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On October 14, 2026, SpaceX imposed an unannounced speed limit on military-grade Starshield terminals used by Ukrainian forces, automatically cutting internet connectivity for terminals moving faster than 100 mph (160 km/h) and disrupting several high-speed military drone operations.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 143 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Hah, Elon got a bit butthurt when his bots were taken down....

[–] lithiumground@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Bots were not taken down 😀 Anyway, We should create awareness and advocate to not use of twitter

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it was well established that bot traffic declined since the yanked data centre stuff.

Is that not the case?

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

The bots that were taken down on the "bot traffic" graph are web crawler bots used to index webpages for the yandex search engine. Propaganda "bots" aren't actually labeled as "bot traffic", for obvious reasons.

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 26 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Why would anyone want to use Twitter still?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 26 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I wrote my "independent" government news outlet to say that they should probably distance themselves from fascists.

They wrote back, saying "right now, our mission is to reach as many as possible, and right now X has many of our followers."

Cowards.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 hours ago

It wouldn't cost them a lot to diversify and be present on more platforms to transition away, cowards indeed.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Unfortunately, with a widespread reach it's a platform bigger than Bluesky or Mastodon; the EFF made itself Bluesky-exclusive, but some news outlets like Al-Jazeera still maintains a presence and is free to criticize Israeli actions.

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[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Eximius@lemmy.world 24 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Yandex is a search engine, it has legitimate crawler bots. So this statistic is not really beneficial to the conversation.

Also, most likely propaganda bots would be under the radar and not self-declaring as bots.

[–] kurmudgeon@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Or they're self-declaring as crawler bots for a search engine company.

[–] Eximius@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago

Unlikely. The "bot" traffic that cloudflare here identifies, is traffic according to the useragent, that is not an actual user + heuristics cloudflare uses to identify bot devices.

Since ruski propaganda bots would want to act as legitimate users, spreading LLM and/or organically generated word soup, and/or pumping views. They not only have to not be identified as bots, but also to act well enough as a user no captcha and/or cloudflare bot identification catches them.

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world -1 points 12 hours ago

See Yandex strikes

[–] tirateimas@lemmy.pt 46 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

We all know for which side of this war they are playing

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 hours ago

Whichever side gives them the most money and power

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 26 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

If Ukraine had any sense they would try to be as little as possible dependent on the Trumps ilk and I think they have. Message was clear from the start.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

What alternative to Starlink could they use?

[–] Monument@piefed.world -2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] CoconutLove@lemmy.today 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

So two Chinese companies that are pro-Russia and another American billionaire like Musk. The French company only has 600 satellites and it’s not clear that it could even work.

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Monument@piefed.world -3 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

Oh, you already knew! You just wanted to argue.

I’ll save you the effort, bud: You’re the smartest in the room, and we bow before you! We quiver in awe before your superior genitals.

…. Anyway.

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[–] einkorn@feddit.org 21 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What gives you the impression that they don't try? That they don't launch hundreds of satellites themselves?

[–] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

If I was Ukraine I would be doing a deal with Australia to to use the spaceport being set up under the second pillar of AUKUS, sharing with the Australians how to make launch vehicles (which are essentially what short range ballistic missiles are ie Tochka. Satalites coupled with the Australian nuemann drive would be a huge benefit for both countries, especially Ukraine who could deploy their own spaced based communication network.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Yeah. Brb 1 week just setting up my own global satellite network. Pls halt the war in the meantime

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 21 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

While Musk is behaving badly again this site is almost impossible to read due to ads, pious and the like.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

ublock origin is right there

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

The real MVP 🙌

[–] lithiumground@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

it is a good reason to advocate mastodon over twitter. We should advocate usage of decentralized system

[–] lithiumground@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

You can use librewolf privacy friendly and opensource browser

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