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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Buddy chill its not that deep. He flew too low and in the range of an IR missile battery that they failed to spot as part of their SIGINT. That’s why they have video, he was so close that radar stealth literally would not matter. It even explains the small missile warhead size.

    And DAS missile detectors have been pretty awful at being able to detect missiles due to their tiny package size. There’s no gg ez RWR for passive tracking missiles.

    They’re flying sorties more brashly because they thought AA was taken care of, which is how this ambush succeeded.

    Yes it’s defnitley a first for successfully hitting the F-35, but this isn’t some groundbreaking concept. It would have been huge news if they targeted the F-35 at a BVR range with active tracking like with a radar or data link solution.

    Like I said, I’m sure the soldiers were super excited that they got a hit, but they would defnitley have preferred to have scored a full kill with a pilot ejection and subsequent capture.



  • (I don’t need strong censorship resistance; it just has to work in offices and hotel WiFis.

    Wireguard on 443 or OpenVPN + Stunnel on 443

    Wireguard is easier to setup because there’s no OpenVPN app that packages stunnel (afaik), so you have to run 2 apps on your phone to make it work.

    A server like caddy can also accept HTTPS traffic for some regular websites next to the VPN server.

    Wireguard uses UDP, so just run whatever you want on 443 TCP with caddy (unless you want QUIC for some reason?)

    Anything beyond that and you’d be looking at using a proper obfuscation solution like Shadowsocks or obfs4, in which case you should look into Amnezia or Tor bridges.


  • I’m really disappointed that someone hasn’t just made a standalone userspace addon to implement the feature, shoved in down California’s throat, and told them to come back with complaints once they can find where BSD came from.

    Adding this type of “support” is just giving legitimacy to crappy legislation. I would not bother even creating the underlying system so some underpaid google intern can make his age verification app 2% faster.

    This entire fiasco could have been a bash script that uses a new file in /etc to store birthdays.



  • Asim Munir, the current COAS and second ever self appointed field marshal of Pakistan’s Army, spent the last couple of years basically shooting the country in the foot by deleting the democratically elected government, attempting to assasinate the former PM, jailing the former PM under false charges (of which the public hasn’t seen since 2023), nuking the economy with IMF loans, and beating Israel to be the first to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

    All while showing up to Washington in a private jet as much as Netanyahu.

    This entire “war” with Afghanistan was an American request that he happily obliged to conduct. No one is buying it, which is one of the reasons why the US Consulate in Karachi was attacked by armed protestors over a week ago.

    For all intents and purposes, you can just currently consider Pakistan a vassal state of the US, just like KSA or UAE.




  • I find it funny that British media has been making headlines about UK’s opposition to the war despite the fact that they let the US use Diego Garcia (even after publicly opposing it) and despite the fact that they are deployed to Cyprus and flying defensive sorties all over the middle east.

    I don’t even think this is major thing to report considering literally every other nation has already refused to send their warships into the Strait of Hormuz.


  • The most ironic thing is if they had bothered to set up a practical plan and stated war goal, the US could have invaded and captured Iran in a matter of weeks.

    It just that the largest and most sophisticated military in the world is completely useless if you don’t spin up and use its full potential, which you can’t really do without troops on the ground and congressional approval (not the literal declare war sense, just public support).

    Of course they can’t actually justify a proper invasion (or a draft) without causing insane fallout in the US, so they used everything except ground troops which will accomplish nothing and get the US stuck in a forever war like Vietnam.

    Even though China is facing eventual oil supply issues, they’re probably looking at this thing like prime cinema as the US expends its military global dominance on Iran, which will solve their Taiwan plans for them.