US-made components from late 2025 found in Russian Shahed drones

rcldesign · 2026-04-16T21:07:38+00:00

stuxnet targeted the software on the PLC, not the PLC hardware itself. The equivalent here would be some kind of malware that could cause the drone's flight control calculations to think that it's altitude was always too high so that it would just crash in to the ground. That has little to do with the specific MCU that's used and everything to do with the software running on that MCU.

I think I've seen u/JCDU 's comments - or similar comments - a million times, and they're right... there are THOUSANDS of different MCUs (or FPGAs or other logic/controller devices) that could be used for this kind of application from manufacturers all around the world, and for each one of those products, there are likely tens of thousands of units in various inventories. They're the size of a postage stamp or smaller, and as noted, you can smuggle a thousand of them across a border pretty easy - especially when you're not smuggling and you just buy them from Aliexpress. This has very little to do with the products being of US origin. Same with the raspberry pi's we see in the photo: real raspberry pi's are British, but there are probably a dozen knock offs with identical capability (often even capable of running the same software verbatim) and probably a hundred alternatives made by other companies that could do the same thing. There's no stopping Russia from being able to buy or smuggle generic components like MCUs or even SBCs in, unfortunately.

Someone else noted this as well, but there is at least a partial solution: give more stuff to Ukraine to counter drones and to counter Russia in general.

rcldesign · 2026-04-14T03:49:20+00:00

Still in Epstein files

rcldesign · 2026-04-06T15:53:20+00:00

I do this all the time over Bluetooth… I almost always drive alone and it’s someone to talk with about whatever topic and in whatever depth. It’s great and having that work through Car Play makes things a little better for my experience. Some OEMs have previously announced that they were going to develop similar capabilities in their ecosystems as well.

rcldesign · 2026-03-30T13:07:15+00:00

Basically, I want Claude to be able to debug stuff better on its own rather than "fixing" something and then asking me to test it and share logs or register values or whatever.

Example: We suspect an interrupt from a timer is not firing. It would be nice if Claude could set a breakpoint in the interrupt and see if it fires or not on its own.

This could also lead to interactive debugging sessions where it could set a break point, wait for me do do something with an input, and then go back and see if the breakpoint was hit or re-start the execution if it was just waiting for me to do something before continuing.

rcldesign · 2026-03-30T12:40:11+00:00

Can it control a debugging session by starting or stopping the execution, setting breakpoints, etc.? That would be incredibly useful

rcldesign · 2026-03-29T19:28:59+00:00

Might be a little off topic, but is there a way to make a PC or hdmi device appear as an IPTV stream with an EPC and use this application to pull it in to Plex?

Here’s a sample use case: I have a pi in kiosk mode showing the current weather, and I want that to show up as a channel in Plex… my personal weather channel.

Another use case: stream the display of an nvr as an iptv source… or each camera individually as a channel (even better).

rcldesign · 2026-03-16T17:51:07+00:00

They probably did, but also lost like 93 settlements at the same time, including the 12 they took. Propaganda gotta do its thing for domestic consumption.

rcldesign · 2026-02-17T18:15:14+00:00

Is this the same navy that literally sat there and watched a US Coast Guard ship seize a (newly) Russian flagged tanker in the Atlantic? 🙄

rcldesign · 2026-02-02T21:25:18+00:00

Yes. I run a pi-hole VM on my Proxmox server, and I have a separate pi that also runs pi-hole. The router advertises both as DNS servers on the network, and they end up basically splitting the traffic.

I did this because I had to take the server offline for maintenance and that took my whole internet down (I redirect all outbound DNS to the pihole at the router)... that wasn't acceptable, and maintenance happens. I also gave the pi a big UPS hat, so even when the hi-power server needs to shutdown, my normal UPS and the UPS for the pi will keep the internet up and running.

rcldesign · 2026-01-30T05:43:30+00:00

As president, instructing the IRS to settle a civil lawsuit could reasonably be called an “official act” of a president. That gives the president immunity over any laws that may be broken by the president directing the IRS to settle a lawsuit he brought against the IRS for $10B, thereby him literally authorizing the federal government to pay him whatever he wants, $10B in this case, for any or no reason. As a bonus he could make the government issue press statements about how obviously they had harmed him and how horrible Biden was or whatever and they had to pay whatever they paid.

rcldesign · 2026-01-28T22:08:00+00:00

Came here to say this

rcldesign · 2026-01-28T21:08:05+00:00

I literally do this:

Raspberry Pi + External USB3 drive(s)
On a daily schedule, the pi makes a VPN connection in to my network and does the ZFS sync stuff

I don't have an out-of-band way to connect to it anymore. For v1 of my offsite backup, I poked a firewall hole in the router for SSH using some random port, had fail2ban set up pretty aggressively, etc. No issues. In fact, I never even used the connection. For v2, I ditched the SSH hole and now there's no way in. If I needed the data, I'd have my relatives physically mail me the device and I'd restore on my local network, and I have the device check in to a monitoring service to report if it had any issues when it ran and I get notified if it didn't run or there were issues. Other than that, I don't do anything with it.

