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The Moral Fog: Stories of Ethical Dilemmas in Combat

https://igottaknowyou.com/2026/07/13/the-moral-fog-stories-of-ethical-dilemmas-in-combat/

The Moral Fog: Stories of Ethical Dilemmas in Combat

https://igottaknowyou.com/2026/07/13/the-moral-fog-stories-of-ethical-dilemmas-in-combat/

Naylor speaks to those who were there, bringing the human side of warfare into focus.
#books #WarStories #RelentlessStrike
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/joint-special-operations-command/

Naylor speaks to those who were there, bringing the human side of warfare into focus.
#books #WarStories #RelentlessStrike
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/joint-special-operations-command/

The Siege of Jadotville is a story of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances. It’s a reminder of the sacrifices made by peacekeepers.
#Bravery #WarStories #BookClubPick
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/siege-at-jadotville-book-review-irish-army-forgotten-battle/

The Siege of Jadotville is a story of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances. It’s a reminder of the sacrifices made by peacekeepers.
#Bravery #WarStories #BookClubPick
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/siege-at-jadotville-book-review-irish-army-forgotten-battle/

Oops, I wrote a database. I discuss some of challenges I faced getting full ACID guarantees working in my latest post: https://dafoster.net/articles/2026/02/23/oops-i-wrote-a-database/ #databases #warstories #programming

Oops, I wrote a database. I discuss some of challenges I faced getting full ACID guarantees working in my latest post: https://dafoster.net/articles/2026/02/23/oops-i-wrote-a-database/ #databases #warstories #programming

No Easy Day isn’t just about the raid. It’s about how men are made for the hard roads. It’s about what they carry inside.
#WarStories #NoEasyDay #Readers #books
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/mission-that-killed-osama-bin-laden/

No Easy Day isn’t just about the raid. It’s about how men are made for the hard roads. It’s about what they carry inside.
#WarStories #NoEasyDay #Readers #books
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/mission-that-killed-osama-bin-laden/

Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70n2x7p22do

#HackerNews #Palestine #Conflict #HumanRights #WarStories #ChildrenVoices #NewsCoverage

Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70n2x7p22do

#HackerNews #Palestine #Conflict #HumanRights #WarStories #ChildrenVoices #NewsCoverage

Friday, February 27, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-27-2026/

Friday, February 27, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-27-2026/

For readers who crave real-life stories of high-stakes missions. This book delivers a raw, unfiltered look at modern warfare.
#WarStories #BookWorm #books
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/bin-laden-raid-seal-team-six/

Dive into the story of heroism, sacrifice, and the cost of war.
#OutpostBook #USMilitary #WarStories #BookReview #books
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/outpost/

Dive into the story of heroism, sacrifice, and the cost of war.
#OutpostBook #USMilitary #WarStories #BookReview #books
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/outpost/

Discover real stories from patrols, meetings, and late-night strategy sessions.
#OperatorsBookReview #WarStories #MilitaryLife
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/operators-book-review/

What I share here is only a very small part of our story—mine and my children’s—under this war. Behind every word lies fear, hunger, and displacement. Behind every picture, a tear unseen. Our story is filled with pain, yet it is also a cry for life… we hold on to hope despite everything.

#Gaza #ChildrenUnderAttack #WarStories #Humanity #StandWithGaza #HopeInDarkness #EndTheWar
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-thaer-give-his-children-safety-again

What I share here is only a very small part of our story—mine and my children’s—under this war. Behind every word lies fear, hunger, and displacement. Behind every picture, a tear unseen. Our story is filled with pain, yet it is also a cry for life… we hold on to hope despite everything.

