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All goes well it seem, as not planned.

As of early April 2026, the United States has lost at least 16 to 17 military aircraft in the Iran war, with seven of those being crewed fighter jets or tankers.
Crewed Aircraft: Reports confirm the loss of 4 F-15E Strike Eagles (three in a friendly-fire incident over Kuwait and one shot down over Iran), 1 A-10 Thunderbolt II (shot down near the Strait of Hormuz), and 1 KC-135 Stratotanker (crashed in Iraq killing all six crew members).
Uncrewed Systems: The majority of losses involve 16 to 17 MQ-9 Reaper drones, which have been heavily targeted due to their use in high-risk surveillance and strike missions.
Damage: In addition to these losses, at least 8 KC-135 tankers and 2 E-3D Sentry AWACS aircraft have been damaged or destroyed, while an F-35 Lightning II sustained damage but returned to base.
Recent incidents in the conflict, which began in late February 2026, mark the first time US fixed-wing combat aircraft have been shot down by enemy fire in over 20 years. The total financial cost of lost and damaged aircraft is estimated to exceed $3 billion.

This information on the total count of downed US aircraft in the Iran war comes from a synthesis of recent reporting by multiple credible news and defense analysis outlets, as well as a detailed Wikipedia list that is being updated in real-time.

Primary News Sources: Outlets like Axios, The New York Times, CNN, Military Times, and CTV News have confirmed the most recent and significant losses, including the 3 April 2026 shootdown of an F-15E Strike Eagle over western Iran and the crash of an A-10 Thunderbolt II in the Persian Gulf. These reports are based on statements from US officials and sources familiar with the operations.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…

Defense Analysis: Defence Security Asia provides a broader analysis, reporting that nearly 20 US Air Force aircraft have been damaged or destroyed since the conflict began in late February 2026. This figure includes the damaged F-35A.
defencesecurityasia.com/en/us-…

Infographic Source: A Russian news site, USA News Pravda, published an infographic on 4 April 2026 that aligns with the reported figures for major aircraft losses.
usa.news-pravda.com/russia/202…

The Pentagon has not released an official, comprehensive list, so the totals are based on aggregated, credible reporting from these sources of course. But all goes well in a War of aggression without any plan.

List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the 2026 Iran war - Wikipedia

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2 Other planes shot down above Iran.

washingtonpost.com/national-se…

1 pilot remain missing
An F-15 fighter jet and an A-10 attack plane were lost to hostile fire. Two search-and-rescue helicopters also were hit, injuring the crews, before safely returning to their base, officials said.
Iran's "new advanced air defense system" credited with downing the U.S. F-15E fighter jet is believed to be the Majid (AD-08), a short-range, low-altitude surface-to-air missile system.

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After hours of shopping, I've discovered that in Upstate New York, it now costs at least $130 per hour to rent a cheap/small/low quality boat, with a 3 hour minimum. Before the pandemic killed the idea of affording weekends away, I could rent the same boat for for less than $60 per hour, with 2-hour minimums. Looking more broadly, I see this same level of discrepancy with furniture, groceries, cars, housing, etc...

So if everything costs 116% more seven years later, my naive mathing says this means we've experienced a greater than 17% annual average price increase on just living for six straight years. How is this not the BIGGEST news story?

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picofarad

something about the "116% more" bugs me, because it sounds like something that was $10 now costs $11.60, when what you are *actually* claiming is that what cost $10 now costs $21.60 (roughly).

I hate to pour gas on this fire, but i noticed around 2021 that, compared to 2013, everything had nearly doubled in price; electricity, gasoline, insurance premiums, a pound of beef at the store, a gallon of milk.

But because 2010s were "so cheap" compared to now, we didn't really notice?!

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Unus Nemo

@picofarad @Blaise

picofarad wrote:

something about the "116% more" bugs me, because it sounds like something that was $10 now costs $11.60, when what you are actually claiming is that what cost $10 now costs $21.60 (roughly).

I am not sure how you concluded that 116% more than $10 is 11.60? Please show your math 😉

  1. Calculate the increase: 116% of 10.00 = 1.16 times 10 = 11.60
  2. Add the increase to the original number: 10.00 + 11.60 = 21.60

Did I miss something or did you miss a step?

@picofarad @Blaise

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After four long months of side-hustle, dozens of "chats", and hundreds of AI-assisted iterative prompt refinement passes, I have successfully created an AI agent which will ingest technical product documentation and become a product-oracle, giving detailed answers and correcting/clarifying unclear or incorrect assumptions in the questions. It it accurate. It is thorough. It is the first truly useful thing I have gotten out of LLM AI technology. It is a work of art.

And one time out of 7, it STILL makes up its answer whole-cloth!

