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  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Afghanistan says 400 civilians killed in Pakistan strike on Kabul hospitalEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Asim Munir, the current COAS and second ever self appointed field marshal of Pakistan’s Army, spent the last couple of years basically shooting the country in the foot by deleting the democratically elected government, attempting to assasinate the former PM, jailing the former PM under false charges (of which the public hasn’t seen since 2023), nuking the economy with IMF loans, and beating Israel to be the first to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

    All while showing up to Washington in a private jet as much as Netanyahu.

    This entire “war” with Afghanistan was an American request that he happily obliged to conduct. No one is buying it, which is one of the reasons why the US Consulate in Karachi was attacked by armed protestors over a week ago.

    For all intents and purposes, you can just currently consider Pakistan a vassal state of the US, just like KSA or UAE.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Starmer refuses to send warships to Strait of HormuzEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I find it funny that British media has been making headlines about UK’s opposition to the war despite the fact that they let the US use Diego Garcia (even after publicly opposing it) and despite the fact that they are deployed to Cyprus and flying defensive sorties all over the middle east.

    I don’t even think this is major thing to report considering literally every other nation has already refused to send their warships into the Strait of Hormuz.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•‘Worst nightmare’: anger and frustration as Gulf states bear brunt of war they did not startEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The most ironic thing is if they had bothered to set up a practical plan and stated war goal, the US could have invaded and captured Iran in a matter of weeks.

    It just that the largest and most sophisticated military in the world is completely useless if you don’t spin up and use its full potential, which you can’t really do without troops on the ground and congressional approval (not the literal declare war sense, just public support).

    Of course they can’t actually justify a proper invasion (or a draft) without causing insane fallout in the US, so they used everything except ground troops which will accomplish nothing and get the US stuck in a forever war like Vietnam.

    Even though China is facing eventual oil supply issues, they’re probably looking at this thing like prime cinema as the US expends its military global dominance on Iran, which will solve their Taiwan plans for them.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•this command saves livesEnglish
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    2 days ago

    shred is what you should be using if you really want to destroy a file, but I’m actually not sure that works well on all filesystems.

    I’m pretty sure FAT32 and NTFS leave behind partial file artifacts when you edit/append data, and especially when you physically move it around.

    It just seems inevitable you’ll leave behind deleted blocks with data, which only a fulle drive wipe would guarantee removal.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it reasonable to be concerned about security issues when switching to Linux?English
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    9 days ago

    I can’t find it now, but there was some talk about AppArmor being dropped due to its limiations, but I guess that’s no longer the case?

    But yeah the selinux “just relabel all” is an annoying duct tape solution to anyone who has issues. Optimally you should only need to relabel a dir/file once or set the appropriate selinux policy flag if you do run into a problem.

    The user friendly solution is supposed to be the troubleshooter, which actually works pretty well most of the time, but it still requires the user to know how SElinux works to use correctly.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense TuinmanEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I’m late to this reply, but Chinese pilots and aircraft have actually become quite competent this decade. Their behavior with international intercepts doesn’t mean anything, especially when its usually done by some ye olde J-11s. And amazingly they kickstarted the LRAAM arms race again with their highly successful PL-15.

    The F-35 does get to face off against China’s J-20 and J-35, but to answer your question, the thing was built as an export product to make a ton of money for Lockheed.

    While there is obvious technological advancement from the F-22, it has a top speed akin to a dated block I JF-17, reliability as good as a land rover, and parts/munitions expensive as golden caviar.

    It’s just an export all in one stealth solution because there is no alternative that was developed.

    Which is why I want to see it pitted against any nation that has properly delved into counter stealth operations. I feel like if you can successfully light it up, it would struggle in a BVR fight, unlike the F-22 which has plenty of power to mess around.

    There’s no direct Chinese equivalent because both the J-20 and J-35 are more akin to the F-22 (although J-35 is a bit closer), but I would not be surprised to find the F-35 not being able to keep up with such adversaries.

    And I’m fairly certain USAF is completely aware of this in their redteam exercises, which is why they continue to field the F-22 as their primary stealth air superiority fighter, if not outright their primary air superiority fighter.

    Even more annoyingly for the USAF, I don’t think the upcoming F-47 is going to come before China decides to jump on Taiwan, so they’ll more than likely be fighting with whatever they have today.