skulblaka @ skulblaka @sh.itjust.works

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"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet."

I have never, not once, had this not just immediately begin updating anyway.

Fair enough, you got me there. Didn't realize there was such a population of internet craving people in what's supposed to be one of the last relatively untouched areas of nature on the planet.

That being the case though, why didn't this all happen in 2013, when O3b launched to specifically solve this problem for them? It's still running, by the way, after several rounds of upgrades, and significantly more stable than Starlink with their dinky little 5 year disposables. Microsoft, Honeywell and Amazon all use it. But the original and ongoing intent of the project was explicitly to bring internet access to all otherwise unreachable areas, such as islands, deep in Africa, and the open ocean.

I don't oppose Brazilian villagers having internet if they want it, but the situation in which it arrived to them feels suspect to me. I have no proof that Starlink actively went out and pushed internet service onto them like a drug dealer but it would not be out of character for Musk and his subordinates to do so, and that just feels bad.

Regardless there is already an existing solution to this. If you want internet in the Amazon you can use satellite internet. It does not have to be Starlink. If you want good internet, maybe don't live in the Amazon. People in general should probably be leaving that place alone. The article you linked even talks about one of the village leaders splitting his time between the village and the city. We can try and run a fiber line to Manaus and/or Porto Velho and that should be able to serve a reasonably large enough area around them, but even if that fails there are already other solutions.

Thing is, he's absolutely right. It's way beyond past time to create a powerful political third party in the US that genuinely represents the interest of the people.

Elon Musk, however, should not be allowed anywhere within brick throwing distance of it.

Nor should most anyone else who is actually capable of funding it. Herein lies our actual problem.

When this baby hits 8x10^8000000000 fs/Z you're gonna see some serious shit

People paying for internet service don't live in the Amazon rainforest

But they specifically don't want to do that because ensuring a 5 year service life means you are required to continue buying more satellites from them every 5 years. Literally burning resources into nothingness just to pursue a predatory subscription model.

It also helps their case that LEO has much lower latency than mid or high orbit but I refuse to believe that that is their primary driving concern behind this and not the former.

and doesnt really bother anyone?

Don't they threaten to fire missiles at America like, weekly?

And try and fail to do it once every six months or so, I feel like I've been hearing about failed North Korean missile launches or tests with some regularity since like 2000.

Then the rest of us will handle it and accept thank-you's later.

I have bad news about rodeos

Well sure, and I get that, but the map we're looking at clearly has a W-E line marked, presumably on the prime meridian. It's pretty westerly in that regard which seems like a pretty sensible perspective to me on how to navigate at the south pole.

If you handed me this map and told me to go North I would go to Dronning Maud Land.

the peninsula is considered the north side

look at the peninsula

it's on the west side

"Oh, you're shooting at us! Release the bees."

Yeah the Fediverse was built with specifically that in mind. Move to another community or instance, or create/host your own if you really can't get along with anybody. If the admin of community@l.world is being a cock then just make your own community@fuck.you and come brigade everyone to go join that one instead. In real life Fediverse lore this has already happened at least once with the fracturing of 196. It's an intended feature of the system.

Yeah I never bothered trying to fake being sick because accepted practice for being sick was "you will lay in this bed and sleep until you are better." Been sick in bed for 36 hours? Sucks, tough shit, go back to sleep. No you can't watch TV. No you can't read a book.

Any hiring manager who hears that is going to hear it as "this employee will up and leave us without warning at any time"

Not saying they're right, but that's what it is. Most people are looking to hire permanently if possible, you're telling them straight up that you are not going to be a permanent employee.

Lost my job around 2017 and it was real difficult to get a new one in the tech sector without a college degree. I lucked in to the one originally through professional connections. No such luck the next time after I got downsized.

So I ended up working at my local auto parts store to make ends meet in the meantime, and figured out that I actually really like fixing cars. It exercises the same sort of problem solving capacity but the problems you solve are usually a little less arcane. Made a few new connections including a guy who worked at an actual garage, got offered a position at that garage if I wanted it, and the rest is history.

I still dabble in programming as a hobby, but I enjoy working with my hands and the feeling of fixing a physical object is more fulfilling to me than fixing software. So here I stay (for now).

Not OP, but the answer to that is going to be "having a work transfer"

If you don't already work for a company that's willing to relocate you out of country, or don't already have citizenship rights in another country that you can cash in, you're not going anywhere. Not one single place in the world wants American refugees right now, and unless you're a rocket surgeon, you're going to be immigrating illegally if at all.

Best move for regular people right now is likely just getting a travel visa and then quietly overstaying it. Just don't get caught.