorsk and it wasn't about brilliance, it was about capacity, ability to handle a task of this magnitude. What, do you think you can just turn any factory into something that can manufacture a structure of this size and complexity? You are the one living in a fantasy world.

I am typing this on my phone, while on a train from Kyiv to Lviv, laying down in the dark, I have all of the autocorrect functions disabled on the phone, one thing is hitting the wrong keys and still have a more or less recognizable word come out than having the word changed completely by the stupid autocomplete feature (dumb ass grandfather of whatever we call AI today). That is why the words are often scrambled.

no, the biggest reason is neither, it is the resentment, feeling that nobody actually cares about ruzzia and its role, its status, basically not being the big scary ruzzia, the bear that the ussr was. While their own lives are small, insignificant, unimportant, at least these russkies feel that this war puts ruzzia back at the global stage to be the center of attention. They first felt it back in 2014, when putin orchestrated taking of Crimea and part of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Now was the second wave of this, but it is coming to an end, cannot keep feeling this elation, while your "big and scary" army has been stuck taking yet another destroyed village who knows where in Ukraine. While this didn't matter much earlier, before they really felt it themselves, now they are starting to feel it slowly, as inflation keeps creeping up, their oil refineries and now shadow fleet tankers are getring hit. I was in Kiev for a week, the city lives mostly on generators, but people keep going. I saw drones and anti drone fire, anti missiles hitting ballistic and cruise missiles, flashes of explosions in the sky. The ruzzians are starting to see these as well. Their cities will be living in the dark this winter too, lets see what that does to their attitudes.

In any case, there is and was huge support for this war on their side because they felt pride and at the same time they did not feel the consequences. Lets see what happens to their pride when the consequences hit.

I will add that there is this concept of the "good ruzzians", some who live abroad and are vocal about hoping to see putin gone and a regime change. It still doesn't matter, they hope to see a different ruzzia restored, returned back to the world stage under a different umbrella, paying its debts and such. I do not accept any of it. ruzzia is a death zone, all of its culture is the real death cult with never ending imperial ambotions, it can change colors, it cannot chamge its nature. It needs to be taken apart and it will be, it is inevitable now. With muslims taking over moscow, Chinese taking over Siberia, Kazakhs have some claims, Finnish have a large territory to reclaim, Ukraine actually can claim quite a bit of land, in 10 years time we will see something else and it won't be ruzzia.

Once again, Open Source is embarrassed and left behind.

mplayer and mpv still, after all these years, don't have a way to prevent things from working if the content origin happens to be Netflix. It just plays on, stupidly Just Working, instead of breaking the way that Netflix realized their users want it to break.

To be fair your link does say "designed to bypass internet filtering mechanisms or content restrictions", so it sounds like SSH, work VPNs, banking etc. don't count because they aren't designed to get around the porn filters.

You make sense, but there is nothing that is "designed to bypass internet filtering mechanisms or content restrictions" more than SSH and VPNs bypass internet filtering mechanisms or content restrictions, is there? Why would anyone ever design a tool to get around filtering and restrictions, when they can already do that with established mainstream tools such as SSH or VPNs?

I can't believe the bill is intended to never be applied to anything. If we do think it's written in such a way that it never applies, I don't think it'll be litigated that way. Once it's enacted, they're going to say it applies to something, and that something is going to be anything that is secure.

You didn't read the bill very closely.

I think I read it much more closely than you did.

Sec 2(a):

"Circumvention tools" means any software, hardware, or service designed to bypass internet filtering mechanisms or content restrictions including virtual private networks, proxy servers, and encrypted tunneling methods to evade content restrictions.

This is either intended to apply to something or never apply to anything. Do we agree that the text is intended to do something, to somehow cover some possible situation which might realistically come up? You don't think they just put this in there, but with the begrudging admission that it could not ever possibly apply, do you?

Assuming you're still with me there, please give an example of what kind of tool this defines as a circumvention tool. Surely you have something in mind.

The bill is about outlawing the distribution of p0rn, and a VPN is merely listed as an unlawful circumvention tool.

That might have possibly been the original intent several years of editing ago, but I do not see anything in the definition of "circumvention tools" which even tangentially relates to porn. Do you? I think porn is 100% irrelevant in this discussion.

What I'm getting at, is that there isn't a "porn version" of Wireguard or SSH or HTTPS. They're all the same, content-neutral. The bill either bans them all, or doesn't ban anything. If you take my above bolded challenge to name a circumvention tool that this bill does address, I'm going to take all of your arguments that you give for why the law does apply to your circumvention tool example, and I am going to successfully apply them to SSH and HTTPS. And I'll be exactly as correct as you.

The only way this bill doesn't restrict SSH and HTTPS, is if it doesn't restrict anything at all. Don't agree? Then name something it does restrict.

