#adf — Public Fediverse posts

@Heterokromia

Whoa… you’re making some statements that require a lot of assumptions on your part here. Unless you’re privy to the project there is no way you can make them. And quoting a few detracting experts isn’t much support for them either. All *expert* witnesses to the public enquiry have axes to grind. Some are obvious ( #Turnbull ） other not so much (ex-Defence), but none of them are on the *inside* now.

If #AUKUS was an illusion we wouldn’t have an ongoing project for it (there are still sane minds in our public service and in the #ADF to flag ‘impossible outcomes’). Whether AUKUS Tier One is poor value for money cannot be known, perhaps never will be, since this would require the value to be proven in a conflict (We’re talking here about whether the premium we pay is worth the insurance cover and possible payout). All I can say for sure is that there are valid strategic and tactical reasons to acquire #SSNs for the Australian Navy — we won’t acquire them just to be nice to the #US and the #UK or anyone else if we walk away from the current agreement.

As to spending less on #Defence. We barely spend 2% of GDP on defence. NDIS expenditure alone is set to equal that by the time we get a single SSN (Source: dataresearch.ndis.gov.au). Never mind the cost of public health overall which was already around 10% of GDP back in 2023 (Source: Statista.com). But I respect your pacifist views on this. I just don’t agree with those views.

As for International Institutions with military forces, that would be a surrender of sovereignty, the very criticism levelled at our US alliance and the AUKUS program. You can’t have it both ways. Moreover, we’ve had the #UN since 1945, with one war fought on its behalf that resolved nothing (1951 Korean War) and failed *intervention* and *peace keeping* missions enough to fill many history books. Unless we have a planetary govt, an armed international body is not going to spare anyone from the horrors of war and military aggression — 2,000 years of recorded history tells us that much. If an International military intervention is require, it is levied from countries willing to participate, and there we’re back to national standing armies which need to be funded adequately to do the tasks required of it.

I agree with your assessment of the #tRump Administration but there is a limit to his political mandate which he will not be able to breach. Moreover, the #ChristoFascist experiment currently underway is not a totalitarian regime and cannot become one in the US because of the democratic ideals embedded in the fabric of its society and made law in its Constitution.

I think I've addressed all the statements in your toot that I had issues with. I apologise for the length. Happy to dicsuss further, but not without making clear the assumptions behind any *statements*. If you wish to express an *opnion* on the other hand, that’s fine, we’ve all got those.

@AvonVilla
Finally, you spoke the quiet parts aloud, you’re #antiWar and #antiMilitarist. Good, now I know were you’re coming from. I respect your opposition to what is a scourge on our species. I disagree with your line of argument, but I respect your view.

I am not a warmonger nor a militarist either, but I am not a pacifist, nor reluctant to taking a life under very specific circumstances. I also know what it’s like being in uniform with less than optimal tools to do the assigned tasks — which in the worst case is terminal.

#ADF #Defence #Deterence #AusPol #AUKUS

@AvonVilla
Hmmm. If you are serving or ever served in the ADF, you will know that Defence needs all that cash for a lot of needed personnel/equipment if those in uniforms are going to put their lives on the line when (not if) the shit hits the fan… so, I can’t agree with you there, not in the least.

#ADF #AUKUS #AusPol

Windows: Amiga Retro Toolbox

The "Amiga Retro Toolkit" (ART) is a program for Windows 10 and 11. You can drag and drop ADF, HDF, LHA, ROM and other files into its window, and it will then identify the file type and determine what it can do with it.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00090-EN.html

#Amiga #retrocomputing #Windows #ADF

Python program: Amiga ADF Library Builder

The Python program "Amiga ADF Library Builder" is used to create, extend, validate and export curated Amiga ADF libraries. To do this, it scans a collection of Amiga disk images, groups together releases that are spread across multiple disks, supplements them with metadata and images and creates a verifiable Gotek staging tree.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00091-EN.html

#Amiga #Python #ADF #games

Is here someone with real amiga? the best is 500 cos - I am working on some demo assembler project and would love to see it on the real machine, its one adf file

#amiga #demoscene #adf #ocs #amiga500

@eddyjokovich
Let’s face it, we know next to nothing about #AUKUS Tier One, and the little we know we garner from US and UK sources where the *paranoia* surrounding secret and top secret briefings isn’t as ingrained as it is at home — there are historical precedents behind this behaviour which can be teased out of the history of the UKUSA agreement). Hence much of what is written domestically in the press and open to the public about AUKUS is little better than hypothetical commentary (neither confirmed nor denied by govt or #RichardMarlesMP). Some commentary is a little better in that the guesses postulated therein have a grain of *probabilty* based on *educated guesses*. But they are few and sparse in details. That is the state of play where AUKUS is concerned and very unlikey to change in the future.

Moreover, where more knowledgeable sources are commenting, they do so with an agenda, but their comments reflects their limited knowledge beyond broad issues, or are unable to be more specific due to the Official Secrets Act. Either way, what is available to the public, journalist and politically active commentators is next to nothing in the face of the most complex Defence procurement in the history of the ADF.

