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SpaceX drains 2.4 Million Liters of water IN ONE MINUTE to prevent Starship - the most powerful rocket in the world - from destroying its own launchpad. Water absorbs the heat and acoustic energy by rapidly turning into steam as it exists at high pressure through millions of small holes on the flame deflector and top deck during liftoff.😯

‼️ The Chinese and Russians want to use malware to paralyze the Starlink satellite network, according to secret documents obtained from clandestine military forums. And if malware doesn't work, they plan to just shoot the satellites down. Chinese state aerospace researchers are pitching a three-stage plan to defeat Starlink. It escalates from regulatory pressure to coordinated jamming to physically destroying satellites in orbit. The same cache includes a protocol signed in Moscow in June 2023 to jointly build an air- and missile-defense system against US hypersonic weapons, a class of technology Moscow historically refused to share with anyone. Beijing still calls itself neutral on Ukraine. These documents make that position very hard to sustain. Note: the slides have been translated from Russian and Chinese into English for this post.

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OSINT: Gathering Information on a WhatsApp Account This article that has become incredibly popular among OSINT investigators. Have you read it yet? hackers-arise.com/open-source-in… @three_cube @_aircorridor @co11ateral

French startup Groundspace plans to test its WHISPR satellite terminal detection system in Ukraine. The vehicle-mounted system reportedly detects Starlink and other satellite communication terminals at ranges of up to 25 km. #France #Ukraine #EW #Defense

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@geerlingguy Fuck all those cam manufacturers! I've switched to just buying naked CCTV boards from AliExpress and flashing OpenIPC on them - all the features without any of the dumbing down! I've even reflashed some of my "consumer" cam with it, if possible. openipc.org

What intelligence can be gleaned from a power cable? Well, this radar can draw up to say 100-300 kilowatts of input power, although it’s likely to consume less with a robust military cable. Also, the power factor is probably not 1, but let’s assume the worst-case scenario. This estimate can provide a rough estimate of fuel requirements, generator size, and likely distance from the radar. However, more intensive analysis would yield more information. Yes, I know these are US wire sizes, but the physics doesn't care if you use bananas or mm. Remember, kids, anything you show will be used against you in the next war!

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Modifies network packets to bypass Deep Packet Inspection and unblock restricted websites and services. github.com/GVCoder09/NoDPI

It’s wild how easily US Navy Unmanned Surface Vessels managed to penetrate that deep into the Iranian Navy's most important port and successfuly blow up a submarine.

Aryan @GEOIMINT

2 days ago

Geolocation of a CENTCOM strike on an Iranian Navy maintenance facility, marking the first combat use of one-way attack unmanned surface vessels (USVs) by American forces. C: 27.140700, 56.211584 S: x.com/CENTCOM

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🎭 Faker – Generate Realistic Fake Data (such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.) for Development & Testing Faker is one of the most widely used open-source Ruby libraries for generating realistic fake data. It helps developers populate databases, create test fixtures, and build demos using fake names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, financial data, and much more. ✨ Key Features: • 👤 Generate fake names, profiles, bios, and job titles • 📧 Create realistic email addresses, domains, and passwords • 🏠 Generate addresses, cities, countries, ZIP codes, and phone numbers • 💳 Produce finance, banking, cryptocurrency, and transaction data • 🌍 Supports 40+ locales for localized data generation • 🎲 Deterministic random generation using configurable seeds • 🔒 Unique value generation to avoid duplicate test data • ⚡ Ideal for Rails applications, API testing, database seeding, and automated tests 🔗 github.com/faker-ruby/fak… #Ruby #RubyOnRails #Faker #Testing #DatabaseSeeding #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #DeveloperTools

THE RULE THAT GIANT MODELS REQUIRE GIANT RAM IS OFFICIALLY DEAD COLIBRI runs GLM-5.2, a 744B model, on a 25GB machine with no GPU. Because the model only needs a fraction of its parameters at once, colibrì smartly holds the core in RAM and streams the rest from disk on the fly. While disk speeds limit how fast it types, getting perfect responses from a massive model on a consumer rig is a stunning proof of concept! ★ 2.1k stars · Apache-2.0 100% free and open-source. Repo in 🧵↓

@mans_tet Vai Tet piedāvā 2.5Gbps vai 10Gbps optiskā interneta pieslēgumus privātpersonām kaut kur Latvija?

Jānim paldies, ka padalījās. Paldies viņa sievai, kura pamanīja, ka Jānis izslīd no dzīves. youtu.be/r4o87Wr0KrI?is…

For the first time, US forces have used Ukrainian-style sea drones to attack an Iranian coastal installation. Seen here, a trio of American Corsair USVs drive up to a sub repair dock at Bandar Abbas and detonate.

