This is an interesting story because of the very odd media response. It’s two days old and yet there hasn’t been a huge amount of coverage. Indeed the betting markets done seem to think the chance of war is up. Today And Tomorrow

The Article says:

A Note for Vaultwarden Users

Whether self-hosting stays viable long-term is the real question worth sitting with.

Right now it works because Bitwarden’s clients are open source and the server API is public. Vaultwarden implements that API, and the official apps can’t tell the difference. That depends on Bitwarden continuing to publish open source clients and not restricting which servers they’ll talk to — neither of which is guaranteed under new management.

The brake on the worst case: self-hosting is a listed Enterprise feature that generates real revenue. Killing it upsets paying business customers. That matters.

The catch: what Bitwarden sells to enterprises is their own official server stack, not Vaultwarden. Vaultwarden exists in a space they’ve tolerated but never endorsed. If the calculus shifts, the tolerance ends without any announcement. Just let the API drift until compatibility breaks on its own.

I don’t think that’s imminent. But I also thought the free tier commitment was ironclad, and “Always free” isn’t on the page anymore.The real safety net is that Bitwarden’s clients are Apache 2.0 licensed. A fork would need a rebrand to stay clear of the trademark — different name, tweaked UI, same engine — but that’s a speed bump, not a wall. The web vault works through any browser regardless of what happens to the apps, so worst case you’d lose autofill temporarily while a fork caught up. Inconvenient, not catastrophic. Vaultwarden itself is already proof the model works.

Watch the clients. If they go closed, the community will notice fast, and the fork will follow.

Russia launched 6,583 long-range drones during the month, according to a compilation of daily reports published by Ukraine’s air force.

That was two percent more than the number fired in March, which was also a record at the time.

According to the data, Ukraine managed to shoot down 88 percent of all incoming drones and missiles.

This is interesting, but lacks context as the question is how many got through? Is the 88% nominal, or up?

The price spike the day before the tax cut is a legitimate thing to be furious about - that behavior is genuinely predatory. What’s getting less attention is that Germany is simultaneously one of five countries pushing the EU for a windfall tax targeting exactly that. Whether it’ll be fast enough or strong enough is a fair debate. But ‘bumbling’ and ‘deliberately doing nothing’ are different problems.

While it’s an improved situation, and really it’s Russia’s to lose at this point, not having US aid would be a fairly large functional hit to Ukraine. Specifically in the intelligence area, but even whatever the 400 million that the administration doles out from the USAI would be helpful. Ukraine’s debt continues to grow here and mitigating it is going to give Ukraine a better leg up in whatever this war endgame looks like.

I do think that Russia will likely have a major fiscal collapse later this year and we may see the end of this by mid 2027, so the 90 Billion the EU loaned may be the winning stroke.

I think the sanctions are doubling the repair times this, so for the hard hit ones could still be out of full operation. I would imagine they are prioritizing crude distillation repairs over secondary upgrading units, since crude distillation is simpler and strategically more important.

Let it die. Investing in new innovation is most adaptive and useful.

This is in testing, not that it isn’t awesome.

Ukrainian company UkrArmoTech has begun factory testing of a prototype of a new tracked armored personnel carrier called Skif.

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Skif APC prototype hull is manufactured from aluminum. This is the first experience of domestic companies in using such armor material for creating combat platforms. However, it’s not certain that aluminum will be used for manufacturing serial vehicles. There’s high probability that considering export restrictions at armor aluminum manufacturers, UkrArmoTech will also develop a steel armor APC version.

This may affect updating requirements for running gear and cause certain changes in vehicle hull design. All decisions will be made considering the entire data array collected during aluminum Skif factory testing.

Factory testing goal of Skif tracked APC prototype is practical verification of new platform concept maturity, its driving qualities, mobility. Maximum permissible loads will be applied. Dynamic testing of all main units will be conducted.

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Main components: engine, transmission, suspension elements, transfer case, tracks UkrArmoTech company plans to ensure through imports. According to preliminary calculations, up to 60% of tracked vehicle components will be imported initially.

Subsequently transition to independent production of separate components and assemblies to expand own competencies and capabilities.