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I watched declassified thermal camera footage of 2026 United States F-15E rescue operation in Iran and I wish I hadn't. I'm very disturbed by the death I witnessed.
Here's the footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtJdb4mOPOE
Here's a 3 minute interview with "Bravo" the weapons systems officer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QQNlaATZcs
Here's the extended interview with "Bravo". I couldn't sit through this one because "Bravo" seems like an AI generated guy, and the interviewer seems like a synthetic rich person from The Hunger Games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNhO1Umj1so
This reminds me of the "Collateral Murder" footage from years ago.
In the footage, a group of five Iranian men are bombed by what I'm assuming is an American Reaper drone. We get a zoomed in shot of three of the men being vaporized by what I assume is a hellfire missile. The two surviving men stumble, then run towards the crater. I think it's pitch black and they are looking for their comrades, who now exist only as chunks of flesh. They seem to realize they're gone, and run away in anticipation for another bomb.
The Reaper drone tracks the men as they run away, then drops another bomb on the wrecked truck. The engine block goes flying. The two surviving men continue running away.
We get a different shot where more bombs come in, in what looks like they're destroying an access road. In this mission, I heard there were 20+ aircraft deployed to rescue the fallen F-15 crew. Lots of explosions in the background. God knows how many of those explosions were more Reaper drones vaporizing more men.
The US had air supremacy, and was killing unarmed men. This got me thinking, "I think we might be the bad guys."
What sort of twisted Rules of Engagement allow for this slaughter? How were those five men deemed a threat?
I hate war.
I think paint would cause collateral damage. X37b with a grapple is all you need. Grab an enemy satellite and drag it into an orbit it can't survive.
Try again. Make a new account. The bulletpoints don't explicitly ban you from doing that, they just say, "may also be suspended."
I was selling Bitcoin for dollars on eBay in 2013. It lasted less than a week after I got scammed out of 0.3 BTC. The buyer claimed they didn't receive the sats, and eBay sided with the buyer even though I could prove the sats were sent. I don't think Bitcoin belongs on eBay because eBay isn't Bitcoin native and the staff isn't specialized in how to handle it.
I've been an eBayer since 2009. I'm on my second account. You're right, it shouldn't be like this, but it is. eBay and the other big players are power factions and they have captured the network.
Over the years I have tried to opt out of eBay and Amazon. I used OpenBazaar, Brawker, Bitmit, CryptoThrift and Satscrap. I made 1 sale in Bitcoin land where I would make 100 sales on eBay. Every one of those Bitcoin marketplace platforms failed. The network is everything.
Sure, dip your feet in the alternative marketplaces. Early days and all. It will change, but right now they probably won't sustain you like eBay can.
Just try again. It sucks but you gotta move on to stay in the game.
I'm making progress on my portable Nintendo 64 project.
I got curious about my Eyoyo monitor. It's been flickering. Is there something wrong with it? Lemme void the warranty and open it up.
Eww, what's that yellow and black goop around the capacitors? Are those capacitors leaking, or is that factory glue? It doesn't look like glue to me. IDK if I should repair this, or just buy a new display. This one cost me $35 used. They go for $60 new. Would I be paying that much in capacitors? IDK. It still works and it only flickers when it's not displaying video so I'm putting that off for now.
Also I got thinking, could I automate the display input switching? It's kind of a pain in the ass to switch inputs on this thing. There are four inputs. AV, VGA, HDMI, and Ypbpr. Switching inputs takes about 5 seconds inbetween cycling through each input. Painfully slow, and I often click too many times and miss the input I want so I have to cycle through them a second time.
Could I perhaps hack into this thing using what looks like a JTAG or UART header above the composite connector? Maybe send some commands to jump directly to the input I want? I have never done something like that, but I want to try. I would need some tools. A logic analyzer and a multimeter, I think?
Might be more trouble than it's worth, but it would be super cool to be able to automatically switch to the HDMI input when I activate keyboard or mouse mode on my Cardputer.
Oh yeah, my custom cardputer firmware! I'm super proud of this. It's purpose is to keep me informed of the recording status, because I can't see the recording computer's display while I'm playing games. (The recording PC is on the HDMI input, the N64 is on the AV input)
I split the Cardputer's display into 4 quadrants. Top left shows the currently active Open Broadcaster Studio (OBS) scene. Top right shows when OBS is recording, IDLE, or waiting for a connection. Bottom left shows audio input levels. Bottom right shows recording duration, and disk usage.
