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My favorite posts are the trip reports... They have hiked to every corner of the island. Great photos, and lots of history.
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There's a meme-like website that demos this very concept. Then there's a v2.0 or some ++ type versioning where they use very minimal CSS to actually improve the readability. I'm a fan of the use of the minimal CSS to add margins and widths as it improves readability for me. Searching for it with only the vagueness of what I can think of right now returns nothing useful, and that's with not using Google. Maybe my vagu…
The original (I think): https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ First improvement: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ Later iterations: https://thebestmotherfucking.website/ https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/
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Why bother with Starlink if the fiberoptic subsea cable is live now?
It's not rolled out yet: http://sainthelenaisland.info/communications.htm#maestrotech...
If they haven't finalized the design, I'd say they've got a ways to go.
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I wonder if other countries will (or have) ban Starlink for censorship reasons. Or frankly, lack of censorship control. So much of our governance, if not all, is based on geographic sovereignty, and satellites can supersede that. I hope we finally get more global governance to deal with more and more global issues.
I remember reading that Starlink routes traffic via base stations in the subscriber’s own country, in order not to anger regulators. If you think about it it makes sense; otherwise governments could just ban the sale of Starlink equipment for violating the law.
I (sorta) know the author of a self-published book, Finding Napoleon which I think covers his time on St. Helena. It's funny that they don't much mention the main reason anyone's heard of it.
> It has come to the attention of the St Helena Government that members of the public may have acquired, imported and be currently using terminals, such as Starlink, for the purposes of internet connectivity. Using such terminals is in contravention of the exclusivity of current telecommunications licencing arrangements made under section 3(4) of the Telecommunications Ordinance 1989. From 1 November 2023 anyone usin…
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I wonder if other countries will (or have) ban Starlink for censorship reasons. Or frankly, lack of censorship control. So much of our governance, if not all, is based on geographic sovereignty, and satellites can supersede that. I hope we finally get more global governance to deal with more and more global issues.
I remember reading that Starlink routes traffic via base stations in the subscriber’s own country, in order not to anger regulators. If you think about it it makes sense; otherwise governments could just ban the sale of Starlink equipment for violating the law.
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I wonder if other countries will (or have) ban Starlink for censorship reasons. Or frankly, lack of censorship control. So much of our governance, if not all, is based on geographic sovereignty, and satellites can supersede that. I hope we finally get more global governance to deal with more and more global issues.
I remember reading that Starlink routes traffic via base stations in the subscriber’s own country, in order not to anger regulators. If you think about it it makes sense; otherwise governments could just ban the sale of Starlink equipment for violating the law.
> It has come to the attention of the St Helena Government that members of the public may have acquired, imported and be currently using terminals, such as Starlink, for the purposes of internet connectivity. Using such terminals is in contravention of the exclusivity of current telecommunications licencing arrangements made under section 3(4) of the Telecommunications Ordinance 1989. From 1 November 2023 anyone usin…
Why bother with Starlink if the fiberoptic subsea cable is live now?