They won't stop, but they can be slowed down until they implode. Whether turning Russia into another North Korea is part of the long term plan, is a separate question.
All men are equal... their votes count the same, except when they don't... their net worth is the same, except when it isn't... some are just more equal than others 😐
110 million in cities vs. 36 million in the countryside. That's about the population of all of Ukraine.
Paying for the service, works like in every other conflict area. Internet is the new Radio Free Europe.
restricted this service upon request from Moscow in the past
When? If it's about that one Ukraine drone attack, it was a US restriction.
Blocking the signal is trivial? Then why is Russia losing inland tankers on the Black Sea after they've messed up the passage of seaworthy ones into the Sea of Azov while trying to stop those Starlink controlled Ukrainian drones. Why not simply block the signal?
🙄... They're experimenting with cutting access, precisely because the ship has sailed on controlling the devices.
NK is a paranoid Orwellian state with generational punishments, where everyone reports on everyone else. Russia has nowhere that level of control over its people, their only option is to control the ISPs... and I bet that when they do, people will sneak in some Starlink access points.
They could do that right now, but their priority seems to be different. NK controls its people's Internet use by controlling their devices, in Russia that boat has sailed, 35% of people have a desktop or laptop, 85% have Internet access via uncontrolled devices.
Kind of... but I feel like Russia is more concerned with its plans to completely cut off its national Internet, which would leave all domains like this as either unresolvable, or inaccessible.
In this case, it includes anyone referencing any publications. Like this post right here.
If publishers had their way, then lemmy.ml, and kbin, and you, and me, and all the instances on the Fediverse making an "unauthorized copy" of any part of the content, would have to pay.
The firm launched this project after European publishers demanded more information about the traffic brought to their websites by Google search as part of the implementation of the EU Copyright Directive.
For the full context:
Publishers want to force Google to pay them for "copying" their news into the search engine.
Google claims publishers would die of starvation without Google.
In countries where such forced royalties were implemented, Google simply delisted everyone... until publishers came back crying about lost visits.
I’ve self-funded Bridgy classic for 12 years and Bridgy Fed for 6 years so far, and I can continue indefinitely. I have experience scaling services like these as personal projects. I care about and believe in decentralized social networks
Depending on when you tried that, it might've been fixed already.
I'm using GA on a Nest Mini, and Gemini on a smartphone. It started being unable to do pretty much anything; right now (Dec 2024) it can do all I ask it for, but still claims to be unable to fully replace GA.
Also have Samsung's Bixby, which has better integration with phone apps, and returning search results, but fails more than Gemini at summarizing them, or answering general questions... so yeah, YMMV.
I find Gemini "somewhat useful", on a smartphone. It's not a game changer, but it can often answer the thing I want even when it misheard it, much better than Google Assistant.
Is this a EU-only feature?