Posted by dweekly 10/14/2025
I'm going to dust off the TBS DVB-S2X card and try to find a data transponder to test the DontLookup app. https://github.com/ucsdsysnet/dontlookup
Where I live, it's almost impossible to find any interest in FTA or pirated SAT TV.
att: ham radio operator interested in satellite radio :D
My understanding is that elsewhere, there's a lot more interesting stuff FTA so a lot more people have the hardware, and the hardware itself is more generic. So there's just more opportunity for someone to get bored and discover a new hobby a few degrees to the side of their usual watering hole.
Can someone help me understand the use of "diameter" in this sentence. I am guessing it refers to the satellite's signal coverage of the Earth's surface. If that's the case, wouldn't something like arc degrees be a better measure? I just can't figure out how "diameter" can be used to describe a coverage arc or area.
Either way, they point is, it's a lot of coverage.
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There was a surprising amount of resistance to the push to enable TLS everywhere on the public Internet. I'm glad it was ultimately successful.
It is to protect commercial interests, I don't think that Google cares about the NSA looking at your personal data.
Google cares a lot about protecting the personal data they get from you, so that they and no one else can get it, at least not for free.
Because let's get real, 99% of the time, why do you need encryption? The reason is commercial activity. It is really important to protect your credit card number, otherwise no one would trust e-commerce. For paid service to work, you need to authenticate, and it means encryption, no paywall means no authentication and much less need for encryption. And even with "free" services, you need encryption to protect the account that shouldn't even be required in the first place. As for general communication, my guess is that hackers and governments alike are more interested in financial data than in casual conversation.
So by pushing TLS everywhere, Google is actually pushing for a more commercial, less open web. That it helps with general privacy (except against Google itself) is just a happy accident.
What are you talking about? It was an absolute failure.
As soon as we got widespread TLS adoption, Cloudflare magically came along and wooed all the nerds into handing over all the plaintext traffic to a single company.