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  • the probably that musk acted "on his own intitative" and not with orders / "suggestion" from the us gov is not 100%
    by davidguetta
  • When you think about it - wouldn't disabling the Starlink system completely remove or at the very least vastly reduce the threat posed by Iranian drones over the Strait of Hormuz? I bet its all bootstrapped with starlink internet.
    by NookDavoos
  • I thought they used Starshield and not Starlink now? Doesn't USAF control that?
    by moogly
  • This drives home the point that depending on US companies for anything means you have to bow and pay tribute to the US regime or else they'll cut you off, even if the company itself doesn't want to. The US is currently an authoritarian regime without law.
    by superkuh
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    by tomtomistaken
  • Unacceptable. How far has Musk fallen from when he was our best hope to save this planet.

    From an Ironman inspiration to an actual real life villain.

    by alnxdrawr
  • The temporal correlation with datacenter hits argued to take out Russian bot farms is striking...

    Normally I'd say "assume ignorance before incompetence before malice" but with the current US political climate it's usually all 3 at the same time.

    by eqvinox
  • The timing is interesting, given that it comes days after Musk said Ukraine had gone "too far" striking Yandex data centers. Putting other considerations aside, these strikes could be interpreted as direct retaliation against strikes on Ukrainian data centers days before.

    That said, depending on a single piece of tech is not a good idea (as evidenced by the Russians when they lost starlink access). Russians have resorted to long-range mesh radios, Ukrainians should probably integrate that as well (though it does increase BOM costs).

    The other dependency is Chinese suppliers, who supply both sides but may prefer to favor Russia. It is a huge liability for Ukraine as it supplies 80% of the parts that perform 70% of battlefield duties, and could stop anytime (besides known design leaks to the adversary, etc). Russia is even relocating whole production lines to evade sanctions.

    Ukraine has been fighting with one arm behind its back, this is the latest development in the series of seemingly-arbitrary limitations imposed on it.

    by MayeulC

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