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  • I am well aware of the situation and Russia is breaking laws of the war pretty much as fast as they can, by the means (among others) mentioned on the article. But without context this particular message plays directly to Russians and when message like that is spread around someone might take the bait and actually reveal positions of the Ukrainian military, but Russia has proven over and over again that they just don’t care about civil casualties (or human life in general). If anyone there actually provides locations for fighters to the attacker the Russia would most likely attack them first and after that destroy the city and all the informants in it, like we’ve seen many times over last few years.

    And that’s what I’m referring to when calling for responsibility on spreading messages like this. Some poor soul might believe the message in fear/hope for the better/something else and that would really only make things even worse for them, as the cities are already being destroyed by the attacker and any intel to them is only going to weaken the force trying to stop them.

    By all means, spread the information and reveal the lies Russians are offering, but do that with care and include the context with everything. Revealing information about Ukraine troops is not going to stop Russian drones from attacking childrens and their mothers on the playing field.


  • Someone more or less anonymous over the internet is saying that. I have no doubt that Russia would level entire city blocks if they have even a suspicion that there’s Ukrainian fighters in the block (or just in case regardless of the intel), but in here we have a single telegram message and nothing else. It might be someone in command on the Russian side, maybe trying to get most out of their ammunition, or it might be something bigger, with the information provided we don’t really know. And that’s something to keep in mind when relaying these kind of messages. We, who are sitting in our chairs in warm glow of the monitor and a beer in reach, should have at least some responsibility on what information we spread and in what context.

    But with the track record from Russia, I wouldn’t be surprised if they shoot to anything given to them, so if people in that area happen to know that area between this street and that street is completely empty, it might be worth a try to get them to shoot at nothing and reveal their positions while doing it. Just take into account that their accuracy isn’t really the best there is for multiple of reasons.





  • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyztoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldLooking for UPS suggestion
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    I have older 1500VA FSP UPS, I don’t think that exact model is available anymore, but it’s been solid for several years. It currently has 3rd or 4th set of batteries and they are standard bulk batteries, so replacements are easy to find from anywhere. Only problem I’ve had with that is that on display it doesn’t give out clear warnings when batteries degrade and it has crashed my system few times in a power outage, but I’ve been lazy and didn’t bother to properly monitor it nor have scheduled battery replacements, so that’s mostly on me.

    Eaton seems to be pretty solid too, but I don’t have a ton of experience on any of their models. Local suppliers had dirt cheap PowerWalker UPS’s a few years ago, but one of them didn’t survive when battery died, so maybe I got what I paid for. Those worked fine too, but apparently they cooked the carging circuit when battery degraded.

    This is of course just my own experience over a few models, but personally I wouldn’t spend my money on APC. Propietary batteries and multiple failures after battery replacement at work few years back were enough to choose something else.


  • I don’t have answer for you, but Alec over at Technology Connections made a video few days ago related to the topic. That might not have the answer for you either, but as his videos (and there’s a ton of those, even for refridgerators) are among of the best at youtube that is worth cheking out.

    But as a rule of thumb, new materials and hardware are better on pretty much every metric. And if your current one doesn’t work properly anymore it’ll most likely uses way more power than it should, as coolant flow/insulation/something isn’t in fully working condition and thus compressor needs to run more often than on a new unit.


  • Effillä on varsin hyviä pointteja CSAMin(kin) osalta, mutta onhan tuo koko ChatControl niin kuolleena syntynyt ajatus että ei pysty ymmärtämään miksi se kerta toisensa perään nousee pinnalle. Rikollisen materiaalin levittämiseen on sen miljoona eri teknistä keinoa ja, kuten jutussakin mainitaan, nämä ennakkoskannaukset lähinnä helpottaisivat lapsipornon levittäjiä piiloutumaan entistä paremmin mutta siinä samalla kaivetaan kyllä melkoinen monttu ihan tavan sukankuluttajien tietoturvaan.

    Ja tässä ei auta perinteinen ‘jos ei ole mitään salattavaa’-mantra, sillä jos kryptoihin pakotetaan takaovia, niin niistä ovista pääsee kyllä sitten kulkemaan muutkin kuin länsimaisella moraalilla varustetut viranomaiset. Ja vaikkei pääsisikään, niin ainakin itänaapurille oletettavasti kelpaisi ihan hyvin että valtiolliset toimijat pääsevät nuuskimaan viestinvälitystä vielä nykyistäkin tehokkaammin.

