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I tried posting about it on !technology@lemmy.world, but a mod apparently deleted it. We probably need a "network" community, if the technology community guys don't like it.

Thanks regarding the domain information. That was actually the next thing I was going to ask about, whether there was also a long-form domain.

DownDetector shows a spike in reports starting about three hours ago as of this writing (so about 7:00 PM UTC July 13).

https://downdetector.com/status/telegram/

EDIT: Not a human mod, but an automod script. No idea what tripped it.

EDIT2: Both A (IPv4) and AAAA (IPv6) DNS queries fail (returning NXDOMAIN, which is "domain does not exist" in DNS parlance).

EDIT3: Looks like it's been changed back and is working now.

Can't resolve t.me, either via my ISP's DNS server or 1.1.1.1 (CloudFlare) or 8.8.8.8 (Google).

A search turns up:

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2076768143092166801

‼️BREAKING: Telegram's core t[.]me domain has been placed on serverHold at the .me registry, a registry-level status that drops it from DNS worldwide and dead-ends every t[.]me link.

Domain records show the change happened today, with no public explanation yet from Telegram, the .me registry, or backend operator Identity Digital.

If you have a known good (local) and known bad (remote), the first thing I'd probably do is run diff on the local and remote logs. Use a regex or something to strip timestamps or similar that will always differ.

If your tests take 20–30 minutes to run, I think that I'd look into having a way to run a subset of the tests, so you can just run the minimal amount to do the failing one.

If you have a lot of environment problems, I think I'd focus on getting an automated build of the environment to a standard state. If that takes too long, setting up caching or whatever of downloaded packages.

I don't think I've ever looked up a book up there to evaluate it. I might glance at an Amazon rating if I'm buying it on Amazon and it's already in front of my eyes. But, let me see what I think.

looks a few books up

I don't think that I'd want to use a 4.0 bar on that website. For example, I enjoyed Roger Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber fantasy series

particularly the early ones

and the first book is 3.97. Frank Herbert's Dune series does, I think, go downhill over the course of the series, but books #2, #3, and #4 all are below 4. Neil Gaiman's American Gods, which I was kinda disappointed with, is 4.1.

Four stars on what rating system?

I'd just SMS them and see if they respond. I mean, you're setting up a viewing. That shouldn't take that many messages.

I haven't paid much attention to where fixed automatic weapons were mounted in the past, but looking at the M2 Browning, it looks like it's mounted with the gun directly in line with the pivot point.

Here's a British 20 mm Oerlikon from WW2. Same thing: the gun is mounted directly over the axis on which the gun pivots.

It kinda seems to me like even if you could manage to handle the weapon's recoil, you probably wouldn't want to have it mounted off-center like that Russian weapon is, since it'd pull to the side when you fire it, mess with your accuracy. I can't really think of any advantage to mounting it the way they have it.

Does kinda make me wonder how common that is.

EDIT: It sounds like this is nonstandard:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DatS7TAK-GO/

Trending: Russian mobile air defense team training with a YakB-12.7 machine gun ended in chaos when the gunner almost k!lled his own instructor.

The reason is surprisingly simple. Someone thought it was a good idea to mount the YakB-12.7 - a machine gun producing roughly 1,400 kgf (about 1.4 tonnes) of recoil force - on a rotating turret where the barrel’s axis is offset from the turret’s axis of rotation.

The YakB-12.7 is the primary weapon of the USPU-24 used on the Mi-24 attack helicopter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YakB-12.7_machine_gun

EDIT2: Or, rather, maybe it is standard in 2026 Russian air defense, but it's not how the weapon was originally intended to be used, is being repurposed.

EDIT3: This seems to show the same weapon mounted on a similar platform, but the position of the ammo box is reversed (on the right side rather than the left, as the operator is facing) and (as you can see at about 23 seconds) the gun is centered on the axis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyjNMKyPO2c

Idaho only has two House seats, so it's not too hard to cover the whole thing.

I do note with some interest that while Wyoming and North Dakota aren't on there, Idaho and West Virginia are. Those four states were the four states with the highest percentage share for Trump in 2024, and both Idaho and West Virginia have independents running in all House districts.

A comparison of messaging systems that doesn't list XMPP?

Hmm. It looks like those tanks are maybe 2 km to the southwest of whatever was burning at the Gazprom location. You can see them in my image.

Right there with you. The world I grew up in from BBS’s to dial up internet to gaming with friends ( that took serious work to run and connect over phone lines) to innovation after innovation that was for pure excitement and exploration and solving problems and making things easier and simpler is gone.

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

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The details could not be immediately verified by the Kyiv Independent.

NASA FIRMS is showing two fires at something labeled as a Gazprom location in Mikhailovsk in Google Maps.