In my part of the world (Europe). Home backup power is not normal thing to have. With installation of solar power and installation of batteries that has changed a little. But those are limited and can only last so long.
The problem in UK. Based on this website that DAB radio transmitters are at such low power that their signal has no reach.
Mobile phones are limited by their frequency range. There are no mobiles phones that work in the lower bands (50Mhz to 85Mhz) that has the longest range, but limited bandwidth. The range would be good, but that would only offer options like calling or sending a text message. Nothing else. Since internet speed would be limited to 500Kbps to 900Kbps at most.
Landlines are on backup power when the power goes out. That only lasts so long. Same for radio transmitters of any type and hand held radios and so on. Your devices are only as good your backup power plan. This mostly applies if you are dealing with a long term power outage.
That's also why you should buy a solar cell power and battery or two so that you can power your home in case of long term power outage. If that's an option you can afford.
Look, here's data. Most cable subscribers are over 60 years old.
This is in the BBC News.
"[...] The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage.
Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his severe autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.
A mental health assessment used as part of the sentencing hearing said he "continued to express the intent to return to cyber-crime as soon as possible. He is highly motivated."
The jury was told that while he was on bail for hacking Nvidia and BT/EE and in police protection at a Travelodge hotel, he continued hacking and carried out his most infamous hack. [...]"
A second member in the UK was also sentenced in the same trial. But got a different sentence, because he was not compeletly insane like the other one (the 18 year old one).
"[...]Another Lapsus$ member, who is 17 and cannot be named because of his age, was found guilty in the same trial, which lasted six weeks at Southwark Crown Court.
He worked with Kurtaj and other members of Lapsus$ to hack tech giant Nvidia and phone company BT/EE and steal data before demanding a four million dollar ransom, which was not paid.
They also stole directly from individuals through their cryptocurrency wallets.
The 17-year-old was sentenced to an 18 month long Youth Rehabilitation Order, including intense supervision and a ban on using VPNs online.
As well as hacking offences the boy was sentenced for what the judge described as "unpleasant and frightening pattern of stalking and harassment" of two young women.
Kurtaj and the 17-year-old are the first members of the Lapsus$ group to be convicted but it is thought others are still at large. [...]"
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/techn...
I can't find the full report on their crimes. That part might be under a protected order by the UK courts for some reason. I guess, because they haven't found rest of this internet criminals.
Then there was stalking, doxxing, sim swapping, theft of money and so on, I don't know if he did any swatting, its a crime I don't rule out that he did. He might be given infinite time in criminal hospital, but in reality he's going to be out in 20 to 40 years. By then, all his technical skills today are going to be outdated and not useful.
The internet is going away, this just takes time. Just like when forums and IRC died. Because the internet exist, its still online but those platforms are dead and gone in reality. When the internet goes, they go. Social media is going to be long dead by that time and its already starting. It takes time for 5,3 billion people to get off the internet. There are around 5 billion users that use some type of social media. This takes time to end.
In 2005 there where around 1 billion people online. It took 18 years to add 4,3 billion people online. It is going to take at least that long, if not double that time for people to stop using the internet (as long there is not a major global disaster or war that might change this path).
The internet and social media is going to exist for a while longer, both are dying and going away. Its just going to take some time.
There won't be any social media in the future or internet, both are dying and for a good reason. The reason being that the experience of both of those things has not been good on the human wide scale and if history if anything to go by, when the human race has bad experience with anything, it is removed from society. Either quickly or slowly. Both the internet and social media are going to be removed slowly, for now, but that might change in the future.
This is going to take more than 10 years to happen, long as 20 years. It is going to happen, just as television stations (and streaming interestingly) is also slowly dying.
The fact is that Carrington solar storm happen more frequently than expected. Most of them just happen when Earth is not aligned with the solar spot. Last Carrington level solar storm took place in the year 2012. Earth was slightly out of alignment with the solar storm so it just passed by Earth. Other big one was in 2001 and that was in part aligned with Earth. That one was a X20 solar storm.
Wikipedia list of solar storm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The 2001 solar storm information.
The maximum power of a mobile phone is 1W or 2W at most distance from a transmitters depending on the frequency used. In cities and towns that doesn't happen outside that the phone is at maximum power. In cities the transmission power is at 0.1W or less depending on location. Maximum transmission power maybe happens inside, but that depends on many factors. This seems to be a misinformation or some other type of wrong information happening here. I don't know why they are pushing this nonsense in France. The radiation from mobile phones is also harmless and always has been.
I don't read much of the Verge. But the current internet bubble has been running on free money. That is not a surprise that many social media are now starting to offer paid service with extra features. This is slowly happening all over. The reason is that the period of 0% interest rate money is over, that time period started after the economic crash of 2008 and that started this social media internet that we have today. Social media had existed before 2008, but cheap money allowed them to grow as was the case with many other internet based company and continue to run without having to return profit (many did go bankrupt or where acquired since 2008 as is the normal). When the free money ended when the interest rate started to go up, the need for profit returned or go bankrupt (or both as is going to be the case with many of this social media companies).
Currently the advertisement revenue is going down. Mostly because of a looming economic downturn because of businessmen poor decision making and really, really bad housing market (again) with a major debt problem and other credit bubbles that are going to crash soon.
Social media is dying. This year (2023) and last year (2022) where the years the slide downward started. The main reason why social media is dying is money or lack of it. Only company that is making profit is Meta and that has started to decline. They seem to have lost 1 billion USD between 2021 and 2022 in profits. Smaller companies are not doing much better it seems.
It seems that the moderators at reddit want to part of the people arrested. Because that is what happens when people allow crimes to happen. Reddit is dead anyway, as are all other social media companies. Turns out, social media was not a good idea when bad people are not banned from those platforms they grow to be massive and uncontrollable.
This is called micro-managing a nation. It removes the responsibility from the parent to the state. It can never, ever end well. China communist party is at height of its power in the current decade, after having gained complete control over the internet inside China and its population with massive surveillance and reporting.
Like all things. That is going to come to an end with a massive collapse inside China when their power structure starts to collapse from the inside. That trigger is possibly going to be an economic crises.
Both Voyager spacecraft have transmitter that have maximum power of 23W. There's not enough power to go up to the kW range of power. Since the whole power unit was only at 470W when it was new for the whole spacecraft (both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 since they use identical power units).
https://public.nrao.edu/ask/ho...
The frequency used is either 2295Mhz or 8415Mhz.
More here.
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