Imagine letting an unpaid position on social media “make life hell”

It really is that simple. I wouldn’t chose it over wired, but it’s still pretty good. You’re going to beat the latency of satellites every time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Internet_service_provider

If you’re on a boat… fair enough.

Otherwise, look into WISPs… Wireless Internet Service Providers. Great for rural areas, the infrastructure is point-to-point radios, so it’s super easy to go large distances without the cost of fiber or copper cables.

Best part is, if you have any neighbors that are interested, they’ll often give you a discount if you let them put a sector antenna on your barn/silo. Or they can also erect a short tower if you let them too.

If there aren’t any in your immediate area, reach out to ones nearby. They’re always looking to expand.

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“Conspiracy to ___”

A line break doesnt have to be electronic only. You just… start a new line on the paper.

If it were somehow legally allowed, the sanitization would be incorrect.

Just wait, there will be “features” that are mandatory on most sites, only supported in chrome.

Must be a hallucination

If the car uses 5g, ang 5g is no longer available, how do you connect to a server

Maybe make it based on sales. $X, Y sales, or Z years, whichever comes first.

Obscufating the location of the starlink unit isn’t possible. It inherently requires positioning to function at all.

Starlink uses phased array antennas for beamforming, both on the earth base station and on the satelite station. That means the antenna is very directional by using some complex math and multiple tranceivers feeding an antenna array.

That means the satelite must know where you are within like 10s of km. Otherwise it can’t tell where to beam your data.

It’s kinda exactly why cell towers can locate you. And why you can’t avoid that.

Look at this article from March 2024: https://robertgarcia.house.gov/media/in-the-news/cnbc-house-democrats-probe-spacex-over-alleged-illegal-export-and-use-starlink

In a statement on Thursday, the congressmen wrote, “Russia’s use of Starlink satellite terminals would be in contravention of U.S. export controls that prohibit Russia from acquiring and utilizing U.S.-produced technology.”

So the equipment has to fall into the wrong hands, through a somehow compromised supply chain. Maybe that could happen without starlink knowing, but they really should have figured that out in march. They should have very easily identified the units that were potentially compromised by auditing shipping logs.

Not only did the supply chain have to be compromised, but also the subscription and payments system… How did they not catch it on the subscription payment side? Now in addition to a compromised supply chain, a financial institution was compromised? At the least, they didn’t do their due dilligance in customer verification.

How could russia have set up the equipment without some level of development and testing? Geolocation should have given that development away.

Now, could spaceX do something more about this ? Most likely. But that is resources you need to put on this, which is not profitable.

Yeah good point, that’s called “negligence”. Not doing due dilligance or taking the necessary steps to avoid breaking the law, because it isn’t profitable, isn’t a valid legal defense.

It really would have been as simple as geofencing against devices that weren’t preauthorized or whitelisted.

That’s the beauty of intermittent problems!!

You can’t prove they aren’t there, only that they are, or, that you fail to reproduce.

Oh I would have been so pissed. I was programming on my calculator 24/7 instead of my classes.

I wrote a sudoku “editor”

I put that in quotes because I had a grid that could be navigated, arrows moved, storing the numbers, had number entry down. And when it was time to implement the solver, I learned the hard way what p vs np is.

Really? Send them to me. The cables they come with are always really nice and I know they’ll support the data rates and powers the device can use.

That’s what they’ve said about every disruptive technology since the beginning of time.

I’m against it being shoved down our throats at every opportunity for a quick buck, but it’s very much an active area of research.

You’d be foolish to think there’s no innovation or imlrovements to be made.

Argument!

It isn’t that AI will have replaced us in 24 months, it’s that we will be enslaved in 24 months. Or in the matrix. Etc.

My absolute favorite is when I asked copilot to code a UI button and it just pasted “// the UI element should do (…) but instead it is doing (…)” a dozen times.

Like, clearly someone on stackoverflow asked for help, got used for training data, and confused copilot