It is impossible to launch Soyuz/Proton rockets without this service cabin. The launchpad itself is a huge slob of armored concrete with a hole in the center, used to direct hot gases into a gigantic pit, ot takes a few years to dig out that pit and build the multistory tall launchpad. The service cabin is a multistory metal structire that provides access to set up various umbilicals and to set up the chemical matches, lit electrically, that are inserted into the rocket engines (yes, that is how they light up these types of engines, huge, many feet long, matches). The cabin then slides away into the wall and it is supposed to be fixed in place with some pins. They did not do it this time, so the engine exhaust pulled the cabin out of its niche and blew it out through the vent hole into the pit.

This isn't a partisan issue

Sorry, but no one can ever really say something like that these days, and be believable. While it's true there's no classical left/right split on this issue, our classical left/right days are long over.

If Trump decides he opposes this, then you're going to see 90% of Republicans suddenly oppose it, and it'll become partisan.

So, before you tell me this is non-partisan, please explain how regulating AI will help criminals steal, preferably from the US Treasury. Because if this does not aid crime, then Republicans will be against it. They might not be against it now, but they're going to be.

Ukraine did not fold to the threat of the USA stopping all support earlier this year, it will not stop to any of these threats now either, it is a non starter. Zelensky doesn't have the mandate from Ukrainians to this type of a "peace deal" just because USA may stop any support. Ukraine will endure wothout the USA support, just with more casualties.

there is no d8fference where it comes to ruzzians. Majority are pro putin there or they do not care, very few are truly against this or especially are vocal about it. I used to work with them back between 2009 and 2014 and supported the work I uaed to do for them umtil 2022. Then I saw what they really where, the young, the old, doesn't matter. A good test is to ask "whose is Crimea". At this point I decided that I am not a specialist in sorting through various types of shit, I wrote them all off.

ruzzia is "winning the war" in the same way that a cancer is "winning" by destroying the body where it resides. Nobody is winning anything yet. Ukraine is slowly losing territory, while trying to keep more soldiers alive, ruzzia is slowly losing its manpower by throwing more and more bodies, now without even basic body armor and helmets into the meatgrinder to be burned alive by the drones to gain a few hundred meters a of burned up, empty territory per day.

Without either side having air superiority both sides are doomed to continue the drudgery of slow attrition, Ukrainian territory vs orcs' lives. Neither is winning, both are losing something. In the long run, prolonged wars favour the defending side for various reasons, the occupiers are seeing worsening of their economic situation for no gain whatsoever. It is all a temporary high, that the ruzzian population was experiencing, following the occupation of Crimea and the start of this "special military operation" that was not supposed to last for more than a few weeks. Now putin cannot let go, this is not about the money or the economy for him, which is why all of this negotiation crap is nonsense doomed to failure. For putin a peace right now is just as dangerous as the defeat, in either case he will lose power. For him there are no options at all, only continuing a perpetual war, which is why the Americans and the West are so horribly wrong about him and his willingness to negotiate. He can only do one thing - keep the war going until the last orc and the last mercenary. If he takes Ukraine somehow, to use the newly occupied people to go to war against Poland, Lituania, Latvia, Estonia and later the rest. If he succeeds taking Ukraine, then he will not be stopped by any conventional Eiuropean force, nobody is willing to fight and die there.

of course it is a sane assumption. Their nuclear missile launch tests fail for a good reason as well, rocket engines, airplane engines and parts were made in Ukraine, the engineers who made them were Ukrainians. All of the ruzzkies capacity is used up to rebuild tanks and produce military equipment, missiles, gun rounds, shahed drones, whatever. Building a gigantic complex platform actually requires resources they do not have.

for the same reason I wouldn't hire an Islamist or a palestenian sympathiser.

The destroyed 8U216 service cabin used for Soyuz launches was manufactured at the Novokramatorsk Machine Building Plant in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.

Of course this plant was bombed by ruzzia multiple times since the February 2022.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YQDNpqEf5us

ruzzia has a few options there.
1. leave everything as is and stop making launches, fire the unnecessary staff, forget about space.

2. get one of the platforms that were built and installed elsewhere (there are 3 of these used by their military in Plesetsk, 1 in Vostochny, this one is used once per year. Ask the one in French Guiana (South America) to be returned, it is no longer in use anyway. Ask the Kazakhs for the first one that was used to launch the first Vostok rocket with Gagarin to be moved from the museum site.

3. build a new factory somewhere, train new staff, construct a new platform.

4. fix the one that was blown to pieces.

AFAIC ruzzia can and needs to go to hell. I hire people, I won't hire a ruzzian, the world needs to get its act together and start using space wothput them.

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