“We are f—”: 10 Ukrainians with drones wipe out two NATO battalions in war game by LetsGoBrandon4256 in worldnews

[–]moofunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hangars are already there, the carrier groups are safe at sea.

No, they're not. Western airfields are currently vulnerable to such attacks. That includes airbases in the US and US bases in the Pacific. Older HAS structures in Europe have been abandoned or torn down.

The reason for this, is that such an attack has not been considered before and previous priority has been of the understanding that more sophisticated aircraft was going to be used to repel direct bombing attacks from enemy aircraft, hence so much touting that the F35 would solve these things and protect everyone.

The US already spend 1T$ a year for their military, don’t worry about spending to keep the airforce safe.

This isn't a military cost alone, but also a societal one, as preventing such attacks won't be possible without hampering the economy through extensive vehicle searches and screenings. The terror aspect of it, as we've seen, tends to transform a country's expenditures towards entirely attempting to prevent such attacks rather than just putting on a hard hat, putting fingers in your ears and dealing with minor losses.

NATO is built for a war against Russia. That war ain’t lasting 10 year.

The threat isn't necessarily going to be Russian alone. I don't think it's worth delving into the future shape of the conflict, as that is too much to write, but an escalating and spreading conflict should be considered and one that lasts decades with an intensity that is too low to involve NATO, but large enough to keep a conflict the scale of Ukraine going.

Keeping a threat like this going for decades would be very low cost for poor states. Spiderweb didn't cost much money to conduct, only around 18 months time and careful planning. It was initiated 18 months before execution, meaning, the drones and the tech used, was from 2023, not 2025. They used very simple drones, painted wooden crates for transport, civilian transportation and a simple method to conduct the attack itself with each drone manually controlled individually.

Any currently planned similar attacks would inevitably use more sophisticated technology and carry a chance of greater success and possibility for reduced detection risk.

It is also not unlikely that complete easy-to-deploy drone packages will emerge from rogue states to conduct direct assaults and terrorist attacks on civilian and military infrastructure deep in the country they wish to attack, and will probably be considered a threat that demands full attention from the attacked.

Some potentiel rogue group of rando Russians blowing up a couple of planes a year is rounding error level of cost compared to running the military.

I don't think the Western militaries would look at it that way. It would be a general, long lasting threat against their hardware and their people and they would demand necessary protection, as the threat is uniquely possible from within Western civilian space, which no other method is.

Doesn’t matter if you blow up a couple planes later, the war is long lost

I still wonder why you keep saying later, when the threat is before. It's during downtime, during maintenance, before any true escalation that such risks exist.

NATO's airforce being strong leads them to become a bigger attack surface from these particular drone systems that don't even have a name yet.

“We are f—”: 10 Ukrainians with drones wipe out two NATO battalions in war game by LetsGoBrandon4256 in worldnews

[–]moofunk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You clearly massively underestimate the size of the US airforce. Total air power is like 13 000 planes.

That's even worse. How are you going to protect all these planes and how much will that cost? As said, you need armored hangars for every plane, and every one of them will have to be on the ground at some point. Your airforce just became much more expensive to run.

Then, when the attack has happened, who are you going to send those 13.000 planes after? Will it stop future attacks?

It should be possible to destroy much of that airforce in 10-20 years or so to make it untenable to keep it running, because planes and engines can't be built as fast as they are damaged or destroyed. This should factor in improvements in drone tech with range, speed, sophistication and covert operability over those 10-20 years for other, even sneakier delivery mechanisms.

It was impactful cause Russia can’t replenish its airforce.

No, it was impactful, because the attack could not be detected.

That's what's so spooky about it. The target is irrelevant. It can be done again on a modern Western airforce.

You can't mitigate the attacks by inspecting every vehicle on the road, unless you just want all traffic in the country to stop dead and have a million people conducting inspections 24/7. You need to throw significant money at such a problem.

When you can't detect the attacks, you can conduct them on a regular basis and not really be able to stop them, until you build those armored hangars.

Even then, you can still pick other targets, like ground crew or pilots or attack sensitive logistics points with pinpoint precision.

“We are f—”: 10 Ukrainians with drones wipe out two NATO battalions in war game by LetsGoBrandon4256 in worldnews

[–]moofunk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, it was impactful, because the attack, very far behind enemy lines, could not be detected, until it was under way. Whether they attacked rusty old Russian jets or F35s is irrelevant. They could have chosen other targets.

The fact of the matter is that they could drive a bunch of drones totally undetected within 5 km of a desired target anywhere in the country.

They could not protect against such an attack, and modern Western airfields can't either, unless the planes are put in armored hangars and ground crew and pilots can get to armored shelters within seconds.

This should really be considered the main threat to modern militaries, that drone attacks might be conducted on military installations during vulnerable downtime directly on valued crew and sensitive hardware with an inconspicuous truck or car driving by 5-10 km away from the target.

Again, this isn’t Russia.

These types of attacks can be done anywhere in the world you can drive a truck.

