• lemming@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Based on some old tweets, I think Musk believes Putin wants to use nuclear weapons. Then, the army put some pressure on him to keep supporting Ukraine, but he is still also working on his own. I’m sure he could block the Starlink terminals Russian army is using, if he wanted to try, for example.

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      5 days ago

      I’m sure he could block the Starlink terminals Russian army is using, if he wanted to try, for example.

      I remember a story coming out about Russians using Starlink but it seemed a bit vague to me. Has anyone reliable actually asserted that SpaceX are significantly underperforming in the job of blocking captured terminals (once notified), or other aspects of the day-to-day operations that the Ukrainians would do if they controlled it themselves?

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        5 days ago

        I actually don’t know. I didn’t dig into it, I just read an article about Russians praising Starlink bought through third parties used at the front. It seemed similar enough to other captured communications previously shown as accurate. But it doesn’t definitively prove anything for sure. It could’ve easily been propaganda from any involved party.