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Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by rafram »

EA-3167 wrote: post #85
JetSetWilly wrote: post #48

> A search on Google™ for ‘Saint Helena’ will bring up many sites that are in California, which has a town called ‘Saint Helena’, or South Carolina, which has an area known as ‘Saint Helena Island’. For this reason it is best when using Google™ to append to your search ‘-napa -carolina -california’, which will remove many of these irrelevant results. Not any more! Since google "enhanced" their search to remove such o…

I switched to Kagi and never looked back, it's like Google was before a decade of enshittification.

Kagi uses the Google Search API. Its results are largely Google results.

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by varispeed »

chongli wrote: post #90
tomcam wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least five years ago. Drives me crazy.

It’s their M.O. Relentlessly cut “power user” features. Relentlessly undermine the user’s wishes and redirect the user to Google’s preferred results. I don’t know why we continue to put up with it. Boiling frogs I guess.

Google used to be the best site to find illegal content. Probably that's why they removed those "power user" features.

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by alwa »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #71
wffurr wrote: post #12

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Why bother with Starlink if the fiberoptic subsea cable is live now?

Because the government seems highly regressive and is almost certainly controlling and monitoring the one cable they've allowed?

I’m curious where you get that impression. From their public communications, they seem to me like a pretty chill bunch. And from the size of the island, I’m not sure the advantage of snooping on the wires versus just gossiping around town. That’s assuming you could find and pay enough qualified staff to do the analysis, given that “anything to do with a computer” is on the “shortage occupation” list that automatically qualifies you for a work permit. [0]

Even in this hand-wavy announcement clutching their pearls at Starlink, they were careful to build in an extra few months for people to finish importing and hiding their Starlink terminals before they might start sending sternly-worded letters...

[0] https://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Sh... (PDF)

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by alwa »

mcv wrote: post #131
lxgr wrote: post #43

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> Breaking existing rules and being unregulatable is probably an intentional point of Starlink. Looking at Starlink's coverage map (for stationary service at least), they seem to very much be playing by the rules (i.e. international laws and regulations regarding satellite communication services): https://www.starlink.com/map A "break rules and become unregulateable" approach would not have service boundaries corresp…

Don't these sats orbit the entire Earth? How is it possible there's anywhere on the planet (except maybe the poles) that they don't cover? Especially the eastern half of the US is particularly puzzling on that map.

I was of the impression that the waitlist in the Eastern US was more a problem of saturated capacity than one of coverage.

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

inemesitaffia wrote: post #126
WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #117

On 6th February 2020 Sure announced that it had no plans to upgrade domestic and small-business Internet connections to Fibre-Optic when the Equiano Cable arrives in 2022, meaning ordinary users would not see the full benefits of the new system. Having their ISP refusing to connect customers to the long awaited fiber is the most Telco thing ever.

They changed their minds, will offer unlimited data. But the down/up isn't quite there

That's good news. I've been cheering for them since the 1st undersea cable deployment was announced (the one that fell through).

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by EA-3167 »

rafram wrote: post #141
EA-3167 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to Kagi and never looked back, it's like Google was before a decade of enshittification.

Kagi uses the Google Search API. Its results are largely Google results.

Sure, but without the ad and SEO spam, it's a totally different experience. It's really a testament to how much damage Google has done to its own product in the name of monetization.

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by rlt »

yencabulator wrote: post #107
capableweb wrote: post #39

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Seems unlikely that Starlink would put a base station on Saint Helena just to be able to serve some percentage of ~4000 population. Most likely the base station is somewhere else.

I wouldn't expect Starlink to serve remote ocean areas until after they have their space lasers working well and can transport the traffic to a continent.

They have global coverage, including oceans:

https://www.starlink.com/maritime

https://support.starlink.com/?topic=9eb841b3-2e43-a6fb-ecc7-...

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by shawabawa3 »

scoot wrote: post #116
JetSetWilly wrote: post #48

> A search on Google™ for ‘Saint Helena’ will bring up many sites that are in California, which has a town called ‘Saint Helena’, or South Carolina, which has an area known as ‘Saint Helena Island’. For this reason it is best when using Google™ to append to your search ‘-napa -carolina -california’, which will remove many of these irrelevant results. Not any more! Since google "enhanced" their search to remove such o…

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If you're going to be overly pedandic please at least double check that you are correct

Re: Saint Helena Island Communications

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

brynx97 wrote: post #133
vjulian wrote: post #111

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How curated and censored are the search results with Kagi? As someone involved with Tantra, for example, I rely on sites that are niche and not always SFW.

You can raise/pin the NSFW domains to curate the results yourself to what you'd generally prefer to see.

You could also set up a seperate NSFW lens based on what style of results you want.
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