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Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors

awomanmanhasaname

Re: I don't see why anyone should bother

If I have a private cloud built out of Huawei components sitting in my basement, it's a different threat from having my processes run in Huawei's cloud physically and legally in Europe, different again when Huawei is managing the cloud for another company (Deutsche Telekom) in Europe, Different again when it's Huawei's Cloud in China/Hong Kong.

If I decide to Host the Falun Gong website, it's also legally different. See 4Chan vs UK regulators for a recent example.

awomanmanhasaname

I don't see why anyone should bother

Ultimately you have your threat model.

And having your data legally available to a foreign government is a different threat from having it hackable.

Britain pays Starlink millions despite Musk's calls to overthrow UK government

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Love him or hate him

Also they delivered what was paid for and agreed on.

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Just stop using anything from Musk

Relying on a service you paid civilian pricing for military uses is the red flag.

awomanmanhasaname

Re: What other options are there?

They are using OneWeb too. Just like the US.

Divide the amount by 4. It's not a lot of money for SATCOM.

In fact, the Welsh government may have spent more on Starlink subsidies

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Love him or hate him

Wasn't properly licenced then. Properly licenced now.

There's a lot of talk about intervention. Forgetting the equipment being there is intervention.

European Space Agency and China both achieve gigabit links to geostationary satellites

awomanmanhasaname

NASA did this ages ago

Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs

awomanmanhasaname

Send him back

Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Not a fan

Is it bridged?

Speedcast may have solutions for you.

Yahoo! Japan! and ! Line! to! merge! systems! into! massive! private! cloud!

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Yahoo???

Yahoo is and has always been big in Japan.

I've been using an email client with Yahoo

British military to get legal OK to swat drones near bases

awomanmanhasaname

The idea youd need new legislation as opposed to a policy change is ridiculous

Palantir helps Ukraine train interceptor drone brains

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Palantir helps Ukraine…

No it's not.

It's pointing out all the talk about Palantir is nonsense.

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Palantir helps Ukraine…

You can search "Palantir Ukraine" and restrict the search period to 2022

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Palantir helps Ukraine…

Palantir helps Ukraine with tech and signal fusion and has been doing that for years.

They showed up early in the conflict, just like Microsoft and SpaceX and other firms did.

As far as I'm concerned there's nothing you can do with Palantir that IBM can't do for you.

But they showed up, they've been doing the work and have been rewarded with more.

As Jonas Salk said: 'The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.'

For salaried employees it may well mean more drudgery without extra compensation, but that doesn't apply to this consulting firm masquerading as a tech company.

Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine

awomanmanhasaname

Re: the ugly american face of SaaS

Look up anycast

Venezuela loses president, but gains empty Starlink internet offer

awomanmanhasaname

Starlink in their Geolocation file has added IP blocks to serve Venezuela in particular.

This doesn't require local POP's or ground stations.

All the IP addresses do is help content providers know if they are allowed to provide services.

Source- Doug Madory at Kentik

https://x.com/DougMadory/status/2010721695901102205?s=20

awomanmanhasaname

I've finally found a source for at least emails sent to users offering this. With users claiming they are Venezuelans in a group targeted at users of Starlink in Venezuela.

"Starlink’s quiet role in Venezuela’s political crisis" -Time

awomanmanhasaname

We have confirmation of messages sent to users via Time magazines article "Starlink’s quiet role in Venezuela’s political crisis" offering the free service users.

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Show me on the doll where Elon touched you

Completely groundless claim since it's already working and has been working for years in Venezuela

awomanmanhasaname

The article and comment thread sorta claims there's no way to figure out who's using it there for the purpose.

Like there are Venezuelans online, and people usually get an announcement via their email 1-2 days before the public announcement of waived service.

So we could ask them ya know.

awomanmanhasaname

I've tried to answer but can't get my answer past mods sorry

Detailed or summarized, even with tier 1 sources.

awomanmanhasaname

Starlink operates illegally in several countries without a license. Even after being asked by the ITU and Governments to stop(Iran, Sudan). When they (rarely) stop operating in a country (Lebanon, Uganda) they can figure out within reason where users are to stop them. That mechanism can be used to find users to credit.

awomanmanhasaname

Re: "under whatever administration emerges in Venezuela"

https://rbnenergy.com/daily-posts/blog/gulf-coast-refiners-be-tested-loss-venezuelan-crude

This article from an industry consultant claims Chevron was already involved in Venezuelan oil until early 2025.

