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New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/on_call/
1•Brajeshwar•39s ago•0 comments

Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/ai_capex_plans/
1•Brajeshwar•1m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw v2026.2.6

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag/v2026.2.6
1•salkahfi•1m ago•0 comments

A free Dynamic QR Code generator (no expiring links)

https://free-dynamic-qr-generator.com/
1•nookeshkarri7•1m ago•1 comments

nextTick but for React.js

https://suhaotian.github.io/use-next-tick/
1•jeremy_su•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Built an AI-Powered Pull Request Review Tool

https://github.com/HighGarden-Studio/HighReview
1•highgarden•3m ago•0 comments

Git-am applies commit message diffs

https://lore.kernel.org/git/bcqvh7ahjjgzpgxwnr4kh3hfkksfruf54refyry3ha7qk7dldf@fij5calmscvm/
1•rkta•6m ago•0 comments

ClawEmail: 1min setup for OpenClaw agents with Gmail, Docs

https://clawemail.com
1•aleks5678•13m ago•1 comments

UnAutomating the Economy: More Labor but at What Cost?

https://www.greshm.org/blog/unautomating-the-economy/
1•Suncho•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Gettorr – Stream magnet links in the browser via WebRTC (no install)

https://gettorr.com/
1•BenaouidateMed•20m ago•0 comments

Statin drugs safer than previously thought

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2026/statin-drugs-safer-than-previously-thought
1•stareatgoats•22m ago•0 comments

Handy when you just want to distract yourself for a moment

https://d6.h5go.life/
1•TrendSpotterPro•24m ago•0 comments

More States Are Taking Aim at a Controversial Early Reading Method

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/more-states-are-taking-aim-at-a-controversial-early-read...
1•lelanthran•25m ago•0 comments

AI will not save developer productivity

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4125409/ai-will-not-save-developer-productivity.html
1•indentit•30m ago•0 comments

How I do and don't use agents

https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/2019975917863661760
1•tosh•36m ago•0 comments

BTDUex Safe? The Back End Withdrawal Anomalies

1•aoijfoqfw•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Compile-Time Vibe Coding

https://github.com/Michael-JB/vibecode
5•michaelchicory•41m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ensemble – macOS App to Manage Claude Code Skills, MCPs, and Claude.md

https://github.com/O0000-code/Ensemble
1•IO0oI•45m ago•1 comments

PR to support XMPP channels in OpenClaw

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/9741
1•mickael•45m ago•0 comments

Twenty: A Modern Alternative to Salesforce

https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
1•tosh•47m ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi: More memory-driven price rises

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
2•calcifer•52m ago•0 comments

Level Up Your Gaming

https://d4.h5go.life/
1•LinkLens•56m ago•1 comments

Di.day is a movement to encourage people to ditch Big Tech

https://itsfoss.com/news/di-day-celebration/
3•MilnerRoute•58m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI generated personal affirmations playing when your phone is locked

https://MyAffirmations.Guru
4•alaserm•59m ago•3 comments

Show HN: GTM MCP Server- Let AI Manage Your Google Tag Manager Containers

https://github.com/paolobietolini/gtm-mcp-server
1•paolobietolini•1h ago•0 comments

Launch of X (Twitter) API Pay-per-Use Pricing

https://devcommunity.x.com/t/announcing-the-launch-of-x-api-pay-per-use-pricing/256476
1•thinkingemote•1h ago•0 comments

Facebook seemingly randomly bans tons of users

https://old.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/
1•dirteater_•1h ago•1 comments

Global Bird Count Event

https://www.birdcount.org/
1•downboots•1h ago•0 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
2•soheilpro•1h ago•0 comments

Jon Stewart – One of My Favorite People – What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk
2•consumer451•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router

https://olegkutkov.me/2025/06/15/how-to-modify-starlink-mini-to-run-without-the-built-in-wifi-router/
361•LorenDB•7mo ago

Comments

Aspos•7mo ago
I know exactly what power-constrained application you have in mind, Oleg, and I like it.
100721•7mo ago
What is the specific use case you have in mind?
mattmaroon•7mo ago
Well the author is Ukranian so I have a guess.
michaelt•7mo ago
Given that the blogger is based in Kiev, Ukraine? Good chance this goes on some sort of long range, Predator-style drone.
mft_•7mo ago
Wouldn’t this give Starlink the ability to track and/or turn off operations in real time?
mattmaroon•7mo ago
Yes but they’ve mostly not been doing that (they probably are selling a lot of dishes) and what’s the alternative?
michaelt•7mo ago
Yes, you may recall some controversy a few years back when Musk made some threats along those lines.