Dear Eddy, I’ve written the above to keep my comment short by not addressing all of your talking points that I take issue with. Tbf, my 23 years in Defence does not make me an expert, but it ought to count for something in the public arena. Given my views above, I sympathise with commentators and journalists who feel obliged, and rightly so, to keep the AUKUS issue alive hoping for transparency and accountability by maintaining the *heat* in this public debate. It’s a healthy thing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-us-navy-is-pouring-766-billion-into-new-submarines-and-the-workers-it-needs-to-build-them/ar-AA299aar

#AusPol #SSN #USprePositioning #HMASSterling #WA #PineGap #TindleRAAFBase #USMarineRotationsDarwin #UK #UKUSA #AustralianSovereignty #SubmarineShipyards #DefenceBudget #DefenceProcurement #ADF #AdelaideShipyards #SASubmarineCorporation #ASC #Barrow_in_Furness #HIIshipyards #GEElectricBoats

Here we go again…Allan Behm (writing for the Australian Institute) serves up another word salad and take pockshots at… Australia’s adherence to the NPT via… well, everything submarine and US alliance with a limp lettuce. Or is it a swipe at Senator #Conroy ‘s interview performance on 7:30? You tell me, I couldn’t decide which.

I might also note that the Virginia boats to be sold to Australia are capable of launching US Cruise missiles (Tomahawk and its latest nuclear capable incarnation) via torpoedo tubes (simple google search will reveal that much). Hence, so are current USN Virginia boats not just the new ones to be built — that makes the USN SSGN rotations in HMAS Stearling in 2032 the author references here irrelevent — we’d be hosting potentially nuclear armed SSN (from the US and potentially the UK) well before then… might already have.

My opinion of the author’s writing craft is decidedly going on a slide into the bin. Read him if you must, just keep your wits about you and read him very carefully and have a think about it.

Just in case my writing here attracts critical comments, in my defence, this is a toot, not an analysis, nor anything I’d consider ready for publication.

#USN #US #SSN #SSGN #VirginiaBloc4 #AUKUS #NPT #NuclearWeapons #BasingFacilites #HostingNuclearCapabability #HMASSterling #B52Bombers #USMilitaryPrepositioning #ANZUS #ADF #SubmarinePlatforms #Defence #Deterrence #AusPol #AustralianSovereignty #AllanBehm #AustralianInstitute

@IndyMediaAus
The author latches on to the ordenance expenditure of the US forces in the Middle East to then expands onto other defence matters to support an argument not well founded in facts.

This reads like an electoral manifesto puff-piece by a candidate with little depth of knowledge in Defence matters and anchored in the belief that any #ForeignAlliances are bound to impact, with dramatic effects, on our national sovereignty. Impact, yes of course. Dramatic? Not in the least.

#ADF #Sovereignty #UKUSA #USForwardBasing #MilitaryStagingFacilities #Strategy #GeoPolitics #MultiNationalExercises #CommonDefense #CredibleDeterrence #AUKUStier2 #MilitaryIntelligence #StrategicReviews #DefencePosture

I have to say, I’m not a fan of Allan Behm (now with The Australian Institute) because, in this short article at least, he makes assertions that are light on defense and imply assumptions that are not divulged. In this case it is about #AUKUS of course, if a horse may be beaten to death, this one is surpisingly resilient.

“So, we are now left with huge investments focused on a single capability, without any consideration of the suite of capabilities Australia needs for its defence, and where just one of those capabilities — submarines — fits in.”

There are so many things wrong with the quoted segment above. I will only address the most important of these. There are valid strategic and tactical requirements for the RAN to field submarines. These were first identified after #Federation (our first subs arrived from the UK in 1914 and were deployed to our North against the German navy). and while a lot has changed since, the basic requirements were never made redundent given there have been many successful submarine procurements and deployments since WW One. So let no one question where these boats will ‘fit in’ lest it demonstrates an anomalous understanding of the matter (its kinder than saying erroneous). And Behm should know better if his resumé is any guide. There are a lot of thing to look at in this AUKUS Tier One *Deal* and much of it rightly ought to be brought to light and publically discussed, but whether Australia needs submarines or not is not one of them.

https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260728-aukus-when-not-enough-is-still-too-much

I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again. I will always support ADF members in their requirements for the best platforms and weapon systems in order to give them the best odds of successfully carrying the tasks assigned to them by the govt of the day. And for submariners this is especially important.