    Plus sitten vielä erilaiset harrastepohjalta toimivat alustat, kuten vaikka tämä meidän sopuli.xyz, joiden ylläpito joutuisi sitten pistämään resursseja (sekä aikaa että rahaa) tuon toteuttamiseksi, jolloin pienten toimijoiden mahdollisuudet kilpailla metaa, twitteriä, reddittiä ja muita vastaan heikkenevät entisestään. Ja tuossa on oletettavasti joku sanktio tarjolla, jos valvontaa ei toteuta riittävän hyvin, joka kyllä toimii tehokkaana pelotteena tarjota yhtään mitään yhteisöpalvelua kenellekään julkisessa verkossa.

    Ja päälle kaikki sata muuta syytä, miksi tuo esitys on ihan oikeasti täysin susipaska, sekä teknisesti että ajatusmaailmaltaan.




  • There’s automotive plugs which use more or less standard spade connectors which you can wire yourself and they can easily achieve 10A and things like relay sockets can manage 40A or more. JAE is one of the brands manufacturing all kinds of connectors, with and without panel connectors, but there’s a ton of manufacturers around. I suppose on marine stuff you can find connectors like that too.

    But if it’s for a LED strip and you don’t need to constantly move them around, I’d suggest using a dirt cheap spade connectors with color coding (reverse male/female connectors on the live one so it’s physically impossible to connect led strip in reverse polarity). Or even cheaper, use screw terminals and be extra careful when wiring the strip in.

    And for the dupont-style connector commonly seen on LED strips, 10A feels like quite optimistic value. Obviously a LED strip can pull 10A and many times that, but quickly googled ballpark estimation for 2,5m 10A led strip calls for 2,5mm² wiring all the way trough and your cheap flexible LED PCB from amazon/ebay is pretty far from that. But that depends heavily on what you actually have and if you’ve measured 6A then it’s pretty reasonable to have the rest of the setup to manage 10A.


  • My ecotank died just like all the other inkjets. It went few weeks without printing and blue nozzle dried completely up and on the pipes I can see dried up ink on other colors as well. So I had to dig up old Brother HL3040 back to the duty which I retired after print quality started to drop (it needs new fuse unit or something similar, so not that big of a deal) and I thought having an option to print nice color pictures would be nice.

    So, if you plan to run ecotank (which does have pretty good printing quality when it works) set up a scheduled task on your computer to print something, in color, quite frequently even if it wastes some ink and paper. I think the main issue with mine was that even if I print stuff somewhat often there was a period where I only needed b&w documents so color nozzles went unused for a while.

    I might get a new set of nozzles and ink tanks for my unit as it’s a ton cheaper than a whole new printer, but if you’re looking for a printer this is something to take into consideration, regardless of their marketing material.

    Edit: Mine is Epson, didn’t know that ecotank term is used by other manufacturers.


  • You can run clonezilla on your shell session, just apt install conezilla (or whatever variant you’re using) and it can do the trick. Dd will almost surely work too, but that leaves a ton of responsibility to you instead of making any sanity checks on the way. That makes dd very powerful tool and it has saved my ass a multiple times, but if you already have a working partitioning schema clonezilla has a ton of options to make your life a lot simpler and a likely a bit faster than dd.



  • Osaatko yhtään sanoa että kuinka lujaa? Näin metallitöiden harrastajana saisin omaan autotalliin hitsailtua, olettaen tietysti että raha tai mikään muukaan rajoittaisi tekemistä, reilun 5 metriä leveän ja 2 metriä korkean turbiinin kohtalaisella tarkkuudella (pitäisi toki seinä tai katto purkaa että sen saa ulos). Mistään ydinvoimatarkkuuksista ei nyt varmaankaan puhuta, mutta näin yhtäkkiä hihasta ravistamalla sanoisin että sitä kiekkoa voisi vieläpä pyörittää jonkun sata kierrosta minuutissa aivan kohtuudella ilman että se ravistaa itsensä ja kaiken muun ympäriltä hajalle. Ja ei tuommoisen tekemiseen kovin montaa vuotta saisi kulumaan edes yksinään.

