Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:56:20 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 109 Message-ID: <10lhdm0$1qjs6$5@dont-email.me> References: <10lb72s$3soqv$1@dont-email.me> <10ldbf7$jvt3$1@dont-email.me> <10lg0m8$1df15$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 04:56:34 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ea1c24559f45e4e8c485a7499c28e531"; logging-data="1920902"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18XPKWfVkDBaPOKx14SE5dnHPmPqU6NXi0=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZRsZZfiBkcfOrZ/fi248wptmBHw= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 260129-4, 30/1/2026), Outbound message Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:739878 On 30/01/2026 3:56 am, john larkin wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:08:29 +1100, Bill Sloman > wrote: > >> On 30/01/2026 12:00 am, john larkin wrote: >>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:18:51 +0100, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote: >>> >>>> In article <10ldbf7$jvt3$1@dont-email.me>, >>>> Bill Sloman wrote: >>>>> On 28/01/2026 8:46 am, john larkin wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:27:08 -0800, wmartin 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