For cheaper detection of drone invasions, I would recommend a network of sensitive microphones. In nice weather, a scanning thermal sky camera (note: avoid the Sun, or kiss the camera good bye) is also very effective.

Genuinely curious why would any one need a radar.

People studying weather, the atmosphere, birds and of course people expecting aircraft. :)

This particular radar is bloody expensive, though - its price tag is about 15 000 euros.

Other fun radar projects, most of them well above my head, so I won’t dare to wade in:

Henrik Forsten: home made polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone (takes photographic quality radio images of ground, budget several kiloeuros + ability to fly or a high vantage point)

Radar Tutorial - old military guy explains all the concepts, provides many schematics and various formulas

WetterSat - Mobile amateur rain radar - helps you locate rain at 10.5 GHz within a 100 km circle, cost about 1500 euros

Daniel Kamiński’s blog - explains the principles of a GPU-accelerated passive coherent location finder (radar that uses non-cooperative external illumination sources like TV signals), cost a few hundred + a high end GPU, but completeness is low (hard to recreate)

At the moment, it certainly is not open. Whatever the foreign minister of Iran said, ships ain’t passing. Possibly because the guy on radio from the IRGC navy says otherwise.

Yesterday, traffic was almost 14% of the 60-day average, today it’s approximately 4%.

https://hormuzstraitmonitor.com/

But of course I hope they’ll reach an agreement. Just treat everyone’s words as hot air for a while, because information takes time to travel on ground.

Nope. That makes it somewhat odd.

This is not a special law against antisemitism. This is a generic law against incitement of hate and discrimination, with more serious punishments if violence is done, or if a group does it, or if serious consequences happen.

They added the word “anti-semitism” to the list of forbidden forms of incitement (it already forbade inciting ethnic and religous hate).

The Israeli newspaper makes it sound special, but it really is not.

Details can be found here:

Alteration: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2037-IX

Paragraph one of Part One of Article 161 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rada of Ukraine, 2001, No. 25-26, p. 131) shall be supplemented with the words “manifestations of anti-Semitism” after the words “honor and dignity”.

Code: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2341-14#Text

They upgraded paragraph 161 of the criminal code of Ukraine. It forbids discrimination, specifies punishments for deliberately inciting hate, and more severe punishments if the inciter also does violence or if the incitement leads to severe consequences.

Notably, so far it did not contain the word “antisemitism” and inciting hate against Jewish people was considered either as inciting ethnic, national or religious hate, according to the context. Now antisemitism is mentioned. No protected group is given more protection. I’m not sure if I agree with the wording (how does antisemitism differ from what was already forbidden?). But it’s fairly standard text for an average European country.

Article 161. Violation of the equality of citizens depending on their racial, national, regional affiliation, religious beliefs, disability and on other grounds

1. Intentional actions aimed at inciting national, regional, racial or religious enmity and hatred, at humiliating national honor and dignity, or insulting the feelings of citizens in connection with their religious beliefs, as well as direct or indirect restriction of the rights or establishment of direct or indirect privileges of citizens on the grounds of race, skin color, political, religious and other beliefs, gender, disability, ethnic and social origin, property status, place of residence, on language or other grounds -

shall be punishable by a fine of two hundred to five hundred non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens or restriction of liberty for a term of up to five years, or imprisonment for a term of up to three years, with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of up to three years or without it.

2. The same actions, combined with violence, fraud or threats, as well as committed by an official, -

shall be punished by a fine of five hundred to one thousand tax-free minimum incomes of citizens or by imprisonment for a term of two to five years, with or without deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of up to three years.

3. The actions provided for in parts one or two of this article, which were committed by an organized group of persons or caused grave consequences, -

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of five to eight years.

Note. In this article, regional affiliation should be understood as a person’s affiliation by birth or residence to a region - part of the territory of Ukraine or a territory of compact settlement of Ukrainians outside the territory of Ukraine - that differs from other territories by a number of historical, geographical, linguistic and other features.

I’m really happy that Hungarians got their wannabe president-for-life kicked out peacefully. :)

Regarding Russia - Putin’s popularity is in a clear downward dive, but a dive from very high altitude (he has built a formidable propaganda machinery and brainwashed people severely) so it will take time. His regime currently has almost full control of Internet use in Russia, so the only channels which can operate freely are VPN tunnels to services hosted abroad (Telegram being most popular). I hope self-organizing mesh networks will also offer a challenge in cities, but that remains to be seen.

Sadly, unlike Orban, Putin has also rebuilt the system so that he can order arbitrary violence (e.g. poisonings). As a result, most likely in Russia, when time comes, it will be bloody. But there’s a positive thing about Putin: he’s old and might just die one day (or touch the wrong door handle without gloves, if others near him decide he’s too old), opening an avenue for peaceful change.

Trump will be kicked out, I’m 95% sure of that. But Americans will have to rethink the role and authority of the president quite soon after that. And I mean limiting it.

If the French embassy does not manage to resolve this, given her age, sadly I think ICE will detain her to death.

