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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • "Sloat explained that she “was uncomfortable with the idea of the US pushing Ukraine” against pursuing NATO membership, “and sort of implicitly giving Russia some sort of sphere of influence or veto power on that.”

    Where’s the prank or smoking gun?

    If the US publicly told Ukraine and Russia that they are forever barred from NATO that MAYBE Russia wouldn’t have invaded? That’s a secret?

    Appease Hitler and maybe he won’t take the Sudetenland? Chamberlain was pranked into revealing a big secret. Oh wait, Hitler took it anyway.





  • They were $500 20 years ago. So it’s a great value at $250.

    I used a Viewcast Osprey to get decent captures a few years ago. 25 years ago I was all about the BT 878 capture chips.

    The problem with the DV he recommends is that while it’s better than the trash USB converters, DV introduces its own lossiness because it’s like a form of Mjpeg. You also want an svhs player with svideo out even though the tapes aren’t svhs to keep luminance and chroma separate during capture. Otherwise you get dot crawl and other crosstalk artifacts.


  • Bullshit article likely written because of Russian influence.

    “The upshot is this: if what emerges from the current negotiations offers Ukraine a military capability and security guarantee – even a weak one – Ukraine should accept it.”

    Give Russia everything now because the journalist believes Russia won’t take more later despite historical proof that they will.

    Ukraine gave up Crimea and Russia went for Donbas. Security guarantees from the US are worth nothing. The 1994 Budapest Memorandum is proof.

    Edit: it’s not a journalist.