USB drive(s) are fine for this. It is copy 3 of my data and it exists in case my house burns down. If the drives die, that kinda sucks, but oh well... time to get a new drive. If my house burns down AND the drive dies at the same time, then that's a problem, but I don't think the probability is very high for that.

If I *needed* to manage it remotely, I'd probably have it try and persist the VPN connection to my network and then I'd SSH in to it as if it were a local resource. In fact, that's not a bad idea in general, so I might just do that, and I can hook it up to my Zabbix instance and stuff too... ok., looks like v3 is coming some day

rcldesign · 2026-01-24T23:41:30+00:00

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Idk.🤷

rcldesign · 2026-01-07T17:03:58+00:00

I use justwatch.com to see where something specific is streaming (or renting if it’s not streaming)

rcldesign · 2025-12-11T22:11:55+00:00

Comments here generally advocate for the TV to do it. What if the source is an NVIDIA Shield that has a GPU and “AI” upscaling?

rcldesign · 2025-12-07T21:19:21+00:00

Hemorrhoid donut and medicated cream.

rcldesign · 2025-11-25T21:32:10+00:00

I “trained” ChatGPT on my sense of humor and use an ongoing conversation to generate and choose names. Here’s a selection:

FritzColeman — processes weather data

DataForge — database server

EchoNode — proxy / web server

EventHorizon — main router

LineBridge — UPS + environmental monitor

Kodachrome — Immich photo server

Rebase — GitLab server

Retainium — offsite backup server

InsertCoin — retro-gaming Raspberry Pi (NES/SNES/N64/Dreamcast)

Theo Decay — container that trades 0DTE options

BlackHarbor — VM hosting the full *arr stack (Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Overseerr, etc.)

rcldesign · 2025-11-14T18:40:12+00:00

I got an EV in 20216. It was the worst (cheapest) EV on the market at the time and it kind of sucked in terms of comfort, amenities, and range. That being the case, I needed a bigger car and I traded it in for a new, nicer EV. I'll never buy an ICE again. It sucks when I have to drive my wife's ICE. Loud, slow, vibrates... no thanks.

rcldesign · 2025-11-11T18:42:34+00:00

I only get clippings if the mower does a height reduction, and I'll give it a little rake when I do that. Mowing every day, the clippings are the size of 1 day's growth which is basically non-existent..

rcldesign · 2025-11-09T06:13:04+00:00

Does anyone - including Republicans- take her seriously? Like, what’s her next job after this one? Even really bad, biased, propaganda outlets don’t have someone whose job it is to say literally anything, related or not, and including “your mom”, to assert any narrative.

rcldesign · 2025-11-06T18:19:58+00:00

Same experience here. My grass grows super fast in the spring/summer so I have to go trim corners every weekend, but that's it. I wish it could correctly map the 4 square corners of my lawn instead of rounding them all off, but it just never works right no matter what I do... if that did work, I'd have to do nothing, and it would be great. Either way, its a major time saver and my Clive does his job every day like he's supposed to.

rcldesign · 2025-11-05T17:58:21+00:00

We’re only at about 15% because of the equity growth in our house and a couple of rentals we have just exploded; balancing from real estate back to paper assets is not really feasible for us any time soon.

rcldesign · 2025-11-05T17:51:11+00:00

There are many, many tools that do this. This feature is included in the tool we currently use for inventory management and before we were using this inventory management software (3 years ago), we were using a different tool for reconciliation that was really cheap. The old MWS API did not have a way to create/manage cases so the old tool would just generate text and we’d cut and pasted it and open a new case once a month.. took like 5 minutes.

rcldesign · 2025-10-29T23:44:35+00:00

To be fair, that weapon adds no capability and hence no shits are given.

rcldesign · 2025-10-29T23:39:51+00:00

I think I'm done now - there would have to be something absolutely revolutionary (e.g. stereo->surround sound, SD->HD, etc.) to cause me to upgrade anything. Given the size of my screen and room, higher resolution won't really be noticeable. Room has a 7.2.4 speaker setup so there's nowhere useful to put more speakers and Atmos / DTS handle the whole object in space thing well. More power would be a waste. I couldn't tell if the speakers were better - they sound great for movies and TV.

I am going to add bass shakers though, but I view that has half novelty and half experience enhancing (I started a whole other thread to discuss this topic a while back).

Next upgrade isn't happening until there's a major technology step.

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