Smoking accidents can happen everywhere! Only YOU can prevent forest fires!

inb4 Russian state media headline “Ukraine running out of troops. Hiring mercenaries! In other news: Don’t bother about the weirdly speaking comrades from Vladivostok!”

NATO maintains that it is a defensive alliance. If NATO starts adding countries Russia is currently at war with, it becomes an offensive alliance.

I don’t think so. Ukraine is in a defensive war. Actively joining their side doesn’t turn it into an offensive one. The difference between offensive and defensive conflicts is the goal: In an offensive, you want to gain something. In a defence, it is about keeping what you have. Just because NATO would come to their aid, Ukraine wouldn’t want to conquer Russia.

That being said, why wasn’t Ukraine added earlier?

Multiple reasons probably:

• Ukraine was and to some extent still is a post-soviet state: Oligarchs, corruption and all that comes with it.
• There was the Budapest Memorandum in place which guaranteed a sovereign Ukrainian state affectively as buffer between Russia and other NATO countries. Which was subsequently broken by Russia in 2014.
• “Don’t anger the Russians”. See where this got us?

Well, that’d be the point of Ukraine joining NATO currently.

It is still open source. However, it is not free software anymore.

AT MOST 5 a week and there are also weeks where I receive none at all. Interestingly it always seems to be the same type of spam from different adresses so there is probably a bot net somewhere that has my address and every month or so when the owners start a new wave I get a few and thats it.

On the other hand how many false positives have you had to pick out of the bin?

Well, it was bound to happen at some point.

Many features probably have been investigated by Russia already anyway, since Turkey wrecked a bunch of their Leos in Syria a couple of years ago. But of course, having an intact one gives a lot more options.

[…] the factory where the Leopard 2 resurfaced is far from the front line in Ukraine.

Well, smoking accidents can happen everywhere.

Also, funny to see in the article that hinterland made it into English as well.

I am using my mail provider’s standard filter and at most I get 5 mails per week that make it through. And that’s with my mail being publicly available on my personal website. Not sure what sort of sites people sign up for, but spam has never been an issue, even away from Google.

I guess someone translated a Chinese figure of speech literally.

But I’m skeptical that this is a cannon fodder battalion.

Any NK soldier that isn’t a technician is effectively cannon fodder in Ukraine. The DRK hasn’t fought an armed conflict since its founding. They may be experts at marching parades, but have no actual combat experience.

As is tradition. The first image transferred over the internet-precursor was also a cat picture.

Doesn’t matter. Scholz couldn’t have remembered the plan anyway.

Loads fine for me.

Yeah, but did they take down the website only, or did they also take down the content they mostly link to?

In the past, there have been investigations by multiple news outlets where they found that German police would routinely seize forums and domains where links to CP were posted but would not request the hosting providers of the linked content to delete the material.

I will give bluesky credit for their focus on moderation.

Watch that focus disappear once the enshittification phase starts.

As far as I understand the reports, the headline is correct.

It ran aground on a reef and got damaged beyond repair. While it is not fully submerged, the term “sunk” still applies.

For me, it is a glorified auto-complete function. Could definitely live without it.

Putin will burn everything down as long as he can be the king of the ashes.

Yes, exactly that.

Your head is going to hurt even more if you are a German: The prefix “ent” usually means to lose or get rid of something. I.e. “I got rid of it” -> “Ich habe es entsorgt” so everytime I read “enshittification” I had to remind myself it’s the process of making something worse not better.

So “disenshittification” is a double knot in my brain. I propose “disshittification” as alternative.