And that refineries on the gulf coast are capable of refining them.

awomanmanhasaname

Dishes are already in Venezuela. You could write the same comment about Cuba, or Myanmar where there's no license but users are using it regardless today.

Your doubt won't disappear working equipment.

awomanmanhasaname

Just like a speed limit doesn't doesn't stop your car from moving faster, laws don't stop people from doing things.

As I've repeatedly pointed out there are lots of users.

What I'm arguing against is the idea being pushed that exactly zero people will benefit from this offer when you can just go on Facebook and find people selling the stuff and using it within Venezuela right now.

This idea is supported by another one that requires SpaceX not to know where your dish is and depend on your billing address to give user credits. If you've followed the stories on Starlink in Ukraine you'd know it's an idea that just can't stand.

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Ground Stations?

This country Venezuela is right next to several countries where Starlink is licensed.

wrt to Ground Stations, Mongolia is served from Singapore, Zimbabwe from Mozambique, Niger and Chad from Nigeria, Guam from Japan, Jamaica from the Dominican Republic.

You don't need to build where you serve.

The Speedtest showed where traffic was run to.

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Ground stations or no ground stations?

Most if not all Starlink satellites have it.

V1.5 to v2mini do.

awomanmanhasaname

You could ask the same of Iran, Myanmar, Sudan where the same is true.

These aren't just sign up credits (so can't be sales claims) they are credits for *all* current users.

SpaceX mostly knows where users are regardless of their billing address. No matter how much you pay as an individual, you can't roam in Russia, Lebanon, China and recently Uganda.

They know where the spot beams point to. The devices have GPS too ya know. They've demonstrated the ability to waive charges based on location since February 2022

I'll summarize my arguments, SpaceX knows roughly where users are regardless of billing, this publication has published an article about Myanmar that shows further evidence of geographic identification, there are at least multiple thousands of users in Venezuela per Bloomberg, it's a good thing for them to have access to the service , free service for hardware you've already purchased is meaningful and better than paid.

Your comment is refuted just by having two working (2) users in areas more than 15 miles from any border (the size of the spot beams/cells)

Sudanese in their poverty have it, same with Haiti and Myanmar, but it's the Venezuelans that don't? Think no one in Belize, Cuba, Bolivia has it either?

awomanmanhasaname

Completely nonsense claims end to end.

Starlink is mostly available in Venezuela. It's actually there and you can find reviews online from 2022/2023 till today.

I don't think it's unusual for an operator to hide the number of users in a country it doesn't have a license to operate in but you do you. Especially when it doesn't disclose it in lotsa countries where it has a license. Nor is it unusual for users in a country without satellite licensing to use services from another. Satellite TV is illegal in Iran but we see a proliferation of dishes. Hispanic migrants to the US get decoders from other countries to save money and bring a slice of home with them.

There's no exaggeration from SpaceX. The offer is simple. If you have a dish in Venezuela, we'll waive your bill till February 3. If you've stopped paying, bring it out and it will work. Nothing more or less. No calls to buy a dish, no claims it will fix their economy or bring them freedom. Not even claims it will bypass local censorship (which it does).

I don't just have an argument with the article, but the repeated theme that offers of free service from Starlink specifically help no one. Repeated dishonesty.

So I offer a counter argument. When SpaceX announced it was terminating services in Sudan after a piece similar to this from Bloomberg, hundreds of civil society organizations wrote, asking SpaceX to keep the service on.

I ask a question : would it have been better to keep the service off? Was their letter all hyperbole and dishonesty?

awomanmanhasaname

These places have Starlink in practice today.

Are they better off without?

Was Biden's sanctions waiver improvidently granted?

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Ground Stations?

IME the traffic is carried to Colombia.

I posted a video review of Starlink in Venezuela with a Speedtest.

The laser system has shown itself capable of carrying traffic from Cape Town to Madrid. And from NZ to LA.

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Ground stations or no ground stations?