#LestWeForget #SSN #SubSurfaceWarfare #Defence #ADF #AUKUStierOne #SovereignCapability #GeopoliticalStrategy #SilentService #SSN #Submarine #AustralianInstitute #NavalStrategy #Deterrence #AllanBohm

Sauvons les archives Freinet !
À Mayenne, un vaste centre d'archives concernant Élise et Célestin Freinet, couple de pédagogues et militants bien connus du monde éducatif, est menacé par un ultimatum donné par le nouveau maire. Un ensemble de spécialistes alertent sur ce « coup porté à cette mémoire vivante d’un pan majeur de la pédagogie en France. »
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/les-invite-es-de-mediapart/blog/240726/sauvons-les-archives-freinet
#icem #freinet #adf #amisdefreinet #archivesfreinet

L’association Amis de Freinet gère à Mayenne un centre de ressources international rassemblant une importante collection d’archives autour de la pédagogie développée par les époux Freinet à partir des années 1920.
Le maire nouvellement élu de la commune demande à l’association de quitter les lieux le 24 août prochain au plus tard.
La disparition de ce fonds serait une perte considérable pour le monde éducatif.
https://www.politis.fr/articles/2026/07/tribune-il-faut-sauver-les-archives-freinet/

#icem #freinet #amisdefreinet #adf #teamprof

LightTreeFM AmigaOS Update Brings Smarter File Work to Classic AmigaOS
#LightTreeFM #AmigaOS #Amiga #ClassicAmiga #AmigaFileManager #ADF #LHA #RetroComputing #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCommunity
https://theoasisbbs.com/lighttreefm-amigaos-update-brings-smarter-file-work-to-classic-amigaos/?fsp_sid=8584

SPALG Amiga Release Brings a Lost 1995 Game Back
#SPALG #Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #RetroGaming #SpectrumNez #AmigaGames #ADF #TRONLightcycle #RetroComputing #AmigaCommunity
https://theoasisbbs.com/spalg-amiga-release-brings-a-lost-1995-game-back/?fsp_sid=8564

"From the midst of the rubble and beneath this tent, my message to everyone reading this: Do not get used to the images, and do not grow tired of our news. Your solidarity, sharing our stories, and amplifying our voices is what keeps us feeling that we are not alone in this world. Keep speaking up for Gaza; our story is not over yet."

#CeasefireNow #FreePalestine #StandWithGaza #Gaza #Humanity #Adf

Europe can either do something about the Far Right or just give up and submit to Washington or Moscow

#EUPol #Fascism #ADF #Geopolitics #FarRight #Ukraine

I cannot help but sigh deeply whenever politicians get involved in strategic military discussions. This is in no way to disparage, in this case, Senator #Shoebridge as he rightly points out that a handful of submarines will not guarantee open sea lanes to Australia in the event of war. For what it’s worth, Sen Shoebridge is only targeting the Govt’s goto spiel about #AUKUS, that is a simple message which the public can understand and focus on.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-07/shoebridge-beyond-capacity-aukus-defend-sea-trade-lanes/106769392

While the govt messaging about protecting sealanes being the reason for SSN acquisition is not entirely wrong, it is not entirely correct either. Submarines platforms are primarily intelligence, insertion, and deterence platforms, #Stealth is something SSN currently have in spades. Their stealth characteristics make these SNNs a force projection multiplier in any theater of sea warfare and likely to make an aggressor think twice before they commit to offensive actions. This comment is not a defence of #AUKUS since that is simply a defence acquisition project. But it is in defence of the need for undersea platforms that are stealthy, highly survivable, can transport personel, equipment and stores, carry offensive and defensive elements and traverse transoceanic distances at speed without refueling. Those needs are dictated to the ADF by the govt of the day in terms of assigned strategic missions and outcomes. In short, our ADF (men adn women pledging their lives to defend us all) deserves the very best materiel and platforms we can provide in order to carry out those missions and responsibilites entrusted to our them.

Everything else is plainly just politics, played by, I dare say, less than genuine and knowledgeable individuals.

#AusPol #ADF #Submarines #SSN #AUKUS #NuclearSubmarines #DefenceProcurement #Acquisition #VirginiaBoats #USN #NavalShipyards #DefenceBudget #RichardMarlesMP #Greens #Labor #BiPartisanShip #DoD #RAN

Торговля на отклонениях: почему мы вернулись к тесту Дики-Фуллера (ADF)

Как бы мы ни пытались отказаться от этого инструмента в поисках более изящных алгоритмических решений, каждый раз мы к нему возвращаемся. В прошлой статье про Гамма-флип я вскользь касался механики работы с отклонениями, но не раскрыл тему до конца. В этой статье мы углубимся в стохастический анализ и рассмотрим методы определения стационарности временных рядов в реальном времени. Разберем математический аппарат расширенного теста Дики-Фуллера (ADF), причины его интеграции в ядро нашей торговой системы и особенности реализации на Python при работе с большими массивами данных.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1043810/

#python #adfтест #стационарность #временные_ряды #zscore #mean_reversion #hft #adf #Стохастик

GoDRIvE1200 PRO Keeps the Amiga 1200 Floppy Drive
#Amiga1200 #GoDRIvE1200PRO #DigitalRetroBay #Retro4U #Amiga #RetroComputing #ADF #FlashFloppy
https://theoasisbbs.com/godrive1200-pro-keeps-the-amiga-1200-floppy-drive/?fsp_sid=7481

The Australian government and allies would rather enter a messy illegal war and associated blockade ("Hey, we're just hanging out in Hormuz in a purely... cough... defensive way") than tell the orange man to stop attacking countries on a fucking whim.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/13/australia-strait-hormuz-wedgetail-iran-war-oil-crisis

#waroniran #australia #adf #militarysupport #illegalwar #StraitOfHormuz