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New comment by fi358 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

fi358 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:36:26 +0000

How about video of it?

New comment by fi358 in "Moving away from US cloud services"

fi358 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:55:21 +0000

Strange as I have never heard that you would have to show your ID when buying a prepaid sim card in Finland. And I have also bought them several times and I think that I have sometimes bought them with cash.

New comment by fi358 in "Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope"

fi358 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:05:41 +0000

I have also noticed that for some reason hot showers and also shoulder and head massage help seem to help a lot, but only about as long as I am in the shower or have the massage. And also putting Vicks VapoRub on scalp seems to help a lot, but it is quite messy. However, a triptan medication I have started to use recently, seems to help even more.

New comment by fi358 in "Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'"

fi358 — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 10:55:25 +0000

I found a video that has lot of information about the cable severing ship:

Tanker Eagle S Seized by Finland for Severing Cables Between Finland & Estonia | Is it a Spy Ship? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy27qiKVCSI

New comment by fi358 in "Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'"

fi358 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:23:22 +0000

I think it had helicopter pad, a harbor for relatively large ships etc. I think Russia had planned to use it as a place to land troops or "green men" during war as spying could happen without helicopter pad etc.

New comment by fi358 in "Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'"

fi358 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:17:48 +0000

First two sabotages were done by Chinese ships (which may have had russians on the board). This one was registered to Cook Islands.

New comment by fi358 in "Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'"

fi358 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 11:27:17 +0000

Is the exact positions public info or is it just crude positions? BTW, if the exact cable positions is public info, where is it available?

New comment by fi358 in "Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'"

fi358 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 09:51:04 +0000

It seems that Putin thinks Russia is able to take Belarusia by coercion:

Putin’s plan for a new Russian Empire includes both Ukraine and Belarus https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-pl...

New comment by fi358 in "Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'"

fi358 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 08:36:26 +0000

I don't think it was incompetent attempts to attach something to the lines. It severed 4 data data cables and electricity cable called Estlink 2. If it hadn't been stopped, it would have severed also Estlink 1 within half and hour later perhaps also Balticconnector gas pipe.

About year ago Balticconnector gas pipe was already damaged by a Chinese ship, which had been dragging the anchor for long time in a very suspicious manner:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balticconnector

And again in August several data cables were severed by a Chinese ship. According to one analysis, that time they may have dragged the anchor for 400 kilometers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB-vEp3wr-0

BTW, Russia seems to have for years spend time finding out the routes of sea cables and perhaps also spied them or prepared some kind of sabotage:

The global internet is powered by vast undersea cables. But they're vulnerable. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/25/asia/internet-undersea-ca...

Ukraine war: The Russian ships accused of North Sea sabotage https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65309687

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action...

New comment by fi358 in "A rudimentary quantum network link between Dutch cities"

fi358 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:29:37 +0000

As far as I know, they still need classical encryption methods (with something like shared secret key or public key for authentication) to detect active man in the middle attacks where the attacker prevents the parties connecting to each other and then pretending to both parties to be the other party by creating his own "messages" as if they came from the other party. Or at least to have some kind of additional trusted physical medium where it is impossible to prevent the parties communicating directly, capturing their "messages" and then sending your own modified "messages" instead -- perhaps based on some kind of timing etc.

And if you still have to rely to classical encryption methods to make sure you know the identity of the other party (to prevent active man in the middle attack), why not just use classical encryption methods for everything else as well, instead of using quantum key distribution?

New comment by fi358 in ""Dutch engineer carried out Iranian nuclear sabotage": VK"

fi358 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 13:01:36 +0000

In the Greek wiretapping case, which has been linked to the US Embassy, there was a suspicious suicide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2...

New comment by fi358 in ""Dutch engineer carried out Iranian nuclear sabotage": VK"

fi358 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:57:42 +0000

If it was assasination, who did it as it happened so soon afterwards? I would assume that it took long time for Iran to find out the Stuxnet.

New comment by fi358 in "Can a Tarot card reading be defamatory?"

fi358 — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 13:12:36 +0000

In Finland defamation doesn't (always) require falsehood either and I think the same is true in Sweden as well. However, you are much more likely to get a conviction if the statement you made is a lie. And there has to be also the intent to insult or intent to make other people to despise the victim.

And even non-verbal acts can be defamation. For example showing middle finger to somebody can be defamation and I have heard that using gardening hose to make other person wet could also be defamation.

There is also one other crime in the Finnish law that can make it crime to tell true facts called "yksityiselämää loukkaava tiedon levittäminen" (which means basically spreading information in a way that it violates persons privacy). For example writing in a newspaper that "a woman was molested by her father and now has HIV" could lead to a conviction even if all the facts are true, if that woman has not wanted to make this information public and if readers are able to recognize who this woman is.

New comment by fi358 in "Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative"

fi358 — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 12:26:53 +0000

As a non-native English speaker I find this kind of efforts to outlaw some words in English language and replace them with others hostile to non-native English speakers. Speaking English is already hard enough and now I should also try to avoid this kind of woke minefield and perhaps I will be somehow punished because it is hard to remember what words should be avoided and how to express your thoughts without using the "wrong" words. And replacing single words with euphemistic multi word expression can make constructing sentences difficult.

New comment by fi358 in "Who cares about diversity?"

fi358 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:12:29 +0000

It sounds very odd to ask about these kind of things during employment. How often do for example LGBT persons provide this kind information in their job application and is it even legal to ask it?

And on the other hand, is there anything that prevents you pretending to be a member of some minority? For example, if you can get more easily employed by saying that you are bisexual, is there anything that would prevent you lying? If there isn't, why even bother asking about these kind of things.

New comment by fi358 in "Who cares about diversity?"

fi358 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:47:23 +0000

How do the HR people even know that if some team members are LGBT? I am a gay and I think it is my private matter and not something I would be interested sharing with for example my employer. I prefer to separate work and my private life in many other issues as well.

New comment by fi358 in "Europe's Newest Nuclear Reactor Eases Finland's Power Problems"

fi358 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:25:29 +0000

7 hours of storage might work in a country like Australia, but not necessarily in some other countries. For example, in Finland winter is several months long and during that time PV will produce almost no electricity. During winter there may also be relatively long periods with only a little wind.

New comment by fi358 in "How does the land use of different electricity sources compare?"

fi358 — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 07:35:07 +0000

Using electricity for heating is relatively easy. There is no need to use gas for heating and in many countries heating is done mostly without gas.

New comment by fi358 in "Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it"

fi358 — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:06:42 +0000

I am not familiar with the winder conditions in Southern Europe. Is there enough sunlight during winter that it would be feasible to provide a lot of solar energy during wintertime - not just for local use, but to northern Europe as well? It might be that even there is too little sunlight and the solar power would have to come from different continent.

New comment by fi358 in "Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it"

fi358 — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 23:50:42 +0000

Green party managed to stop the process of getting new reactors many times with different political tricks. And when they finally reluctantly agreed to build more nuclear energy, they demanded that only one (or was it two, I cannot remember the exact details anymore) reactor should be build. And because of this limitation on the number of new reactors, we then needed to have a higher power reactor instead of several lower power reactors.

And because of the foot dragging by greens the other new reactor project failed. They managed to slow the process long enough that the German reactor was of the table (thanks to the foolish politics of Merkel in Germany) and then only Russian reactor was available. And after Russia started war on Ukraine that Russian reactor project was canceled.