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This guy is delusional

On Tuesday, March 31, 2026, Donald Trump made multiple posts on Truth Social, primarily focused on the ongoing conflict with Iran and criticizing U.S. allies.

He posted a video of what appeared to be a massive explosion in Isfahan, Iran, which multiple sources reported as a joint U.S.-Israeli airstrike on a strategic site, possibly an ammunition depot.

He claimed the strike was part of a successful campaign, stating, "We clearly hit something pretty big."

He lashed out at European allies, particularly the U.K. and France, for not joining the military action.

He accused France of blocking military supply flights to Israel and told the U.K. to "build up some delayed courage" and "just TAKE" the Strait of Hormuz to secure their own oil.

He reiterated his threat that "the U.S.A. won't be there to help you anymore" if allies do not contribute, declaring, "You'll have to start learning how to fight for yourself."

He continued to push for other nations, including China, Japan, and South Korea, to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz to keep it open, a call that was met with skepticism and denials from some of those countries.

He confirmed U.S. strikes on Kharg Island, Iran's primary oil export hub, stating, "We totally demolished Kharg Island, but we may hit it a few more times just for fun."

Trump also claimed that Iran wants to make a deal but stated the terms offered were "not good enough yet," without specifying what those terms were.

These posts reflect a highly escalatory stance on the war, combining announcements of military action with direct attacks on international partners.

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Me: How do I delete a custom agent from my AI service account?
Agent: Which agent do you want to delete?
Me: That doesn't matter, just tell me how to delete one.
Agent: It's not necessary to delete custom agents from your account. You can store an unlimited number.
Me: Seriously, I want to clean up. Tell me how to delete a custom agent from my AI service account!
Agent: I don't think you can do that.
Me: ..... 0.o

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Plan-A

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I forgive you as a person not what you did so you stay where you are and wont approach me at all and will have difficulties to enter threads where I was before now.
Also, I hope your admin will take responsibility on you to read your ToS
Plan =B will follow with more accurate and delightful reports.
pre ban Plan-B makes me make Plan-C simply set as we can go on..
Radical idiots! US creeps
Making 100+ threads about ICE but dislike China
Tis social media is a waste of time for me honestly.
Mongo demo cats is a good name for such of your likes.
When I read ya profiles it seem you are more busy building things with all that code languages you know as you were 60 year old but slay your time on socials..

Wanna make a change? get back behind ya fucking terminal and make it!
It is not by playing Romeo here that you achieve 1 thing.

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Fucking Trump will makes us all starve and die anyway outside that with his brain rot.
He shud be stripped of all his clothes but his underwear (no one want to use a microscope to detect his dick) and delivered to North Koreans to work in a Gulag Camp!
Israel should be exempt from UN and all world charters about humanity etc and declared as enemy of the world and as such each Nation has the right to shoot them.

Turkey alone could do the job easily.

Netanyahu should be executed in public with a slow death. And his administration should watch it before to be next.

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The greatest idiot of all times as President

Wants to just take Kharg Island in range of all missiles the absolute idiot.

bbc.com/news/live/c8jke9v9xv9t…

Trump says he is considering seizing Iran's Kharg Island, but deal could be made 'very quickly'

The US president's comments come alongside briefings from US officials about the readiness of troops to carry out ground operations.
BBC News

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IV. The vision

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1/ Some people do not care much about what happens globally. They care about what happens around them, in their micro-universe. 2/ These people can only see a dark future, for they can only see the life they live now. 3/ Others show some concern about the global affairs. They are interested in everything, in the future in perspective, in what is going to happen globally. 4/ They have a more optimistic view. To them the future is cleaner and more beautiful, for they can see into it and they see a more mature man, a wiser world. 5/ We are in the middle. We are interested in what happens now, but in what’s gonna happen tomorrow as well. 6/ We look in the net, and the net is growing wide and wider. 7/ Soon everything in this world will be swallowed by the net: from the military systems to the PC at home. 8/ But the net is a house of anarchy. 9/ It cannot be controlled and in this is its power. 10/ Every man will be dependent on the net. 11/ The whole information will be there, locked in the abysses of zeros and ones. 12/ Who controls the net, controls the information. 13/ We will live in a mixture of past and present. 14/ The bad come from the man, and the good comes from technology. 15/ The net will control the little man, and we will control the net. 16/ For if you do not control, you will be controlled. 17/ The Information is POWER!

mogami.neocities.org/files/man…

A Cyberpunk Manifesto

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Look the short AI answer here is at this prompt

What does the file command do on Linux, and how can it identify file types without relying on extensions?

Short answer:
The file command analyzes file content using magic numbers and heuristics to determine type, bypassing extensions. It supports MIME types, compressed files (-z), and symlinks (-L).

mine does this or I do it..



answer is ungoing because I did not precised the context of what I want, rather the whole.


