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on globe is easy. usa is in the center

The software in question consists of at least 3 softwares. Thus
1 software = 3 software

Wine can actually beat native in latency, since it’s a pretty thin translation layer and windows is … windows.
I’d give it a shot just in case.

Steadily improving. I set up my webserver with ech which is the next step, hiding even the domain. A solid chunk of the internet uses cloudflare as an intermediary, which also has ech and only leaves “someone connected to some cloudflare page at this time for that amount of data”.

As more places roll out deep package inspection, I’m sure in due time more randomization for package sizes will follow, making even the amount of data uncertain.

Most web metadata is at the http layer anyway and has always been hidden by https.

5k/month? That’s a whole lot. Probably not much when you have 100k people, but still.
I could easily set up a PB server with raid for half a years worth of that. Throw a second one in for another half a year at a different location, heck add a third. Were is this money going?

One time then? There are backup services that actually charge a single amount? An amount that also beats consumer hdds by quite a bit?
Do they put it on tape once and store it in some warehouse until you pay to access it?

Per year?

If there is less money involved, and no licensing moving to the us through tax havens, does it matter?

Not sure about that. I set up a wg vpn server on a system which then became unresponsive whenever wg was fully saturating the network. Turns out there is apparently no way to throttle or prioritize a wg server, the only way I could think of would be to dedicate a vm to solely the wg vpn and throttle that vm in its networking.
I instead switched to openvpn which can simply be throttled via a line in its configuration.

Besides that missing feature, openvpn also doesn’t require figuring out the right iptables commands to verbatim paste into its config as startup and shutdown commands. Setting it up was way easier than wg (though openvpn too wasn’t exactly user-friendly).

WG to me seems too clunky and unfinished for more mainstream usage, though I am sure it wouldn’t be an issue for a large commercial user like mullvad that will have no issue with all that.

forces me to commit to one issue at a time

Skill issue

Paperclips in your comments are a bit more annoying in comparison, also you’ll just forget them.

The newest rossmann video explains the idea more, but in short the goal is to get a feel for how large the movement is, not creating some slogan.

Let’s see where this goes

China will subsidize Intel?

Article is locked behind a paywall

Scale? There have been a lot of tesla cars driving for years. Last I heard, electric cars in general, and also teslas specifically, are a lot less likely to burn.

Without some usable numbers the counts above seem worthless to me.

It’s probably purposeful obscurity, a marketing move for gold and jewelry.
Other alloys are described as ratios of elements.

At least I am starting to see carat fall out of use as a unit of weight, maybe from diamond manufacturing slowly making diamonds more of a commodity product.

It’ll probably take until we stop obsessing over gold before we can get rid of karat.

It’s 18 karat, not 24, so 75% gold and 25% probably silver.
That makes it a significantly harder alloy than pure gold.

biggest attack since Kyiv’s daring drone assault

Didn’t that literally just happen?
This has »“We haven’t seen each other since last year” in the first week of January« vibes.

Yeah.
The maintenance of these conatellations is pricy, so perhaps if such an international program does prove itself trustworthy you’d see other national alternatives get retired.

I mean it’s not like the US would do it anyway as things stand, more likely for such a program to get started independently and to end up outcompeting starlink down the line.

You want a truly multinational organization responsible for it, nothing that can be controlled by a single nation, even one as (ex)influential as the us.
Something based on the UN perhaps.

Combine that with making internet access a human right, to stop denying connectivity outright.

Ideally then you could’t enforce meaningful censorship, but more realistically you would route regions to their respective governments servers so they could censor as before on their territory.
That would not guarantee free access to the internet to everyone, but should be an acceptable compromise to basically all nations.

After that, other doubting nations could still pull their own constellation, nothing is stopping that.

I would love if the internet program was uncensored, but that probably needs personal circumvention same as now, if such a program wants any degree of success.

Starlink should not just be nationalized but internationalized.
It is internet for everyone on earth, not everyone in the USA.

Every larger nation deploying their own constellation would be a pointless waste of resources, and every smaller nation having to find reliable partner-nations to tap into for that internet access would inevitably lead to people ending up without access due to political games.

Low orbit satellite constellations are the perfect candidate for sharing, they would literally sit unused over most of their orbits otherwise.