#Gaza #ChildrenUnderAttack #WarStories #Humanity #StandWithGaza #HopeInDarkness #EndTheWar
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-thaer-give-his-children-safety-again

”Friends don’t let friends do feature creep!”
#development #warstories

”Friends don’t let friends do feature creep!”
#development #warstories

A clip from my Substack Live conversation today with Jennifer Holik. It's a fascinating discussion about #WarStories and other forms of #Trauma and how we relive the experiences in #FamilyHistory. Join us Thursday for "War Stories and Healing Paths with Jennifer Holik" Projectkin.org/events

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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#navalhistory #ww2 #worldwartwo #commandos #warstories #normandy #operationchariot #thegreatestraidofalltime #militaryhistory #history #navy #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #historyfacts #warfacts #military #army #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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#navalhistory #ww2 #worldwartwo #commandos #warstories #normandy #operationchariot #thegreatestraidofalltime #militaryhistory #history #navy #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #historyfacts #warfacts #military #army #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

When I hear about AI-based programming, I think back several decades to a time when I was dealing with a hairy set of data, and I wrote a pretty complex bit of code generating an even more complex bit of SQL. I don't remember now if it ended up proving useful or not, though I think it did. But that's not the point.

The point was when I came back to it after a few months ... I couldn't figure it out at all. Neither the generator, nor the generated code.

And I HAD WRITTEN IT. Myself, from scratch, sorting out what I wanted and how to get there.

There's a principle in programming that debugging and maintenance are far harder than coding. Which means you should never write code that you are too stupid to debug and maintain. Which is precisely what I'd failed in my anecdote.

And of course, Management, in its infinite wisdom, typically puts far greater emphasis on new development than on testing, or Heavens Forefend!!! maintenance. So all the brightest talent (or so perceived, at any rate) goes to New Development.

(There's a great essay from about a decade ago, "In Praise of Maintenance, which you, and by "you" I mean "I", should really (re)read: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/in-praise-of-maintenance-rebroadcast/).

With AI-based code generation, presuming it works at all, we get code that's like computer-chess or computer-Go (the game, not the lang). It might work, but there's no explanation or clarity to it. Grandmasters are not only stumped but utterly dispirited because they can't grok the strategy.

I can't count the number of times I've heard AI referred to as search or solution without explanation, an idea I'd first twigged to in the late 2010s. That is, if scientific knowledge tells us about causes of things, AI ML GD LLM simply tells us the answer without being able to show its work. Or worse: even if it could show work, that wouldn't tell us anything meaningful.

(This ... may not be entirely accurate, I'm not working in the field. But the point's been iterated enough times from enough different people at least some of whom should know that I tend to believe it.)

A major cause of technical debt is loss of institutional knowledge over how code works and what parts do what. I've worked enough maintenance jobs that I've seen this in all size and manner of organisations. At another gig, I'd cut the amount of code roughly in half just so I could run it in the interactive environment which made debugging more viable. I never really fully understood what all of that program did (though I could fix bugs, make changes, and even anticipate some problems which later emerged). Funny thing was when one of the prior Hired Guns who'd worked on the same project before my time there turned up on my front door some years later ... big laughs from both of us...

But this AI-generated code? It's going to be hairballs on hairballs on hairballs. And at some point it's gonna break.

Which leaves us with two possible situations:

• We won't have an AI smart enough to deal with the mess.
• Or, maybe, we will. Which as I think of the possibility whilst typing this seems potentially even more frightening.

Though my bet's on the first case.

#AI #AiProgramming #Hairballs #WarStories #Maintenance #TechnicalDebt

When I hear about AI-based programming, I think back several decades to a time when I was dealing with a hairy set of data, and I wrote a pretty complex bit of code generating an even more complex bit of SQL. I don't remember now if it ended up proving useful or not, though I think it did. But that's not the point.

The point was when I came back to it after a few months ... I couldn't figure it out at all. Neither the generator, nor the generated code.

And I HAD WRITTEN IT. Myself, from scratch, sorting out what I wanted and how to get there.

There's a principle in programming that debugging and maintenance are far harder than coding. Which means you should never write code that you are too stupid to debug and maintain. Which is precisely what I'd failed in my anecdote.

And of course, Management, in its infinite wisdom, typically puts far greater emphasis on new development than on testing, or Heavens Forefend!!! maintenance. So all the brightest talent (or so perceived, at any rate) goes to New Development.

(There's a great essay from about a decade ago, "In Praise of Maintenance, which you, and by "you" I mean "I", should really (re)read: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/in-praise-of-maintenance-rebroadcast/).

With AI-based code generation, presuming it works at all, we get code that's like computer-chess or computer-Go (the game, not the lang). It might work, but there's no explanation or clarity to it. Grandmasters are not only stumped but utterly dispirited because they can't grok the strategy.

