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Post by sosborn »

helloaltalt wrote: post #68

marcosdumay's comment of here explained situation (giving it more attention) they can censor IPv4 when they want, but they don't know how to censor IPv6. So they block it entirely. This is the reason why they aren't blacking out IPv4 From my own experience, my ex gf was iranian. She was using discord via some psiphon vpn or something iirc idk how she got access to it but she had it. I didn't trust psiphon that much s…

Most of what's happening in the word can be boiled down to either someone craving power, or someone in power desperately struggling to hold on to it.

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Post by [deleted] »

iammjm wrote: post #201
null_deref wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you provide a source for this claim?

Here, have a video of the russian cavalry with a Starlink attached to a horse. Yes, you have read that right. 2026 btw. https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1q7i... Also: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/08/russia-sat...

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Post by bawolff »

WhereIsTheTruth wrote: post #79
TechSquidTV wrote: post #32

Government enacted shut down due to protests. I'd like to hear more about how they actually do this. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-cutting-internet-amid-dead...

> Government enacted shut down due to protests Not just protests, it's to prevent foreign interference (like CIA) from fueling civil unrest and spreading AI deepfakes, as seen in Myanmar and Brazil https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

Pretty sure the CIA is perfectly capable of doing that without the internet.

If anything its easier to spread rumours without the internet to let people compare notes

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Post by wiml »

throwaway894345 wrote: post #135
anakaine wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lora is fine if you want to send a very short message. Its not useful for much else. Its also not a prevalent technology compared to general.internet/mobile phone. Organising resistance with it is the pipe dream of those who play with chips and antennas, but its not something thats going to happen when crowds and mobs form up in a situation like this. Not least because the hardware is not accessible to your average c…

Yeah, that makes sense. I’ve curious if there are sneakernet things for communicating messages between passing mobile devices? Something that uses exist hardware and is actually used in practice.

There are things like Briar, Scuttlebutt, Berty, Serval, probably more I don't know of.

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Post by tnystrk »

pantalaimon wrote: post #109
helloaltalt wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They must be smuggled inside the country and the dictatorship can say anything they want and charge if they get caught so they must be very few in numbers I don't know too much about starlink but is there a way that someone can pay for other person's usage and then build a starlink receiver or something from spare parts or like easy accesible parts from the world? Because how would people get starlink device. I dont…

> is there a way that someone can pay for other person's usage and then build a starlink receiver or something from spare parts or like easy accesible parts from the world? Starlink uses a pretty sophisticated phased array antenna, so not something you can easily build in your garage.

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Post by some_bird »

Noaidi wrote: post #155
tuhgdetzhh wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't it possible to jam the starlink receiver?

Destroy the satellites? I mean all that have to do is screw up the trajectory of some of the satellites to cause exponential collisions...

Ah yes, Kessler's space shredder, something to be feared by all satellites!

It appears that we are very close to an unstoppable runaway process of collisions in space. On one hand, nice that we prevent rich guys from running away to other planets after ruining this one. On the other hand, a lot of services require GPS, it would be chaos if that were to disappear...

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Post by syncsynchalt »

hvenev wrote: post #3
dgrin91 wrote: post #2

Seems like v4s zeroed out for a tiny bit too, but even now they are substantially lower than normal. Odd behavior, I don't know if its a precursor to an attack or some infra issue

For IPv4 the graph does not start at zero, but at around 45K.

Correct, click the "Min/Max scale" toggle to get a zero-based graph that shows the v4 reduction in context.

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Post by cramsession »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #216
cramsession wrote: post #207

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If pro Iran govt then why shutdown internet and shoot protestors?

We don’t know that Iran shutdown the internet, they never claimed to do that. Any “protesters” that got shot were Israeli plants.

Mind you, the US actually shot and killed a real protester yesterday.

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