@tante this is the few %

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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A

Magic numbers are used by most OSes even MS/Windows. They are typically the first two to four bytes, in some instances more. Every graphics format has their own magic number. Also the bash shebang #! is a magic number. Elf binaries have a magic number as well a MS/Windows PE files and other executable formats on MS/Windows. When it come to plain text files such as json and source files file uses heuristics as their are no magic numbers to count on.

Unlike MS/Windows file extensions are meaningless in regards to the filesystems used on Unix derivatives such as Linux. Though file can make assumptions based on a file extension. This does not mean you should use them in places where they do not belong.

A basic rule for file extensions, greatly ignored from those coming from MS/Windows, is that if the file will be consumed by another app or service then we give it a file extension so its MIME type can be used. An example would be files that are served by your httpd daemon. We DO NOT use file extensions on any program that is intended to be invoked from the CLI ever. There are some issues. Such as when Microsoft had the standards for .NET drawn up they required the .exe extension for executables. Most .NET applications developed on 'nix systems are not run at the CLI so this is not an issue. When they are we create a symbolic link to the .exe file so that users do not have to use the .exe extension when invoking the command.

This is an ongoing issue as many developers turning to 'nix from a Windows environment do not seem capable of understanding that file extension are not typically used in many cases on 'nix. That is why we have a file in the first place. It is sad that even those at a professional level often do not get this simple concept.

We can also use the symbolic link technique when we are writing python programs that are meant to be invoked at the command line though our tool chain likes file extensions. We do typically use file extensions on source code for compiled programs as they are not directly invoked and are consumed by the compiler. You will note that there are many python and perl scripts used on a 'nix system and none of them have a file extension. If a python, perl or other script has a shebang line and you set the executable bit then it should not have a file extension. If it is run by an interpreter and does not have a shebang line and does not have the execution bit turned on it is fine to have a file extension.

@Plan-A
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After 2 days..

Finally got this Podman up to do Osint without root privs

I hit like button by accident... reload page was the shift that was there when I clicked.



miscalculated the 1st image any view of the commands
podman run --rm -it -p 5001:5001 bodane/osint:latest
podman run --rm -it -p 5001:5001 docker.io/bodane/osint:latest


for those that wonder about the --rm and --it flags> --rm you could imagine is remove or Automatically removes the container when it exits. Ensures no leftover containers consume disk space. Useful for temporary tasks like OSINT scans.
the --it flag however has 2 functions > 1st is is interactibve or keeps you on it simply and 2nd is Allocates a pseudo-terminal, giving you a shell prompt inside the container.

Plan-A doesn't like this.

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Plan-A

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Save outside that container
podman save -o osint-image.tar docker.io/bodane/osint:latest
So it saves it offline all your docs as well
in that case re run with
podman load -i osint-image.tar

best restart Pod command is (for a new case)
podman run --rm -it -p 5001:5001 docker.io/bodane/osint:latest


Tools are : BlackBird, IntelX. io CLI, Sherlock and Spiderfoot.
I can add self made tools.

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Unus Nemo

@chrisrich4892

I do not currently have XMPP setup on this Instance.

It really depends on what you mean by "login to the server". There is an XMPP addon for Friendica, though it requires the admin (me) to set that up. It also requires that I setup an actual XMPP server as that is not an integral part of a Friendica Instance. This adds an XMPP interface to the Instance to be used for messaging instead of just DM (Direct Messaging, which is very poorly implemented on the Fediverse in general).

If I setup XMPP then you would be able to use XMPP from the Instance though you would not be able to access the Instance via an XMPP client that is not how the addon works.

IRC is already setup on the Instance. I may consider adding XMPP when I have time though it is not something that is very popular these days (like IRC is right 😉 but I do not have to setup another server for that addon).

I was actually considering setting up a Matrix Server for the Instance, would you prefer XMPP over Matrix?

In any case you will not be able to access this Instance, or any other Friendica Instance, via a XMPP client. As they do not support any of the current protocols for the Fediverse. Please keep in mind that every second party App I have tried is Mastodon centric and work poorly for Friendica. Currently there are no Friendica specific apps. I use a PWA on my mobile devices in lieu of an actual app. A lot of popular apps are little more than a very limited webui in any case so this is not really an issue.

@chrisrich4892

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Gaza, where pain and suffering prevail.
Hello my friend, I'm Israa from Gaza and a mother of three. I'm sorry to be writing to you so hesitantly, but I've lost everything and I'm living a harsh reality. My three children need food, warmth, education, and medical care. Every contribution from you makes a huge difference in our lives.🇵🇸✋🏻🥺💔
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Israa's Hope: A Family's Fight to Rebuild After War

In the stillness after a night of bombardment, Israa, a devoted mother of three, and her husband lost not just a home, but the sense of safety that every family deserves.
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