Joke print from @800tonnes showing the work realized by the Naval Group company on the french nuclear sub Perle as an Ikea manual. The Perle caught fire while on drydock in 2019 and the entire front section was destroyed. The solution they chose was to cut the front section of a sistership recently decommissioned, the Saphir, and patch it on the Perle. It actually worked and now the Per-phir roams the seven seas again
I know what to do !
The problem here is that there is more thought and planning in this thread than will go into the actual decision.
that's not normal, I'd like to make that point quite clear. They're normally built so the front end doesnt fall off
Yes being woken up in the middle of the night by police sucks (ask me how I know) but they don't do it for laughs. If they're at your door there's a reason. "Oh our systems are only internal" yeah no kidding. So is the asshole who just lateraled on your network. Now go patch your shit.
What security flaw in a document management system causes federal police to wake executives middle of the night? One which impacts the place where design schematics, component diagrams are stored by manufacturers. The depth of supply chain attack this would represent if quietly exploited is obscene.
I bet you're secretly pining for the days when Sun made you register for every Java VM download and all the different release versions had the same filename. They counted downloads, you betcha.
Scenes from “Star Wars: Revenge of the Chick” being filmed on our Island
![Comic. Scatter plot graph with y-axis “time spent debugging centimeter-wavelength antennas” and x-axis “Nobel prizes awarded as a result” from points 0 and 1. There is a vertical line of dots at the 0 mark that is more spaced out at the top, and these are all labeled “I.T. people troubleshooting WiFi issues.” At the 1 mark is one dot for Penzias & Wilson.] [caption] I just think the other people working in the field deserve at least a *little* recognition.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifz7w4fujuuaojcvg34z7fdxsf3v5mqk366fq3onj6knkgacqm6ei)
Comic. Scatter plot graph with y-axis “time spent debugging centimeter-wavelength antennas” and x-axis “Nobel prizes awarded as a result” from points 0 and 1. There is a vertical line of dots at the 0 mark that is more spaced out at the top, and these are all labeled “I.T. people troubleshooting WiFi issues.” At the 1 mark is one dot for Penzias & Wilson.] [caption] I just think the other people working in the field deserve at least a *little* recognition.
Centimeter Wavelengths
xkcd.com/3224/
For those followers who are not subscribers to The Economist:
1. Get a subscription, it is the best investment for you (and probably your career)
2. Meanwhile, ten minutes of the best bits of the interview can be seen here:
youtu.be/Lggjw3OuFrw?...
THE STREAM BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD DID #warhammer40k
Donald Trump appears to be getting a wide range of strategic advice and options from the various voices in his head.
I'm not an expert in Russian naval vessel design but I'm pretty sure the boat is not supposed to look like this.
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GSV Very Messy End To Hostilities
ROU Extreme Escalation
GCU Only Thing Markets Can Do Is Wait It Out
GOU Risk Implied By Official Policy
@cultureshipnames.bsky.social
The copy text feature did not work here. Apologies. Maybe it’s a BlueSky thing. Maybe a Substack thing.
Worth the read for this passage alone.
I periodically recommend Andrew Tanner's "Rogue Systems Recon" blog. The other person to read carefully is Australian General Mick Ryan's "Future Doctrina". This recent post is concise yet unbelievably comprehensive.
I didn't expect that the Shipping Forecast would be gripping daily news but for over a year listening to @mercoglianos.bsky.social has been top of my list.
🇫🇷🤔 French naval officer unknowingly revealed the location of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle by sharing a public workout on the fitness app Strava, - Le Monde
His run, recorded at sea, made it possible to pinpoint the carrier’s position in the Mediterranean near Cyprus.
This is no joke. Helium is only made slowly via radioactive decay and we use it far faster than it's produced in unusable quantities. It's critical for physics and astronomy tech as well. But kids love balloons, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
OTD in 2014 we denied we wanted more of Ukraine than Crimea.
First we denied we wanted Crimea.
Then we denied we wanted more of Ukraine
Then we denied we wanted all of Ukraine
And now we deny we want more of Ukraine we denied we wanted.
So you can trust our promises now.
Free as in goods are freely passing through the Straits
“He used to rev the engine whenever he left the driveway. Now he just sort of rolls down the hill in neutral,” one neighbour said.
theshovel.com.au/2026/03/18/d...
4/ “You cannot tell a Nato ally that you have made a four-day plan and then extend the operation to 14 days. In a sense, this was also a betrayal of the regional countries.”
Source:
www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-told...
Worth noting that, thus far, Trump’s own Navy has refused to join the “coalition of the willing”.
US Navy ships remain more than 700km from Iran, away from the Persian Gulf and having so far refused every single request for an escort.
There’s the obvious SIGINT applications, but does he recall the last set of custom pagers Israeli intelligence introduced?
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It's really important that Claude has gone from telling me that I am
"absolutely right"
to saying
"that's a good point"
every time.
Every war involves killing. Any war means. death, and pain, and grief. For centuries the civilized nations of the world have attempted to reduce the death and suffering by observing the laws and usages of war. By international conventions and agreements, such as the Hague and Geneva Conventions, and by general custom, certain practices are internationally regarded as cruel, inhumane, and criminal. Such barbarities include the killing of s,urrendered belligerents, the refusal of quarter, and torture or other ill-treatment of belligerents or inhabitants of occupied countries. Such acts are crimes and, if they result in death, are murders.
From the "High Command Case" at Nuremberg:
"Declaring that no quarter will be given" is specifically prohibited by Art 23 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, which means it is a war crime under US domestic law by virtue of the War Crimes Act (18 U.S. Code § 2441).
