that's nice Pentagon. but couldn't we have done this a little bit sooner before all the #ElonMusk#Putin bootlicking on terminal access? it's an #American company
granted, this is all "fog of war" stuff and it's probably not the whole story. i'm sure there was intelligence gathering and deception going on, "random" errors in terminals used by #Russia.
@CenturyAvocado Thanks for the info. Better spec than the landline internet of my Mum in Wales! Holy smoke. I guess it works even if u only have battery power in e.g. a caravan. Any idea what sort of power the setup demands? Thanks very much indeed for the info you shared.
It's been illuminating to watch #starlink's web interface bit rot over the past couple of years. Until last month it rotted away entirely, with the device serving up only a logo.
Amusingly some users were able to restore the old web interface, which still works because the underlying data is still being provided (and will be probably since the phone app uses the same data source). https://github.com/iam-TJ/open-dishy/
Now when I go to dishy.starlink.com, it's running on my raspberry pi.
The reverse engineering of the JS they're doing is particularly amusing. Like, it contains 679 embedded javascript libraries and all of their licenses, and 1 mb of every load is used to send those licenses over the wire.
A salesman at RU-based online retailer shopozz.ru has supplemented his usual bus by selling dozens of Starlink internet terminals that'd up with Russians on the front lines in #Ukraine.
Not as "prise it out of my cold dead hands" as I expected, so I won't be grappling with the dilemma of paying Elon more than £1k/year. Phew!
It's impressively easy to set up and use and works on the roof of my #narrowboat. The 45W consumption has some downside but the fact is I really can do 99% of what I want using a 4G mobile at £240/year. So it's not worth the money to me.
My friend, also on a boat, uses it for endless video conferences. #offgrid
“Using the current population of #Starlink#satellites we find that the brightest satellites would be naked-eye visible in dark skies, but the high sky brightness during totality will make them undetectable to the unaided eye.”
Do not have any other TAGGED VLANs leaking out on your #Starlink bypass mode link.
It appears that they answer all ARPs they see, on any VLAN tags, with an untagged reply for the Starklink gateway MAC. Also, if you have a lot of them, the Starlink will stop working (lots of on/off making around 80% packet loss average).
I have been tracing this around my network for the last few hours.
@revk Thank you! I wondered if it would be 1, then I reread where you had said if you have a lot of them and thought: You run an ISP, I know basically nothing in comparison and it's better that I look dumb by asking than by assuming.
@WilliamLeech Well, it is tricky, and I can only assume some other stages of this, my LAN got a tad upset some days ago, then I noticed starlink was very sick. The current mode of replying untagged should not upset much really as replies are on wrong VLAN (unless you overlap IP usage between VLANs). Replying tagged could upset some ARP (though it is a slow reply) and definitely upset DHCP.
It is good practice to lock every port to just needed VLANs, but "easy" to have some VLANs tagged to all.
"In the past year, the amount of collision-avoidance maneuvers that needed to happen with the #Starlink constellation were an order of magnitude greater than they were in the past five years combined."
@Powerfromspace1 It still requires regulatory approval. So far I'm only aware that FCC has given out conditional permits for "experimental" applications (like to AST SpaceMobile for testing of its BlueWalker 3 satellite last year). That said, FCC is considering a potential regulatory framework for direct-to-mobile transmissions. There's a notice of rulemaking available here: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-400678A1.pdf
Venäläisen, selustassa tukitoimissa olevan sotilaan asemapaikassa käytetään Starlink-yhteyttä. Elon ja SpaceX kylläkin väittävät, että Starlink ei toimi venäläisille.
A russian behind-the-lines base uses Starlink for Internet service despite Elon's and SpaceX claims of no service for russians.
@spaceflight
Slight problem. At the minimum 15,000 tons of space dust tries to get down to earth every year, but only a third makes it. The rest burns up/vaporizes in the atmosphere. Now that number is based on a study that only counted clearly identifiable space dust particles. It missed all the space dust that is very similar to plain earth dust which we know exists from collection traps done in space.
@Eka_FOOF_A her rpoint is "Unlike meteorites ☄️, which are small and only contain trace amounts of aluminum, these wrecked spacecraft are huge and consist entirely of aluminum and other exotic, highly conductive materials. And highly conductive materials can create charging effects and act as a magnetic 🧲 shield" (NOT the "space dust that is very similar to plain earth dust")
@stacey_campbell I find it phenomenally fast and reliable in the UK. A worrying game changer for rural internet (e.g. it's existence may dissuade full fibre rollout as it could be difficult to get customers to shift from #Starlink to something else).
@grb090423@kiki yeah right some birds are gonna migrate west instead of north because they see a couple lights in the sky, big deal this stuff can be fixed in post with a simple software update, other than the first couple that weren't painted black this is a non issue. As for the photography part I'm sure researchers will find a way to get around it, literally
@Brownian_motion Sorry just saw this note - yeah, I've seen a couple of articles about the wooden satellite idea. That would definitely help with pollution! Somehow I doubt that the big launchers are looking at this though.
👀 Trump says it openly: He would not defend Europe against an attack by Russia. On the contrary: “I would encourage the Russians to do what they want #Trump#Starlink#Ukraine#Putin#ElonMusk
⚠️A danger to the economy in the USA is that Elon Musk sells the American people to Putin for Starlink and access to the economy in America and destroys democracy. #Trump#Starlink#Ukraine#Putinslave
