Groups | Search | Server Info | Login | Register


Groups > sci.electronics.design > #739907

Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war

From Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war
Date 2026-01-31 02:34 +1100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <10lij2m$26717$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (7 earlier) <b6uknkp57avofamnhcvq8sfpd4aevmm0i2@4ax.com> <10lehc6$vmq8$2@dont-email.me> <10lg7dp$1g6g1$1@dont-email.me> <10lhbso$1qjs6$3@dont-email.me> <1rpr4d3.1dnya0m1b724z8N%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid>

Show all headers | View raw


On 31/01/2026 12:43 am, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 30/01/2026 5:03 am, Lasse Langwadt wrote:
>>> On 1/29/26 03:41, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>> On 29/01/2026 8:02 am, Joe Gwinn wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:21:23 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/28/2026 11:13 AM, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:54:08 +1100, 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The damage to Russia has been immense. The best talent has left (which
>>>>>>> Putin doesn't mind) and the birth rate is about 1.4.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John Larkin
>>>>>>> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
>>>>>>> Lunatic Fringe Electronics
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The evidence is overwhelming the Soviets posed negligible conventional
>>>>>> arms threat to western Europe, either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good thing we spent $500 billion over 50 years defending the Fulda Gap
>>>>>> and on arms development to keep pace with a threat that didn't exist..
>>>>>
>>>>> Wrong question.  The Russians get a vote too.
>>>>>
>>>>> If we had not spent that money, Europe would have suffered Ukraine's
>>>>> fate long before now.
>>>>
>>>> Probably not. The American spending on military equipment reflects the
>>>> greed of American arms manufacturers, and their political influence.
>>>
>>> if the American arms manufacturers had the power you think they have
>>> they would used that power to stop Trump from pissing off every allied
>>> at a time where they are all ready to spend more than ever on
>>   > rearmament.
>>
>> This assumes that Trump can be controlled. He was - to some extent -
>> during his first term, but his supporters took the precaution of getting
>> rid of everybody who might block his silly ideas when he got in for his
>> second term.
> 
> It does mean that there is a pool of disgruntled ex-Trump-supporters
> which the BBC and other journalists can draw on when they want to hear a
> different story from the official one.  They do seem to be interviewing
> more and more people from the first Trump administation these days.

The first Trump administration wasn't heavily infested with Trump 
supporters. Lots of the adminstrators soldiered on, feeling that they 
had  duty to the country to try to limit the damage done by an inept 
administration.

The second Trump administration went out of it's way to put Trump 
supporters in as many positions as possible. Competence was desirable, 
but was only a secondary consideration. Being competent enough to 
realise that Trump is an ignorant air-head was fatal.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydhey

Back to sci.electronics.design | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar


Thread

Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-27 10:43 -0800
  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
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2026-01-29 17:46 -0500
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Coileán Pól Nioclás de Ghlostéir <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-01-29 14:41 +0100
                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
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2026-01-29 18:18 -0500
                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
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-02 12:33 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-02-03 05:50 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-03 07:56 -0800
                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
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-04 13:21 -0800
                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
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-05 11:37 -0800
                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
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-02-05 14:30 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-02-05 08:36 -0700
                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
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-03 09:03 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2026-02-03 17:47 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war wmartin <wwm@wwmartin.net> - 2026-02-03 11:18 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2026-02-04 01:21 +0000
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-02-03 18:52 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2026-02-03 13:40 -0500
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-02-03 23:38 +1100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-02-03 05:41 +0000
                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
              Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-29 08:59 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> - 2026-01-29 20:50 +0100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-29 19:22 -0800
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-01-30 16:00 +1100
            Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-29 15:43 -0800
        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
        Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-27 14:42 -0800
          Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-01-27 17:55 -0500
            Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-27 15:03 -0800
              Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-01-27 19:04 -0500
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-01-29 12:24 +0100
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-29 10:43 -0800
                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
            Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2026-01-28 08:19 -0800
              Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-01-28 15:18 -0500
                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
            Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-01-28 15:13 -0500
    Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-01-27 15:32 -0700
      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
            Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2026-01-27 19:53 -0500
            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
                Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2026-01-30 07:07 -0700
                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
            Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-01-30 13:25 +0000
    Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Lasse Langwadt <llc@fonz.dk> - 2026-01-28 17:38 +0100
      Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-01-28 17:19 -0500
      Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war bitrex <user@example.net> - 2026-01-28 17:36 -0500
  Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-01-28 06:26 +0000

csiph-web