Damn, if only.
Drones mostly target humans and crewed vehicles, not other drones (and disable rapidly and suddenly un-crewed vehicles) (with rare exceptions of recon drones crashing other recon drones by breaking their propellers and like 1 or 2 cases of FPV drones shooting down fixed wing recon drones. anti-drone warfare is mostly EW, then AAA and things like MANPADS or even bigger missiles depending on how valuable that drone is as a target)
Besides, last time i've checked it was not drones that took or retook Vovchansk (80% ish Ukrainian controlled last week), it was tanks, arty, mechanized infantry, maybe a dash of CAS and loads of AA and jammers, you know, just like in every war since 80s or even bit earlier. Loads of small cheap PGMs do work great in anti-vehicle role, and drones are just that, so it makes everybody hide fair bit harder
what makes me think that APSs are not a real factor either way is that everyone slaps ERA and anti-drone mesh on everything, which would interfere with radar. APSs historically had a huge blind spot on top, which is a bad thing in a war with drones. also, major user of APSs, IDF, slapped anti-drone grids on top of their tanks at the beginning of current Gaza war, so kinda probably that means that they are not really sure that it works good enough
wait i just noticed that mastodon doesn't show images embedded in comments (there are maps)
it funded some fundamental research, fine by me
yeah, and it's been like this since brits used freshly invented heavy machine guns in their colonial wars. machines killing machines is just what will cause army bean counters to burn at stake operators of these machines
“Humans are generally far removed from the scene of battle.”
if you have budget for that, against an enemy that doesn't
Ukrainians have this thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaslin_Active_Protection_System but i've never seen something like Drozd/Arena used, nor western APSs. plenty of ERA everywhere tho
what is nice about this, half of the shit you listed is either scam for hype-susceptible cultists or is not what you present as when marketing fluff is removed
all 20 of them?
everything that goes boom was used by now, but i doubt it'll make a major difference
are these meat popsicles in the room with us?
gif, sorry for being annoying
Not enough people are preparing for this.
from what i understand, it was real as in r&d was real, but not much came out of this. in regard to nukes, maybe this programme provided some new fancy sensors. one of the logical responses to things like SDI is to increase number of ICBMs and decoys, which is exactly what soviets did, it doesn't require developing similar ABM system. (nukes are ultimately tools of diplomacy, not really tools of war) of other things, we know that neutral particle beams work. some western weaponeers are toying with idea of high power lasers, but star wars era stuff were chemical lasers and what is used now are fiber lasers, so it's not directly transferable
also Teller was insane and x-ray lasers never worked
this kinda happened with antitank weapons and highest iteration now is antitank missile paired with anti-anti-antitank missile. it's rpg-30, russian wunderwaffe manufactured in symbolic numbers which only caused western militaries to develop countermeasures and was never used on large scale in any war
depending on how you count, poland might be one of fastest secularizing countries in the world and for pretty much the same reasons, we even had abortion ban. it's not a competition of course
one extra factor is backlash against massive catholic propaganda campaign from the times when john paul 2 was pope, based on some twisted logic that because pope is polish now, yall better be religious or else. nobody really was having this outside of pilgrimage-going weirdos (even if it's consequence-free school trip it's only for true believers because of intense catholic radiation). so when pope finally croaked some of these nutjobs were lighting candles on hour of his death (21:37) and singing his fave song for several days as if that was completely normal and not something on par with North Koreans mourning Dear Leader. over time it got mocked relentlessly and in 2010s era memes pope will be forever remembered as a pedo war criminal (as he was) input 2137 in search engine of your choice if you want to find out
also it'll be forever funny to me how american fundamentalist catholics try to go to "based catholic poland", a country that doesn't exist, in search of tradwife and slow life on a plot of land in the middle of nowhere. they missed a memo or several
maybe that's how gpt4 sees river crossing puzzles everywhere, just feed it examples of it and it'll sort itself out
if his claim of "20 years studying math" is anywhere close to accurate he's already off the deep end, unless he's counting in everything from kindergarten up. considering he's a cryptobro it already happened pre-pandemic
eh i've seen that before at least once and i'm inclined to believe there's much more of it that nobody cares to notice. on r/chemistry and r/organicchemistry there was a dude, 19, dramatic bitch, who read surface level philosophy and tried getting into ochem for some obscure reason. turns out he wanted to make some anticancer drugs and needs guidance. cool fine maybe get degree in ochem first so you don't do any stupid avoidable mistakes. he won't listen
he tried to get into uni but if i have to guess he got rejected? in any case he didn't learn anything but over time got into contact with some research group, at least that's what he claimed and started homelab. (you'd guess that some medchem research group at uni would have a wet lab, but it must be in other country and you've never seen them).