There are alternatives if you only need short range, or if you can tolerate high latency. And of course there are fire-and-forget cruise missiles that don't need communications at all.

But there aren't all that many other options. Historically, satellite internet companies like Iridium, Globalstar and Teledesic have not fared well.

lxgr•7mo ago
Iridium works extremely well for what it was designed for – truly global, low latency communications without requiring a directional antenna. Unfortunately, that also means very low data rates.

It only gained packed-switched data with the second generation satellite network, but data rates are still very low (think hundreds of kbps, and I believe even that needs high-gain antennas).

NitpickLawyer•7mo ago
~Iridium~ devices were bricked in the first days of the invasion, iirc. That's why starlink was such a big deal, and that's why the usmil wanted it "yesterday" after it proved itself in ua. They had to set up a dedicated unit to deal with starlink, as every branch was trying to get it on their own and complicated purchasing. That unit / project was also called starshield, confusing the matter with the other starshield project that uses starlink buses + ng sensor packages.

edit: it was Viasat not Iridium, I got them mixed up.

RF_Savage•7mo ago
Viasat fixed modems got bricked at start of the war in Ukraine and some collateral one's in border areas.
NitpickLawyer•7mo ago
You are right, thanks. I mixed them up. Iridium is also providing service in ua now, and was unaffected at the start of the war.
snickerdoodle12•7mo ago
Interesting how the US goes absolutely ballistic about some random dude violating the "Computer Security Act" on a small scale, but didn't react at all to this massive, incredibly impactful, attack.
mschuster91•7mo ago
it didn't impact Americans. it impacted us Europeans but at the time this went down we were too dependent on Russia's cheap gas (and, frankly, lacked the military power) to raise the appropriate level of stink.

Hell we let Russia freely execute dissidents (Skripal or the Berlin Tiergarten murder come to my mind) and tolerated a land-grab war by little green men in 2014. Either of these actions would have warranted serious consequences, the Crimea/Donbas grab would be a casus belli if you ask me. But again, we were too busy sucking Putin off for cheap gas.

snickerdoodle12•7mo ago
so as far as the US is concerned it's fair game to attack US companies as long as it doesn't impact US citizens?
hansvm•7mo ago
As far as the US is concerned, it's fair game to drone-strike US citizens [0,1,2] from time to time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki#Death

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awla...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Nawar_al-Awlaki

mschuster91•7mo ago
As much as I hate to say it: Trump got a point in saying that Europe should have been responsible for its security / military even 10 years back.
snickerdoodle12•7mo ago
Sure, but don't ignore the fact that Viasat is a US company
mrguyorama•7mo ago
The US does not want to go to full scale, open war with Russia.

So the US will downplay or ignore some amount of aggression from Russia to do so.

If the US wanted to go to war with Russia, we would be playing up some rather minor thing, like sending a missile system into "Europe" or something.

When that Ukrainian SAM fell in Poland and killed a farmer, there was a late night emergency meeting between a lot of very important people from NATO countries to decide WTF to do. If the west wanted to fight Russia, that meeting would have resulted in an Article 5 declaration of some sort.

Russia is behind the sabotage/blowing up of a Czech Republic arms depot. If the west wanted to go to war with Russia, that could have also been an instigating event.

Russia will continue to get passes for "minor" acts of war as long as the west does not agree with sending citizens to die in a war.

That we don't equip Ukraine with more than enough war material to do whatever they are capable of, however, is fucking stupid.

Welcome to geopolitics.

mschuster91•7mo ago
"Some" is an understatement lol. Here in Germany 3.800 (!) wind turbines lost remote control (and thus were forced offline) until the terminals could be changed because their command uplink was via Viasat.
maxlin•7mo ago
It was only made to appear a controversy for clicks and Ukrainians (understandably) trying to bend the rules.

The thing came with a clear limit "this thing works in these cells of this big hex grid". And they drove it off that hex grid. Plan and simple.

Its like if the US-supplied HIMARS came with some built-in limit that it cannot be used to target known Russian nuclear installments, and they'd try to do that.

