If they have electricity, than fiber is practical. For the tiny few that don’t, fine. But even then, for the billions invested in launching these satellite clusters, it just might be cheaper to build a handful of crazy long terrestrial microwave links.
You are comparing a backbone to last mile? Starlink relies on that fiber backbone too. Cutting all the last mile fiber in America would be an insanely difficult attack. Satellites are comparatively vulnerable to a great many attacks. They literally fly over the enemy.
Isn’t there an army walking the national capital, and masked goons grabbing people off the street into unmarked vans paid for with a budget /almost/ as big as Canada’s entire military?
The trouble with starlink is that the actual amazingly practical use-cases for it are not a sufficiently profitable market for it given the insane investment. So they have to convince people it’s a better idea as a rural ISP than demanding fiber.
Fourth option: Municipal fiber, but open access to those lines for private ISPs of all types.
You lack individual choice by design. You should choose whatever is best for you, obviously, but you can be pissed there’s no fiber running alongside your electricity service.
lol. I thought those commas were decimals for a second. Wow.
Technically correct. The best kind of correct ;). He should have said not sharing that last mile connection, like one would share with a satellite downlink.
That, and if they could pull heavy copper wiring to the furthest rural reaches of the country in the 1930s, they can pull fiber along side it today. The poles and right of way is already there. Satellite is a fine stop-gap while it gets done, but there’s no excuse for it to be the permanent solution.
Cory Doctorow described it as anti-futuristic tech. Where fiber networks get better, faster, and cheaper the denser they get, wireless satellite will get slower and less reliable the more people share that spectrum.
Note that it has built-in migration of repos along with all the associated stuff. One at a time, but it works well.
Don’t tell them you can buy a vps and run your own vpn in another country.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with deterministically creating unique and strong pass phrases. It’s just hard to do it in a way that is hard to be both non-obvious (no url in the pass phrase) and also meet all the weird password requirements on the web. Fortunately, max password lengths have generally disappeared. Id love to be able to just use a Sha256 hash everywhere, but some sites require special characters, and some still ban them.
They made a comment on one of their recent blog posts that dealing with the ai onslaught on codeberg has delayed work on federation.
Laforge is an awesome name, especially for a French company.
Because the Codeberg folk didn’t like the idea of relying on a product made by a for profit company. https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html
Closed loop systems require a large heat sync, like a cold water lake, limiting them to locations that are not as tax advantageous as dry red states.
I don’t believe api costs are tied all that closely to the actual cost to openAI. They seem to be selling at a loss, and they may be selling at an even greater loss to make it look like they are progressing. The second openAI seems like they have plateaued, their stock evaluation will crash and it will be game over for them.
We can do better than just copy social media as-is.
I mean, you don’t have to guess. He’s interfered in a war and turned a social network into his personal bullhorn.