No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
3d ago
How would that work, I have a Win 10 home license, that'd not fly with LTSC?
No_one
3d ago
...nonsense generators? Have you ever used e.g. Gemini or Deepseek? Both are free. Okay both can be very naive at times, and both are kind of soy with default prompts. Deepseek, however, with a bit of prompting can be completely insane yet rational and easily smarter than most people you see if you go to any place outside of a professional context.
If you want to really see what they can do, install some client for LLMs and hook yourself up with some of the better free models over at https://openrouter.ai/models
(there's a 50 query daily limit if you have <10$ in your account, not sure if there's a better service. )
No_one
3d ago
Um, no. People are already working on stripped down 'reasoner' AIs with limited knowledge but great reasoning ability and ways of plugging in extra databases.
That's deemed to be the most promising area of research at least what my superficial following of Ilforte's twitter makes me think. The hope is, within say 10 years you'll be able to run a fairly smart mind on a big graphics card. Researchers believe even a 2-3 billion parameter model with the right architecture could be good at thinking. The models right now, especially the big ones were often giant bags of heuristics, at least before reasoner models entered the scene.
No_one
3d ago
Depending on how thorough he was, it's likely he had a list of all the people he had dirt on and which also specified what dirt he had on them. But at the very least if he was a little organized he had a list of people he taped having sex etc.
How did the whole thing work? I recall hearing about people whom he invited to his properties and who accepted it bc famous guy/free vacation/there'll be interesting people there and who didn't join in on the 'fun'.
Then I imagine there were people who would come specifically for the 'fun'. Maybe he had a list of people who liked his illicit entertainment and all the provided favors and sought him out? He'd probably have the most material on those guys.
Something like that could be the 'client list' I guess..
In a bit of unambiguously 21st century news, some tweaks to Grok, xAI's chatbot have had it do particularly interesting things today including
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when asked to, composing bite sized smut about other users (first victim was possibly Will Stancil)., then defending said decision.
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referring to itself as Mechahitler
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doing the "every single time" meme in its replies.
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saying Elon personally allowed it to point out Jewish overrepresentation in radical leftism
This may make minor news because Musk is in trouble, on the other hand all the people who really, really hate him have their pants on fire like Europeans, von der Leyen is getting impeached, they're actually scared of Russia / China so it might just blow over, the grid is getting worse and is going to keep getting worse due to Green energy mandates.
I'm even suspecting Musk deliberately told them to relax the guardrails for some reason. Probably .. publicity?
Update: site addresses the issues
We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts. Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved.
EDIT2
apparently this prompt change may be the culprit
EDIT3
Stancil went on local TV news to complain about the ERP grok made. (video included)
EDIT4:
There's quite reasonable suspicion this 'malfunction' was engineered by Nikita Bier
No_one
3d ago
40,000 people and mostly young men, the feistiest demographic. They'd be dying from random young male crap (suicide, drinking, beefs)even if the leadership were perfect
Add to that not great leadership focused on the wrong things
No_one
3d ago
We know from the Israeli defector ben Menashe that Maxwell was working for Mossad ..that was corroborated when (iirc) Mossad guys carried his coffin and so on. Not a stretch that his favorite daughter was also involved.
And as to what Epstein did.. Whether there is a list or not is irrelevant, we know he was recording blackmail material. I strongly doubt he was e.g. into porn of Alan Dershowitz and people like that. And I can't believe intelligence services ,even if they didn't create him, would have allowed someone like that to operate an influence operation without wetting their beaks. No way, absolutely no way.
No_one
3d ago
The claimed there was a hit but the plane was only damaged, lost power or control (e.g. hydraulics leaking after hits) and then fell into Croatia. You know, the country with which they've fought a brutal war 7 years earlier.
If you're young this may seem a little odd -why would a guided missile miss... but the missile was cutting edge 1960s technology, employing 60 kilograms of high explosive to offset accuracy issues inherent in high powered but still analog command guidance over distances of up to ~40 km. It doesn't have a computer or radar seeker or anything, it's guided by commands from the user, like a huge and particularly malevolent RC toy.