    Sitten tietysti asia on aivan eri jos se ropeli pyörii vaikka edes 1500rpm, puhumattakaan siitä mitä vauhdit on esim. inertia-akuissa (sikäli kun termi on oikea), jolloin painotukset ja sunmuut pitää olla paljon tarkempia kuin mihin rullamitalla ja motonetin lasereilla pääsee.

    Tuossa nimenomaisessa ropelissa on toki varmasti paljon sellaista, mitä ei näin yhtäkkiä osaa edes hahmottaa ja kun en tuollaisen tekniikan parissa ole ikinä tehnyt töitä niin en edes kuvittele tietäväni kuin osasia siitä mitä en tiedä/ymmärrä tarpeeksi, saati että se mitä tiedän riittäisi edes lähtötelineisiin, mutta monenlaista valmistustekniikkaa on tullut työuralla nähtyä ja siinä valossa tuntuu jotenkin kovin omituiselta että tuommoisen osan tekeminen sillä kaikella tekniikalla mitä ihmiskunnalla on käytössään olisi jotenkin erityisen vaikea asia.

    Mutta kuten todettua, oma tietämys tuollaisista komponenteista on melkoisen hataralla pohjalla niin tyydyn näin maallikkona viisastelemaan satunnaisella keskustelupalstalla enkä ole soittelemassa TVOlle että tilatkaapa tuo roottori minulta niin tulee nopeammin valmista.




  • The actual number will be much higher.

    Ukraine reports almost 9000 tanks destroyed. Some time ago I made a rough calculation on what wikipedia lists on Russian military hardware and based on that they had around 14 000 tanks before the war started. I don’t think that even Russians themselves know how many of those are in any kind of usable and/or repairable state and which are just scrap metal laying on some field in the middle of nowehere stripped of anything useful.

    Additionally, Ukraine reported destroyed tanks in single digits per day for quite a while, but for last few days the numbers have gone up, I’d guess because of counter attacks in Kursk and/or because Ukraine is finally receiving some ammunition for their hardware. Whatever the case might be, majority of Russian tanks are destroyed anyways and I’d guess that what’s left is soviet relics and a significant portion of those are just scrap metal (which is of course a useful resource) instead of anything even close to combat ready.


  • Kyllähän siinä lähistöllä kasvaa pajua, pihjalaa ja kaikenlaista muutakin risua ihan laittamattakin ja on niitä tullut käytettyäkin, mutta varsinkaan metrin mitassa tahtoo vähän huonosti löytyä suoria ja tasalaatuisia pajuja mistä veistellä tikkuja varastoon. Lisäksi näin pimeällä ja varsinkin talvella tuossa on sitten aina oma riesansa käydä etsimässä sopiva aihio vuoltavaksi, joten jotain vähän lujempaa on hakusalla.

    Ja puutikku, vaikkei kertakäyttöinen olekaan, ei silti kovin montaa makkaraa kestä kun piikkejä pitää teroitella ja varsi heti piikkien jälkeen tahtoo hiiltyä ja lopulta palaa poikki. Ihan joka ilta ei toki laavulla tule istuttua, että ei se kulutuskaan kovin valtavaa ole, mutta yhtäkaikki varastoa pitäisi sitten uusia säännöllisesti ja niitä pajuja pitäisi leikellä vähän ajatuksen kanssa että kasvusto ehtii tuottaa riittävästi aihioita ennenkuin kasvavat liian isoksi ym niin tuosta tulee äkkiä yksi kotityö lisää ja niitä tahtoo omakotitalossa olla jo aivan tarpeeksi.

    Täysin käypä vaihtoehtohan tuo toki on, mutta omaan makuun etenkin näin ruuhkavuosien keskellä sopii paremmin ajatus siitä että noihin käyttää kerran vähän enemmän aikaa ja vaivaa ja sen jälkeen asiaa ei tarvitse enää ainakaan kymmeneen vuoteen murehtia.



  • more specific to a subset of people who have time to bother

    And that subset of people needs to have at least some kind of mindset to learn the viable minimum skills to even start with and a will to learn more and more and more. I’ve done various kinds of hosting as a career for couple of decades and as things change I’m fighting myself if it’s worth my time and effort to keep my home services running or should I just throw money to google/apple/microsoft/whoever to store my stuff and manage my IOT stuff and throw the hardware into recycling bin.

