Summary
NATO has been warned of potential global internet blackouts amid a surge in suspected Russian sabotage of subsea fibre optic cables.
Telecom giants like Vodafone, Telefonica, and Orange urged UK, EU, and NATO officials to classify the undersea cable network as critical infrastructure.
Since October 2023, at least 11 cables have been damaged in the Baltic Sea, with over 50 Russian vessels spotted nearby. The UK is monitoring the Russian spy ship Yantar.
Officials also raised concerns about Chinese activity near Taiwan and called for increased surveillance and international cooperation.
Board them, hold a military court on the spot, hang the captain and first mate, throw the rest of the crew on the nearest shore, wherever the fuck that may be, scuttle the ship. That kinda action would take maybe twice, thrice if they’re really stubborn. Instant mutiny if anyone onboard even suspects they’re dragging cables. Boom. End of this shit.
Russian and Chinese ships are literally engaged in terrorism, piracy, invent a new word for all I care. China especially is testing what they can get away with, and the rest of the world is allowing it. Guess they got their answer.
You all should catch up on the news as to what they’re pulling in the South China Sea, i.e., fucking with Vietnam and the Philippines. China is 1 inch away from publicly declaring, “These are Chinese waters, do sumpin’ bout it!”
I would recommend any developer’s start to use library caches for builds.
run local instances of them to ensure that you can continue to work on any of your projects.
gitlab is handy for most cases.
Hey, Europe, I think you may have to take action soon.
We’ll talk about it for a month or so and then we’ll see
I just realized that this is probably another reason trump wants to put starlink in the White House. They are planning for it.
Makes it way more important for Europe to get their Internet Satellites up and running. That way people in U.S. can still have internet access, alongside more countries people that need it
I %100 agree
How would Fediverse instances deal with a net split? I assume local content would continue as normal, but federated posts would queue up until a route became available?
Could a server admin run a low bandwidth satellite link (for example) to reach a federated server, and thus the federated content would be amplified back to local reachable instance?
Interesting idea to run a low-bandwidth link. It would keep us connected, but posts from disconnected instances would arrive late, depending on how much the traffic (posts between disconnected instances) exceeds available bandwidth.
It’s interesting to explore this more. We could, for example, prioritize specific types of posts, users, or instances to make those faster.
Can you stop posting Torygraph right wing propaganda?
This extortion and ad brought to you by Starlink and Elon Musk. It is what he talks about with Putin. It was never a real issue in the past. There is redundancy in the system. Cutting yourself off from communication assets is not very bright and hurts yourself as much as others in almost every case. The blind spot works both ways in the long term for an advantage that only lasts hours to days in limited strategic depth. So you take some asset in the dark. Now you need to defend that asset from the dark, or the newly created blind spot is now your vulnerability too. None of this makes much sense in the real world. What does make sense is an extortionist no one wants around trying to make everyone pay for his kingpin politics.
Starlink routes through ground-based infrastructure though. If you separated England, for example, from the world then starlink is also going to be either separated or badly impacted in England.
Where are you getting that from? If this were a real constraint, Ukrainian systems would be a joke, as would those on Starship, planes, boats, etc. The low orbital infrastructure is specifically to ensure high throughput. Some offloading is logical in some circumstances, but not as a constraint.
Mmm - seems there is some satellite->satellite routing in addition to the ground stations. It does degrade latency though.
Can russia please cut themselves off from the rest of the Internet?
We’re just waiting out his assassination.
Oh, they can do that if need be. They already tested it.
Can they test it again please, until they can learn to behave?