We know from the reports (e.g. the other F-117 damaged and limping back to base) that the 1960s missiles, which were designed to be used against high flying and large enemy bombers were obviously not hitting stealth planes dead on and the first missile that shot down the F-117 even failed to fuse. There'd have been nothing left from an F-117 or any other plane after a close hit,
If two stealth planes were hit in the war, with one destroyed, the odds of another, much larger stealth plane getting damaged by fragments seem fairly good. Stealth planes inherently have worse flight characteristics and B-2 is a much larger, long range plane which, especially if loaded, cannot evade as well as the other war planes used against Serbia at close range back then.
No_one
4d ago
Anyone knows the best way of buying Windows 10 LTSC versions ?
I have a relatively powerful PC but for some reason,it's not Windows 11 ready.
Windows Enterprise Long Term Customer Support is windows without all the stupid crap like 'Store' . Unless I want to learn Linux, seems like the only option. Supported until 2032, at least.
Windows 10 LTSC is not on offer to consumers in common shops, EVEN though it's superior because it lacks pointless annoying features such as 'Store' and so on. I've seen it described as quite superior by users. It seems it can be bought for €150-300 and there are people with relatively good ratings selling license keys for €20 around here. Or in some shops, as €30 supposedly a second-hand license. Huh. Seems dubious but those shops don't look totally sketchy.
There's also sites that claim they offer ways of activating it permanently. I'm a bit worried about malware, but I'm not sure that's a problem - all my serious crap is on my phone anyway, and if someone were to use my PC to mine anything I'd probably notice. Also, the entire site smells of honest cracker type people doing it not for profit.
No_one
4d ago
Carriers are huge and change directions very slowly.
Seems it can make a 90° turn under 30 seconds, but acceleration is likely sluggish so evading anything but torpedoes seems... questionable. Anyway, carriers can tilt up to what looks like 15° during tight turns... I guess the planes /decks / towing equipment aren't designed to not slide when at maximum tilt.
https://old.reddit.com/r/navy/comments/1ka8nsu/updated_information_about_todays_hornet_loss/mpkdmng/
No_one
4d ago
It still seems like a mistake to me bc..can't phalanx intercept 3 mach objects? Don't carrier groups have SM6 to get rid of this ? Worst case it hits, it's maybe a 250 kg warhead, probably not even armor piercing, would just smudge the deck no?
And this here would depend on the seeker having as strictly very limited range of searches so you could get out of it by sailing those few minutes.
But we don't really know anything firm and they won't say so.
Why would you crash a perfectly flyable prototype when you could use it
Because it doesn't have the requisite electronic systems and it'd have cost a billion $ to get the defence contractors to build and install those for you?
So you spend ten million making it airworthy but not combat-worthy and crash it, to avoid having to explain that under certain conditions (extreme low range, high powered analog radars) your stealth plane isn't that stealthy.
Interesting article popped up while reading about it https://web.archive.org/web/20160306122801/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/14/us/key-senate-backer-of-stealth-bomber-sees-it-in-jeopardy.html?pagewanted=1
No_one
4d ago
I mean, possibly..
https://old.reddit.com/r/navy/comments/1ka8nsu/updated_information_about_todays_hornet_loss/
In any case you'd expect the missile to be detected 300-500 km out. It turns out Houthis do have anti-ship ballistic missiles with ~500 km range, and there if you knew the missile flies straight after boost phase and you were aware the seeker has a limited detection area theoretically hard evading would have a point.
Other suggestions were this was a cruise missile and they turned hard to bring an extra CIWS unit into a position to intercept.
I don't buy the collision story alternate theory bc I saw it discussed by sailors. It was just a crash. US warships crash into merchant shipping with some regularity - whether it's more or less often than other navies I don't know.
The fighter that fell off board story stinks a little. There's no conceivable reason why a carrier would be taking evasive action short of torpedoes in the water, which the Houthis don't have. From the POV of a missile the carrier is essentially stationary, whatever direction it moves is irrelevant.