    I have the skill set required for whatever my home network might need up to a point that I could somewhat easily host a small village from my home (money is of course a barrier after a certain point), but I find myself more and more often thinking if it’s worth the effort. My Z-wave setup needs some TLC as something isn’t playing nicely and it causes all kinds of problems with my automations, my wifi network could use a couple of sockets on the walls to work better, I should replace my NVR with something open source to include couple of more cameras around the yard and have better movement recognition and cameras should go to their own VLAN and so on.

    Most of that stuff is pretty basic to set up and configure (well, that z-wave network is a bit of it’s own thing to manage) and it would actually be pretty nice to have all the things working as they should and expand on what I have to make my everyday life even more simpler than it already is. But as there’s a ton of things going on in life I just rather spend few hours gaming from my sofa than tinker with something.

    That’s of course just me, if you get your reward and enjoyement on your network then good for you. Personally I think I’ll keep various things running around, but right now in this place I’m at, the self hosting, home network and automation and all that is more of a chore than a hobby. And I’m pretty sure I don’t like it.


  • Omakoti täälläkin ja pörssissä on oltu jonkin aikaa. Kesäaikaanhan tuo on ollut mukava kun pörssihinta on aivan nollissa, nytkin sahko.tk näyttää että 28vrk keskiarvo on alle 4 senttiä, mutta talvella pitää seurata aika tosissaan että mitä se milloinkin maksaa ja ohjata lämmitystä (osin automatisoidusti) sähkön hinnan mukaan. Ei tuolla ihan ihmeisiin tietysti pysty kun ei talossa varaavaa massaa kuitenkaan ihan älyttömästi ole mihin pistää halpoja watteja talteen, mutta pörssiin siirtyessä silloinen yhtiö tarjosi mukavaa 28 senttiä + verot (tai jotain tuonnepäin) niin valinta oli aika yksinkertainen.

    Pitäisi tieten viitsiä huudattaa noita toimittajia että mihin hintaan saa ihan oikean kiinteän sopimuksen ilman mitään kulutusvaikutuspelleilyä, ne kun on paitsi hemmetin epäselviä laskukaavoiltaan niin myös ainakin uutisoinnin perusteella vaikutuksetkin jää lähinnä myyntitykkien käsienheilutteluksi.



  • I agree with you, nuclear response would make things very difficult with China and their allies, but there’s plenty of traditional firepower available directed to Russia if things escalate to that point and should Russia attack with nukes I don’t think they’ll have a lot of support for their actions from the east. And triggering nuclear response would likely end up in a MAD scenario which is something I think (and hope) no one really wants to see trough.

    But that still leaves a pretty big field to work with traditional ammunition and a skilled pilot from Sweden could still reach Moscow in 20 minutes or so to turn multiple military targets within the city into a rubble. And there’s plenty of airfields closer than Stockholm with equally capable fighter jets. For the ground force, Finns and Estonians could at least in theory reach Moscow in 10-12 hours since majority of troops defending it are already down on some field in Ukraine and our artillery forces move pretty damn fast.

    The amount of destruction Russia could cause is of course still an enormous humanitarian crisis, but even if they could turn Kiyv to wasteland (and kill millions while doing it), it still wouldn’t change the outcome of full Nato response without any bullshit politics limiting on actions if anyone is allowed to strike on the Russian soil.


  • Medvedev found keys for the booze cabinet again? They seem to happily forget the fact that Moscow is well within reach of multiple Nato countries by now. Obviously a ton of things need to change before anyone with a gun is standing on a red square, but Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Poland (among others) are quite capable of hitting the Kreml (in theory, and in practise if needed) with fighter jets in less than 30 minutes. Additionally their ports opening to gulf of Finland are in reach of both Finns and Estonians with traditional artillely, and at least we in Finland are pretty capable and accurate with our hardware.

    So, even if they find some old soviet relic still functional, Nato has multiple options to level multiple cities at Russia before their missile hits the ground. Nuclear attack against Ukraine would of course be a humongous tragedy with terrible price on civil casualties, but I’m pretty confident that it would be the last thing the Russia we currently know would do as a country.