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It's incredible it took them this long, considering how obvious it is. But good - it's nice to see at least one thing getting less and not more shitty for once, however tiny.

They just need to capitalize the surveillance capabilities. Find a way to convince users they need access to everything on their phones in order to sell them first class convenience. Once you've done that there's plenty of money to be made.

You can do that all by yourself, no AI needed!

So we will have a bunch of trash circulating the earth, left there by opporunistic billionaires. No thank you. What they have done to the night sky alone is a crime against all of us as far as I'm concerned.

And to think that lower orbit is not interesting any more now that NASA wants to build a telescope on the moon is beyond me.

If it is you probably wouldn't be thrilled to find out how.

There are a number of concerns, from hindering science by blocking pictures taken by Hubble to flat out malfunctioning and crashing into the ISS. For every new satellite the risk increases. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/satellites-spacex-problem-space-pollution

Assuming the same communities are being followed and no users are blocked and all else is equal, one possible explanation is that lemmy.world is using Lemmy 0.19.3, and sh.itjust.works is on Lemmy 0.19.5. Something might have changed in how posts are sorted between the two versions.

One might expect these two instances to be pretty similar, as they both have a bunch of users and are pretty much catch-all. But in general, different instances of Lemmy will display different content by design - the users decide the direction of the instance by following communities they are interested in.

But also, we cannot have so many god-damn satellites polluting the night sky. Starlink should never have been allowed to get up there as a private actor in the first place.

It's a tricky situation, as international cooperation would be extremely difficult to maintain, especially during situations like the Ukraine war. But having private companies compete to fill the orbit with space waste as soon as possible is hardly a good solution either.

Information here is public.

That said, there has been problems of people scraping random fediverse servers and causing a lot of traffic, in turn sending a huge bill to the owner of the instance.

We don't have money, so ransom attacks are unlikely.

If it's state actors and cyber warfare, which I think is fair to suspect, we're probably way under the radar. We're not quite critical infrastructure just yet. :)

For the lols attacks could happen anywhere, but this is not that.

I think it's the first time in my life I routinely check in on the stock value of a company, and it's pure Schadenfreude.

While most news media keeps on endlessly reporting on what politicians say, tech and law commentators by definition focus on what is being done. In a world where what is being said is not only irrelevant, but flat-out weaponized, this is the only kind of reporting that matters.