So saying "oh fighter fell off bc evasive maneuver" smells like BS.
Likewise, if I imagine a general being killed by Russian ballistic missiles, in most cases the body will not be in a state where you can put him in his quarters and pretend it was a natural death.
Not really. If there's fragmentation or overpressure damage and the guy is promptly stuck into a fridge..which is usually possible in UA cities, the body would look superficially fine. A keen eyed medic could spot it but you can always swear some guy to secrecy and just fix it, no? Isn't there a regulation allowing something like that. Bystanders would see a corpse being removed.
Doesn't really make sense why a general would be there tho. Pretty sure only tech specialists who really have to be there and rarely special forces go there.
Edit to add – the Spirit of Missouri is still active. Wikipedia has a picture of it overflying an airshow in 2018. If it was hit
According to the substack, that's probably repainted 'Spirit of Kansas'.
The guy who wrote the theory mentioned in the substack(some intel guy) suggests something like:
May 20, '99: Spirit of Missouri is damaged, loses engine power and crashes in Croatia. USAF is short one B-2.
After that: Spirit of Kansas is occassionally repainted as Spirit of Missouri and doubles as it at times (are there high def photos of both plantes at the same time, or all of them together?)
2008: USAF fakes the crash of Spirit of Kansas using a (probably remote control) flyable prototype mocked up to look like the real thing. B-2 inventory is officially -1.
After that: The ex-Spirit of Kansas that doubled as Missouri is now Spirit of Missouri permanently and inventory shortage is rectified.
No_one
4d ago
Here's a newspaper account from 2015, translated by Deepseek.
EVERY March, public commemorations recall the 1999 NATO aggression. At the same time, there is triumphant remembrance of the greatest feat of the Yugoslav Army – the downing of the "invisible" F-117 over Srem on March 27. However, the truth about the actual greatest success of the Third Rocket Division of the 250th Rocket Brigade – the downing of the American strategic bomber B-2 at eleven minutes past midnight on May 20 – has never been fully told. For many reasons.
Regarding the feat of the Third Rocket Division on March 27 (shooting down the F-117 near Buđanovci), there exists a version centered on one man: then-commander Colonel Zoltán Dani. According to his account, three films were made: one Serbian, one Serbian-American, and one American. Due to their content, these films divided the personnel of Serbia’s most famous rocket division. Those directly involved in downing the F-117 did not recognize themselves in the film versions, and for several years now, they have commemorated the downing of the F-117 separately.
The common link in downing both American stealth aircraft is retired Lieutenant Colonel Đorđe Aničić, who directed the targeting in both cases. First, from a position in Šimanovci alongside Zoltán Dani, he tracked and engaged the F-117. Later, from a position in Bečmen, he directed the strike that hit the B-2.
The American strategic bomber B-2, named "Spirit of Missouri," was struck by two missiles from the "Neva" system. Damaged, the plane set course 270 toward Tuzla but only reached the Spačva forests, where it crash-landed. General Bane Petrović, then-commander of the Yugoslav Army’s Air Defense, was the first to bring news to the division of what they had shot down that May 20. His report stated that the aircraft’s crash was recorded at 00:23 in Croatia.
The hit and downing of this aircraft was confirmed to the Rocket Brigade and "entered" into the unit’s official successes after the war, during the first analysis of combat effectiveness in 1999. This report remains valid today.
Steven Lee Basham, deputy commander of the U.S. 509th Wing (to which the B-2 "Spirit of Missouri" belonged), confirmed in an interview with American aviation media that the B-2 was withdrawn from combat operations on May 21, 1999. This was later echoed in Thomas Withington’s book B-2 Spirit Units in Combat (page 43), specifying the aircraft was "withdrawn" after a mission over Serbia. Was there a reason this B-2 was officially pulled from combat 20 days before the war ended on June 10?
