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Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna (www.france24.com)

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Eventually cell towers will be replaced by satellites. Then the entire surface of the Earth will be interconnected.

There's some really awesome things that can enable, there's also some very terrifying things that it can enable

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[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 points 1 year ago

Seeing stars will be a thing that people only know from stories

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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No place you can ever be off-grid.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 point 1 year ago

We need a new term instead of grid... globe? digital globe? data sphere?

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[–] oyo@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

So Peter, I know you're backpacking in Patagonia, but we're really gonna need that TPS report by COB. Mmkay? Greeaat.

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[–] Michal@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Well, if you don't have a receiver, you're off grid.

It's like saying you can't go off grid because there will always be an AM station you can pick up.

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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Of course you are right. I was thinking about how it's become less socially acceptable to remain disconnected as the "grid" has encroached on spaces that used to be free of it.

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