I doubt that. This isn't the nifty fifties and we don't moral panic over blowjobs anymore. Clinton was poking girls with cigars in the Whitehouse and the Bezos beams dick pics around to women. Jenson could handwave this, and she can't "Me Too" him because she's a spy that did it for her government.

Hey, none of these problems existed with Gopher. Could someone please draft an RFC for secure Gopher so we can have a modern implementation to start building on? The secure protocol can be called... wait for it... gophers.

There is no alternative now, and there won't be an alternative for years.

Globalstar is far too low bandwidth for Ukraine's needs. Amazon doesn't have the ambition or nerve to risk building anything that approaches Starlink in the kind of time frame that is relevant to the Ukraine conflict, and they don't have the vertically integrated launch platform with the airline-like capacity and reliability of SpaceX to make such ambitions affordable, and they don't have the ambition or nerve to build that either.

Love him or hate him, for better or worse, Musk has the ambition and nerve to do these things. That fact is everything: the essential, exclusive ingredient. And Bezos et al. don't have it. You may wish they did, and regret they do not, but don't kid yourself.

The valuation is what mystifies me. Maybe, before Starlink, a constellation of 25 communication satellites was worth a few billion. Maybe $10 billion with IP, lucrative contracts and whatever spectrum they hold. After Starlink?

No. Just no.

Globalstar equity holders have played this one well.

It's supposed to be a benefit: better competitors that aren't governed by shiny-object leadership are supposed to take advantage and punish such clowns. That's the real cost of centralization, IP law and regulatory balkanization: the clowns rely on these to insulate themselves from the wolves that would otherwise end them.

Makes me think of the "bad faith" trope we see with some frequency from certain folks.

Recently some blowhard Reddit mod(s) went ham on AI in open source, and essentially outlawed discussion of any open source projects that are not purely organic from their little Reddit sandbox. When it was pointed out that this is pretty unworkable since significant open source projects, including Linux, Mesa and others are allowing AI generated code, they backed up. And that's all fine I suppose, except they characterized the response to their stupidity as deliberate "bad faith" misunderstanding of their original announcement. It wasn't that at all; it was exactly what you should expect when get all chesty with the world and can't handle the blowback, but they've adopted the cop-out of calling these self-inflicted episodes as some sort of "bad faith."

I see this often enough now that anytime I see someone claiming "bad faith" I assume I'm dealing with another nasty little shit-bird trying to cry-bully their way.

Maybe they should use their competitorsâ(TM) AI to solve this.

Though, given the attitudes of these AI companies, Iâ(TM)m not even going to bother trying to play the worldâ(TM)s smallest violin.

Indeed they are. It seems that, for the purposes of social justice, regular drivers licenses and CDLs, complete with "Real ID" markers, are now mere formalities that can be had in several of our most just states, without even providing a name. I suppose that to the degree this facilitates hijacking freight, this is only yet more social justice. Win-win for everyone.

The analogy is fine. The cited arguments against washing machines had nothing to do with water use.

Your luxury belief system wasn't a factor back in the day.

It is true that US Border Customs / Homeland Security can search you and your devices when re-entering the country. Also, within 100 miles of the border checkpoints vehicles can be stopped and searched without a warrant nor even probable cause. This is all under national security and not your citizenship rights.

Wiping your phone prior to entering the country could raise suspicions and is the equivalent to document / evidence destruction.

The only reason I even tried out the Arc browser was due to the lack of UX chrome and tiling window working scenarios. The insane thing? The Browser Company never ported it to Linux. Just macOS initially then Windows. Something about a 3rd party proprietary bit of code preventing it or The Browser Company trying to protect some internal code they wrote. Either way, no port to Linux. Then they abandoned Arc in favor of Dia an A.I. first browser. I don't care about A.I. I care about using a browser that lacks any sort of UX chrome interface. No menu, no toolbars, etc. Just a hiding sidebar of vertical tabs. Lots of key bindings as well.

If I want A.I. I am just going to run an agent harness...

To believe that humanity is even capable of altering the planetary climate is quite kooky to begin. All the numbers are based on guesses in a computer model. Classic computing problem of garbage in and garbage out. Half the freaking global sensors are placed right next to heat sources from the sun beating down on pavement to an air conditioner exhaust being pointed directly at one of these sensors. There were multiple ice ages and humanity survived. Technically, we are still exiting the last ice age and yes, the ice is retreating. But it doesn't mean we are doomed. Not by a long shot. The Earth has been far hotter in its long history, and it will be cooler at times as well.

Imagine replacing the firmware in an LG spyware TV? Turn off all the tracking and surveillance features.

Independent analysis based on Starlink IPv6 traffic estimates there are 4.7 million US Starlink residential subscribers, and that about 2 million came on line in the last year.

I suspect my understanding of the situation is dead on correct; Starlink is filling the vast hole, whatever your "semi-rural" anecdote has you thinking. At an average of 2.53 person's per household in the US, this means Starlink is now the provider of 3.5% of all per capita broadband in the US, and likely to 5% or more inside another year.

When I had Comcast in the Bay Area, it randomly dropped one day because they installed the line to the house at a height that a semi driving through the neighborhood likely clipped the line. I was attempting to diagnose the issue from within the house, until I discovered the severed cable laying in the middle of the street.