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Comment Re:Wayland? Who cares. (Score 1) 46

How well does X.org do with a dual screen system where one is 4K and the other is 1080P?

What Problem do you have with that scenario? I find xrandr very versatile in configuring me all sorts of display combinations.

And like others wrote already: It was a brilliant idea of the X11 design to separate window managers and applications painting into windows. Really would not want to miss that.

Comment Re: Of course it does (Score 1) 76

You're also somehow oblivious to the fact that the dish is always actively aiming its antenna to track the satellite. And somehow you're expecting adjacent satellites to get a good enough signal to do anything at all with, especially when the adjacent satellites aren't even making the same Doppler adjustments.

The Starlink Dish isn't moving. It's an active array and it's completely possible for that to either "point" in two directions simultaneously or to time switch so that it measures first one satellite then moves to the other.

Comment Re: Of course it does (Score 1) 76

what gives you the idea that a method of getting your own fix, from the ground, will surely work from space?

a) The fact that Starlink controls the software on the terminals and is allowed to send the location from the terminal to their system.

b) The fact that Starlink clearly states that they know, and need to know, your exact terminal location in order to allow handovers to happen correctly.

Comment Re: Of course it does (Score 1) 76

It doesn't work that way. And even then, it can still be slightly outside of that area. Photons don't work the way you think they do.

Teach your grandmother to suck eggs. Some phrases for you to look up to start to dig yourself out of the hole of your ignorance.

"timing advance"
"round trip time"
"propagation delay"
"triangulation"

You might study how Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's flight path has been investigated to get some popular and simplified explanations that will help you with imagining how this could be done.

You're making a ton of wild assumptions here, and no doubt you're predicating even those on top of your first assumption, which itself is very wrong.

In the meantime in this house we follow the laws of science and the experiment is in. 8m location accuracy has been demonstrated with Starlink so you are just fundamentally wrong. Once the experimental evidence contradicts your theories, that's the point at which you start trying to learn.

Comment Re: Of course it does (Score 1) 76

The only way to determine the precise location of a terminal is with plain old GPS, and that isn't at all foolproof.

Just wrong. The spacex satellites themselves provide location independent of GPS and 8 m accuracy has been demonstrated even without SpaceX cooperation. SpaceX themselves could probably achieve 1m accuracy if they wanted to, but in any case 50m accuracy would be enough for target location.

Comment Re:Much as I enjoy mocking Russia... (Score 1) 77

Convicted under the Biden regime just prior to them successfully stealing a billion dollars of campaign funds for an election they already knew she would lose. Why am I not surprised.

Because you are a Russian disruption agent and the idea of an independent judiciary and trial by jury who would never convict someone because the president wanted them to is completely alien to you. There's plenty wrong all over American politics and nobody should deny it, but going after the innocent is one of the best ways of stopping people going after the guilty.

Comment Re:Of course it does (Score 4, Insightful) 76

SpaceX knows exactly where each terminal is because they have to for radio timing to work correctly with the moving satellites. Russia has to test those terminals somewhere. SpaceX could be giving that location to Ukraine. SpaceX could be permanently destroying any terminal that turns up near there and hasn't been cleared by Ukraine. SpaceX could be reporting the incoming locations of missiles and could be cutting service as soon as they realize that there's a surprise terminal moving rapidly towards a Ukrainian city.

Due to their lack of accuracy which makes them ineffective against hardened military targets, most of the Russian missiles are used in strict terror campaigns against civilian buildings: Power stations providing neighborhood heating, residential tower blocks with hundreds of families living in them, independent churches, nurseries often at times of maximum use and of course hospitals.

Getting on top of this and ensuring that Ukraine is a key supported customer that feels it gets what it needs could have allowed a real feel good story showing a company that took abuse and murder seriously. In fact it's pretty clear that some working at Starlink tried to do that at times and the management made it more difficult. Elon Musk is literally a baby killer.

Comment Re:So now ... (Score 1) 21

Were you able to before? Obviously, "like everyone else" you'll be keeping it encrypted at rest with keys that are kept in an HSM. For the important "pet feeding habit data" you will have made an exception and actually bought your own HSMs, kept in your multiple highly geographically separated underground bunkers with limited on site compute and simply feed limited summary results back to the cloud. For less important "nuclear weapons test results" data you find some compromise where you can track which and for the "current location of warheads data" you might just decide that you take the risk because, you're just going to have to accept the risk of that data leaking anyway for other reasons, and cost of processing is a priority. That's why right data classification and appropriate handling is important.

Every computer you use you trust Intel, Infineon, Samsung and tens or hundreds of others manufacturers not to embed hostile radio devices or software on chips that phone home. That includes some companies that actually have added weird management systems against their users wishes. Apple (IIRC) have pubilcly had the situation where they threw away a bunch of mother boards that arrived for their cloud. I'm sure all of the others have too. What don't they spot?

Adding one more cloud provider doesn't really make things much worse that it was to begin with.

Comment Re:Wonder if any of them asked the big question (Score 4, Informative) 10

You have a strange notion of what "GNU" is. If you refer to the GNU Hurd kernel, that was indeed released very late, and at a time when it was already clear it had been surpassed by Linux in popularity so far that it would never catch up. But all the many free software packages that were published as GNU projects have been used quite a lot, and still are, and of course software is never "done" because it can always be improved. For the most part, GNU, GPL and FSF has striking success and influence on both commercial and non-commercial software.

Comment Re:trains (Score 1) 38

I understamd how Americans fall for this nonsense, but Europe has a well developed railroad system and efficient short distance flights.

Why would the Europeans fall for this inefficient, ineffective, economically insane, dangerous, unproven, ridiculous scam?

These project are never about anything technical or practical, they are just vehicles to funnel tax payer's and gullible investor's money into the pockets of some shifty people. Not really different from the frequent occasions where some municipality pays $$$$$$ for some shitty "artwork", made with very little effort by someone who knows someone who...

Comment Re:The YouTuber Adam Something (Score 1) 38

I wonder if this is just one of the mill corruption

It is that, plus the activity the money is burned for allows for some PR where politicians can claim they are doing something "innovative". Just like with solar freaking roadways, which everyone having few years of physics education can easily debunk as inefficient, and they never worked anywhere, yet time and again new sponsored projects of the same type pop up somewhere on the planet.

Comment Re: Single-region deployments by regulated industr (Score 1) 25

Even when there is a primary/standby setup, still the IPs of both could be part of the DNS response at all times, and if a client connects to a server that does not consider itself as "the primary", that server could tell the client to rather use "the other". That way, an outage of the DNS service would not need to result in an outage of the service - at least as long clients or DNS proxies are willing to deliver a cached resolution response.

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