Whoever snitched (it’s obvious from the article) should experience big setbacks in life.

Considering what has managed to happen during this year, I would sadly expect dramatic growth.

Back in the days, the US could make things unwinnable for the USSR in Afghanistan. This is a similar situation. If China wants, it can make victory impossible for the US in Iran.

Yay. :)

I also note the turnout is huge, in the early evening, 75% of eligible people had voted.

Not well, but it drives.

Battery capacity is small. It’s a city car all the way.

Heating is abysmal. I don’t touch it, it drains the battery. I only heat the seats (from the car 12 V system) and windscreen (with a large drone battery and two Chinese 400 W heat blowers).

Different sizes of tyres of front and back wheels are impractical. Changing headlight bulbs is a nightmare (manual says to take off the front bumper, but I deviate from the procedure and leave some screws missing, so I can take out the headlights).

The gear shifter has 2 needless pull cables (not electrical cables) which freeze in winter and cannot be bypassed easily. The motor controller borked itself (high voltage comparator error) and I had to take it apart to fix (fortunately a fix was documented).

One of the steel brake pipes rusted and leaked, and the repair shop refused to lower the battery (I have done it myself) because they didn’t feel comfortable. I had to bypass the steel pipe with a copper pipe, fortunately technical inspection did not notice.

Rear ABS sensors go faulty and start lying, producing error messages. An “original” spare part costs 200 euros, fortunately there’s a trick (installing another car’s sensor in reverse) and it costs 17 euros.

But what I can I ask, it’s a 15 year old car.

Signed, and I notice that they have 894 339 signatures of the 1 M required.

Having to discuss the measure does not guarantee passing it, though, so I caution against premature optimism.

I’m in Europe, so we have 230 volts here (two times less amps needed for identical power), but… I charge my i-MIEV with 5.5 amps at night (the whole night) and it’s charged by the morning. Knowing that, I optimized my grid connection down to 3 x 6 amps (three phases, each up to 6 amps).

Of course, if I charge during daytime, I can draw power from the house inverter, so then I charge at 10…13 amps.

This is not “spread of communism”. Vietnam is a one-party communist state.

They just re-elected a guy or gave him a new title (with more power).

Trump “confirms” so many things, but few of them are true. None of Iranian Kurdish parties have confirmed receiving arms.

The absolutely only instance I have seen of protesters in Iran being armed with firearms (and I’ve watched a lot of footage), was a day-time protest in the Kurdish-majority mountainous borderland. Since there was a risk of authorities spilling blood, 4 old guys (appearance well over 50 years of age) in traditional clothing were present at a protest in an open area, carrying hunting rifles which looked older than the guys. They could have, theoretically, bought time for others to escape by offering some counter-fire for a minute or two. But on that protest, authorities did not attack. Probably because the whole town was Kurdish and cops decided to stay home.

Also I apologize for re-posting, but:

Kurdish Iranian opposition groups deny claims of receiving weapons from US

Mohammed Nazif Qaderi, a senior official from the opposition Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), told Rudaw that “those statements made are baseless and we haven’t received any weapons.

/…/

Kako Aliyar, a member of the leadership committee of the Kurdish Iranian opposition party Komala, told Rudaw that "as our own party, no weapons have come to us and we haven’t received anything, we’re not even aware of the matter.

/…/

Amjad Hussein Panahi, head of communications for Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan, also told Rudaw, “We assure you we haven’t received a single bullet or weapon from any country or place, and we’re not aware of the existence of such a thing; what we have is our own.”

/…/

Hamno Naqshbandi, a member of the general command of the Kurdistan National Army affiliated with the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), said that “Donald Trump’s message is unclear to us. What is there is that we as our army have in no way received weapons from the US or any other country, not even a single bullet."

In case someone thinks the UAE are good guys, well, they support RSF (former Janjaweed) in Sudan. They try to conceal it well.

A journalist asked Iranian Kurdish parties. Nobody could confirm receiving any weapons.

Let’s not assume something is true because Trump says it it. He has a long track record of lying about every issue and changing his words daily.

Kurdish Iranian opposition groups deny claims of receiving weapons from US

Mohammed Nazif Qaderi, a senior official from the opposition Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), told Rudaw that “those statements made are baseless and we haven’t received any weapons.

/…/

Kako Aliyar, a member of the leadership committee of the Kurdish Iranian opposition party Komala, told Rudaw that "as our own party, no weapons have come to us and we haven’t received anything, we’re not even aware of the matter.

/…/

Amjad Hussein Panahi, head of communications for Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan, also told Rudaw, “We assure you we haven’t received a single bullet or weapon from any country or place, and we’re not aware of the existence of such a thing; what we have is our own.”

/…/

Hamno Naqshbandi, a member of the general command of the Kurdistan National Army affiliated with the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), said that “Donald Trump’s message is unclear to us. What is there is that we as our army have in no way received weapons from the US or any other country, not even a single bullet."

Thanks, I didn’t know that and accidentally provided an over-estimate.

In this case, I would advise them to simply ignore the law, or protest to have it revoked. It does not make sense.