FailForward @FailForward@social.cleverlibre.org
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
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This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
## PREßBURGER KLEZMER BAND - Vigndik a fremd kind
@pony On Wikipedia I read this thing has an extended effective firing range: anti-tank 3km, as a mortar 20km and anti-personnel 4km. If we focus on anti-tank operation, you said the disadvantage is that the thing is a hot sitting duck after the first shot. I don't know what is the range of IR homing systems, but 3+km seems rather far. As this can fire 7-15 rounds per minute, despite being an outdated design, I'd guess it can still inflict considerable damage at a relatively low cost before being shot down, so maybe it's not such a throwaway piece for Romanians. Think about it as operating your home server NAS on a 7-years old discarded laptop 😄 . But what do I know...
@rjayasinghe Kleiner Hunger? Is that nutella over peanut butter spread? Man, that's like 2 days of energy intake on that plate for some...
@pony meditation?
@pony Next time I speak to a land army officer I need to ask them about this. Some interesting and non-obvious developments are happening where I have a chance to look at. For instance the Dutch army by the end of 2010-ish abandoned all tanks. So there are none left. The idea back then was that 1) there is no immediate threat of a conventional war; 2) it's an outdated concept; and 3) there's a need for a more flexible special-ops force mix. Then 2014 and Donbas conflict came and the NLD land army woke up to a new reality and started to consider reintroducing tanks back - at a great cost as the knowledge and skills are being lost. Mind you, those tanks are not getting back yet, some smarter ideas came along, but the dynamics is in itself quite interesting.
@pony I am not a weaponry expert (and hope never will have to become one). What I find remarkable are the analysis of role of modern anti-tank weapons in Ukrainian conflict. On the one hand, US [Javelins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin) are seen as a significant advantage there and apparently also feared by the Russian side. From what I read about it, it's a fire & forget, so probably an intelligent self-guiding weapon. Probably unlike those Romanian things...
## Daniel Kahn: Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" - in Yiddish
I do not speak Yiddish, but this is nice.
@pony you are probably not following the RU-UK Donbas conflict too much, do you? It was back to WW2: two parties throwing tons of steel to each other. No air force involved, suddenly high quality anti-tank tech is **the** major tech advantage.
We always thought the next big war will be all air force, satellites, etc. Maybe not. Maybe it will be a throwback to WW2 again for some important reasons.
@piggo but now as I scroll down my feed I see you sorted that one out too. 👍
@jwildeboer Appelmoes for the masses!
@piggo ... otherwise you are running a risk of locking yourself out. Not nice. I've been there too 😵
@piggo I know. I;ve been there. As for the portforward, depending on what system you are on there, the trickery is to make it bulletproof: should survive reboots and system upgrades.
@piggo so I see you sorted the wg story. Congrats. Wireguard is a good tech, but as you pointed out yesterday, I also feel it's rough around the edges. BTW, you could have saved yourself some worries with OpenVPN alternative.
@z428 then I really suggest to use an external website availability monitoring global service (and possibly pay for it) and pull their stats via an API (or scrape it) right into your Grafana backend.
@piggo the further escalation is hanging up *always* immediately as the person said what they need to say without regard for your reaction. Typically the hang-up happens mid-way through your sentence.
@z428 Another one I had some good experience with was Munin: https://munin-monitoring.org/
It really depends on what you are after.
@z428 it's useful to analyse why you want this:
1. do you want to know whether a service is up or down; or
2. do you want to know whether the service is available from outside
For 1, internal monitoring is probably the way to go: Prometheus+Grafana (optionally). For 2, you'd be better off with an external service with a network of global monitors to check availability of your service from different locations.
Anyway, Grafana/Prometheus has some plugins for this. Alternatively Monit can serve you well there too: https://mmonit.com/monit/
Sultans of Swing (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli feat. Mary Spender)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0RV0kgdqJU
Useful tutorial on how to how to make a perfect pizza.
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
***
This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
