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Re: A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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Post by aleksejs »

penteract wrote: post #109
100721 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did they find evidence of their service being used to bomb schools in Iran, like they found for Russia tracking launch sites in Ukraine? If not, then why would they go on such a tangent? Do you expect them to list every one of their personal geopolitical stances, regardless of the relevance to the article?

> like they found for Russia tracking launch sites in Ukraine My understanding of that section was that Ukraine were using it to find launch sites in occupied parts of Ukraine - they go on to describe how they helped someone who had been doing the tracking: [From article] > We emailed back and forth and provided documentation on how to run the predictor locally. Edit: my recollection of which parts of Ukraine are occ…

I think the actor they were monitoring was not tracking real launches but rather simulating where a hypothetical balloon launched from their territory would land.

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Post by geoduck14 »

monitron wrote: post #50

This was fascinating, thank you. I expected to read about legal threats against the folks collecting this data and am glad that those didn't materialize. Also I only realized after finishing the article what a breath of fresh air it was to read something that came straight from another human's brain without LLM intermediation. Thank you to the author for that too.

>Also I only realized after finishing the article what a breath of fresh air it was to read something that came straight from another human's brain without LLM intermediation.

I found it a little difficult to follow

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Post by drdexebtjl »

rawling wrote: post #74

How did they pivot from just providing a redirect to > we decided to start proxying radiosonde ingestion data through SondeHub Redirecting to the habhub UI doesn't seem like it would also let them intercept people uploading their data to habhub.

I didn’t understand that part either.

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Post by throwaway2037 »

makr17 wrote: post #71
Firefishy wrote: post #45

I am part of the team which runs the OpenStreetMap.org infrastructure, we also get a lot of weird and wonderful requests / emails. .mil, .gov, .edu and GeoTLD variants. I should really do a write-up sometime.

I remember being in Tel Aviv for work, and pulling up maps to plot out a bike route from the hotel to the office. Only to find that the entire route is blurred out online. Turns out our office was a few 100 meters from something important to the IDF, so no map/route data available. Too far to reasonably walk, and didn't want to try a bike without knowing there was a reasonable route...

Stupid question: Did you rent the bike? You nerd sniped me here! How did you have a bike on a work trip? That sounds fun.

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Post by chabska »

rexpop wrote: post #102
dalemyers wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are Australian. Don't everyone is from the US just because they speak English.

The rights delineated in the American Constitution are understood to precede the government being held to account for them. Furthermore, they are held to be universal, natural rights.

You would think that the right to bear arms would extend to Iran developing a nuclear warhead though.

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Post by chabska »

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #72
wongarsu wrote: post #59

"Our transmitters shut down after a certain period of time, at the latest when the battery capacity is exhausted. This is due, among other things, to strategic considerations." Among other things. And this was the most sane part of Meteolabor's email

If the transmitters continued to operate after battery exhaustion, then I may begin to question the laws of physics, as well as my life choices

It's weirdly phrased, but it just means that they don't have a tight control for battery capacity. Their device is designed to operate for at most ten hours (for example), but the battery that they use could have anywhere between 8-12 hours of supply, so the transmitter would be active anywhere between 8-10 hours.

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Post by tonyarkles »

wolvoleo wrote: post #104
fragmede wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The terror setting in deeper when the consumer GPS unit stopped responding after 30,000' altitude Ah yes, the CoCom export control limits so you can't use it to build an ICBM. Legally they're supposed to stop working above 60,000 ft and 1,200 mph, but some manufacturers interpret that as an "or". The rumor was that some really cheap chips out of China failed to implement either, so if you'd bought a crappier gps mo…

Ummmm. Any country with the knowhow to make an ICBM can source or build a gps receive without said restriction. Just saying. That's like putting a sign "no burglary permitted" and leaving the door wide open.

You’ve just described a significant amount of ITAR. Am Canadian but have to deal with it occasionally. MWIR/LWIR imagers are another prime example. I can order way better (spec-wise at least) IR sensors from AliExpress than I can from the US. Something about high frame rate IR being useful for some kind of guidance towards hot things shrug

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Post by HWR_14 »

milemi wrote: post #77
retired wrote: post #40

> Fuck Russia You know. I came to that conclusion when they started shootings rockets at a civilian airplane in 2014, killing 298 civilians of which 196 people that I share citizenship with. And fuck Germany for still buying Russian gas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 US govt never apologized.

They never apologized, but they did make up for it. The president wrote a letter about how the US regretted the incident, compensation was paid to all of the families and the airline was given two planes.

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Post by adastra22 »

driverdan wrote: post #111
makr17 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember being in Tel Aviv for work, and pulling up maps to plot out a bike route from the hotel to the office. Only to find that the entire route is blurred out online. Turns out our office was a few 100 meters from something important to the IDF, so no map/route data available. Too far to reasonably walk, and didn't want to try a bike without knowing there was a reasonable route...

Why would a road or route be blocked from OpenStreetMaps? That doesn't really provide any security if the area is public.

In what way do you mean “public”?
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