This thing is awesome! It already saved me from losing a recording session, because the live display helped me notice that the game audio source was muted.
The Cardputer has a magnetic back, so it sticks right on my recording PC, or the metal table that holds the Pelican case.
There's more! It also has shortcuts to shutdown the computer, start/stop the OBS recording. AND it has keyboard/mouse mode so I can use the Cardputer as a tiny keyboard and mouse for the recording computer. That way when I go portable, I don't need to lug around extra peripherals.
I also picked up one of these monstrosities-- Super GB Booster.
See how there's a MarioKart 64 cartridge back there?
Yeah, it's actually connected to the Super GB Booster. that's how this unlicensed hardware adapter tricked the console into booting. N64 cartridges have little chips in them that was like Nintendo's DRM. If the console doesn't detect the authentic chip, the console won't boot the game.
Super clever of the devs who made the Super GB booster, without having to pay Nintendo for licensing. Super weird to look at, though!
I had my eye on these for awhile, because it's been a fantasy of mine to play physical GB carts on a TV via N64. It works pretty well, with one huuge caveat. No gameboy audio whatsoever! Instead, you get this annoying looping song.
It's like, annoying to listen to the music, and it's annoying to play the game in silence. Ahhh, I can't win!
Anyway, the Super GB Booster is a tangent. Not work, it's just a fun distraction. I'll probably make a video about it eventually.
I FINALLY GOT A PLAN FOR POWER!
Right now, I'm tethered to the wall. That was never the goal with this project-- I want to go outside and touch grass with it!
So here's my plan. We use one of these battery power stations, which outputs DC. They are small enough to fit in the case, and have enough Watts for a few hours of play. Either a Ecoflow TRAIL 300 or Anker Solix C300. Haven't decided yet.
Then with the battery, outputting via USB-C, I can eliminate all the bulky AC wall warts and the power strip that's currently inside the case.
The monitor will need a USB-C to 5.5mm barrel connector.
And a USB-C conversion for the N64, which conveniently is super tiny compared to the original!
Finally, I managed to find a Lenovo power supply which should work with the PC. This one looks like it's designed for using a Lenovo laptop in a car, but it's the right specs for the PC in this setup so we're gonna give it a go!
Once I got the power all contained in the box, that means I can wheel it out in a random forest and play games, or find random people on the local walking trails who want to 1v1 me. No more outlets, no more extension cables! And apparently DC setups are more efficient than having to invert AC, which will be great for maxing runtime.
I'm excited about this progress!
I think Bitcoin and taxes can be something tricky for businesses. Here in the US, Bitcoin is legally treated as a commodity. When you sell Bitcoin for dollars, it's a taxable event because of capital gains tax. Then there's short term capgains vs. long term capgains. You can save money if it's long term.
It's kind of a mess having taxable events every time you make a sale. So I think the prevailing strat is to have a Bitcoin account "treasury" that you don't ever sell. You just hold it and let it grow. Hold it for 10+ years to get the long-term capital gains tax rate.
But I don't know how taxes work in India so I can't really help you there.
Closed area?
Nuh-uh. It's clearly very open.
I saw this sign and thought I gotta take a photo for Saturday Share!
That seems wrong for a prediction market involving a date. It's excluding acts of god and black swan events. However small, there's still a chance the outcome could be yes.
Wish stacker.news was actually decentralized and built around nostr?
No! I like SN because it's fast and performant. Everything decentralized or built on nostr is painfully slow.
It was an edit :P My original comment lacked the '$'. When I saw I wasn't getting a response I looked around and saw other people using the dollar sign. So I edited to see if it would go through without having to pay 100 sats for another message. It's cool though, this is a fun challenge :)
I think it's ridiculous to call SN a walled garden. Discord is walled garden. Facebook is a walled garden. On those sites, discussions and other content are private until you have an account. On Discord especially, content is not indexed by search engine. You can read Stacker News with no account. You can find SN posts via search engine. You can see into the SN garden without an account. If anything it's a fenced garden, and that's a stretch. SN is extremely open.
Nice work!