It's not that those things are unquestionable, but they are limits that would need US consultation as US obviously doesn't want the thing to escalate from being a defensive war to something else.

karp773•7mo ago
Is Crimea on "this big hex grid" or not? If not, why not?
coryrc•7mo ago
Because the US military/govt has a say in what US companies sell to foreign militaries and that's what the restrictions were at the time. Remember this was early on in the full invasion.
TMWNN•7mo ago
Starlink is prohibited for use in Crimea because of US sanctions against Russia, and not because "Musk turned Starlink off during a Ukrainian attack".
karp773•7mo ago
Well, per other comments, Starlink terminals apparently do work in Russia.

And Musk did exactly that per numerous reports. Given his erratic behavior since around 2018, it's not hard to believe. The other day he was literally threatening to stop Dragon launches for NASA.

maxlin•7mo ago
"per other comments" Lol.

The geoblocks are quite hard. The only situation where Russians have managed to use them for a short while is when they've managed to capture a terminal, and it hasn't been cut off because it's been unclear who was in control of it, and Ukranians benefit more of them as they've built a lot of things and process around them as it such a massive battlefield advantage if used right.

>Given his erratic behavior it's not hard to believe

Congratulations, you've managed to slip in to a sea of misinformation and media spin. Place a check on this in 5 years, these things tend to be silently put under the rug. It's like you're saying it wouldn't be a surprise if all future Falcon 9 rockets just blew up because they've done so at testing and because Starship does so too. Learn some distinction.

karp773•7mo ago
Well, you are denying facts and obvious things, e.g. Musk's erratic behaviour. It's a waste of time to talk to you. Bye!
inemesitaffia•7mo ago
>Starlink terminals apparently do work in Russia

This isn't possible unless they are hacked and are at the border.

No one is using Starlink in Moscow.

maxlin•7mo ago
"No earth is flat, you're a globist ignoring obvious facts. Bye!"

I know more than you do. Go spread hate and misinformation somewhere else.

maxlin•7mo ago
Starlink both in technology, availability and regulation angle is advancing so fast that saying "is it now" and "was it then" are quite different.

This is where the hex grid was previously on. Wayback machine doesn't seem to work as it's a web app https://www.starlink.com/map

burnt-resistor•7mo ago
I wonder how SL plans vary in Ukraine / for use in Russia. Assuming US-like pricing and limitations, for low speed drones, this would work. The gotcha is that for jet or fast prop drones in the 250-478 kts range requires a very expensive aviation plan assuming it's similar to US plans.
dylan604•7mo ago
Could that not also be part of the support being provided to Ukraine in that those prices are not the same as some commercial account? At the end of the day, the billing department could just not issue the bill, or any other method of meaning Ukraine isn't paying for it.
Aspos•7mo ago
AFAIK US DoD pays for some of the Starlink accounts in Ukraine. The rest are paid for by volunteers at normal prices.
kubelsmieci•7mo ago
"As of May 2024, Poland continues to pay subcription fees for more than 20 thousand terminals it has bought for Ukraine" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russian-Ukrain...
littlestymaar•7mo ago
Maybe just for front-line deployment, it would suck to be targeted by a glide bomb because the Russians located some WiFi signal.
tomaskafka•7mo ago
I am not sure - afaik there is a speed limit (assumption of satellite visibility and specific latency?) over which starlink won’t work, right? It can however be useful for getting the internet without announcing yourself to a swarm of drones?
gruez•7mo ago
>I am not sure - afaik there is a speed limit (assumption of satellite visibility and specific latency?) over which starlink won’t work, right?

The author's youtube channel also contains a video of him doing a speedtest on a starlink mini while driving on a highway.

michaelt•7mo ago
Starlink satellites orbit at 17,000 miles per hour, so I doubt receivers lose signal just from going at a few hundred miles per hour.

Unless there's a software limit built in that turns them off, or the drone's doing some crazy high-G-force acrobatics.

codedokode•7mo ago
Russians also use Musk's satellites and might find the information useful.

Also as I understand, satellites do not work over Russian territory so guess where this can be used.

Andrew_nenakhov•7mo ago
Actually, they do work is Russia. You need account registered in some allowed country and also use RV plan (or maybe it is called 'roam' now). I know some ppl who use it. Was thinking to get one myself, to have a reliable bypass of pathetic russian firewall.
Ray20•7mo ago
> Actually, they do work is Russia.

Aren't starlink have some kind of geolock?

