Same in DK, and my comment was meant to underline that. If you see a drone and no operator is around, then something is definitely wrong.

I mean, years ago, I had a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ drift away, on account of my own inexperience and stupidity. This was right when it had just come out, and way before drone licenses and laws forbidding drone flights in populated areas. So no laws were broken; and it was done with no malicious intent… But these days?

Not even the DK police, who have some very well-trained drone operators, can fly their drones out of sight.

Seeing a drone with no operator once? Something might have gone wrong, let’s not judge too harshly, but seeing a drone with no operator regularly? On your property? If you have a hunting permit, a shotgun, and a clear shot, then it might be a good time to practice your anti air skills.

Addendum: drone licenses and permits doesn’t allow you to fly over private property or main roads.

Since op didn’t mention seeing a pilot, I’d suspect that the drones are flown out of sight. So asking them to stop can be difficult. Of course asking nicely, by downing a drone, might get the message across.

I wonder if I could shoot down drones here in Denmark as well.

That’s with the mindset that I wouldn’t want to stay long at a job like that

Oh I concur, but elsewhere OP mentioned that the job pays a rather unskilled (OP mentioned having an A+) 20 year old 55k USD, and OP is getting certs as well. In that case I’d seriously be working on my STFU-skills, instead of meddling in something that my boss really wants me to stop meddling in. Maybe do a bit of CMA - but not to the extent of emailing my boss to get a paper trail.

When you’ve been in an organization for only three months, and it’s your first job in the industry, maybe just absorb what’s happening instead of trying to change stuff. Make up your own opinions, sure, but keep them to yourself. Maybe evaluate on how you perceived situations, and how they played out, and modify your views based on that.

OMG the naming schemes for powershell is enough for me to stay away. A +20char name for a command that shares the first 10 chars with 15 other commands, so you can’t just tab through it? No thanks!

Will look into nushell though, thanks for the advice.

It’s your first IT job and you’ve been there for a few months? While your safety concerns definitely can be relevant my advice is this

You should

1. Don’t rock the boat as a new hire. Figure out what is going on first. Maybe there’s a reason to some of the madness you see.
2. Do NOT contact the owners. Doing so will likely be seen as disloyalty by your boss and possibly the owners as well. Only go through your immediate superior.
3. Don’t bring it up again with your boss. It’s not your responsibility.
4. Leverage the user. Let the user be the one to push for a system switch.

You could

1. Figure out if you can get the system on a separate VLAN and get it locked down in firewall rules.
2. Research the system. Why don’t your boss want it replaced? Does it run some ancient software? We’ve got some machinery that is running windows 7 at work. When I got hired, in the days if windows 8, the controller was running windows XP. The setting up of drivers and archaic proprietary software, involved in upgrading, is immense. When we switched to 7 this €60k equipment was down for days, and it was a week before it operated properly.

I guess that the technology shouldn’t be deployed indiscriminately. But it could also mean a better hit ratio, since distance and speed is more accurately recorded with radar, than by naked eye.

We as in the people who don’t want to get fucked by Putin next. Check out the name, not an American.

The cheap kamikaze drones present a new strategy which we don’t have a viable long term counter for. As well do the swarms of drones. Relatively inexpensive autonomous defense systems, using inexpensive ammunition, seems like something we could use around important infrastructure elsewhere in Europe, as well as in Ukraine.

Agreed, but seeing as the Ukrainian defense forces are already doing this manually, why not optimize it?

Do what I do, plan for porn, fastfood and beer. In reality you buy a six pack of your old brand, then drink half a beer with a large cheeseburger. Get queasy from the burger and fall a sleep before you manage to play with yourself. Wake up to find that the dog ate your fries and got diarrhea, which you slept through on account of the beer. Now clean up dog diarrhea with hangovers while swearing that you’ll never drink half a beer.

LPT: disable the roomba before sitting down, and make sure that the dog has been walked…

Embedded engineer, working in education. I use 3 for mental estimations and whatever is stored in the calculator, I have happened to grab, for “precision” work. Sometimes I’ll even round pi to 4, to build in some tolerance when calculating materials.

