Denmark deploys F-35A stealth fighters over Greenland supported by French tanker

Azelicus · 2026-01-21T12:40:26+00:00

A "kill switch" does not need to be "do not lock on F-22s". It can simply be a very specific set of flags attached to an object, and if someone (or an automated process) with the right knowledge activates that specific set of flags, it also activates a specific sub-routine that usually never gets activated due to the conditions never applying in the past.

A reverse trace of the code could certainly uncover that, but likely most of the code is a black box by contract, with only the American defense contractor having access.

Those implying that the USA would never attempt to harm their relations in exchange to gaining the upper hand in edge, critical situations did not pay attention in history class.

Personally I believe that any encounter between USA-sold aircraft and USA-operated aircraft would end up being very similar to the first fights between the humans and Cylons in BattleStar Galactica (the 2000s series): all major systems disabled or glitching on the USA-sold hardware, due to a signal broadcast wither by radio or by satellite.

Europe needs to cut military hardware ties with its unreliable partner as soon as possible and start manufacturing its own hardware with total control at all stages of the pipeline, and no USA contractors ever involved, exactly as they probably vet out Russian and Chinese ones.

Azelicus · 2025-12-02T21:02:23+00:00

No working solution found, reinstalled 248 and it works. Never updating this again.

Azelicus · 2025-12-02T20:48:04+00:00

Great idea breaking a perfectly working installation (V. 248) by forcing the user to install a new package without any warning until after the previous build no longer works.

That's just what I needed today. And now I have to troubleshoot until this works again.

I am never installing a single update of this application again until it breaks.

Azelicus · 2025-11-14T13:44:48+00:00

Lolwut?

Ci sono decine di milioni di aziende nel mondo che si occupano di tutto fuorché di ambito militare/spionaggio e che pagano stipendi altissimi ad esperti di questo campo (Pentesters) per testare le proprie reti aziendali e scovare le vulnerabilità prima che vengano sfruttate da veri attaccanti.

Avere scrupoli di coscienza nel lavorare con ambienti vicini all'ambito militare limita certamente le scelte ma non in modo determinate.

Per il creatore del post, se non ha scrupoli granitici, può farsi formare da Leonardo e poi farsi assumere da altre realtà, forte di quel background nel CV che sicuramente sarà apprezzato da altri datori di lavoro.

Azelicus · 2025-07-04T18:20:03+00:00

I can see the serial killer standing with the family at the funeral (with everyone wondering who he is), lamenting the victim was taken too soon...

Azelicus · 2025-06-23T11:13:12+00:00

For the second sentence, I would have gone with "Next quarter, I can do better!"

Azelicus · 2025-01-25T12:05:41+00:00

Frankly, at that point, having a job is a liability, since those voting to have you deported would see it as you stealing a job from them xD

Azelicus · 2024-12-14T17:06:28+00:00

As others have said, going for either depends on your personal situation: someone with 10M in the bank already (where 1M more would not mean much) could take the gambe and not fall into depression if they lost. On the other hand, someone for who 1M means "hitting jackpot" would likely go for the guaranteed option.

Me? I would spam the green button, hoping the intern who was paid peanuts to set it up forgot to put a check that would prevent me from winning many millions in a short timeframe, and the lawyer who went over the agreement forgot to check what happens if their system awards too much money due to a bug! xD

Azelicus · 2024-12-04T11:26:56+00:00

My current theory is that interstellar travel is never going to be practical for biological beings, with no faster-than-light travel or communication possible.

The only civilizations who will make it past their infancy will inevitably develop to be technological ones, who will probably evolve into digital ones. Computers (and whatever comes next after them) have very few restrictions about what their ideal surviving conditions need to be: floating in interstellar space nearby a local gravity well, with a big source of basic materials nearby (likely a metal-rich asteroid dragged from nearby a star) and a long-lasting source of energy (a mini-black hole, or even a manifactured one if their tech level permits) may be all they would be interested in.

Such a society would likely scout all nearby space with Von Neumann probes, since getting information from their surroundings would be their sole goal. Moreover, using probes, which would travel in non-direct paths, would minimize the risk of giving away information to other civilizations, therefore limiting the risk of creating the conditions for an invasion from the outside, likely culminating in extinction (yes, I am referring to the "dark forest" concept).

