The near deadlock on land has led to an alternative Ukrainian effort to win by economic means.
While Russia has stepped up bombing of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
and residents of the country’s cities endure electricity outages,
Kyiv is still able to get power to the front,
its defences not obviously impaired.
And despite the regularity of Russian drone and missile attacks,
civilian morale appears not to have been significantly affected.
In retu…
Ukraine to share wartime battlefield data with allies to train AI air defenses: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/ukraine-to-share-wartime-battlefield.html
I've finally gotten Termux to rsync files via crontab. Needed to set up keychain, something I used to understand in the distant past. Now I have my own quantified-self data (well, location and battery) uploading to my private cloud.
#termux termux.api, python, rsync, crontab, keychain.
It’s super cool this place is right down the road from me, even if I’m not really the target demographic.
“Co-owner Bryant Wilcox has turned a lifelong passion for gaming into a community hub where collectors, families and casual players all feel welcome.”
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RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_world_news/115961341428019762
If the answer is not "they're bribing him", then this is a novel story.
(In any case, worth documenting)
Defense Minister Fedorov launches Mission Control project to unify Ukraine’s battlefield drone operations: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/24/defense-minister-fedorov-launches-mission.html
RE: https://sciences.social/@conradhackett/115958821243723405
More people asserting the obvious (often necessary!): opt-in panel web surveys are increasingly popular (cheap, easy, profitable) but provide poor information about the world.
Let&#…
The most ridiculous thing re the US 2nd Amendment zealots casting gun ownership as protection from a tyrannical government is that being armed & in conflict w/ the state (with not just a monopoly on violence but huge advantage) gives then carte blanche to kill you.
Peaceful protest or civil war.