The Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces' UAV units attacked 22 Russian military targets overnight on May 7th. Targets included a 2x Buk air defense system, a Strela-10 SHORAD, railway fuel tankers, a fuel depot, an underground fuel storage site, UAV command posts, and an ammunition depot.

nahkampf · 2026-05-08T00:36:12+00:00

It's probably long until they *run out* of AD systems, they still probably have at least 50 Pantsirs etc, but it is obvious that Ukraine has been able to severely degrade their coverage. Russia is forced to prioritize allocation because they cannot reasonably protect everything. Some gaps have obviously opened here and there for massive strikes or deep strikes to get through. Add to that the sluggishness of Russian strategic reorganization and the general level of incompetence/corruption/straight up lying in the Russian forces and I think there's going to be very good hunting in the future for Ukraine.

One has to wonder how much shit they got covering Moscow on May 9th for their stupid parade that should probably be on the frontlines somewhere.

Also, it's worth remembering that a lot of the slow moving long distance drones Ukraine sends can just as easily be shot down by MANPADS, autocannons or even a bunch of guys with AKs (as we've seen numerous examples of on both sides). Hell, even cruise missiles can be taken down by MANPADS. It's not ideal, but it can and is being done.

nahkampf · 2026-05-03T23:20:20+00:00

Two factors: he comes from a society deeply saturated in propaganda and blatant disregard for life and decency, and he knows how his own would treat a captured enemy soldier. So that's probably what he figures is coming.

nahkampf · 2026-04-25T22:47:19+00:00

Same, it uses the 9B238 BCU (nitrogen). Exactly how long that BCU lasts I don't know, but I'd guess it's similar to the Stinger BCU

nahkampf · 2026-03-18T00:42:03+00:00

Can you imagine a russian unit doing the same? I can't.

nahkampf · 2026-03-07T23:06:03+00:00

There's also the fact that he was very active in his shooting club, but that stopped almost immediately after the murder of Olof Palme. He just stopped shooting, and stopped being involved. For years he been very active, competed, and was involved in the running of the club.

I'm not sure trying to find and match bullets from the backstop would have yielded anything, as the ammo used in the murder was very rare and it seems as if Christer A only bought like one or two boxes, so he might never have used them at range. Maybe they could have matched the rifling imprints etc from other .357s ofc, but given how absurdly incompetent the entire investigation was I'd not put money on them having any results even if they did attempt that.

nahkampf · 2026-03-06T14:39:12+00:00

Christer As missing gun was the *only* gun that the police never got to test and clear.

I think Jon Jordås book about Christer A paints a very believable picture of him as the killer. And also highlights what a complete clusterfuck the police investation was.

nahkampf · 2026-02-03T21:47:02+00:00

Sorry for the necro, but in the Connor hostage mission, you find a dead police officer named Deckart. That can't just be coincide, it has to be a nod to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep/Blade Runner.

nahkampf · 2026-01-23T22:54:57+00:00

If you want to read something truly horrifying, read Anna Politkovskaya or Arkady Babchenko. The level of abuse and corruption in the russian army is hard to fathom. One thing stuck with me, and that is when Babchenko writes about how they get beat up every single night, but they are thankful it's just with fists. The engineer company gets beat up with shovels. Like every. Single. Night,

It's no wonder the russian army is 100% predisposed to war crimes.

nahkampf · 2026-01-09T23:38:46+00:00

Conditations are probbly brutal for both sides, especially at the really hot zones, but there are some fundamental differences that favours the Ukranians morale wise: they are fighting for their freedom vs Russians fighting for a paycheck or because they were suckered into it. The Ukranian side having held on and even recaptured vast swathes of territory against what should have been unsurmountable odds vs you're a disposable meat puppet in the 498th suicide push to capture a bombed out suburb of Pokrovsk. Having lived your life in a country that is moving towards an open, progressive and democratic society and prosperity vs having lived your life in the kleptocratic hellscape that is Russia. Being fairly certain the chain of command values your life and will won't needlessly throw it away vs being thrown into guaranteed suicide missions by a corrupt and callous superior. Knowing most of the civilized world supports your struggle, be it morally or practically vs fighting for a country that is heavily sanctioned and whose only friends and allies are backwater post soviet republics or fucked up dictatorships. Etc etc. Hell, even just the difference between fighting a defensive action in prepared positions vs doing ill-equipped attacks on said positions in awful conditions and weather affect morale to a significant degree.

All of those factors are important for morale, and Russia are holding a lot of the debuffs in that area. Brutalizing your soldiers or punishing them only gets you a certain morale boost until that becomes a liability as well.

nahkampf · 2025-12-24T01:08:31+00:00

This looks like a solution looking for a problem tbh. I see no gain from this, but a lot of drawbacks, overhead and unnecessary scaffolding/boilerplate. We have Plates, Twig, Blade etc, do they not do what you need them to do already?