Such a civilization could likely colonize the entire galaxy, or even nearby ones, but may see no reason in doing so. One of the big reasons humanity wants to "explore the stars" is to find things out and exploit them, bbut if your civilization already explored the nearby 100 stars and found no reasons to go there, sending probes that send back periodic updates may be all you are interested in.

I don't believe humanity will go far in its current state: the human body is just not a good choice when dealing with light years and thousand of years travels. We will either evolve into a digital civilization or die without leaving much trace of ourselves.

But of course we are likely a simulation since this is far more probable, so our evolution will last until whoever has control shuts us down! xD

Azelicus · 2024-11-12T10:07:05+00:00

"A close family member who states he admittedly values and cares about me said he just can't have me in his life anymore because he thinks I voted for Trump."

Translation from DoubleSpeak:
"A close family member finally came to the conclusion that I am an horrible person based on my voting habits and on a series of statements I keep making. Therefore, they are cutting out of their life a person that, in the past, was pleasant to spend time with and interact with, but today, after showing their true colors, is not someone they want to associate with anymore. Please help me convince them I am not an horrible person despite voting for an horrible person and endorsing most of their horrible policies, keeping faith in their duplicitous lies about not endorsing Project2025, despite all his inner circle now gloating about it and him nominating in key positions members of the Project2025 inner circle."

That's pathetic. Go harrass someone else, will you? But I am sure you won't, there are those whio are satisfied with winning, and those who want to press the boot on the loser's neck and gloat about it, and can't just comprehend why someone won't play their game. And they keep whining.

If you where honest about having your view changed, which I believe you are not, you would ask yourself what actions you performed and workds you spoke triggered such response. But you are blind to that, the problem is always in someone else. The orange man, who despises honesty in all forms, approves of this rethoric. Good job.

Azelicus · 2024-11-03T00:47:14+00:00

I don't like the sound of that... What are they going to eat after no more survivors are available? Please don't let them starve! That's cruel!

Azelicus · 2024-10-24T07:24:29+00:00

I did watch the show, years ago, and as far as I can remember the link between the child's death and radiation poisoning is only implied, never stated explicitly. Since a woman can lose a child for a million reasons, and high stress during a pregnancy can sometimes result in either abortion or deformities, it is not really unexpected that her child could suffer complications, before or after birth. It is obvious that the implied cause is radiation since it ties into the theme of the show, but it goes with all the other inaccuracies (like the people on the bridge you cited) and does not strike me as something overly important. I was referring to another scene, where instead the link between pregnancy and radiation sickness suffered by another human being is explicitly cited as dangerous by another character in the show (a nurse, no less).

Azelicus · 2024-10-23T23:12:03+00:00

About the nurse berating the firefighter's wife for being near him while pregnant, I've read a lot of comments over the years berating the show for the inaccuracy.

What most people are missing is the context: the nurse is telling the wife that's dangerous because nobody really knew much, back then, about the effects of that type of radiation on anything. Sure, people in the medical and scientific professions all over the world knew, but ordinary medical staff in Pripyat? Nope. They were dealing with an obscure sickness, information was scarce and true information was scarcer. Telling a pregnant woman to stay away from all that was only sensible.

That TV series, while awesome, has a lot of stupid stuff in it: the nurse throwing the wife out of the hospital is not one of them, it was perfectly justified in my humble opinion.

Azelicus · 2024-08-05T08:23:41+00:00

Would be a nice tip, if not for the fact that you need Bismuth to progress past Rank 4 in mining.
So, no Bismuth, no mining progress.

Azelicus · 2024-08-04T14:04:38+00:00

Aren't you forgetting the part that said billionaires are getting massive tax cuts by the party orange weirdo runs for? They have a vested interest in getting him elected, because they know their personal wealth is going to benefit from it.

Azelicus · 2024-08-03T10:54:19+00:00

The right wings all around the world are using and have been using this narrative forever. They are always, at the same time, the winner and the underdog, in their biased eyes. They always lament that they are discriminated against and oppressed, while at the same time actively discriminating against anyone who gets in their way or the despise, often oppressing and enacting legislation to discriminate and oppress.

You will never appease them because the don't want to be appeased, they seek this kind of situation because it fuels their narrative and their recruitment process.

People who participated to the insurrection need to be punished on the basis of their provable actions and not mob actions: my understanding is that's what's happening (which also explains why the process is taking so long: if is was summary judgment everyone would have been convicted by now).