When a ground station failed in New Zealand years ago, SpaceX carried the traffic all the way to LA.

It's all talk from people who don't know how things work.

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Ground Stations?

And keep your hotspot open

awomanmanhasaname

A question for the author and editor and moderator.

Is a world world without Starlink in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and Sudan one you desire?

awomanmanhasaname

Starlink likely has thousands of users in Venezuela. Since 2022 (everywhere in the Americas including Cuba has Starlink)

Here's a review from one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdWY36UMvtI

As I pointed out to two authors and the editor ages ago it's meaningful because it's not a sign up offer and it means they can spend the sub money on something else.

In Venezuela it's valued for getting around IP restrictions.

The author claims "Musk is just trying to grease the pan when the dust settles and a new government sets up shop in the country. It's another chance for Musk to make a buck off of goodwill generated on the back of human suffering"

But it's a self negating claim. These are users who've *already* committed to buying hardware and subscriptions. You don't make more money by giving them free stuff.

As for the governments, his government has paid for it in the past and could do it again[ example from Biden term https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HC101324F0143_9700_HC101323D9000_9700 ] the other government is supposedly going to be arm twisted to benefit American companies. You're definitely not going to have Chevron offer free Ford/GM vehicles and free fuel to Venezuelans

Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Can it improve the Harry Potter books?

A link to your writing, kind sir?

Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off

awomanmanhasaname

They can't afford this stuff for free (or paid) users. So what's the point?

Finnish cops grill crew of ship suspected of undersea cable sabotage

awomanmanhasaname

Maybe they should try prosecuting in a court system that won't let them go. Like happened recently.

Ukraine, USA, Argentina would do.

Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching

awomanmanhasaname

Absolute madness.

Gmail is groupware anyway and doesn't have real folders anyway.

UK's long-delayed Emergency Services Network eyes satellites for help

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Don't outsource

Or they can have the military run local emergency communications

AMD clocks in with higher CPU speeds, leaves architecture untouched

awomanmanhasaname

On chip or via an interposer?

Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Launch licence deadline?

You're being too pessimistic.

One sat up there is enough to allow an extension. Providing service more so.

I'm betting on just losing spectrum priority (but they are already last in line so it doesn't matter anyway)

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Launch licence deadline?

My bet is on Amazon going to the back of the line on spectrum priority rights.

They are already last behind other providers.

Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land

awomanmanhasaname

They are settlement free peers.

So it depends on who's downstream.

I'm sure SEACOM doesn't intend to pay Liquid for IPT.

I'm guessing though that if SEACOM builds, they'll have the leverage to force Liquid to exchange pairs on routes.

That's how it's done in the submarine Fiber world

awomanmanhasaname

Liquid Telecom has a cable network across Southern/Eastern Africa from coast to coast covering Tanzania, Congo, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Angola.

East West is done (no issue overbuilding though I question the financial wisdom : see Quintillion and several British altnets)

https://www.liquiddataport.com/terrestrial/

What's really missing is a North South cable and the best option is from Algeria to Niger. Since the distance that's missing from Fibre coverage from Arlit to In Guezzam by road is just short of 250km as seen in this coverage map

https://www.liquiddataport.com/map/

This document is clearer

https://liquid.tech/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/LIT-Fibre-Map-Sept23-Global.pdf

Covered in this article

https://liquid.tech/about-us/news/liquid-dataport-launches-its-shortest-fibre-route/

If you notice, they've done this twice

SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew

awomanmanhasaname

Send Starliner instead

ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through carrier-grade NAT: Cloudflare

awomanmanhasaname

Re: IPV6 over my dead salary

This is a troublingly Naïve claim given the number of large networks reliably run without IPv6. Or where the carrier has it available to only certain groups of users.

awomanmanhasaname

Re: NAT Advisory Protocol

Most CGNAT have adjacent contiguous port grouping.

Maybe they can disclose that instead

Google says reports of a Gmail breach have been greatly exaggerated

awomanmanhasaname

Is this an actual breach or Credential Stuffing ?

NASA panel fears a Starship lunar touchdown is more fantasy than flight plan

awomanmanhasaname

Re: Why an elevator?

Because the suits limit manoeuvre

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