they could also have stolen it though. gotta wait what an investigation of the serial numbers finds
Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It is almost like Elon is a really bad person.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
They are most likely stolen or imported through a third party.
Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Shouldn’t they be capable of detecting where the connection is going and disconnect/block it for specific regions or something? I have no clue how any of that stuff works but this one thing feels like it should be the case.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They do, but Ukraine uses Starlink, so they can’t really disable usage entirely in the contested areas. They could disable the individual terminals, but that would require knowing which ones the Russians were using in the first place.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
The Starlink probably only works once the drone enters Ukraine. Disabling Starlink in that area would cut off the Ukrainian military too. The internet traffic could easily be routed through a VPN in another country, so blocking Russian IP addresses on Starlink wouldn’t work either.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s almost like the Oligarchs of the world are all on the same team.
Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re clearly not all on the same team. Some are decent human being that choose to use their money for the betterment of humankind.
It’s just that a couple, e.g. Musk, Thiel, David Sachs and others, decided to be huge assholes. They would end democracy any day to become richer and more powerful.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I legitimately don’t know any of those good hearted oligarchs, who would you say they are ?
Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Carnegie chose to do good things with his money, as did Gates and Boros. Now, it’s easy to criticize all three of them for an arbitrary number of bad things they are responsible for. Which is entirely beside my point:
There is obviously a scale of good and bad things oligarchs decide to do with their money. Musk, Thiel and Sachs are on the “huge asshole” end of that scale. And other oligarchs are not. Assuming Gates was as bad as Musk because somereason fails to see this and ultimately leads to letting the true assholes off the hook.
sandbox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s one thing to be a capitalistic shitbag, it’s another to be a traitor. Governments like capitalistic shitbags
Asafum@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Is it possible to be a traitor when you’re a capitalist shitbag?
They only have loyalty to themselves and their bank account. Quite literally the world could burn (due to their business) for all they care.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 10 months ago
People keep making the mistake of thinking the super rich have loyalty to a country.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Most people don’t feel loyalty to the country they betray. It isn’t a requirement to be a traitor.
index@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Seem like governments also love traitors, look at amount of deals and collaborations between starlink and the US government
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_applicati…
j4yt33@feddit.org 10 months ago
Some, like Donny, are both. Or the right wing AfD cunts in Germany. Or any other country
Zorque@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Corrupt governments like capitalistic shitbags.