Ukraine is writing the manual every military on earth will read for the next twenty years.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Ukraine has done something no army has done before. A naval drone carried a combat robot to an occupied shoreline on the Kinburn Spit and put it on the beach. The machine – armed with a machine gun – went to work against russian positions, run remotely by operators of the 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade. No one had to swim to that beach. No one had to die on it. Ground robots are not new. Naval drones are not new. What is new is the chain: an unmanned boat delivering an armed unmanned vehicle onto a defended shore and conducting an assault, with human beings nowhere near the fire. The Kinburn Spit is a sandbar. No cover, no easy resupply. The kind of place where a landing means paying in blood before you have accomplished anything at all. And Ukraine’s scarcest resource has never been courage or ammunition. It has been people. That is the point. Russia’s whole theory of victory rests on one arithmetic – that it can spend lives faster than Ukraine can. Every technology that substitutes machines for men attacks that assumption directly. The drone did it in the air. The naval drone did it at sea. Now it has come ashore. Innovation under pressure is not a luxury. It is the only thing a smaller nation has. Ukraine built this because it had neither resources nor time – and necessity is the most honest engineer there is. Everyone will copy it. Ukraine is not only fighting a war. It is writing the manual every military on earth will read for the next twenty years.

Germany will finance the production of 50,000 Shrike FPV drones for Ukraine The drones will be manufactured by Ukrainian company SkyFall, while German firm Auterion will equip them with software and targeting modules. The Shrike 10 became the first Ukrainian drone to shoot down a Russian Mi-8 helicopter since the start of the full-scale war. The Shrike 10F variant also won the American Drone Dominance Program, scoring 99.3 out of 100 points.

1/2 The seventh-richest oligarch in Russia has published an interesting article. Reading between the lines, this is what the author sees in Melnichenko's message: - He uses the word "sovereignty" 31 times. About 85% of those references are essentially saying: "Don't take away our sovereignty, please!" Only one mention concerns Ukraine's sovereignty. - "Let's negotiate." - There is a growing realization that Russia will ultimately have to negotiate with Ukraine. A deal made in Anchorage alone will not settle the issue. - And that is what frightens them—they fear Ukraine's terms. - The elites have realized that Russia cannot survive a war of attrition. This message is repeated several times. - There is clear anxiety among the elites about losing everything if Russia is defeated. - The article also expresses resentment over the seizure of assets in the EU, calling it illegal. They believed in the legal protections proclaimed by the West, transferred their wealth there, educated their children at Western universities, and now feel they have been forced to pay for the damage inflicted on Ukraine. On one hand, the Russian author tries to repeat the familiar narrative: "Your sanctions don't work—the oligarchs simply came back to Russia." Yet in the next breath, he reveals his fear of how insecure property rights are under Putin's system. Why? 1. As The Economist has reported, since 2023 assets worth around $60 billion have been nationalized or redistributed among Kremlin-loyal groups in Russia. 2. Melnichenko himself recently "voluntarily" transferred 32 billion rubles to Putin's fund after prosecutors attempted to confiscate his business. The main message he is trying to sell is this: - A predictable Russia is better than a friendly Russia, and a sovereign Russia is a predictable Russia. Therefore, preserve our sovereignty—it is supposedly in your own interest. This was predictable back in 2022. Russia's elites appear to be trying to launch a new era of Perestroika and détente. But Russia already enjoyed full sovereignty—in 2014 during the annexation of Crimea, and again in 2022 when it invaded Ukraine. Yet it proved to be anything but predictable. The opposite conclusion follows: the most predictable Russian soldier is the one already struck by a drone. The claim that "the discussion about Russia's future must take place inside Russia" is equally unrealistic. Both rich and poor Russians have largely removed themselves from influencing their own state. Their slogan has long been: "We don't want another Maidan." Well, if you chose not to participate in politics, it is now too late. The future of the territory currently known as Russia will not be decided by ordinary Russians—it will be shaped by other centers of power. The article also warns that "any agreement reached under such circumstances will not produce lasting peace..."—in other words, it hints at future Russian revanchism. But that raises another question: if that is true, why should anyone preserve Russia in its current form only to deal with another wave of revanchism later? It also threatens that Russia could fall under China's influence—a clear attempt to manipulate American policymakers. Trump has already shown that he can be receptive to such arguments. Time will tell. The author warns of an uncontrolled struggle over Russia's nuclear arsenal if the country collapses. The Soviet Union used exactly the same argument to frighten the United States. George H. W. Bush even urged Kyiv not to leave the USSR. Yet nothing catastrophic happened. Any successor states emerging from Russia would almost certainly surrender nuclear weapons under pressure from the United States, China, and the European Union. By then, Melnichenko—perhaps ruling some local fiefdom around Novosibirsk—would hardly want to remain under Western sanctions forever. There is already historical precedent for this. ....