so anyway our misunderstood hero starts cooking "anticancer" "meds" in his living room. how does he know it works, did he made this, sent samples to biologists who would test it for him, or maybe compchem group would simulate it out? nope, he'd just got an idea that it will work and that's just as good, you know, his supreme rationality unrecognized by academic cabal guided him there. so he starts cooking, but does not know how. this included shit like distilling some flammable solvent on wicker table without clamps or anything that would actually make glassware stable. so every other step he asks for advice on really basic shit like he'd learn in second year university course (BSc), or in first year of work in organic chemistry lab, his synthesis is avoidably dirty, his purifications are trash, three steps in he has painted himself into corner, yields drop to zero and he has no idea why or what now. this usually means that entire synthesis was shite from the beginning and it's time to go back to the drawing board.
(did i mention that he was a dramatic bitch? so he picked it up because he wanted to do something Good for Humanity, and if he fails then well he could just as well commit sewer slide. his first idea involved radioisotopes btw, all in his living room mind you. then objective shifted to "anti-rabies antiviral" where he missed the point of about everything he wanted to do. then went back to "anticancer")
anyway this was his breaking point, after something like three or four people tried to explain politely that he really should get a degree first and set some objective that is not obviously pulled from his supremely rational ass, he started insulting everyone and what eventually earned him sitewide ban was a tirade about how he'd genocide everyone who doesn't recognize his genius, given opportunity (he compared himself to milosevic (he was serb))
anyway he also had medium blog and posted dick picks with face included from the same account. he made another one, but it's since abandoned. allegedly he also had 2 or 3 accounts before that
he also has a personal site, it's linked on researchgate. i took psychic damage reading this, somebody force him to touch grass
the sheer hubris of that individual putting out preprints, as if making this available before peer review would hasten chatgpt rapture (none of that shite will be ever published)
yeah apparently even ideological armpit of poland is positively liberal compared to bulk of us
maps
How Chinese AI turned a Ukrainian YouTuber into a Russian
A YouTuber falls victim to generative AI on Chinese social media, but the ramifications stretch beyond China.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/12110745
> "I don't want anyone to think that I ever said these horrible things in my life. Using a Ukrainian girl for a face promoting Russia. It's crazy.” > > Olga Loiek has seen her face appear in various videos on Chinese social media - a result of easy-to-use generative AI tools available online. > > “I could see my face and hear my voice. But it was all very creepy, because I saw myself saying things that I never said,” says the 21-year-old, a student at the University of Pennsylvania. > > The accounts featuring her likeness had dozens of different names like Sofia, Natasha, April, and Stacy. These “girls” were speaking in Mandarin - a language Olga had never learned. They were apparently from Russia, and talked about China-Russia friendship or advertised Russian products. > > “I saw like 90% of the videos were talking about China and Russia, China-Russia friendship, that we have to be strong allies, as well as advertisements for food.” > > One of the biggest accounts was “Natasha imported food” with a following of more than 300,000 users. “Natasha” would say things like “Russia is the best country. It’s sad that other countries are turning away from Russia, and Russian women want to come to China”, before starting to promote products like Russian candies. > > This personally enraged Olga, whose family is still in Ukraine. > > But on a wider level, her case has drawn attention to the dangers of a technology that is developing so quickly that regulating it and protecting people has become a real challenge. > > From YouTube to Xiaohongshu > > Olga’s Mandarin-speaking AI lookalikes began emerging in 2023 - soon after she started a YouTube channel which is not very regularly updated. > > About a month later, she started getting messages from people who claimed they saw her speak in Mandarin on Chinese social media platforms. > > Intrigued, she started looking for herself, and found AI likenesses of her on Xiaohongshu - a platform like Instagram - and Bilibili, which is a video site similar to YouTube. > > “There were a lot of them [accounts]. Some had things like Russian flags in the bio,” said Olga who has found about 35 accounts using her likeness so far. > > After her fiancé tweeted about these accounts, HeyGen, a firm that she claims developed the tool used to create the AI likenesses, responded. > > They revealed more than 4,900 videos have been generated using her face. They said they had blocked her image from being used anymore. > > A company spokesperson told the BBC that their system was hacked to create