History, Politics And Current Affairs

Pdf27 wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 2:31 pm Had a very early New York fire engine racing in the village recently.

That’s a cool one.

jemhouston wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 11:06 am Thanks for posting this. Nice way to honor the past.

Thanks, yeah it is nice like that.

The Stockholm fire department turns 150 years old this year and held a bit of a fire vehicle parade and display with historic and present vehicles. Kind of neat:
https://youtu.be/RSyWhi_bG2A

A bit more:

What kind of engine is in the weinies?

Over at OpenAI:

OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down.

The activation of ASL-3 safeguards for the model was also due to it being quite capable in certain concerning tasks, such as in CBRN weapons development. It is considered to be at the CBRN-3 level here:

I’ve watched a few more episodes, it’s very interesting to compare it to healthcare here and spot differences. One thing I found a bit surprising was in an episode where there’s been an arrangement where private providers would take some surgical cases from the NHS in an attempt to shorten long wait...

Forgotten Weapons just released a video looking at the AK4, showing the differences compared to the standard G3 if anyone is interested: https://youtu.be/n8C5CzYQgqQ Best part of it was a commenter there recognized the serial number as the one he had decades ago in Swedish service. It's pinned as o...

Nathan45 wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 10:47 pm Did you reload live ammo as well or just the blanks?

The brass is only used for making blanks (the type with wooden bullets). Considered to be too much of a reliability risk with live ammo.

Interesting the had a modification just to reduce damage to blank brass to make them easier to reload. Highlights frugal practical training. Yeah, there’s pouches as well that you can mount to them in order to collect the brass easily. They also help with keeping the brass in good shape for reloadi...

Forgotten Weapons just released a video looking at the AK4, showing the differences compared to the standard G3 if anyone is interested:
https://youtu.be/n8C5CzYQgqQ

I came across this by chance, there was documentary filming ongoing at the St. Mary’s hospital in London during the 2017 Westminster Bridge terrorist attack. Quite interesting to see the UK approach to a major incident from inside a trauma center. In three parts, but the first has the main response,...

Kunkmiester wrote: ↑Thu May 15, 2025 6:01 pm They're putting his dog in!?

Yes! Krypto is in da house!

I've noticed that its been making me verify that I'm not a robot a lot lately. Is that possibly part of the problem? Belushi TD I believe that this usually happens when you are presenting as from an IP-range that there’s been known issues with, as in having detected bots using this IP-range and suc...

https://youtu.be/XlFuYGfFabk

This is looking like it has the potential to be really good.

The good Danes have got an excellent podcast called Det Hemmligste af det Hemmelige, which goes into depth about the secrets of the cold war era, intelligence, stay behind etc. In particular they’ve delved deep into the murder of Swedish PM Olof Palme, in numerous episodes. This they’ve done in a re...

I get that on my iPhone, I believe it’s the iCloud private relay service that is causing it. It keeps changing the IP-adress to mask it from the website, causing the logouts. With a (paid) VPN service enabled or with the private relay just disabled you won’t get it. How long has it been doing that?...

I get that on my iPhone, I believe it’s the iCloud private relay service that is causing it. It keeps changing the IP-adress to mask it from the website, causing the logouts. With a (paid) VPN service enabled or with the private relay just disabled you won’t get it.

A Norwegian war film about the sinking of the cruiser Blücher is coming out in September. The trailer looks promising (only in Norwegian I’m afraid:) https://youtu.be/dXtL355oWtM Is it better than this? I really must watch the full movie. https://youtu.be/Be4bLNa15hk?si=EbIlbR5gZhloUrTe Remains to ...