tun2socks routes all network traffic from any application through HTTP, SOCKS, Shadowsocks, SSH, or Relay proxies. github.com/xjasonlyu/tun2…

Scott Stedman of The Newsground has published an in-depth investigation. For ten months, he dug through archives, leaks from border patrol bases, and Epstein’s correspondence — which the U.S. Department of Justice had released in January — only to quietly remove it from the public database. And he uncovered a story that should have been the scandal of the year: the daughter of a Russian intelligence officer had been part of Epstein’s inner circle for eleven years. In other words, Moscow had direct access to compromising information on half of the Western elite. Meet Svetlana Pozhidaeva. In 2008, she appeared in Epstein’s orbit as a 24-year-old “model” with Jean-Luc Brunel’s agency. Moreover, this “model” holds a bachelor’s degree in political science, a master’s degree from MGIMO — the training ground for the Russian Foreign Ministry — and completed an internship directly at the Russian Foreign Ministry. Models with such backgrounds don’t just happen by chance. They are carefully prepared. She then lived for years right in Epstein’s house on East 66th Street, flew with him to the island, to Paris, and to Palm Beach, coordinated his schedule, and greeted guests: Bill Gates, Nat Rothschild, and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. In other words, she was positioned exactly at the point through which the entire flow of the world’s most valuable compromising material passed. And she doesn’t just sit there. The correspondence shows that she sent Epstein profiles of young girls — including one who “will be 18 in October”!!! And Epstein wrote to her: “All the girls are going to cipriani, tonight, you should go [hunting].” Now for the most interesting part — her dad. Yuri Pozhidaev: a lieutenant colonel, a graduate of the Military Institute of Foreign Languages (the breeding ground for Soviet intelligence officers), in Afghanistan even BEFORE the invasion, part of the staff of the Chief Military Advisor in Kabul. Then came twenty years of quiet “business” — and suddenly in 2017, at retirement age, a career takeoff: the sanctioned “Technopromexport” within the “Rostec” structure, alongside a security position at the Iranian branch of Russian Railways, eleven trips to Iran, and now — a security position at a company under the Russian Ministry of Energy with a salary six times higher than the median. Such career trajectories in Russia don’t happen without a patron. Moreover, Svetlana herself mentions her father’s “stories from his FSB past” in her letter to Epstein. This is a rare case where there’s no need to read between the lines — you can simply read the candid confession. And now for the cherry on top of this disgusting cake: in December 2015, this lieutenant colonel flew to New York — and drove, in a pre-paid car, STRAIGHT to Epstein’s condo. Epstein transfers $237,000 to a Moscow bank account with the note “for Svet’s family” and pays his daughter $8,300 a month for years — a total of over $380,000. Her mother writes him a letter addressed to “the Great Man,” and her brother, after visiting the estate in Palm Beach, blurts out: “No, it's not Great Getsby, it's Great Jeffry!” Incidentally, Russian Deputy Minister Belyakov — a graduate of the FSB Academy — helped Svetlana obtain her visa. The ending is straight out of a textbook. August 2019: Epstein is found dead in his cell. On January 28, 2020, Pagediva flies to Moscow — and the next day, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs issues her a passport under a new name, under which she now lives peacefully in California. Anyone who has ever dealt with Russian bureaucracy understands: it can only handle such tasks within a day if there’s a clear order from the FSB. So this wasn’t the escape of a frightened victim — it was the evacuation of an asset according to protocol. Was she simply a victim of Epstein in all this? Investigators are cautious in their conclusions, but I’ll say unequivocally: no. Russia is the country that invented the “honey trap,” so I cannot believe in such a coincidence — that she was simply a broken girl. The “I was forced” narrative, which the Wall Street Journal recounted with such sentimentality, doesn’t explain the father at Epstein’s homes, the quarter of a million in the Moscow account, or the passport issued in 24 hours. The WSJ, unfortunately, either colluded or allowed itself to be so blinded that it failed to see the obvious… I think the main question here isn’t even “what did Epstein know about the elites” — everyone’s been asking that for seven years now. The right question is: what does Moscow know about these elites, how much did it pay to find out — and which of the current Western “peacemakers,” who are so persistently pushing Ukraine to make concessions, does it have on the hook? And it’s very telling that the U.S. Department of Justice first released a thousand of Pozhidaeva’s letters and then removed them from the database.

Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman

7 days ago

How Russian intelligence infiltrated Jeffrey Epstein’s inner circle. My 10-month investigation:

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Significant development in the war: my unit, 413th "RAID" @Raid_413, hit a russian S-400 "Triumf" SAM near Bryansk region, 92 km deep into Russia. That's only 2nd S-400 kill of the war - these are quite rare. I never knew they could fire at ground targets btw. Kill the archer.