I can't count the number of times I've heard AI referred to as search or solution without explanation, an idea I'd first twigged to in the late 2010s. That is, if scientific knowledge tells us about causes of things, AI ML GD LLM simply tells us the answer without being able to show its work. Or worse: even if it could show work, that wouldn't tell us anything meaningful.

(This ... may not be entirely accurate, I'm not working in the field. But the point's been iterated enough times from enough different people at least some of whom should know that I tend to believe it.)

A major cause of technical debt is loss of institutional knowledge over how code works and what parts do what. I've worked enough maintenance jobs that I've seen this in all size and manner of organisations. At another gig, I'd cut the amount of code roughly in half just so I could run it in the interactive environment which made debugging more viable. I never really fully understood what all of that program did (though I could fix bugs, make changes, and even anticipate some problems which later emerged). Funny thing was when one of the prior Hired Guns who'd worked on the same project before my time there turned up on my front door some years later ... big laughs from both of us...

But this AI-generated code? It's going to be hairballs on hairballs on hairballs. And at some point it's gonna break.

Which leaves us with two possible situations:

• We won't have an AI smart enough to deal with the mess.
• Or, maybe, we will. Which as I think of the possibility whilst typing this seems potentially even more frightening.

Though my bet's on the first case.

#AI #AiProgramming #Hairballs #WarStories #Maintenance #TechnicalDebt

"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite

Amazon - http://mybook.to/intotheunknown

Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

#IntoTheUnknownByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #WW2Fiction #WWIIFiction #WWIIRomance #WW2Romance #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Paperback #Bookstodon #WartimeRomance #WarStories @bookstodon

"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite

Amazon - http://mybook.to/intotheunknown

Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

#IntoTheUnknownByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #WW2Fiction #WWIIFiction #WWIIRomance #WW2Romance #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Paperback #Bookstodon #WartimeRomance #WarStories @bookstodon

Nothing Less Than Full Victory! – War Stories: Rendezvous With Destiny

https://wp.me/p4dlMq-5yy

#BoxcarNation #Review #ttrpg #WarStories #WWII #WW2 #YearZero @FirelockGames @FreeLeaguePub

http://rollingboxcars.com/2024/11/27/nothing-less-than-full-victory-war-stories-rendezvous-with-destiny/

Breaking news: Russia takes a hit, literally! A fresh drone strike on Kyiv, while a commander gets sacked for spinning tales about war progress. It seems honesty really is the best policy… unless you're in the Kremlin! #UkraineWar #Kyiv #WarStories #SkyNews Source: https://theinformer.uk

#WarStories: Mission 1 failed, the Agents died. #OccupiedFrance feels like a fine mashup of (advanced) #FightingFantasy, old exciting #spy / #war #thrillers and a stripped, but deadly version of a skirmish #wargame. I like the game. I'm not so sure about the replay value. #boardgames

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xdjqpqlccq57rplc6ulr73rp/post/3l5tgt6ooiq2p

#WarStories: 18th Oct. 1943 - We’re running out of time to help the French resistance… Mission 1 starts now. #Wargames #boardgamesky #OccupiedFrance #OperationLightning #SoloGaming

"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite

Amazon - http://mybook.to/intotheunknown

Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

#IntoTheUnknownByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #WW2Fiction #WWIIFiction #WWIIRomance #WW2Romance #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Paperback #Bookstodon #WartimeRomance #WarStories @bookstodon

Kate Sheridan leaves Ireland for London seeking freedom and work. But war looms and danger lurks. She meets Charlie Butler, a dashing pilot who charms her, but can she trust him? Will their love survive their families' objections and the trials of war?

Amazon - http://myBook.to/intotheunknown

Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

#IntoTheUnknownByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #WW2Fiction #WWII #WW2 #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Paperback #Bookstodon #WarStories @bookstodon

"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite

Amazon - http://mybook.to/intotheunknown

Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

#IntoTheUnknownByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #WW2Fiction #WWIIFiction #WWIIRomance #WW2Romance #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Paperback #Bookstodon #WartimeRomance #WarStories @bookstodon

"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite

Amazon - http://mybook.to/intotheunknown

Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

#IntoTheUnknownByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #WW2Fiction #WWIIFiction #WWIIRomance #WW2Romance #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Paperback #Bookstodon #WartimeRomance #WarStories @bookstodon

Kate Sheridan leaves Ireland for London seeking freedom and work. But war looms and danger lurks. She meets Charlie Butler, a dashing pilot who charms her, but can she trust him? Will their love survive their families' objections and the trials of war?