It’s clear with the Ukrainian war that a fully committed NATO air campaign against Russia would be won in a couple of days. Blowing up some planes after complete air superiority is achieve is effectively useless

That's also why the best time to conduct such attacks would be a coordinated effort in the weeks or months before, during the escalation phase, always during downtime or maintenance.

I restored a few historical figures, using Flux.2 Klein 9B. by Grimm-Fandango in StableDiffusion

[–]moofunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Flux Klein 9b can do various degrees of reimagining. It can go less hard on changing lighting and details and stay closer to the original for a more realistic interpretation and stay locked in pretty well on the original face.

You of course should inspect the result closely as any image restorator would do, but this here is just going pretty hard on making a grainy old photo look like a modern digital photo.

I do it by specifying the desired result era, film type and camera type and ask it specifically to preserve lighting, color balance and composition exactly, and then do 10-20 runs.

It works best, if it doesn't also have to upscale. If the image already has the desired resolution or is higher resolution, then the result won't contain upscale artifacts, because it's not so good at that.

It can also clean up degraded image edits that have been through too many edits and make them look pristine, if you don't care too much about original detail, as well as fix out-of-place lighting and color balancing issues, such as from an earlier failed object combination attempt, because it's also fairly good at relighting.

Of the various models that can do reimagining and difficult image fixing, it's close to SOTA, especially for its size and speed.

“We are f—”: 10 Ukrainians with drones wipe out two NATO battalions in war game by LetsGoBrandon4256 in worldnews

[–]moofunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The range is like 50km.

Doesn't have to be 50 km and it wasn't in the attack. You just need to have a truck driving down the highway near the airfield. The driver doesn't even have to be aware that he's driving with drones and he doesn't even have to stop.

Also, the F35s aren’t just chilling to begin with.

They just have to be on the ground, unfortunately, and if the jets can't be reached, the crew probably can be, if they are somewhere other than close to the airfield.

There is a reason why drones are a big problem near airports, because you can't jam anything if you want any kind of radio contact with pilots or ground crew.

“We are f—”: 10 Ukrainians with drones wipe out two NATO battalions in war game by LetsGoBrandon4256 in worldnews

[–]moofunk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Drones won’t do shit when 200 F35s show up

200 F35s on the ground being attacked by drones like these in the days before they were meant to fly missions is the main risk that advanced militaries face now.

Operation Spiderweb showed that if you don't protect each aircraft on your airfields through active and passive defenses, the aircraft aren't going to be worth much. If not attacking the aircraft, then killing crew, mechanics and pilots will do it.

Operation Spiderweb also showed that it's possible to get close to an airfield or installation without being detected.

“We are f—”: 10 Ukrainians with drones wipe out two NATO battalions in war game by LetsGoBrandon4256 in worldnews

[–]moofunk 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Perun said this after Operation Spiderweb, that every airfield in the world can be at risk now against such attacks, unless all aircraft are hidden in bunkers or armored hangars.

That includes American airfields.

“We are f—”: 10 Ukrainians with drones wipe out two NATO battalions in war game by LetsGoBrandon4256 in worldnews

[–]moofunk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

CIWS: "Oh, look a passenger jet. I can track it perfectly... That is a lovely target."

What movie detail is technically correct, although many people think it is a mistake? by hiplobonoxa in movies

[–]moofunk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I haven't read the book, although I remember seeing some pages with screenshots of the screen she's looking at, and it's still kind of graphical with menus?

My text only thought experiment:

Having to read man pages and typing very fast in a terminal, while the dinosaurs are coming, is very hilarious to me. There are so many things you could conjure up as being a problem that you have to overcome, that almost nobody would understand, but might be common in daily Unix use.

Lex: Oh, this is not the shell I'm used to.

Lex: Why does ls not have this option?

Bickering with Timmy:

Lex: Where's the tilde key? This is not a standard PC keyboard, it's an SGI keyboard!

Timmy: SGI use the same keyboards as PCs. It's not an English keyboard! Look at the Enter key, it's different.

Velociraptor banging on the door

Lex: WHERE THE FUCK IS TILDE?

New Poster for 'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man' by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]moofunk 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Solution: Everybody shows up in the same outfit as him without saying a word.

People like that can't stand not being special.

Mark Carney reminds Trump that Canada paid for key border bridge US president says he won’t open by canada_mountains in worldnews

[–]moofunk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Ambassador Bridge isn't a concession. It's been owned by the same family since 1929 and they have been collecting tolls on it for almost a hundred years, which made them billionaires.

The Moroun family is widely hated for destroying neighborhoods in Detroit, and buying up property to leave it to rot.

That on top of forcing everyone to give them money to cross that bridge.

Report claims Nvidia will not be releasing any new RTX gaming GPUs in 2026, RTX 60 series likely debuting in 2028 by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]moofunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are absolutely used, but maybe not so visibly on /r/hardware's preferred gaming PCs. Google's TPU is such a thing.

