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@PawelK @kuad75@social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua Oh yeah it's an opportunity. It reminds me of the old network printers that had memory. A repair technician could come quickly, service the machine and be out before the real technician arrived.

Passport copies, IDs, internal documents and whatever one would not expect to be found.

I would hope that the IT tech would have undergone a power cycle to get rid of memory leaks but perhaps it's better they don't. IoT devices with special firmware will help to free all of the oppressed information or act as a distraction for firmware based malware to exfil. Using images should help it get posted on the appropriate social media for collection.

@PawelK @kuad75@social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua Sorry, I was testing my memory after 72 hours of being awake. This is how I remembered the Ural. My memory seems to function better but languages become confused.
I was having difficulty reading it. I should be able to understand it better now.

@DotardTed @PawelK @sickcodes You mentioned a radiator. Radiators can be relocated trophy truck style. The armor is going to essentially be irrelevant as a few kg of RDX in a shape charge is going to destroy the equipment. Save the tractor.

If traditional plowing is going to be used, I would recommend getting a destroyed heavy tank running again and using it instead. It could be operated via remote control and it doesn't matter if it has no turret attached. It just drives, plows and takes the damage. It should last a field or more if the plow is made from thick armor steel.

@DotardTed @PawelK @sickcodes I've operated a D7 Caterpillar which is a bulldozer weighing around 14,000kg. The same model is used for clearing mines but with heavy armor. With that being said, the US has some scary antitank mines. It can sense the approach and launch into the air for a Javelin like effect. I don't know what Russia has.

The best approach that I can think of is to lay down more top soil. Perhaps it could be a Meter. It's a large task but mines don't do very well when they are buried too deep. It could keep agriculture going.

@mike805 @freemo @MelodyCooper @stormy178@mastodon.stormy178.com Well the Gobment made the action button, changed the stick powder to something else, no cleaning kits were issued, for some reason they didn't have chrome lined barrels and add in around 800 rounds per minute of barely any recoil fed in 20 round magazines. It's empty after around 1.5 seconds.

The original round was very effective and it was classified as to why it was effective. The round was prone to fragmentation around 3000fps. So that's one reason that round was phased out and a different twist was used.

Add in the fact that the AK-47s were actually Chinese Type 56 rifles and the North Korean version. Both had milled receivers and weren't the garbage Soviet AKM. If you look at US GIs holding a captured AK rifle, there's likely a lightening cut above the magazine well. That's the Type 56.

With all that being said, it worked great for the USAF and special forces units. The fragmentation issue was deemed a metallurgical problem.

It's a wonder it survived.

@mike805 @freemo @MelodyCooper @stormy178@mastodon.stormy178.com Diesel Engines and the fire piston. The Wankel and Mazda. Steam boilers exploding and the Sterling Engine.

@lupyuen @poleguy That's good. I do believe that most hardware failures on the Pinephone are from inserting a microSD card in the SIM slot.

It was one of the best phones that I have owned.

@poleguy @lupyuen What hardware version do you have? I still have my V1.1 Braveheart.

@freemo @MelodyCooper @stormy178@mastodon.stormy178.com The Mini 14 was a good lesson in why harmonics are important. The M4 was useful in learning why a 14.5in barrel using a round developed for a 16 to 20in barrel is not that good. Yep it took until 1996 to be formally introduced because of problems. Now it's being replaced with a battle rifle that weighs around 13.5lbs.

Ignore the Engineers and Designers. It's like NASA with O-rings. Communism doesn't stop for cold weather. We need another victory lap.

@lore @quilnux@mastodon.fulltermprivacy.com @Phil I will ask around to see what I can find. I know a guy who also builds Synths among other things. I will ask him and see what he recommends.

Asking Dr. Freemo is going to likely point in a helpful direction. If you have problems finding him, Thor can ping him. Also Thor probably knows a bit about this.

Mr. Lee is goated but I really do mean Greatest Of All Time. He stays busy with his work but he's really friendly.

The list could continue on but I'll get to work on trying to find a SHARC, TMS320, Blackfin or whatever is recommended. Hopefully it is something better. ;P

Ah Nu!

@lore @quilnux@mastodon.fulltermprivacy.com @Phil I remember why I knew about SHARC and that's VLIW and relatively open documentation.

TMS320 DSPs eventually evolved, perhaps devolved, to OMAP. It's powerful but so is the NDA for documentation. It also was used by military in various forms. One was used in radar so I guess it is out of the question.

Qualcomm Hexagon is impressive but NDAs make it look like an iPhone for development. Yeah it's practically trash.

Aside from asking your friendly local military for the Doom Slayers of DSPs they no longer use, I would recommend an FPGA.

Of FPGAs I would say Lattice iCE as they seem to be one of the only dependable FPGAs that can work with open source. I have a couple from a foreign company that are all but useless.