Amazon - http://myBook.to/intotheunknown

Other Retailers - https://books2read.com/IntoTheUnknown

#IntoTheUnknownByLornaPeel #BooksByLornaPeel #WW2Fiction #WWII #WW2 #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalFiction #KindleUnlimited #Paperback #Bookstodon #WarStories @bookstodon

I'm currently working through a good anti-war-story which I think is valuable, especially for people getting into SE, or pentesting in general.

So, in 2022, I did an onsite social engineering test for a small(ish) credit union. Two locations, single day each, basic retail bank branches. For my pretext, I spun up a lookalike domain, and sent a spear phishing-email to the branch manager, letting them know that an IT consultant would be coming on-site. The branch manager accepted the email, let everyone in the branch know to expect me, and I got full access to everything

I'm currently doing another, basically identical test for the same customer, just in a different city, with different branches. Long story short, I just tried the exact same thing, and this time both branch managers almost immediately reported my phishing email as suspicious. This means they're gonna be on high-alert for that pretext, and I'm going to need to come up with something radically different for when I actually go on-site.

This may sound like a failure, or like I've shot myself in the foot, but nothing could be further from the truth. What I've just demonstrated, is that our work is VALUABLE. I am no longer able to exploit an issue which last time resulted in a full compromise. That's a HUGE win for them, and for us.

As pentesters, If we are able to exploit the same issues over and over and over, year after year on pentests, that's not just a bad look for them, it's a bad look for us too. Companies aren't hiring us to show off what rockstar-ninja-cyber-pirates we are. They're hiring us to help them solve problems. If their problems aren't getting solved, then we might need to take a closer look at our own work to see if there's anything we could've done to help better explain the issue, demonstrate the risk, suggest remediation, etc.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Now I have to go come up with a whole new pretext and execute it by EOD today. (HELP! :-p)

#socialengineering #pentesting #warstories

@paulasadoorian and @JaysonEStreet, I listened to your recent interview on SecurityWeekly about this exact thing, and it resonated with me so hard I just about shattered. Thank you.

http://journeyplanet.weebly.com

New "Journey Planet" (Issue 76) is about The American War in Vietnam

It's really great stuff with excellent contributors, including Joe Haldeman, David Thayer, Alison Hartman Adams and James Bacon

It's not always an easy read, but for that I recommend it all the more

#FanZines #Zines #Vietnam #Nam #War #SciFi #MilitarySciFi #ScienceFiction #History #JourneyPlanet #Film #Films #Movies #WarStories #America

New isn't always novel: grep'ing your way to $20k at PWN2OWN and how you can to.
From James Horseman and Zach Hanley
At #DEFCON #WarStories

#Cicada3301
#DEFCON
#WarStories

Super, super, super excited to be at my first #DEFCON
#WarStories

"Unconventional Cybercrime: how a bad anti-hacking treaty is becoming a law"

Heard one of my 97 year old dad's war stories I hadn't heard before today. After a bombing raid in Germany, where he'd been taken as a teen from Poland into forced labour - he entered a bombed out house. Found some potatoes and a pot of what he thought was flour. So he made some soup. Spat it out after a mouthful or so as it tasted bad. Turns out the tub of flour was actually somebody's funerary urn!!

So learnt today my dad is sort of a cannibal!! 👁️ 👁️

#WarStories #97YearOldDad

#mastoprompt "Shrapnel"

A miracle that I’m alive…
For I was there in forty-five
With all the joint Amphibious Corps.
The bloodiest battle of the war,
We fought as boldly as we could,
Lost many lives, but I withstood
That rain of steel on land and sea:
I’ve still got shrapnel in my knee.

#poetry #shortpoems #riddlepoems #ww2 #war #okinawa #warstories #grandpa #soldier #battle #military #history #poetrycommunity

#UserResearch #WarStories

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