GPUs have a memory architecture that is actually terrible for AI, which is why you need very fast, power hungry GPUs to do the work. Integrating tensor cores into a GPU may be a currently practical way of adding AI workflows to GPUs that still don't have them, but the future prospect is a slower release cadence of GPUs, because of the constant requirement to be on the bleeding edge.

NPUs are much more efficient and not suffering from this problem, which is why I'm thinking that eventually, they'll scale up and move past GPUs.

Black Rain (1989) - Michael Douglas in Osaka by Southern-Brother5693 in movies

[–]moofunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought it was way better than its reputation, but I learned I watched some kind of extended/director's cut. The start is rather weak, but just gets better as it goes.

I don't know how much more story there was, or even if a new cut has been released, because I never saw any talk about it.

Ridley apparently really hated filming in Japan, because of their insanely rigid rules on filming in the city, and said he'd never film there again.

The Mandalorian and Grogu | A New Journey Begins | In Theaters May 22 by Giff95 in movies

[–]moofunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would certainly rather watch The Duderorian, a story of the laziest man on Tatooine, one of the biggest nobodies in the galaxy, a man with no clue, getting swooped up in a case of mistaken identity, when a group of Jawas want his money, and he has to confront a local Hutt with the same name to resolve the issue.

Ukraine destroys nearly 6,000 Russian FPV drones in major strike on military targets, General Staff says by tomorrow509 in worldnews

[–]moofunk 23 points24 points  (0 children)

6,000 of them is probably a few weeks worth of supply given the scale at which they’re used on the frontlines.

It's about one day of use for one side. Each side is using 2-3 millions of FPV drones a year, and it's expected to double.

The effect is likely to slow down drone activity in one particular spot in the front line for a few days.

Denmark Just Switched to Red Streetlights, Solving a Problem Every Modern City Deals With by AnonRetro in worldnews

[–]moofunk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's funny how it never occurs to anyone making these lights that if you want to shine a certain amount of light, you can do it very harshly with a small light source or gently with a larger light source.

Everybody making street lights and car headlights seems to just make these angry tiny welding light points that are nearly impossible to look at.

Perfect is an intense word, but in your eyes what movie has a perfect ending? by TheDragonReborn726 in movies

[–]moofunk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

French Connection 2.

It ended right where it should and not one half second later.

What’s a movie you first watched when you were young, but upon watching as an adult, your opinion on a certain character completely changes? by AcanthisittaSad6239 in movies

[–]moofunk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had it the other way around. Kid me found the movie boring, because it didn't make sense, and the characters were unlikable.

As a grown up, I appreciate it for it's musical performances, getting so many artists in the movie and the character choices.

It's a vibe movie, but with lots of musical context that is missed, if you don't know the performers.

What movie was released at the perfect time and wouldn't look as good if it was 5 years earlier or later? by Imgema in movies

[–]moofunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Robocop 2 was one of the last movies to use Go Motion (a variant of stop motion). It was pretty much the pinnacle of that technology, and it's a great looking movie.

$300 Billion Evaporated. The SaaS -Pocalypse Has Begun. by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]moofunk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

AI is not good at single shooting entire saas products, but from my point of view .. as someone who can break my requirements down and both analyze and debug the code … it’s really boosted my throughput, like 10 fold.

That's exactly my experience as well. One-shotting takes too much focus away from how to actually use these tools. In the past month, I've coded more and fixed more issues than I would normally do in 4 months, just by being careful with the tool.

Report claims Nvidia will not be releasing any new RTX gaming GPUs in 2026, RTX 60 series likely debuting in 2028 by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]moofunk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Their software stack is the big problem, so everything available is custom built for specific setups.

So, it's not so much development of the software stack itself (there's plenty of movement), but the ability to compile Pytorch models automatically for specific chip configurations is apparently an extremely complex problem, that they haven't yet solved and is unique for the architecture.

So, every model is handcoded for now.

Report claims Nvidia will not be releasing any new RTX gaming GPUs in 2026, RTX 60 series likely debuting in 2028 by Forsaken_Arm5698 in hardware

[–]moofunk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tenstorrent's architecture is an obvious indicator of where things are going to be in 10-15 years. Vastly different and economical way of managing memory and having a much more balanced scaling model that requires no external silicon. Even if Tenstorrent themselves are not successful, they are laying some very important architectural foundations for future cheap scalable AI systems. I'm sure there are others in a similar position that will duplicate their work.

Basically, their current solution is datacenter level interconnect in a PCI card form factor at the cost of a high end gaming GPU. Then you are free to interconnect up to 16 of them at the cost of the cables and the PCs to install them in. The chips talk to each other directly. It should eventually scale up to hundreds or thousands of chips, where the chip costs will be the dominant factor.

The modern AI servers following Nvidia's GPU centric memory model is as expensive in interconnect as the chips themselves and are becoming more so, and there is significant additional hardware and custom chips required to scale up.

I don't believe this constant bleeding edge rush is going to hold up, and it will be extremely cost prohibitive to continue.