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@nev Or when you're reading science fiction which was intended to be a warning, and treating it as something that should be done because it's Cool
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"I have read Do Not Build The Torment Nexus and decided to dedicate the rest of my life to ensuring that we *never* have a Torment Nexus" said no billionaire ever.
I really can't help but feel that someone, somewhere, saw the term "megaconstellation" and said "let's have an *actual* mega-constellation!"
@kwayk42 Nudge one a kilometer off position and hello our old friend Kessler.
@sundogplanets One… million… satellites!? 🤯
Even ignoring all the *other* issues…
I imagine those wouldn't exactly be tiny cubesats. So how does 30 per launch sound? Build enough of those satellites and launchers to maintain a launch cadence of one launch per day, and that kind of a constellation is *90 years off* per my calculator. Assuming no failed launches and no failures in-orbit and no replacements needed for that time, naturally. And they'll cram all that into sun-synch orbits? WTAF?
@coolandnormal Meanwhile, on the opposite side of the world: "it's snowing today, so global warming is clearly a big hoax!"
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@tdr @independentpen Besides, tit-for-tat international relations rarely works.
If the EU should do anything in response to something like this, make it a reminder that sharing that information without the explicit and informed consent of the data subject is strictly prohibited under the GDPR. And that that includes a third country resident sharing such data as relates to EU data subjects.
@CaptMorgan How in the world would using a burner phone help with any of this?
@jaredwhite And if you get a short, cryptic email that makes no sense, at least you *know* that it makes no sense and can act accordingly. As opposed to something where a LLM has taken the same nonsensical input and extruded something that *appears* to make sense but which might very well not be at all what the person who sent it intended! (Or it might be. It's just impossible to know.)
@hikingdude I have been doing monthly link roundup posts on my blog for a little over a year now. https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/tag/links/
Also of course links in other blog posts when relevant too.
@clemens We can only know about what the situation is like now. Signal's greatest asset IMO is their broad adoption (network effects are real) and wide trust, and the latter comes in no small part from their openness and firmness to their principles, alongside strong cryptographic privacy guarantees and the ability of third parties to verify those claims. If the Signal Foundation would start backtracking on that, they can and probably would very quickly lose much of that.
@clemens My take at least is something like that Signal, yes, is out of the US; but it's designed such that *this fact is largely inconsequential*. Strong end-to-end encryption without plaintext fallback, reproducible builds, source code available for review and heavily scrutinized by a large variety of people. Yes they do gain access to (fairly minimal) metadata, but so do pretty much all alternatives which are *much* less thorough in their security and privacy stance.
@Purple @kitcat To say nothing of when you've faced a problem, figured out a fix, and can *actually explain why that fix is correct*, and *apply the same reasoning in other situations*. Not just the same fix, but the same *reasoning*.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned like that, but actually having figured something out brings me joy. Even if it is stuff that lots of other people know. Learning how the pieces fit together to bring the result I get out of the thing I made.
@stefano Sounds like a case of either good design or *very* good luck too that the UPS took the brunt of it.
We can't protect against everything, but we *can* have an idea for what to do when the unimagined happens.