> to have a reliable bypass of pathetic russian firewall

All data shows that Russia have one of the strongest and best firewall in the world, in many aspects even better than in China. And all the Russians I spoke with say that VPN is not blocked and any service for a couple of bucks does its job.

tguvot•7mo ago
They use it at front lines for fighting Ukraine. Not for reading cnn
Andrew_nenakhov•7mo ago
Ppl I know use it live in Yekaterinburg, rather far from the front lines.
tguvot•7mo ago
Kazakhstan is near by, maybe service spills over . sure that yekaterinburg and not Kaliningrad ?
Andrew_nenakhov•7mo ago
Living in Chelyabinsk, I believe I'm rather capable to recognize the difference. Yekaterinburg is at least 300km from the nearest part of Kazakhstan (which up to a few days ago wasn't even officially permitted there). So no, there is no indication that there is any kind of geo-fencing for roaming devices, be them in Russia, China, Iran or Afghanistan.
tguvot•7mo ago
lovely place.

i know that it wasn't permitted.

somewhat assumed that they will block dishes from most of russia

inemesitaffia•7mo ago
>Yekaterinburg

Almost certainly impossible and doubly illegal

Andrew_nenakhov•7mo ago
> Aren't starlink have some kind of geolock?

Perhaps. Apparently, it isn't applied in RV mode

> All data shows that Russia have one of the strongest and best firewall in the world

If you have a pile of shit in the world right in front of your house, it is pathetic, even if it is the biggest and the stinkiest pile of shit in the world.

> And all the Russians I spoke with say that VPN is not blocked and any service for a couple of bucks does its job.

I am Russian. This is not true. All regular vpn protocols (OpenVPN, Wireguard) are outright blocked. Shadowsocks is blocked on most ISPs, including all major mobile ones. VLESS works, for now, mostly, but sometimes the IP address of the server I run become unavailable.

multjoy•7mo ago
Kyiv
neilv•7mo ago
I hope that the engineers and scientists contributing to asymmetric warfare technology there aren't designated high-value targets by the adversary.

Wouldn't publicity paint a target on one's back?

stephen_g•7mo ago
Seems likely, just a risk one has to take if you want to actively contribute to a war effort...
neilv•7mo ago
Is one increasing the risk by blogging and YouTubing about it?
stronglikedan•7mo ago
Ask Gonzalo Lira.
tenuousemphasis•7mo ago
Based on recent events I would guess an explosive-laden drone.
mattmaroon•7mo ago
Riding piggy back on a drone?
someothherguyy•7mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIt3pHOMxwpTXTgIVB_N1Gg
rozhok•7mo ago
Starlink is already used for «Nemesis» night bombers as well as «Magura» sea drones.
donohoe•7mo ago
Archived version: https://archive.ph/UTFTK
15155•7mo ago
Fascinating that they chose to use modulated board-to-board Ethernet instead of just running RGMII from MAC to MAC.
MOARDONGZPLZ•7mo ago
A lot of this is pretty POC-y. Agree digital to analog to analog to digital is kinda inefficient, and in the abstract MAC to PHY (which is probably what you mean when you say MAC to MAC) with RGMII is probably better. My off the cuff guess is that it is likely the written-up interface is easier to access or requires less diving into internals. Not sure where the RGMII lines are, and depending on the design of the Starlink mini itself (I am ignorant of this) the lines might have been buried deeper and less accessible, who knows.
msgodel•7mo ago
Ethernet seems far easier to prototype with. There's almost no off the shelf stuff for talking to RGMII whereas Ethernet you can just plug into your laptop for testing. If it's two different teams building things it seems like it would be a lot easier to just agree on Ethernet as the interface and then delay integration testing or release earlier.
15155•7mo ago
A $3 breakout PCB with an RGMII PHY and MagJack on it would solve this problem without resorting to analog communication.
msgodel•7mo ago
Assembly isn't free, either an engineer or the PCB fabricator has to put that together. Also the design isn't free and it's certainly not necessarily going to match the behavior of the device on the other side.

But your laptop's Ethernet adapter comes free with your laptop (both in terms of money and waiting to get it since it's already on your desk) and possibly even more importantly you know the laptop manufacturer and users have QAed it for you so it's absolutely going to behave the way you expect which is important when the device you're designing isn't behaving.

15155•7mo ago
> Assembly isn't free, either an engineer or the PCB fabricator has to put that together

> your laptop's Ethernet adapter

The device as-designed likely wouldn't work with your laptop's ethernet adapter - hence why the author of TFA placed an isolation transformer and jack ...on a breakout board.

msgodel•7mo ago
Heh I didn't notice it didn't have the isolation transformer. That is odd.
numpad0•7mo ago
RGMII is not some obscure competitor to Ethernet, but rather, Ethernet was designed to be a modular two-part design with "MAC" and "PHY" chips connected via "MII" interface. RGMII is simply the latest version of it.