what they called “unauthorised content” and added that they immediately updated their security and verification protocols to prevent further abuse of their platform. > > But Angela Zhang, of the University of Hong Kong, says what happened to Olga is “very common in China”. > > The country is “home to a vast underground economy specialising in counterfeiting, misappropriating personal data, and producing deepfakes”, she said. > > This is despite China being one of the first countries to attempt to regulate AI and what it can be used for. It has even modified its civil code to protect likeness rights from digital fabrication. > > Statistics disclosed by the public security department in 2023 show authorities arrested 515 individuals for “AI face swap” activities. Chinese courts have also handled cases in this area. > > But then how did so many videos of Olga make it online? > > One reason could be because they promoted the idea of friendship between China and Russia. > > Beijing and Moscow have grown significantly closer in recent years. Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin have said the friendship between the two countries has “no limits”. The two are due to meet in China this week. > > Chinese state media have been repeating Russian narratives justifying its invasion of Ukraine and social media has been censoring discussion of the war. > > “It is unclear whether these accounts were coordinating under a collective purpose, but promoting a message that is in line with the government’s propaganda definitely benefits them,” said Emmie Hine, a law and technology researcher from the University of Bologna and KU Leuven. > > “Even if these accounts aren’t explicitly linked to the CCP [Chinese Communist Party], promoting an aligned message may make it less likely that their posts will get taken down.” > > But this means that ordinary people like Olga remain vulnerable and are at risk of falling foul of Chinese law, experts warn. > > Kayla Blomquist, a technology and geopolitics researcher at Oxford University, warns that “there is a risk of individuals being framed with artificially generated, politically sensitive content” who could be subject to “rapid punishments enacted without due process”. > > She adds that Beijing’s focus in relation to AI and online privacy policy has been to build out consumer rights against predatory private actors, but stresses that “citizen rights in relation to the government remain extremely weak”. > > Ms Hine explains that the “fundamental goal of China’s AI regulations is to balance maintaining social stability with promoting innovation and economic development”. > > “While the regulations on the books seem strict, there’s evidence of selective enforcement, particularly of the generative AI licensing rule, that may be intended to create a more innovation-friendly environment, with the tacit understanding that the law provides a basis for cracking down if necessary,” she said. > > 'Not the last victim’ > > But the ramifications of Olga’s case stretch far beyond China - it demonstrates the difficulty of trying to regulate an industry that seems to be evolving at break-neck speed, and where regulators are constantly playing catch-up. But that doesn’t mean they’re not trying. > > In March, the European Parliament approved the AI Act, the world's first comprehensive framework for constraining the risks of the technology. And last October, US President Joe Biden announced an executive order requiring AI developers to share data with the government. > > While regulations at the national and international levels are progressing slowly compared to the rapid race of AI growth, we need “a clearer understanding of and stronger consensus around the most dangerous threats and how to mitigate them”, says Ms Blomquist. > > “However, disagreements within and among countries are hindering tangible action. The US and China are the key players, but building consensus and coordinating necessary joint action will be challenging,” she adds. > > Meanwhile, on the individual level, there seems to be little people can do short of not posting anything online. > > Meanwhile, on the individual level, there seems to be little people can do short of not posting anything online. > > “The only thing to do is to not give them any material to work with: to not upload photos, videos, or audio of ourselves to public social media,” Ms Hine says. “However, bad actors will always have motives to imitate others, and so even if governments crack down, I expect we’ll see consistent growth amidst the regulatory whack-a-mole.” > > Olga is “100% sure” that she will not be the last victim of generative AI. But she is determined not to let it chase her off the internet. > > She has shared her experiences on her YouTube channel, and says some Chinese online users have been helping her by commenting under the videos using her likeness and pointing out they are fake. > > She adds that a lot of these videos have now been taken down. > > “I wanted to share my story, I wanted to make sure that people will understand that not everything that you're seeing online is real,” says she. “I love sharing my ideas with the world, and none of these fraudsters can stop me from doing that.”
