When your air defense depends on a satellite service whose speed limit can apparently change without explanation, you’ve outsourced more than connectivity. SpaceX says nothing changed, Ukraine says its interceptors are being crippled. Either way, this is a spectacular advertisement for why critical military infrastructure needs independent alternatives.
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Elon Musk belongs in jail.
Conservatives always side with evil. Always.
It is immoral to maintain a relationship with any conservative. They are truly, deeply evil and should be treated as such.
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39 comments in c/world@lemmy.world view that post
Wow. Elon is making an exellent argument on why nobody should rely on anything related to him or Starlink.
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A non American company really needs to hurry the fuck up and step up. Cause holy fuck I'm tired of my nations rich and stupid fucking everyone over.
Let some other nations rich and stupid do the fucking for a while.
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We need non-US controlled alternatives.
Maybe outsourcing national defense was a bad idea and the US should seize Starshield from Space Karen
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Those aren't "peace" talks. They are temporary limited capitulation talks.
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If one was trying to pretend that Russia were in charge here, while not being too overt about it... How would they do this differently?
It's important to remember the baseline while the zone is flooded.
Watch this be because Starshield is reliant on Microsoft systems…
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another reason on why we should not trust and rely on big tech and should restrict their power.
This is why stuff like this should not be privately controlled and people and companies with more money and power than whole nations. It's wrong and not supposed to allow this with laws against monopolies, but failed again and the rich do what they want.
sure would be a shame if a wild Luigi appeared.
Sure would be nice if we held Elon accountable for his war crime. But that’s crazy talk…
There's other providers. ViaSat is one. Amazon Leo is another. So this is being announced as a message to Musk/Trump/Putin. But I don't know, perhaps Trump has organized competitors be turned lff, or forbidden them?
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2 comments in c/worldnews@sh.itjust.works view that post
Elon Musk should be held criminally liable for every Ukrainian death that happens from russian strikes while starshield is limiting their rates.
They should consider striking Elon.
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The sooner Europe gets its own Musk-free version of Starshield, the better
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