Many Ethernet-supported SoCs still use various MII style interfaces because it makes more sense to outsource the physical layer to some external chip especially if not everyone is going to use Ethernet.

It's perhaps like the difference between using Thunderbolt vs raw PCIe. You technically shouldn't need Thunderbolt if you're just permanently connecting two things inside a same machine.

Is it smarter to do it proper and make it silicon efficient than just shipping the darn thing ASAP? idk. We'll see.

stephen_g•7mo ago
RGMII requires way more work to run board-to-board (heaps of signals, quite precise length matching, impedance control, etc. on the boards, better board-to-board connectors etc.) and at the end of all that will likely be less robust than just running Ethernet. I'd much rather use SGMII just because it's far fewer signals to match (even if it runs way faster) instead of RGMII.

The chips they're using might already have Ethernet PHYs built in anyway which might also be part of the reason they're using Ethernet.

monocasa•7mo ago
Eh, it's just a half dozen signals in each direction running at 125Mhz DDR. That's in spitting distance of being able to be bit banged by something like an rpi pico.
CamperBob2•7mo ago
I'm not sure I understand the entire point of the exercise. There's already an RJ45 jack on the Mini, so no need to hack the unit to get access to an Ethernet PHY. And the WiFi router can be turned off via the setup page.

Did they remove support for the Ethernet jack on the Minis available in Ukraine? It looks like it's still present on the WiFi board, next to the power jack.

closewith•7mo ago
You might imagine some use cases where mass is a critical concern.
dogben•7mo ago
They may want to make absolutly sure no wifi signal emit from the device. Turning it off in the setup page is definitely not enough.

The wifi chip may emit signal during boot. The device may get accidentally reset in the field. SpaceX may push an update that messes with the settings.

CamperBob2•7mo ago
I mean, more power to them, certainly, but WiFi emissions seem like the least of your concerns when you're operating an antenna for satellite comms. There will be no shortage of side lobes at Ku band for anyone who cares to listen.

Cutting down on mass would make sense, though.

MOARDONGZPLZ•7mo ago
It will still draw power with wifi turned off, though much less. The most effective way of reducing the P in swap is to remove the unit entirely
j16sdiz•7mo ago
it is not just the wifi. its the router.
CamperBob2•7mo ago
What does that mean?
jpm_sd•7mo ago
RGMII isn't really designed to go board-to-board, fairly high data rates, and ideally all of the signals should be delay matched. That gets a bit trickier when there are two boards involved. Also I would expect EMI/EMC issues.

I know people do that sort of thing for evaluation kits, but it doesn't seem like a good idea for production.

05•7mo ago
Sure, then you get to write an MDIO emulator so that it actually detects link and since it's a proprietary system you can't exactly comment out the SMI code.. fun!
dlcarrier•7mo ago
That connector is way cheaper than something that could carry an RGMII signal without major reflections. It's probably cheaper in the end to have the extra silicon than a better connector, and I don't think you need the magnetics if you don't need isolation.
wildzzz•7mo ago
It could just be that using Ethernet allows for more flexibility in what is connected to that board-to-board connector. In this instance, it's a wifi router but a customer may instead want a bare port to connect to their existing infrastructure (just the modem). It also means you don't have to worry about which MII standard both boards use, they can be upgraded independent of each other. The physical interface for Ethernet remains the same whereas MII has different pin counts.
brcmthrowaway•7mo ago
What SoC does Starlink use? Broadcom?
inemesitaffia•7mo ago
MediaTek
b112•7mo ago
Hasn't Broadcom bought them yet? What an evil company.
brcmthrowaway•7mo ago
Only evil since Hock Tan
b112•7mo ago
Maybe. So? That seems like a decade ago, a lifetime in this industry.

And it's not just vmware. They're predatory, they make Google or Oracle seem like good guys in comparison. They take acquire + squeeze customers to a new level.

If you have any contact with any broadcom product, you'll bleed.

leoh•7mo ago
How did the author figure out the pin out for Ethernet? Wild stuff.

Also kudos for them using GRPC. Suggests that there are some competent folks around not rushing things.

chatmasta•7mo ago
I’m confused by the end. He implies that the “disablement codes” (geoblock, speed violation, etc.) are enforced by the user terminal, meaning they could be circumvented?

