• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    They also froze assets from Starlink.

    Meanwhile Starlink’s direct to cell capability is only growing. If your phone has 4G, Starlink knows where it is.

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      So glad we have a private company that we have no affiliation with tracking practically every phone on the planet. Feels like this “feature” is illegal by way of wiretapping and stalking laws.

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        Well the US has a pretty strong affiliation with SpaceX, given that they permit all their launches. Also, I can’t imagine the US would get away with launching similar technology themselves as exclusively military satellites - other nations would object.

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      The only thing that is surprising to me is that musk didn’t call it Skynet.

      Scary person.

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        I think he leaves that kind of plagiarism to his old friend Peter Thiel, who seems to have an obsession with Lord of the Rings villains.

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          What do you mean by “villains”?

          The only Tolkien inspired names I could find are Arda, Palantir, Valar, Mithril, Rivendell, and Lembas, none of which are names of villains.

          Two Palantiri have been used by villains but that’s about it.

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            Fair correction, Palantir is only used by villains, it isn’t evil in and of itself. However I’m pretty sure Thiel also had something called The Eye of Sauron - maybe a product made by Palantir.

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        8 months ago

        Lmao they release aluminum oxides when they burn up, it’s basically antipersperant in the upper atmosphere.

        Ironically though, it will make us all sweat more.

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    A search Friday on X showed hundreds of Brazilian users inquiring about VPNs that could potentially enable them to continue using the platform by making it appear they were logging on from outside the country.

    This is your chance to break free.

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    He’s taking all vpn off Google and apple too. This is a terrible, dangerous and dumb decision despite how much I dislike Twitter and musk.

    Edit: they just went back on the decision to remove vpn, so it’s all good. Hooray.