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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 32 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

For the life of me, I don't understand why we as a species try so hard to make life worse for everyone.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 13 hours ago

Because some people have a hoarding disorder.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 37 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yes we all watched that Veritasium video.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

I've actively avoided Veritasium since the lightyear long wire video, when he made claims that were proven wrong by numerous other channels and then doubled down on them. Then he sold out to private equity and YouTube has a hard on for pushing their videos in to my feed regardless of what I was just watching. I go so far as to scramble in to the room to change it if I'm just listening to the TV from another room to avoid having YouTube add that shit to my algorithm harder

Claire Saffitz? Veritasium is next. Scary Interesting? Fern next? No Veritasium. Fern? Veritasium. Veritasium videos from years ago you've already seen, why not. That fucking light-year video again, fuck you.

That said, EVEN I have seen that video.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

You do know that you can block channels, right?

[–] cinoreus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I mean, he did say he sold out to private equity cause he wanted to retire basically. His channel is basically now his retirement investment

[–] Lilim_3000@lemmy.ml 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Words cant describe how much i despie terrorist "state" of russia

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

watch out, or you might be kicked off your instance :D

[–] WrathEnchanter@europe.pub 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

While certainly not all .ml users love russia, all russia lovers are in .ml.

Oft course thats not entirely true, but there are some weird communities there.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago

Hey now let's be far not all of them are on .ml at least not exclusively. I'm sure there are plenty on hexbear for example.

[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago

Oh no, not something to push people to adopt new block 3 capable receivers!

Surely they won’t just use $20 glonass or beidou receivers…

[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

GPScels cope and seethe, unguided projectile and mapchads stay winning

[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 67 points 1 day ago (13 children)

My dad w his drawer full of old road atlases: “WHATS UP NOW MOTHERFUCKERS!!?”

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Digital maps would still work, you'd just have to know where you are. Just like old books

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[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Let me know when they can block my paper road atlas.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 91 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I watched a video on this recently. Really interesting, especially how the researchers figured out it was a Russian satellite in a really high orbit. All it takes is a low-power burst to overwhelm the GPS network because it runs on such low powered, sensitive signals. They theorize the Russians were testing for very brief windows to see how well it world work. They could jam these signals anywhere over the Earth. Same for other nations too.

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

please by all means share this video

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

All it takes is a low-power burst to overwhelm the GPS network because it runs on such low powered, sensitive signals.

The signals aren't very sensitive, quite the opposite, they're chosen because they can be very easily detected even at low powers. If you want to jam GNSS from the ground you don't need a lot of power because the satellites are so far away and their signal is so low. If you want to jam it from a satellite you need quite a lot of power, especially if you consider that the suspected satellite constellation has twice the apogee of the GPS constellation. Also you don't need a burst of power, you need sustained power to really jam GNSS, the suspected satellites only did bursts because they're suspected of just testing their system.

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