Hopfgeist

@Hopfgeist@feddit.de

Safety Engineer, Dad, Husband, Pilot, Musician. Not necessarily in that order.

Ingenieur für funktionale Sicherheit, Vater, Ehemann, Pilot, Musiker. Nicht notwendigerweise in dieser Reihenfolge.

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As U.S. government remains gridlocked, Warren Buffett's son Howard has given Ukraine half a billion dollars (fortune.com)

The Howard G. Buffett Foundation has given more than half a billion dollars in humanitarian assistance to Ukraine since Russia invaded the country two years ago. And while Congress is gridlocked at the moment about supplying additional aid to the country, Buffett says he’s planning to keep giving....

Hopfgeist, (edited )

I wouldn’t say the US government is “gridlocked”. Instead, very specifically, a single person deliberately and single-handedly blocks a vote in the House of Representatives. I find that unbelievably unconscionable, anti-democratic and all-around despicable, especially since it is quite clear that a Ukraine aid package would easily win a huge majority in the House.

Good that other people with a conscience single-handedly donate large sums.

Hopfgeist,

I also use this, and it works great. Another downside is that when using the free service, others can just use subdomains of your registered domains. You can always deny it, but you have to do it manually. With the premium subscriptions you can prevent that automatically for a number of domains, depending on how much you pay.

Hopfgeist,

Funny how those fragments of the drones, that were supposedly shot down, still always fall on some high-value strategic target and severely damage it. As if the drone hadn’t been shot down in the first place.

Hopfgeist, (edited )

Turkey hasn’t signed the Rome Statute, so they are under no legal obligations to arrest him.

Hopfgeist, (edited )

“Russia” would be “Russie”. What it actually says is “rachysty”, which is the French variant of “Rascists”.

Hopfgeist,

A variation of Rascist (not racist), a new word combining Russian and fascist, its use is widespread in English-language content from Ukraine. The spelling “rachyst” is a French homophone of the English pronunciation, the trailing “y” is the plural form as in the Italian “fascisti”, where the word originated. Spelling it with “y” is probably just an artistic touch, or to make it look more foreign.

Hopfgeist,

I’m sure many English people have never heard about “Rascist”, either. It’s just my interpretation that seems to make sense (knowing a little French). But if you have another take on it, I’m certainly curious.

The website Desk Russie also corroborates my interpretation.

Hopfgeist,

Wow, thanks a lot for the elaborate reply. My French certainly isn’t advanced enough (two years in school) to evaluate the finer points of such messages. But to me this makes a lot sense:

Yes, it is certainly a niche application, and not a mainstream French word. The same goes for the English equivalent, “Rascist”. It is almost exclusively used by Ukrainian troops, and in the same sense as the article explains the use of the French “rachyst”, denoting Russian troops engaged in the attack on Ukraine and everyone behind them, but specifically not the ordinary Russian citizen.

Writing messages like these on bombs and missiles has a long tradition, at least since World War II, so I think it’s an actual caption on the actual missile. Showing it off on social media is a large part of it these days, but it is also done for boosting morale of the troops deploying the weapons, or by request of family and friends of casualties, certainly not for the Russian recipients to appreciate. It is also quite likely that it was indeed translated with the help of Google translate, creating the “un-French” phrasing.

Out of curiosity, how would you as a native speaker make a more fitting translation of “from Paris with love”? I do English/German translations as well as simultaneous interpretation at conferences, so I am very familiar with the intricacies of phrasing and deeper meanings and subtle connotations of idiomatic expressions, so I can totally feel your sentiment of “it’s not wrong, but you would never say it like that in French.”

Ukraine levels up the fight with drone strikes deep into Russia - Lemmy.World (lemmy.world)

By last week, the evidence of a new and sustained attack against a crucial part of Russia’s economy was impossible to ignore. On Wednesday, a drone hit the Tuapse oil refinery in southern Russia on the Black Sea. Flames from the burning refinery were visible above an inky skyline. Nearby, the airport in Sochi – Putin’s...

Hopfgeist,

Which could very well be the reason they held back in the past; out of consideration for oil and gas prices affecting their Western friends. Now that the biggest friend seems to have abandoned them (likely until November), that consideration is worth a lot less, weighing it against strategic benefits from reducing Russian reserves and income.