> The user terminal itself has no knowledge of service plans, countries, regional, or velocity restrictions – it simply follows commands received from the Starlink satellite

Surely this would be enforced at DHCP time? Or maybe not, since you could get an IP address then start going too fast… is this blog actually a ”wink wink nudge nudge” guide to bypassing Starlink policy restrictions?

kortilla•7mo ago
He’s saying the sat sends the code to the terminal because the terminal doesn’t even know it’s blocked. This is so you as a user can see why your internet isn’t working.
ahoka•7mo ago
Probably it works like all other ISPs and terminal is in a VLAN?
sharpshadow•7mo ago
If they actually figured out which disablement codes can be tricked or circumvented, they wouldn’t share that. I guess it would all depend on how strict Starlink checks and enforces for unauthorised usage. For a US company operating on this scale I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s between very strict to just the basics or on demand.

A commentator here mentioned that Starlink also works in Russia, which it shouldn’t? Maybe some devices delivered to Ukraine can be used in Russia too.

cyberax•7mo ago
Not all of Russia, but in Crimea and the occupied parts of Donbas and Luhansk. Apparently, also in some border regions, probably because Starlink hasn't bothered to precisely geofence the border.
fragmede•7mo ago
Can you blame them? I think there's some sort of dispute going on as to where that border is, making it hard to do precision geofencing.
_joel•7mo ago
To be fair the 'border' hasn't moved all that much in over 2 years now, save a few fields and ruined hamlets.

Plus they use starlink of drone boats, so some degree of flexibility is needed.

borski•7mo ago
Crimea is Russian-occupied Ukrainian land. There’s not much of a dispute, in that it is exclusively Russia who claims it as part of Russia; Belarus doesn’t count, as it may as well just be a puppet state at this point.

The rest of the world sees it as Russian-occupied Ukrainian land.

sharpshadow•7mo ago
I think it’s not occupied land as in occupied by force against the will of the inhabitants. The majority of people of Crimea participated in the referendum of which one option was to join the Russian Federation and this choice got the most votes. There are conflicts in international law about “Self-determination versus territorial integrity”[0] which contradict each other like the people of a region want self-determination while the state says it’s illegal. Sometimes it doesn’t work like in Catalonia, sometimes it works like in Kosovo or in a little bit more distant time when a referendum was held to make Hawaii the 50th state after the US annexed it.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination

borski•7mo ago
That referendum occurred after the annexation, and with Russian forces at each of the polls. It had a 97% approval.

In other news, Putin is totally a democratically-elected President, and not at all corrupt.

rickdeckard•7mo ago
It sounds more like a result-code shared to the terminal to inform it that i.e. "ACCOUNT_DISABLED - The Starlink account has been suspended or permanently disabled" or "UNLICENSED_COUNTRY – The terminal is located in a country where Starlink lacks regulatory approval."

I doubt that the decision to act upon that is left to the terminal instead of the Starlink network.

some_random•7mo ago
That's not my impression at all, if the terminal does not maintain information on service plans or restrictions then it's maintained higher up. We don't have enough information from this blog post to know if the terminal could be configured to ignore limitations but I would expect just ignoring "disablementCode"s wouldn't be sufficient.
wildzzz•7mo ago
I'm not that familiar with Starlink but it looks like the normal process is to use an app that can read off error and diagnostic codes from the terminal. If you are bypassing the built-in router and just using the terminal as a modem connected to an SBC, you won't have a smartphone connected to see these errors. You could write up a script to check the error codes and respond accordingly.

Like if you have a Starlink terminal attached to a drone, it could automatically change its location if service is interrupted, like a UAV could fly higher if an obstruction is detected. Or if a geofence is inadvertently crossed and service is disrupted, it could turn off the Starlink terminal and then turn on a backup comms system. Essentially, you could use those disablement codes as a sensor.

purpleidea•7mo ago
This was great. I wish Starlink actually provided a dish+modem service exactly like this and real IPv4 not CGNAT nonsense. I think they do for business plans which are much more expensive though.
kortilla•7mo ago
This is the name of the game in new ISPs. You can’t get v4 block purchases approved without a good address utilization plan. Giving a public IP to every residential customer doesn’t really pass muster anymore as a good use of v4 space.
dboreham•7mo ago
You can tunnel through Starlink to get a public IP. Not 100% efficient due to MTU reduction and the extra hop to the tunnel end, but it works.