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Why are none of the people I saw posting non-stop about Palestine saying anything about Iranian freedom? Would honestly love to hear a genuine response from anyone who is against the movement in Iran. Or even conflicted about it.
Because the Iranian regime was the one pushing that pro Palestine narrative.
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I hope the movement succeeds. I've been curious myself about why the activist class seems weirdly quiet on this issue. On a quick scan of media feeds I've seen a couple of things that stand out (I do not confirm or deny how true these claims are) 1) Current Iran is a enemy of the USA and thus activists can't support the destruction of the current regime. Iran is able to create nukes so can put pressure on the USA in…
There's an alliance between the new left and islamism due to some ideological similarities. Sure one side would march for pride and the other hangs gays on cranes. However, in foreign policy both explain anything as some product of colonialism, a phenomena that essentially disappeared 60 years ago. This is due to the effect Edward Said had on US humanities, which was in turn was influenced by Muslim Brotherhood thoug…
Why are none of the people I saw posting non-stop about Palestine saying anything about Iranian freedom? Would honestly love to hear a genuine response from anyone who is against the movement in Iran. Or even conflicted about it.
Speaking from an American perspective, many left-leaning commentators I've seen are focused on the ICE situation in the states right now. But that's the most optimistic take I can conjure.
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It sounds like Starlink uses GPS to localize the receiver, rather than for any active step in the communication link. Since most receivers are static, I wonder if an effective workaround to this is for the receiver to just remember its last GPS fix for longer, or worst-case allow a manual location specification in lieu of a GPS fix.
A user provided location cannot be trusted for geofencing purposes. A GNSS (GPS or other) is needed sooner or later. This is a legal requirement for sanction and regulation enforcement (US, if not others).
If the user inputs a bogus lat/lon, it would simply fail to connect. There's no way to 'spoof' your location on this type of global satellite comm network.
EDIT It will be interesting to see what anti-censorship and anti-DOS hardening features are coming in future software updates. Full GPS denial bootstrapping is the most obvious, and actually this should be possible without needing to input a location. Adding offline update packages, so signed anti-denial firmware updates can "sneakernet" across oppressive regimes to recover DOSed terminals, would be even better.
Does anyone know how Iranians are _actually_ communicating right now? I remember seeing here on HN (admittedly a long time ago) some Bluetooth-mesh technologies that promised decentralized solutions to these very type of problems
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I hope the movement succeeds. I've been curious myself about why the activist class seems weirdly quiet on this issue. On a quick scan of media feeds I've seen a couple of things that stand out (I do not confirm or deny how true these claims are) 1) Current Iran is a enemy of the USA and thus activists can't support the destruction of the current regime. Iran is able to create nukes so can put pressure on the USA in…
There's an alliance between the new left and islamism due to some ideological similarities. Sure one side would march for pride and the other hangs gays on cranes. However, in foreign policy both explain anything as some product of colonialism, a phenomena that essentially disappeared 60 years ago. This is due to the effect Edward Said had on US humanities, which was in turn was influenced by Muslim Brotherhood thoug…
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Speaking from an American perspective, many left-leaning commentators I've seen are focused on the ICE situation in the states right now. But that's the most optimistic take I can conjure.
Definitely part of it. But the Mexican leftists I know are equally silent. As they were on Ukraine too. It’s really only when then can root against the US or Jews, as far as I can tell.
I am curious if there are any implications for the Russian invasion of Ukraine from this tactic working.
What do you mean, Russia has been doing the same thing for most of the war? The success relies on you controlling the territory, or at least territory close enough, so the results vary.
I am an RF ignoramus. It all seems like black magic to me. I have seen "80% packet loss" being thrown around in these discussions, and also that it is just GPS spoofing.
My main question is that is there anything novel happening here? What is the actual range of disruption?
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Starlink uses beamforming with directional antenna arrays, so it should be rather difficult to jam compared to omnidirectional antennas. It's basically a dish pointed at the satellite, so the jammer should be in between to work. Antenna arrays aren't perfect so it still picks up some energy omnidirectionally, but it should be possible to shield it with some metal plates in a way that only sky is visible. https://en.w…
> basically a dish pointed at the satellite, so the jammer should be in between to work. Which isn't hard to do if you have the budget of a government. Directional antennae, GPS and a helicopter/Cessna flying patterns over a metro. Beams from the terminal are constantly scanning the sky chasing the constellations. A higher hit rate option would be a fleet of low altitude drones taking high-res pictures of the ground,…