Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war

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On 30/01/2026 3:56 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:08:29 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 30/01/2026 12:00 am, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:18:51 +0100, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <10ldbf7$jvt3$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>> Bill Sloman  <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>>>> On 28/01/2026 8:46 am, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:27:08 -0800, wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 1/27/26 12:22, bitrex wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 1/27/2026 1:43 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/magazine/ukraine-ai-drones-war-
>>>>>>>>> russia.html
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> John Larkin
>>>>>>>>> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
>>>>>>>>> Lunatic Fringe Electronics
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Ukraine has become a fast-feedback, live-fire test range in which arms
>>>>>>>> manufacturers, governments, venture capitalists, frontline units and
>>>>>>>> coders and engineers from around the West collaborate to produce weapons
>>>>>>>> that automate parts of the conventional military kill chain."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Coders and engineers falling all over themselves to sell their souls out
>>>>>>>> to the war machine and the State like the filthiest of $2 prostitutes,
>>>>>>>> sad stuff indeed..
>>>>>>> You think there is something new here?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's new is that our robots are killing their robots.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A $200M fighter jet with a pilot inside can be replaced with a swarm
>>>>>> of cheap expendable things.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The first country that shuts down its enemies pipelines and power grid
>>>>>> and railroads wins.
>>>>>
>>>>> Russia and the Ukraine do seem to be trying to do that to one another.
>>>>>
>>>>> Neither seems to be doing it effectively enough to knock the other out.
>>>>>
>>>>> People do seem to be pretty good at repairing pipe-lines and power grids
>>>>> and the like.
>>>>>
>>>>> The end-stage of WW2 in Europe was about a year when allied aircraft
>>>>> were knocking out trains all over the German railway system, and while
>>>>> this didn't help the German war effort, the end stage still involved big
>>>>> invading armies basically occupying the whole country.
>>>>>
>>>>> Russia's formal invasion of the Ukraine was an attempt to do just that,
>>>>> and it utterly failed. Russia has spent the last four years inching it's
>>>>> way into the Ukraine from the borders with Russia,and it has made some
>>>>> progress, but it has been very slow and very expensive.
>>>>
>>>> Russia proceeded very carefully, because it considers the inhabitants
>>>> of Ukraine compatriots, to be liberated, compare Gaza.
>>>
>>> Liberated by firing missiles at apartment buildings?
>>>
>>> Putin is a madman with dreams of rebuilding imperial Russia, or
>>> actually imperial Moscow.
>>>
>>> It's not working very well.
>>>
>>>
>>>> This is changed since the assassination attempt
>>>> on Putins life by CIA operatives, according to Scott Ritter (former
>>>> CIA, weapons inspector, etc.) Now Kyev is suffering.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> US and Russia is talking about the 28 points plan.
>>>> Europe is offside.
>>>> To the USAmericans, they were never good except for canon fodder.
>>>> Ukraine is still "resisting" because of injections of billions of
>>>> weapons and canon fodder from France, UK and Germans.
>>>> The Ukranians have no personel left with the expertise of handling
>>>> modern weapons. It is all Berlin 1945.
>>>
>>> Approximately 2% of all Russian men aged 20-50 may have been killed or
>>> seriously wounded by Ukrainians, many with smart drones.
>>>
>>> The r/u casuality ratio is over 2:1 and likely increasing.
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_emigration_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war_
>>>   
>>> Why do so many people sympathize with genocidal thugs?
>>
>> You've told us the Donald Trump has "common sense", but he strikes me as
>> a genocidal thug.
> 
> Maybe he will stop the Iranians from killing tens of thousands of
> Iranians. He did trash their nuke program. Sounds like a linked
> strategy to me.

He enjoys being a bully. Strategy doesn't come into it.

> And maybe - more difficult - get Hamas out of Gaza. That's also
> linked.

His approach was to kick everybody out of Gaza and rebuild it as a 
Mediterranean resort, with casinos. It didn't work in America, but Trump 
doesn't seem to learn from his experiences.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney

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  Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-01-27 15:22 -0500
    Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> - 2026-01-27 12:27 -0800
      Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-27 13:46 -0800
        Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-01-27 17:19 -0500
          Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-27 14:45 -0800
        Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-29 02:54 +1100
          Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-28 08:13 -0800
            Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-01-28 14:21 -0500
              Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2026-01-28 16:02 -0500
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-29 13:41 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-01-28 22:59 -0500
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                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Lasse Langwadt <llc@fonz.dk> - 2026-01-29 19:03 +0100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-30 15:25 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-01-30 10:15 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-01-30 04:03 -0700
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-31 00:12 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-01-30 13:25 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-01-30 07:03 -0700
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-31 16:35 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-31 00:09 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-01-30 13:43 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-31 02:34 +1100
            Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-29 13:25 +1100
          Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-01-29 12:18 +0100
            Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-29 05:00 -0800
              Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-01-29 14:09 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-29 08:53 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> - 2026-01-29 20:25 +0100
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                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-29 16:53 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-30 15:49 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-02-01 11:58 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-02 09:48 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2026-02-02 18:29 +0000
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                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-02-04 05:44 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-04 03:24 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-05 01:35 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> - 2026-02-04 21:31 +0100
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                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-05 16:50 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-05 11:36 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-06 18:30 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-06 03:41 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-07 01:12 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-05 16:46 +1100
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                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-02-06 06:18 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2026-02-06 09:51 +0100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-02-06 12:30 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-02-05 09:14 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-02-05 04:39 -0700
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                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-06 02:07 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-02-04 15:53 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-05 01:04 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-02-04 15:58 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2026-02-03 16:23 +0000
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                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-03 23:38 +1100
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                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-03 10:46 -0800
              Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-30 03:08 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-29 08:56 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-30 15:56 +1100
            Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-30 03:04 +1100
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                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-29 19:22 -0800
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        Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Lasse Langwadt <llc@fonz.dk> - 2026-01-28 17:42 +0100
    Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-27 13:47 -0800
      Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-01-27 17:31 -0500
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                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-01-29 12:24 +0100
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                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-30 16:07 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-30 11:45 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-31 16:51 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-01-29 23:03 -0700
          Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> - 2026-01-28 00:18 +0100
          Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-01-28 11:57 +0000
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                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-28 13:12 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-01-28 16:54 -0500
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      Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-01-27 17:44 -0500
        Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-01-27 15:55 -0700
          Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-01-27 19:13 -0500
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            Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-01-27 20:30 -0700
              Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-29 01:56 +1100
              Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-01-29 12:29 +0100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-01-29 23:09 -0700
              Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-01-30 13:25 +0000
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                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-30 11:49 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-31 02:40 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> - 2026-01-30 11:23 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-01-31 01:17 -0700
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> - 2026-01-31 12:19 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-01-31 18:36 -0700
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