which was a ‘neutral’ border back then

There's quite a few unmarked graves along that border and immense effort from my countrymen to keep the border where it is. It hasn't been "neutral" for too long. And being prepared to keep that border where it is plays a part on why our president from a small country is on discussions with Ukraine, EU leaders and that orange clown across the pond today.

Murmansk is few hundred kilometers from Finnish border and it's been there for "a while", it's no more bigger problem now than it has ever been. And Norway border is slightly closer than ours and Norway has been a NATO country for quite a while.

Their bases have been about where the tent villages now are for decades. They're training grounds for new conscripts until they're moved to die in some ditch in Ukraine. Who knows why they're more active now, maybe Ukraine is getting pretty good to hit their targets deep in Russia so they need to move further away from the front line or whatever.

This has absolutely nothing to do with Finland, beyond the fact that our border just happens to be nearby. And should they actually try start an active war with NATO from there, these grounds are mostly in reach of Finnish artillery and our artillery is pretty damn efficient on what they do.

There's still things like that on my workplace today. I think there's some older, rarely used CNC with Win98 on the controller. We just keep spares around when they break, but that's cheaper than replacing the whole machinery. Also there's some XP stations running software for an industrial machine which would cost quarter of a million to replace. Some of those need access to network drives and such but they live in a strictly isolated VLAN.

And, as far as I've told at least, there was no option at any point to upgrade just the computers on those things. It's always the whole assembly line or whatever they're connected to. There's not many companies willing to throw hundreds of thousands every 3-5 years to replace perfectly working equipment.

I can’t. And you can’t. Real numbers are not provided. “you must trust the numbers given to you”

I can if I really want to. Down to the last receipt, excluding someones personal information and stuff like that, but in here all that data is public. Not in a sense that everything besides accounting and other "bigger picture" things would be online, but it's public information anyways and it has to be accessible. Sure, I would definetly annoy the shit out of some poor secretary (or more likely multiple of them) digging up everything and it would take a long time, but it's still public.

Anyone who has used intranet search engines at large companies

Sharepoint search functionality comes to mind. Our team commonly refers it as write-once storage as once you throw something in there you'll never find it again. And yes, we stole the term from somewhere.

Kyllähän se datakeskus tarvitsee rakennusajan jälkeenkin vartijoita, lounasruokaa, IV-huoltajia, sähkömiehiä, talkkareita jne ja tuskin sinne Kiinasta raahataan toimijoita ihan pelkästään tuota varten. Mistään maatamullistavasta ei tietysti puhuta, mutta työpaikkoja ja sitäkautta verotuloja yhtäkaikki.

Toisaalta tuo huoli Kiinasta on varmaan ihan aiheellinen, mutta sitten toisaalta Kouvola ja sen ympäristö ei ole varsinaisesti kasvukeskus ja työpaikat + verot on epäilemättä alueelle tervetulleita. Sitä en oikein näe, että miten tuollainen datakeskus itsessään nyt auttaisi minkään piirivalmistamisen kanssa, joten sanoisin että rahat pois ennenkuin Bytedance vie keskuksensa johonkin muualle Eurooppaan.

Ja mitä taas TikTokkiin (ja muihin somejätteihin maasta riippumatta) tulee niin ne ongelmat pitää kyllä ratkaista jossain muualla kuin Kouvolan tonttimarkkinoilla.

There's also Mars Climate Orbiter which crashed to the planet since NASA used SI-units and Lockheed Martin (who manufactured the thing) used imperial units.

"Puolueeksi palaava Sinimusta liike on ihan sama rasistiporukka kuin aikaisemminkin, nyt vain hieman salonkikelpoisemmalla ohjelmatekstillä."

Kokoontumisvapaus ja muut meikäläisen demokratian hienoudet on kyllä ihan kiistämättä hyviä juttuja, mutta ne sitten myös mahdollistaa tällaiset ääritapaukset ja näiden kieltäminen lainsäädännöllä on vähän kaltevalla pinnalla. Toivottavasti näiden "lukupiireihin" suhtaudutaan jatkossakin samalla tapaa kuin aikaisemmin, en oikein mielelläni näkisi että tällainen puolue saisi edes kunnanvaltuuston varapaikkaa Merijärveltä tms.

Industrial automation should be strictly firewalled (or even airgapped) anyways, no matter the manufacturer. Giving any kind of unmonitored remote access to anyone outside the company actually running the thing is asking for trouble.

If the power plant owner decides to trust Huawei (or any other entity) that's on them. Obviously the grid management should also make rules about this stuff, but in general if you leave your SCADA/whatever system open to the internet you're pretty much asking for someone to break your stuff. Maybe it's the Chinese government, maybe it's the neighbours kid, maybe it's some IT student in Latvia, who knows.

And securing your stuff inside a private VLAN or whatever is not difficult nor expensive. Not in total euros spent and specially not compared to the damages and fines you'd need to pay after something goes wrong enough.

That is a very good question. Also, if they're planning to get these weapons from Ukrainian manufacturers, I'd assume that Ukraine won't have more weapons, just weapons someone else paid for. At least I don't see any quick scenario where additional money would increase production capabilities, at least as long as there's no free capacity on the factory which I don't believe is the case.

Edit: Oh, and I'm not implying that it would be a bad thing to aid Ukraine even more, I just think that they currently need hardware more than "just" money.