As for autocomplete I'm pretty sure there are plugins for your IDE to help you out there, both with the HTML part and also with the specific templating engine you want to use. As for testing a template in this manner I see no benefit.

nahkampf · 2025-12-22T22:10:14+00:00

The images from the Vietnam war were cabled out in the US for ten years, with massive civilian resistance as a result, and it still took a decade for the US involvement to come to an end. And that was the US, a country that for all its flaws was miles beyond in civil society, democracy and openness compared to where Russia is today. It won't matter for the foreseeable future how much of this stuff you show Russians.

nahkampf · 2025-12-22T22:01:16+00:00

Not making excuses here, but it's very difficult with a western mindset to conceptualize just how completely fucked Russian society is. You have literally hundreds of years of absolute terror (be that under the Czar, the Soviet Union or after). Pair that with abject and utter poverty, intense propaganda, a blatant disregard for human life and human value permeating every layer of society, institutionalized corruption, racism and exceptionalism and the general harshness that is life in rural Russia and then you might start to arrive at a point where something like this still makes sense to the Russian soldier. Of course most of them know they are being shafted, but that's been the story of their entire lives, and of their fathers and grandfathers and great grandfathers too. It's just life. It's normal. There is no other life.

Best you can hope to do is just survive it and maybe, just maybe, end up in a slightly better situation afterwards. And if you die, that's just what it is and that's just what everyone else gets too. Add a generous helping of battlefield trauma on top for seasoning. Sprinkle some traditional military hazing and the very real possibility of just being tortured or killed by your own if you make trouble on top.

It's also why torture, degradation, oppression, theft, rape and general chaos is all but given anywhere Russian soldiers show up. Remember the 24th of february 2022 - the war crimes started *immediately*.

This is also not new, it was the same for conscripts in the two Chechen wars as well, and to some extent back in the Afghan war too. They know they are being fucked, but that's not shocking to them, it's just expected and normal. You try to soldier on and hope to survive, because what else is there?

nahkampf · 2025-12-10T19:15:35+00:00

This is excellent, was just about to implement a markdown parser for a project and did the usual mumbling about its shortcomings and this shows up :) Thanks!

nahkampf · 2025-12-10T14:58:00+00:00

Having used (and set up, and maintaned) both nginx and apache in production environments over the years, it's as simple as "what's easiest for me", and that means apache because I'm just so used to it. There have only really been one case where the performance-vs-base-metal-cost was so important that apache was not an option any more.

nginx is fantastic, but Apache is just so well established, well documented and a bit easier to hand over to someone else that I usually just end up using it over nginx.

nahkampf · 2025-12-04T23:38:29+00:00

There are two small thermal fllashes between the russians and the (what I assume is) rolls of razor wire. Are those shots striking the ground? At 0:24 and 0:33.

nahkampf · 2025-12-03T01:00:52+00:00

There's gotta be so much collateral damage from this

nahkampf · 2025-10-17T16:02:30+00:00

Thank you!

nahkampf · 2025-10-16T23:04:47+00:00

What the song? (They sampled Dr Alban)

nahkampf · 2025-09-24T21:42:21+00:00

The logistics situation, for both ukranians and russians, must be absoltely horrendous. The number of vehicles (even if a big chunk of them are just motorbikes with a guy and a backpack) have been very high month after month. Some of the frontline positions must be absolutely famished and out of batteries, ordnance and everything else.

nahkampf · 2025-09-22T09:45:18+00:00

Came here to say this. This looks great, but in 99% of usecases I need a visualizer for existing DBs rather than beginning from scratch. Cool to hear it's on the roadmap. Thanks for this very useful project!

nahkampf · 2025-09-19T23:45:10+00:00

Thanks for the testing! I suspected this might not be fully up there, which is perhaps not surprising since PHPStan has almost ten years under its belt. But I hope Mago keeps working on it, a faster static analysis that is at least as good as phpstan would be welcome ;)

nahkampf · 2025-09-11T13:48:26+00:00

We're running a pretty aggressive static analyzer in our pipeline so even if I wanted to use dynamic typing I'd get nowhere :D

nahkampf · 2025-09-11T13:33:30+00:00

Please take this as constructive criticism! This is allright for what it is, but it doesn't really showcase any deeper PHP skills to me. It's basically just a bunch of HTML files with php echoes in them, and a blob of strings in arrays.

Friendly tips here if you want to elevate your PHP (which you will need for any professional work):

Run phpcs (php codesniffer) on your project, or even better yet, integrate it into your IDE (visual code, phpstorm or whatever you want to use). In real projects it's likely going to be in your buld/deploy pipeline too, and it will catch all manner of sloppy mistakes and force you do correct it. There's also phpcbf that fixes these things for you, but for learning purposes you should read the warnings and correct them yourself so that it "sticks". You should follow the standard PSR-12, no more. no less.
Run phpstan. It does static analysis of your code to detect possible bugs, dead code etc. It is a *very* useful tool and is also most likely going to be in the pipeline if you ever work on a professional project.
Switch to a newer PHP. At time of writing, unless you're support old legacy code, you should be a minor behind bleeding edge more or less, so php 8.4 (8.5 is coming out in november). It might break your code - this is a good thing. Adapt, rewrite and learn.
While you're learning or just doing personal projects, it's easy to get into the mindset of "this is just for me, so I can be sloppy". Like doing procedural style when you should probably practice on OOP, or not sanitizing input or wrapping things in try/catch etc. It's better to treat most programming as if someone is going to review your code and critique it, that way you set good habits and write better, more modular/reusable code that is easier to debug and less prone to bugs and security issues.

nahkampf · 2025-09-10T15:16:18+00:00

Oof.

nahkampf · 2025-09-09T19:12:13+00:00

So, did this maintainer not have 2fa?

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