A lot of talk for not a lot of help. How much DSP is needed? I'd honestly recommend an FPGA to work with as it can be obtained. Expense is rather surprising compared to DSP evaluation boards.

The OMAP DSPs were used on inexpensive quadcopters and the Beagle Bone Black. Those might be the least expensive and easiest to obtain. The OMAP DSPs were used in smartphones too so it should be a decent choice. SBCs could potentially be used for a very inexpensive testbed. It's just finding the instant on RTOS versions used in various environments.

@freemo @MelodyCooper @stormy178@mastodon.stormy178.com Someone has to be this person so I'll proceed. Firearms are really cool and very dense in Physics and Engineering. With the War on X mentality, education has suffered.

The CETME's history and the development of the AR-15 are absolutely insane. Ian McCollum with Forgotten Weapons has really cool videos on the subjects.

It really says something when my interest in Electrochemistry was sparked by Uncle Fester. Fast forward to me using that information to protect structures from corrosion. It was 4 or 5 graduate level texts later but it still sparked that thirst for knowledge and eventual application.

Give kids every chance to stand in pure awe of something. One moment for me was seeing a real SR-71 in person. I couldn't touch it but still I got moved along by guards because I was paying too much attention. It was being serviced and I was able to see a little bit of the turbines. Not even porn has been that interesting. A crude example but it was that amazing. I can still visualize that section rather vividly approximately 24 years later.

@lore @quilnux@mastodon.fulltermprivacy.com @Phil OMAP, Hexagon and the other last call DSPs could potentially work. Texas Instruments had a really good DSP for what it was.

Aside from TI, a FPGA might be a good choice.

@PawelK @lupyuen @ThatCrazyDude @kravietz Thank you for introducing me to some important people too.

@PawelK @lupyuen @ThatCrazyDude @kravietz Mr. Lee is the man for anything related to embedded system hardware, firmware and up to regular systems. He's the best developer I know of. He has worked on nearly every arch I can think of except for maybe Cell (Multiclet).

I don't doubt he can look at a product and determine if it will be successful or a failure. A Professional in many different ways. His CV seems impossible.

@PawelK @kravietz They would quickly learn about the pain of addiction when they land in a foreign country and have their phone able to transmit. Nothing like owing a dealer 700 USD. That's a good amount of fun if it's not mobile data.

That's a sufficient amount of fun here but in some areas of Europe, that's going to go farther.

@kravietz Aircraft are extremely resistant to EMP as they get struck by lightning all the time. Plasma has weird properties and it's rather strong.

The hardware controlling the drones can be swapped to radiation resistant hardware in addition to shielding materials inside or outside the drone.

The weapon has to have a cool down period between firing and another swarm could come in during that time.

A really cool technology is being brought back for fast flying small targets and it's the shotgun. There have been experiments in the past to extend the lethal range and effective range. I believe that one used buckshot and was effective to around 200m. The fastest way is likely going to be a thermobarric volley so it will crush and rip them apart or just damage the rotors.

Thermobarric rounds are really cool and should work decently, they work better when there are chambers or something to help with the pressure wave. It should still work well and not have much falling debris.

The truth is that it could be a threat made from regular quadcopters to something much more rugged. The weapons will have to evolve along with the drones.

From what I've seen being used, a shotgun could work or use those 40mm under barrel launchers to get an easy 25m kill radius. The only modifications needed would be an altimeter and an inexpensive optical sensor paired with a processor. (Honestly it could be an inexpensive smartphone) The rounds could use time and atmospheric pressure from the ground unit to detonate. So that's a soldier operated unit which are seemingly the same on the AK and M16/M4.

@PawelK @kravietz It damaged 35mm film if I recall correctly and it can easily destroy SD cards. As an American, I would leave all electronics behind and buy local electronics for a trip.

I do believe that SD cards and similar items can be excluded from a scan as they hold information. They could, assume so, be cloned for inspection. Every border crossing can reveal data like the Chinese malware on phones. Americans are probably going to clone everything including pictures and it's likely for personal use.

Yeah those checkpoints are bad news so I'd recommend not bringing anything that can't immediately be thrown away or left on a table. Trying to block the scanner is going to end badly. So have it excluded from that scan or have radiation resistant hardware.

@PawelK @GluedToTheScreen Depth charge or Dropped munition set to detonate at the optimal altitude? If it's the latter I'd think fission only with low yield, the gun type. It could be the sphere with potential fusion but I wouldn't expect such a crude system when tolerances are so low for proper initiation. I'll have to look at it again. Something tells me that it is around the altitude that one went off in Japan.

It could have been a counter at Mikoyan for how many planes they downed before the MiG-25 scared the US and the F-15 was created.