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perching_aix wrote: post #203
WhereIsTheTruth wrote: post #169

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CIA and Amnesty's claims aside, focus on how social media fuels civil unrest, the real concern is foreign interference, Iran has been a target for a very long time The US wants a regime change, that's a fact, Trump has been very vocal on the matter, and the NSA has the tools to do what ever it pleases on the internet (e.g., PRISM)

People can focus on a lot of things and make any arbitrary narrative emerge. My problem is exactly that I do not find this angle compelling so far, especially in light of the to-me-obvious alternative. You started off by listing a bunch of things that did not pass my smell test (and you have now walked back on), then followed it up by what's essentially a scattershot of vague gesturings. Why would I focus on what you…

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Post by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe »

helloaltalt wrote: post #297
gunalx wrote: post #260

Its for times like this briar or similar applications are super useful. Also memory sticks. To bad distributing is not to simple.

briar leaks some metadata from what I've heard (unconfirmed). Meshtastic seems a better alternative

I'd go with reticulum using also loras bridges. You can get data over multiple kilometers, route them to the internet easily, and with a much smarter routing scheme than meshtastic.

https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/

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Post by resumenext »

pphysch wrote: post #33
resumenext wrote: post #24

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It’s intended to be human readable, but it’s not and its slow adoption is proof of that. A random 10 digit string would arguably be better.

You mean base64? 10 digits is only 10 billion addresses

I was thinking of ipv5.

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Post by WhereIsTheTruth »

helloaltalt wrote: post #292
bawolff wrote: post #266

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You know what else fuels unrest - potentially not having basic needs met by society. There is a major economic crisis in Iran. There is an impending water crisis. Social media is a new thing, but protests are old. People protested in despotic regimes prior to social media, and the triggering factors were basically the same as what is happening in Iran right now.

> Social media is a new thing, but protests are old. People protested in despotic regimes prior to social media, and the triggering factors were basically the same as what is happening in Iran right now. In fact, Social medias can make the co-ordination of protests and other information rather quickly. Its one of the few benefits of social medias. Social media with all its flaws still helps protests

TikTok playbook: if a foreign power controls an influential platform, it's a national security threat, if the US controls it, it's just social media

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Post by KaiserPro »

cramsession wrote: post #278
KaiserPro wrote: post #270

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ok but like what's your sources? "trust me bro?" Do you have family there?

It’s actually on the people claiming there are “massive” protests to prove that’s true.

no its on both of you.

I made the fairly reasonable assertion that people don't come out on to the streets when there is a non-trivial chance of being shot, simply because someone told them to. (see protests in any other oppressive country)

Now, where is my source for that? well put it this way, I don't go out to protest that much and I'm in a non-oppressive country. the bar for protest where I might be shot or sent to a hole is waaaay higher.

Now to your point: "there are no protests, just a couple of isreali agitators"

The videos that I have seen show >thousand people on the streets, bearing down on police, or running away from the police. Different places, different times, but all in the last two weeks.

Now, that _could_ be selective publication, but I didn't see most of these videos through the press.

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Post by oblio »

kelvinjps10 wrote: post #290
switchbak wrote: post #88

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Sure, a US invasion of Iran would undoubtedly lead to good things. And how can you say the Kurds are friends of the USA (I'm presuming you mean friends of the USA) given how many times they've been abandoned? Just take a look at what happened to Libya, sometimes removing a "bad person" will cause a far worse situation to evolve. Like literal human slavery. I will never cease to be amazed at the amnesia that arises wh…

You also forget how panama Germany, Japan, South Korea are better now after removing their authoritarian regimes.

You're conveniently leaving out the other 80% of cases, which were failures.

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Post by H8crilA »

HNisCIS wrote: post #304
H8crilA wrote: post #138

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Just to add more details. Beamforming is essentially yet another way to achieve gain, just like one does with a directional antenna. The Starlink terminal achieves a gain of roughly 33 dB, which means it talks (and also listens) in the peak direction at power levels that are around 2000x higher than what one would achieve with isotropic antennas. 2000x sounds like a lot, but it is actually not impossible to reach. Co…

This assumes you're jamming very close to the dish. The trouble with jamming is you have to deal with the inverse square law so you really can't deny very much area. If they have a fleet of hundreds of high power modern directional jammers they could degrade this or other networks, but they're just not going to have that kind of sophistication.

Oh, I was thinking of jamming the receivers of the satellites. Should have written it explicitly, it is indeed not clear.

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Post by m4rtink »

octoberfranklin wrote: post #328
bhhaskin wrote: post #308

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They don't have that many rockets that are capable of orbital flight let alone an ASAT capability. Imagine trying to hit a specific speeding car by throwing a dart from another moving car, except Both cars are invisible most of the time. They’re moving 17,000 mph. The dart has no steering wheel only tiny nudges. If you miss by a few feet, you miss by miles. Countries that can do this reliably aren’t showing off missi…

> Imagine trying to hit a specific speeding car by throwing a dart from another moving car Um no. Imagine rendering a highway unusable by driving a semitruck full of tire spikes down it and dumping them out the back. No precision required.

Um, no - if you do this on suborbital trajectory you totally obliterate a bunch of empty space for the If you actually manage to make it into an orbit (with a much much bigger and much more expensive rocket) you will most likely do the same (eg. not hitting the intended satellite) with the added bonus of littering random orbits over time and hitting random satellites.

And if you want to say "they will deny orbit for everyone!" - well, good luck without far too many orbital class rockets for anyone of their size to have.

Not to mention Starlink orbits being (as alterady state so low they are self-cleaning), GPS orbits being far too high to even reach, let alone to saturate with garbage & same for GEO sats.

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