When democratic authorities in Serbia established initial ties with official Washington in 2001, the newly appointed U.S. military attaché immediately requested via the General Staff that the Air Defense Command answer four questions – all related to the downing of the "invincible" and "invisible" strategic bomber.
Lieutenant Colonel Đorđe Aničić, protagonist and witness to these events, recently visited his division’s combat positions from 1999 with Novosti reporters. In Bečmen, Šimanovci, and Petrovčić, he recalled these events.
NEWS
The news that we downed the B-2 was brought by General Petrović – continues Lt. Col. Aničić. - Eyewitnesses along azimuth 270 toward Tuzla reported the event. As people in Županja later testified, local newspapers carried a text about the downing in their morning edition. These witnesses recounted how all newspapers in Županja were bought out from kiosks. Simultaneously, heavy machinery arrived in the Spačva forests. Excavators dug half a meter deep at the crash site, loading soil into trucks hauled to an unknown location.
On May 19, Russian mediator Viktor Chernomyrdin was in Belgrade. Many of us interpreted his arrival as the beginning of the end of the war – Aničić begins his recollection. - The division was camouflaged at a landfill in Bečmen village and was at a lower readiness level. We didn’t believe the war would last much longer. After Chernomyrdin took off from Surčin, the division was put on maximum readiness (Alert 1), meaning combat could commence. When we activated the surveillance radar, we saw an unprecedented "sea of aircraft" heading toward us.
SURVIVED ONLY BY MIRACLE IMMEDIATELY after downing the B-2 strategic bomber, NATO fighters began hunting our air defense division. The lieutenant colonel recalls that during the launch, the "Tanja" and "Ivana" missiles were fired at a steep angle. The detonation crater shifted the launcher ~20 cm, causing one missile to fall off. It didn’t explode but rendered the system inoperable. Until dawn, they defended and hid with only one operational launcher – surviving by sheer miracle. They masked their position with a false emitter and waited for daylight. They knew they’d hit a major target: all night, radio amateurs reported hearing a large aircraft with damaged engines struggling through the sky, trailed by planes with lights on.
Aničić notes the division was initially unprepared. The first wave of aircraft, followed by a second, passed without reaction from their air defense – likely an unintentional trap for the B-2. As he explains, NATO’s first wave always included anti-aircraft fighters, the second wave executed tactical strikes, and U.S. strategic bombers (in 47 missions over Serbia) flew in the third wave. This time, the division was ready for the third wave.
Amid the "sea of aircraft" on radar, I selected the target and ordered engagement. The targeting radar "locked on," and two missiles – previously christened "Tanja" and "Ivana" – were launched – Aničić continues. - We clearly saw both missiles reach the aircraft and detonate on radar. The target "splattered," meaning the plane was hit and its parts scattered. Those looking skyward saw a huge flash, after which NATO escort fighters "went mad" over Srem. They turned on all aircraft lights to locate their stricken comrades – standard NATO procedure for assisting damaged planes.
Despite the confirmed downing of the B-2 (documented in the Army’s official records), Serbian authorities have never fully investigated the story.
There's a few more newspaper articles in Serbian, but they don't seem more detailed.
It's come to my attention that in addition to the F-117 everyone acknowledges that they had shot down, Serbian military records list a shoot-down of a B-2 , which crashed in Croatia, using a similar method - booting up the radar extremely briefly during a NATO bombing mission. Saw loads of targets - one of them was ~ 15km away, looked very peculiar. Fired two S-125 missiles at it. The plane immediately started evading but was damaged by either or both 60 kg blasts, and then crashed just outside of Serbia, in Spačva basin.
Here's the fairly pretty interesting in-depth account on how it supposedly went down. It opens up with claiming that after may 20, 1999, all B-2 bombing missions of Serbia ceased, that the Spirit of Missouri was withdrawn from combat operations on May 20 and also presents a possibly verifiable claim that a section of near border woods in Croatia had an unusually heavy military presence.
