a321neo's comments

Morality aside this might be a death sentence to both the ongoing F-35 deployment and European efforts to deliver F-16s to Ukraine.

Both the Netherlands and Israel supplies critical components to the F-35 and Israel will most likely stop delivering its share until the Netherlands starts delivering their share.

The only reason so many European countries have been able to allocate F-16s for Ukraine is because F-35 series production was finally kicking off but this puts a stop to it.

It is a common thing here in Europe to think that the Germans are overly apologetic towards Israel. It's surprising to find out that East Germany was actually the primary supporter of Arab countries and Palestinian groups in their wars against Israel.

TL;DR: It is illegal for European citizens and companies to boycott Iran (and Cuba).

Important to post this because many European citizens and companies are unknowingly admitting to breaking the law when they post about boycotting Iran for supplying drones/missiles to Russia.

This doesn't make any sense. PowerShell and WSL serve entirely different purposes. PowerShell is bash-but-better for Windows. WSL is a developer-oriented way of running Linux/Unix software on Windows.

The Merkava has seen some time losses but that was due to open back hatchets and IEDs big enough to flip the entire vehicle.

Disassembly of crashed Russian missiles in Ukraine show that they use multiple consumer-grade microcontrollers and DSPs. Western systems engineers would typically have opted for a single aerospace/defense-grade FPGA instead of having so many different chips and interconnects complicating the system.

Using Russia's approach you can easily stay many semiconductor manufacturing generations back. Using the Western approach you will prefer staying up to date so you can continue using the latest the latest proprietary manufacturer-supported FPGA tooling.

Public sector IT in Denmark has been in a weird tug of war between those eager to sell out our data to American companies and those who naively think Ubuntu and LibreOffice can realistically replace the public sector's dependency on Microsoft.

We need to keep our data in Denmark and become less dependent on American companies (and especially Microsoft/Google). But the change needs to be led by IT professionals who care about usability and know better than forcing Linux and LibreOffice down the throat of elderly office workers.

One approach is to identify the business processes they are using Microsoft/Google apps for and then offer the entire process through well-designed web apps hosted in Denmark.

The Houthis/Iran blockading cheap Chinese things from reaching Europe might even be an environmental blessing in disguise.

Even the free GPT-3.5 is better at smaller European languages than Mixtral/Mistral-Medium.

However I think it's a typo when the article says GPT-3.5. It doesn't make sense to "buy" GPT-3.5. They probably meant ChatGPT Plus which includes GPT-4 access (50 messages in a rolling 3 hour window).

>A bunch of BLE chips are also WiFi capable, so not ruling out that someone compromised the firmware to enable WiFi functionality

The ESP32 is now used as a general-purposed chip even in applications where an 8-bit MCU would have been enough. A remotely exploitable vulnerability in the ESP32/SDK could have large-scale consequences.

If China supported Russia the war would have been over by now. There is a reason Russia has to buy weapons from North Korea and Iran when China would have been able to provide much more.

China has actually supported Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen's Houthis more than they have supported Russia's war on Ukraine. When Saudi Arabia's F-15s started getting their wings blown off by by Iranian SAMs fired by Houthis it was Chinese drones that started hitting Houthi positions in Yemen.

For some reason there is little awareness about the close Saudi-China alliance here in the West.