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Ukrainian surface drones had Starlink comms disabled on direct Musk's orders (web.archive.org)

submitted 1 year ago by skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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of course he was afraid of russian nuukes. this only prompted Ukrainian engineers to bypass use of starlink entirely and current sea drones, like the one used in second Kerch bridge strike, or these used against SIG tanker and Olenegorsky Gornyak landing ship use domestic technology only

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[–] downpunxx@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not a fan of lemmy, probably having something to do with the fact it's namesake was a man who owned the largest personal collection of nazi memorabilia for years until he died, so, tough titty i guess

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thanks for your future hypothetical non-fatuous contributions

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I also heard he named it Lemmy because whenever he saw a litter of kittens he’d strap on his steel-toed boots and go, “Lemmy at them”.