Hopfgeist,

They are still capable SAR, surveillance, reconnaissance and personnel transport helicopters. The German ones are also equipped with anti-ship missiles and a matching radar system. When receiving three of these from the UK some time ago, Ukraine said they were needed and useful. Age alone is not a measure of usefulness. These are only slightly older than F-16, and nobody calls those old and outdated. Though not as glorious as fighters, they can still play an important role for rescuing or relocating personnel quickly.

Yamaha SY77 split voices: Sustain-pedal to affect only one Element?

As the title says, I am new to the Yamaha SY77, and I’m making a split voice with piano on the left and sax on the right, and I want the sustain footswitch only to affect the piano. (How) can this be done? It was trivial on the DX7 II-D with a Split-mode Performance, but I can’t seem to find a setting on the SY77....

Hopfgeist,

On the contrary. Ammunition is actually what is among the most scarce resources now. Among other things, because the EU didn’t live up to its promises, but mostly because the US (more specifically: the House of Representatives, and even more specifically: Speaker Mike Johnson) has stalled aid to Ukraine indefinitely.

Hopfgeist,

I agree, except that it’s not retaliation when you hit strategic targets in a country that is engaged in a war of annihilation against your country.

Hopfgeist,

To add, unlike “traditional” RAID, ZFS is also a volume manager and can have an arbitrary number of dynamic “partitions” sharing the same storage pool (literally called a “pool” in zfs). It also uses checksumming to determine if data has been corrupted. On redundant setups it will then quietly repair the corrupted parts with the redundant information while reading.

Hopfgeist,

The craziest thing is that a single person can decide what the representatives can vote on, and thus keep the entire country hostage. In many civilised democracies, any faction (usually there are more than two) in parliament can introduce bills to be voted on. Which would make this whole thing impossible, because there clearly is a broad majority for a huge Ukraine aid package. But they don’t get to vote on it, because a minority can demand that unrelated stuff get tacked onto the same bill. What does Israel (armed to the teeth anyway, and not currently putting their might to good use, losing what sympathy they might have had after the October 7 atrocities) and US border security have to do with Ukraine? You want to vote on those issues, too? Fine, introduce a bill and vote on them. Separately.

Hopfgeist,

They are going to build the Fuchs and the Luchs? The Luchs has ben decommissioned by the Bundeswehr and replaced by the Fennek and the Marder quite some time ago. It was, however, impressively silent. With all auxiliary aggregates turned off (but the main diesel idling), and rolling slowly on sand, it could literally tap you on the shoulder with its 20 mm autocannon before you would hear it. The Fuchs is just an armoured personnel carrier with no armament. Both are amphibious, which may become important.

Hopfgeist,

Thanks. It was my mistake then, as they didn’t translate Fuchs. I just happen to know Fuchs and Luchs from personal experience, and just assumed.

Hopfgeist,

Thanks for the clarification.

Hopfgeist,

mixing drive models is certainly not going to do any harm

It may, performance-wise, but usually not enough to matter for a small self-hosting servers.

Hopfgeist,

ebay is very international, and is also by far the greatest site for second-hand stuff in most European countries. I normally buy my used drives there.

Hopfgeist,

I think you are spot on.

S300 are anti-aircraft missiles. Converting them for surface-to-surface use is very inaccurate. So they are not targeting specific civilian objects, they just don’t care. If they aim them roughly at civilian areas, it can still be a war crime, and it is tactically and strategically mostly useless.

Hopfgeist,

Mirnograd : the Russians hit 2 missiles from the S-300 air defense system. The police department was destroyed.

Is this a translation error? Did the S300 really hit two Ukrainian S300 air defence missiles? That would be an unexpected operational success. I assume a “with” is missing: “the Russians hit with 2 missiles …”

Hopfgeist,

The way I see it: it is either mostly ineffective (against infrastructure) or a war crime if used again against people (civilians or combatants).

Hopfgeist,

Can transformer cooling oil form flammable vapour? Maybe, I guess, if it’s hot enough, but I’m not sure. But when the transformer gets hot and explodes it may cause an oil spray fine enough to create a fireball, which may look similar. The first stage of a “proper” BLEVE is normally the “expanding vapor” cloud, which is visible as such, before it has mixed with air sufficiently (and/or reaches an ignition source) to burn and form the fireball. Then again, in smaller ones, and in the dark, the vapour cloud may be so short-lived that it cannot be seen.

Hopfgeist,

I wouldn’t be surprised if

Neither would I. Just saying that “smoking at the workplace” alone won’t suffice. Unlike in, say, a fireworks munitions factory.

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