the smol bean criminal argues that he absolutely does not deserve 100 years long sentence
dude argues that he completely didn't intend to steal exchange funds, nuh uh it's all there, there's even an assertion (just like with tether) damages are only whatever fees liquidators took, pinky swear. wire fraud? no wai
>The lawyer's submission was accompanied by letters of support from Bankman-Fried's parents, psychiatrist, and others.
his fellow cultists and equally complicit parents even wrote a letter! what do you mean power of friendship is not get out of jail free card? and he has given money to cultists charity that obviously means he's a good man with impeccable moral integrity
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on a slightly unrelated note, on r/buttcoin i've stumbled upon a take on tether that it's used as a device for capital flight from china. allegedly ftx had major role in this
somebody gave Thiel idea of methhead olympics
The Enhanced Games promises to lure athletes away from the Olympics with vast payments
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11485138
> > Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, has joined a multi-million dollar investment in the controversial Enhanced Games, a proposed Olympics-style mega-event without drug testing. > > ... > > > The idea is the brainchild of Dr Aron D’Souza, the Australian lawyer who helped mastermind Thiel’s proxy war against news media organisation Gawker, which led to Gawker’s bankruptcy in 2016. > > ... > > > But in a recent interview with The Independent, D’Souza was defiant, and outlined how he hoped the Enhanced Games would not only shake up the world of sport, but would provide a public platform for life-extending science to thrive. > > > >“This is the route towards eternal life,” D’Souza said. “It’s how we bring about performance-medicine technologies, that then create a feedback cycle of good technologies, selling to the world, more revenue, more R&D, to develop better and better technologies. > > > >“And what is performance medicine about? It’s not about steroids and getting jacked muscles. It’s about being a better, stronger, faster, younger athlete for longer. And who doesn’t want to be younger for longer?” >
Cultists Draw a Boogeyman on Cardboard, Become Afraid Of It
How hard would it be to train an AI model to be secretly evil? As it turns out, according to Anthropic researchers, not very.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11178564
> Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can't Reverse It::How hard would it be to train an AI model to be secretly evil? As it turns out, according to Anthropic researchers, not very.
After breaking trains simply because an independent repair shop had worked on them, NEWAG is now demanding that trains fixed by hackers be removed from service.
Troops morale is important, but staying out of enemy's artillery range is importanter
(they didn't learn their lesson)
slight update
russians seem to have launched another offensive on Vuhledar, there won't be any other result so you can pretend this meme is from the future
anyone else has this problem? no? okay fine
edit: orange bar was entirely too long and also i don't know how gradients work
Defense Experts™, what could be credible field expedient fill for these shells?
Watch ""And it's empty - there's no TNT!" - Invaders received shells without explosives." on Streamable.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6146353
> https://t.me/operativnoZSU/116474
wrong answers only