Win8 was a case of “dress not for the job you’ve got, but the job you want”… Luckily Windows 8 just wanted to be a handheld OS and not an AI interface like win11.

Exactly! How else would I get to preface a comment with “anal” in uppercase? I need an acronym that includes “penis” or “boobs” and is annoying to pedants. Maybe it could be CPENIS for “Caution: Pedants Exasperatingly Nitpicking In Stubbornness”, and it’s pronounced “see penis” so it’s even dirtier.

Me: Can you please just not change the UI?
Microsoft: now you need to expand the right click menu to access your most used actions.
Me: what?
Microsoft: and we replaced all the cpl and msc files, so now you can’t use the old settings interfaces.
Me: wait!
Microsoft: and ALL the new settings uses edge webviewer, so if you manage to remove edge you’ve fucked your install up
Me: sounds terrible, surely I can just reinstall edge
Microsoft: you can try but all links to edge on our website are just links that launches edge, because you can’t remove it - so why provide an installer?
Me: do you expect me to die?
Microsoft: no Mr User, we expect you to cry! Muwhahahaha

IANAL, but I watch a lot of legal eagle on nebula.

It’s about research capacity. Finding applicable case law can take a fair amount of time. Maybe less with AI, unless you start citing the AI case law https://duckduckgo.com/?q=AI+generated+case+law, but you need to know how other cases went, if you want to create a successful strategy for your own case.

Thank you for telling why I’m wrong :)

I agree with you partly on your first point. Putin has other ways of making his fortune. BUT that doesn’t mean that he couldn’t also do this. Maybe it’s not the primary reason, but if Putin doesn’t care about Russia or the Russian people, then money could be a motivator.

On your second point IDK though. Russia still has a pretty large black sea port in Novorossiysk to the south east of Crimea. That port is on the mainland, has a rail connection, and doesn’t rely on an explosion prone bridge. Sevastopol may be an important port, but important enough to go to war over? Besides, the black sea ports aren’t the only warm water ports west of the Urals. Not counting the unconnected port in Murmansk, on the Baltic sea there’s Kaliningrad and the three large ports near Saint Petersburg. On wikipedia’s list of largest ports in the Baltic sea, the three at Saint Petersburg are in the top four.

So why go to war for a fifth port? Was Novorossiysk operating at capacity? I dont buy it. The war wasn’t for a path to Sevastopol alone.

I’m gonna try with a crazy conspiracy theory here. But the more crazy the theory, the more entertaining it is. Can you disprove it?

I propose: Putin is heavily invested in western defense industry, and the invasion of Ukraine was both for internal political reasons but also to make European NATO countries ramp up military investments.

My reasoning:

1. Russia is generally flexing on the eastern NATO countries. And now is actively eating an unaffiliated country. Why? Is Putin so removed from reality, that he couldn’t have predicted the current outcome?
2. Sweden and Finland have either joined, or is in the process of joining, NATO. Making both countries more likely to invest in weapon systems from NATO countries.
3. The other western European countries are diverting considerable resources toward military investments.

Hanlon’s razor would suggest that Putin is just incompetent, but… The current theory seems to be that Putin had internal political reasons for the invasion. But apply Occam’s razor, which is more simple? “the richest person in the world wants more money” or “the Russian dictator has internal political issues that can’t be solved by suiciding people, but somehow can be solved by starting a precursor to WW3”?

I came here to suggest that as well. I have contacts who are switching from other platforms to RCS, and I have a hard time figuring out how secure that is.

You can dehydrate eggs. We’ve done it for for storing eggs for feed, not for human consumption. I believe that is done by freeze drying.

Haven’t played it. I tried 3, and played through 4. But from what I’ve seen anything released from 2004 onwards is purely action role playing.

Researching my original comment (yes, I’m a professional overthinker) I stumbled upon the wasteland series. It seems that the original fallout was based on this series, and that it still has proper turn based combat.