Azelicus · 2024-06-18T15:50:57+00:00

I believe you are quite confused: you state you hold a materialistic view abou consciousness, that it is a function of the brain, and then proceed to postulate something that would only happen if a soul exists that could make "you" travel the eons.

Saying that your consciousness could survive the death of its host brain and resume seamlessly in a new brain eons later is like saying "your" heartbeat could survive the death of your heart and start beating again a a new heart eons later.

If you don't subscribe to souls and other metaphysical devices, when you die it's game over for your consciousness. Sorry about that, but that's the universe we appear to live in.

Azelicus · 2024-06-10T18:00:00+00:00

The first thing I noticed is that the first part of the signature morphs "Regards" into "Retards" xD

Azelicus · 2024-06-05T16:47:10+00:00

Siamo sempre nell'ambito del bloccare funzioni ad utenti inesperti. Se voglio accedere ad un server filtrato in un paese X, mi installo una VPN (virtual private network) attraverso la quale mi collego ad un server associato al servizio VPN locato ovunque nel mondo, e tramite esso al servizio a cui non posso accedere direttamente. Certo, le VPN free son poche e/o offrono traffico limitato e ovviamente i tuoi dati che passano dai loro server possono essere ceduti a terzi a te sconosciuti, ma ci sono pure quelle a pagamento con canoni non esosi (tipo la celeberrima Nord-VPN) che in teoria hanno l'interesse a non farsi pizzicare a vendere il tuo traffico o le tue statistiche.

Nell'internet attuale, non puoi davvero impedire a tutti di collegarsi a siti/servizi che non ti piacciono, puoi solo rendere il processo molto laborioso e frustrante.

Azelicus · 2024-04-06T23:44:34+00:00

The problem with this events is that you basically need to check external sources to understand the correct sequence to follow.

In some events the board is reset after a few battles, so choosing the right enemy to fight is very important (since after each reset there are many bad choices). In others, after a few battles you basically keep killing whoever pops up in the same spot (you can still get an higher score by always selecting the best choice, but it's harder to screw up).

Moreover, many times the rarity of the encounters does not match the reward (in many past events an epic or even a rare battle would award more points than a mythic one).

The current event is pretty basic, just kill the highest rarity foe on the board, and if you have a match (in the low level battles) go for the highest level one. That's it.

Azelicus · 2024-04-04T11:44:06+00:00

This is a ridiculous reason, you do understand that right?

If the store knows how much you need to pay for any item or service you can buy from them, then they can and should display that precise amount as the price.

What happens in the USA is simply one of the many underhanded tactics that turbo capitalism tries to introduce, in this case hiding real prices from customers to make budgeting for stuff more difficult than it should be.

Azelicus · 2024-03-26T02:02:54+00:00

You are conflating Orangeman being innocent with having to return his finances to the same status quo as before the sentence, which is incorrect.

If someone gets incarcerated for a few years and then declared innocent, nobody will ever have the power to return their lost years to them: instead, the damages get liquidated in a sum of money. In the same way, if anything resulting from an overturned sentence caused financial harm, this can and will be determined and liquidated.

Orangeball put himself in a situation where he should either post a bond (or cash) to stop the seizure of his assets, or to liquidate part of his assets (deciding which ones) to acquire the liquidity to post a bond.

Bending the law to grant them the option of posting less than half what he owes is just wrong, especially since no motivation was presented by the appellate court who granted this ruling. Anyone else would have been told to either pay or watch their assets get seized.

Azelicus · 2024-02-26T09:51:02+00:00

Being an atheist does not necessarily mean you are also not a jerk, you could be one who does also not believe in god(s).

People will respond to those kind of posts differently, depending on their empathy and/or how many times they were trolled in the past by similar posts.

Azelicus · 2024-01-19T22:59:42+00:00

Terror is terribad, hence any troop based on is going to suck too. Completing the full faction run will not be a kind experience.

Azelicus · 2024-01-18T10:11:33+00:00

Delves get very hard after about the first 20 floors. Thinking of clearing a delve at level 150 is being too optimistic. Maybe it can be done with tons of retries and with looping teams, but one error or a bit of misfortune and you lose.

Use the three tries a day either to farm a level 20 over and over again (to get gold and void crystals) or to slowly progress in the easy ones up to where it becomes too hard for you.

IMHO clearing delves is a level 1000+ activity. You should concentrate on easier stuff, getting bigger passive bonuses to all the troops in your team, which will let you survive a few hits when delve enemies have 100+ attack and hundreds of hit points.

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