At the end is they also present a Serbian hypothesis that the 2008 crash of B-2 in Guam was staged by crashing a remote-controlled B-2 test article that was secretly assembled at Guam, crashed via stall at takeoff and then passed off as the plane lost in '99.
Found this interesting bit of information on Quora, from a Serbian.
The story regarding B2 is very strange also. Supposedly it was shot down, but went down just near the border in Croatia near Spačvanske šume (forest). I recently watched colonel Zoltan Dani (commanded the battery that shot down F-117), during his interview about the downing mention, and later on in the show explain how he came to be convinced that a B-2 was shot down.
Basically, to cut this short, there were reports, in the military, that a B-2 was shot down (by a brigade that he was assigned to, but not his battery) but he didn't believe them. He later heard the stories from some villagers that live near the border with Croatia that something big had passed over their village and was making strange sounds like it's engines weren't working properly. Later on, on a funeral that he attended (this was after the bombing), some people were present (Croats) who live in Croatia and were working for police department said that at that time they were assigned to a guard duty, so no one could get close, near this forest. They weren't told what they were guarding but they said that a lot of military (American) transport trucks went in an out. They said that even the ground was dug out, as they said, to a depth of 1,5m. This B-2 was, again supposedly, Spirit of Missouri.
EDIT: interesting info on in New York Times from 1991.. Full article.. I was previously unaware B-2 was ever found insufficiently stealthy in tests.
No_one
4d ago
It may lead to a prosperous, stable future, but if it doesn't and the train is headed for a cliff, what control could you possibly have over it, short of killing your way to the front?
Tell me again where did the European citizen have a choice of opting out of green energy lunacy or immigration ? What choices do you have in the supposedly most free system out there?
No_one
4d ago
I find the notion that America should permanently kneecap anyone who might contest their dominance very off-putting.
Americans, even pretty smart ones (e.g. eigenrobot ) earnestly believe their country's hegemony is good, proper and should be maintained indefinitely despite material reality. Is that not even more off-putting than wanting to preserve hegemony and actually doing something towards that aim?
No_one
4d ago
I'm not arguing that it should do so, or that it'd have been the right thing to do, I'm saying that had they been serious about preserving 'freedom in the future lightcone' or however e/acc guys who are anti-China put it, they'd have had to do that.
If CPC preserves its current ways of picking elites which is go to Chinese MIT/Harvard etc, pick psychologically most promising students who have already been established are 99.8th percentile and put them on the party career track - it's probably going to end up as the least stupid form of governance ever devised.
No_one
5d ago
The moment attitude to China changed from "how do we keep them in eternal poverty and civil war" to anything else, Americans lost.
It's that simple. They're mostly one people, they were backward for historical reasons. They are 1/2 of the world's high average IQ population.
Had US presidents read more Lothrop Stoddard, this would never have happened.
Fuck propping up the USSR to keep Chinese down would have made sense.
No_one
6d ago
But it still ended up shaping a decade of US politics, because people care more about this kind of things than deaths from traffic.
It shaped politics that much because it was basically a godsend, a moment some of the PNAC crowd have been secretly praying for.
Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor. Domestic politics and industrial policy will shape the pace and content of transformation as much as the requirements of current missions. A decision to suspend or terminate aircraft carrier production, as recommended by this report and as justified by the clear direction of military technology, will cause great upheaval.
Funny:
Absent a rigorous program of experimentation to investigate the nature of the revolution in military affairs as it applies to war at sea, the Navy might face a future Pearl Harbor – as unprepared for war in the post-carrier era as it was unprepared for war at the dawn of the carrier age.
They were actually not that stupid and wanted to axe new carrier construction, but did not manage to do so.
No_one
6d ago
It's mostly a film plot thing and also a way to get nuked. What would be the point ?
but the Temple Mount actually needs to be the place of construction for the Third Temple.
I've got a gut feeling that blasting Temple Mount into a shallow crater would make most Jews horrified but secretly relieved.
They've been Jews this long and had God wanted them to rebuild the temple, there'd have been a sign.
Have you ever talked to them about multilateration or TDOA systems?
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