I just noticed a series of nine rare interviews were posted in June 2023 by the Polish Embassy in London.
Each has only a couple hundred views on YouTube despite significance of the subject. They feature war hero Marian Rejewski, the 1st person to crack the Enigma code, describing major breakthroughs before and during WWII (which the British rarely, if ever, gave proper credit to Poland):
1) French X, British Y, Polish Z (0:42)
2) Wiretap collection amounts needed to break Enigma (1:00)
3) Breaking the Enigma code in 1932 (0:56)
4) Enigma “banal” A-A-A, Q-W-E keyfinding (1:31)
5) The 1938 “Bomba” machine (1:16)
6) Enigma codebreaking process and how the Bomba automated the work of over 28 codebreakers (1:30)
7) Manual codebreaking with the primitive “grill method” and then the “cyclometer”, processing over 100,000 Enigma key possibilities ((26x26x26)6) in a few minutes (1:56)
Rejewski’s cyclometer generated a “card catalog” using 26*26*26 or 17,576 positions of the three Enigma alphabet rotors in a given sequence. Given six possible sequences, the catalog was 17,576 * 6 = 105,456.
8) Handing over Enigma codebreaking and Zygalski sheets to the British in 1939 (2:07)
9) Polish-British cooperation on Enigma codebreaking. Poles in Paris would send cracked German Enigma keys over wires to Bletchley Park using “almost comical” protection… encrypted with the German Enigma (1:18)
Where the Poles broke Enigma. The secret Cipher Bureau (Biuro Szyfrów) cryptanalysis operations center in Pyry forest south of Warsaw. Photo from 1938. The British (e.g. Knox) and French intelligence visited, such that Bletchley Park was then rapidly acquired by England and configured in 1939 (to continue operations after Germany invaded Poland).Polish codebreakers (left to right) Zygalski, Rozycki and Rejewski. Photo from 1938.Closeup of the text on a 2002 commemorative plaque to honor the first people to break the Enigma code, oddly placed under some trees and behind a brick wall in a quiet and remote spot at Bletchley Park
Elon Musk, frequently referred to as the welfare king who takes billion dollar handouts on broken promises, just made an abrupt desperate plea to the Chinese government to keep Tesla out of bankruptcy.
Real headline. Hey we all make mistakes sometimes. It’s just that Enron Musk, like his racist grandfather who helped build apartheid, makes self-serving national security mistakes to kill hundreds if not thousands of innocent people.
Failures in management at every level in the company are coming to roost with missed deadlines, collapsing sales, product quality decline, broken supply chains, and rising staff and customer injuries and fatalities.
It sounds like things are running about as well for him as his family who helped run the white racist apartheid government of South Africa (which collapsed in 1988, the reason he fled and became an illegal immigrant to America, where large handouts for lies made him rich).
Now the welfare king, being as on brand as ever and instead of doing any hard work to fix obvious issues, has just announced he courted the Chinese government for a lifeline to tug his sinking dumpster fire into even more trouble.
Tesla reports to the NHTSA stand out (red dot upper right) with far more deaths and injuries than any other car brand. Source: Alshival Data Service
Ah, but what about those who see danger as a benefit?
If this news doesn’t scream national security failure corruption scandal, I don’t know what does.
The agreement with Baidu that is being reported would allow Tesla to go ahead with some autonomous driving technology in China. […] In December, a former Tesla employee told the BBC he did not believe the technology powering the firm’s self-driving vehicles was safe enough to be used on public roads.
Buried lede: China now likely will have some or all control over any Tesla killer robot operating mostly unregulated in other countries.
According to press reports, Musk struck a deal on… some requirements on data security. That, after he met with “old friend” Li Qiang, China’s premier.
You think China wants military intelligence robot soldiers freely loitering on American streets? Tesla is about to make it happen.
The 1984 movie Red Dawn was John Milius’ (Apocalypse Now screenwriter) comic book vision of how young American guerrillas could stop an invasion of foreign run machines.
Consider the brand now as little more than compromised robots in public and private areas around the world capable of Chinese mass surveillance and targeted assassination.
How much money did Elon Musk just beg for in return for throwing his customers and anyone around them under a giant autocratic military bus?
Tesla was imploding from its racism and basic incompetence. Now it’s managed to rope China into helping it suck democracy down too.
Rumors of the German A-N.T. death are false. But seriously, the A-N.T. Cargo:4 electric bike is the best urban hauling machine you’ve got to ride to believe.
It can carry an unbelievable 800 pounds of capacity silently and cleanly on the narrowest of lanes with ease.
Why even own a truck for carpentry, plumbing, electric anymore? The A-N.T. is the best delivery, renovation and construction vehicle I’ve ever seen, let alone rural community, forestry and agricultural development.
Imagine your farmers market being a circle of these with awnings and a desk unfolded from the side. Clean, efficient and easy.
The Tesla, very likely on Autopilot, apparently couldn’t follow faded or weak lines on the Kansas City road just before a curve.
Sgt. Phillip DiMartino , a spokesperson with KCPD, said a preliminary investigation shows a gray Tesla 3 speeding south on North Platte Purchase Drive. The driver of the Tesla did not turn with the curve of the road and crossed the yellow center line, striking a northbound Buick Encore head-on, DiMartino said. The driver of the Buick was wearing a seat belt and was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Southbound view. Note the end of the yellow lines near where the Tesla crossed to crash head-on into northbound traffic. Source: Google Maps
Related: One, two, three… similar recent crashes of Tesla that crashed failing to navigate a slight curve.
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