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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If alcohol consumption fixed declining birth rates, Japan wouldn't have an aging population and Russia wouldn't have been facing a demographic collapse even before the Ukraine invasion.

This isn't about boosting sex, it's about being a conservative policy counterweight to opening the door to legalizing medicines derived from cannabis.

My guess is that it's a result of an internal NJP compromise between center right and hard right factions: only agreeing to allow liberalized medical cannabis policy, if the law also increased the scope of, and penalties for, recreational uses.

But that's just my assumption based on my limited understanding of Japan's post-war uniparty government.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No, because the barrier to entry for car manufacturing is significant.

If the other major car manufacturers weren't already working a similar advertising system/platform, they've already scheduled multiple meetings to catch up.

This isn't a problem that will be solved by the market and competition, only by regulation.

And I don't consider tech savvy users learning how to hack and disable these features as a resolution, it's just mitigation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Unless it's for SMTP only, it's probably a back end sever to some other front facing box, or service, that has IP addresses whitelisted for email.

I'm pretty sure I read one of his comments elsewhere talking about tunneling everything over SSH, so I assume that's what he meant, but I could be mistaken.

Regardless, using an EOL distro as an internet facing SSH server that's 8 years behind on SSH updates, is probably a bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

We're not talking about some punch card COBOL machine he jimmy rigged with network access, it's an old Debian Linux box with SSH enabled.

It's not like Metasploit would have a tough time finding unpatched vulnerabilities for it...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This company may be dogshit, but seat count is the standard licensing structure for most employee facing business software, including on-prem.

Most business software licensing/CRM tools requires that information to generate a quote, as price will be dependent upon several factors, including volume licensing tiers i.e. volume discounts.

Sometimes, licensing structures are simple enough that an employee or rep might be able to give you a quick ballpark without that information, but that would be the exception, not the rule.

And all of that is assuming that pricing is only based on seats, when there could be a whole lot of other variables that would be required even for their system just to generate single quote e.g. core count, support terms, etc.

To be clear, none of that means anyone should trust, or switch back to, elasticsearch. It's just a minor peak into the mundane horrors of business software licensing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Currently, hydrogen production requires more energy to produce the equivalent amount of hydrogen.

Which is why it should not be produced on a fossil fuel based grid, but is perfect for stored portable energy on renewable grids. For example, converting excess wind and solar power to hydrogen fuel.

It sounds like Estonia is on the right track, and intending to leverage their access to water and other renewables to generate "green" hydrogen. This sounds great, I hope they can pull it off.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yes, you can.

Russia and Turkey have very different political dynamics than China and Japan.

Also, these types of airspace incursions, followed by intercepts, are pretty standard amongst major powers.

It doesn't mean they're benign, but that shooting down Chinese planes intentionally as a response, is something you do if you're willing and ready for the escalation path to result in open conflict, not simply an escalation.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Maybe, or it could have been poor intelligence, systems failure, or there could have been an actual HVT at this location, and they just didn't give a shit about any civilian collateral damage.

I'm not saying any one of those scenarios is more likely than what you're suggesting, just that they're all just as likely until we know more.

Edit: my bad, I didn't realize everyone here already knows for a fact that this was Putin lashing out, and there no possibility that it was anything else. You must share your OSINT gathering secrets with me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

B2B cold lead generation is illegal in Germany?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Because of Russia's vast geography and relatively limited waterway access, it's better to think of their different fleets almost as individual smaller navies.

Especially in the context of the Black Sea fleet and Turkey's ability to restrict access of military vessels through Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits because of the Montreux Convention.

So to answer your question under that more narrow scope, I believe it's roughly 20% of the Black Sea fleet has been destroyed.

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