For the life of me, I don't understand why we as a species try so hard to make life worse for everyone.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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Yes we all watched that Veritasium video.
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.
Fern is also sold out to some PE
You do know that you can block channels, right?
Words cant describe how much i despie terrorist "state" of russia
watch out, or you might be kicked off your instance :D
Why?
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.
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.
My dad w his drawer full of old road atlases: “WHATS UP NOW MOTHERFUCKERS!!?”
Digital maps would still work, you'd just have to know where you are. Just like old books
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GPScels cope and seethe, unguided projectile and mapchads stay winning
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.
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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I watched the Veritasium episode on it just yesterday! The other theory is that it was actually being used for covert signals and the disruption was secondary.
I thought that was the cover story. They deliberately used a channel partially in the bandwidth for some deniability. It isn't like they didn't know what bandwidth GPS used when they designed the satellite.
If I recall correctly, the idea was that they might have used that part of the band deliberately so that it couldn't be jammed without also jamming GPS. Either way, we're just guessing.
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please by all means share this video
Most people don't know how unbelievably fucked the world would be if Russia did this on a consistent basis. The entire stock market runs on GPS for nanosecond timing of trades. Shipping, trucking, trains, planes all use GPS. Sure, all of them CAN operate without GPS, but the delays would be enormous because of how efficient GPS is and how automated a lot of things are. Communications systems use GPS for timing to sync up. Farms use GPS for accurate planting and picking of vegetables.
Lol as if critical systems don't simply trust gps if you are in a field where you actually need to have that accurate time you have fail over and multiple sources over multiple media. Spoofing gps will fuck with the "little" players that can't really afford to play.
Also, many power grids are reliant on GPS to synchronize power plants to keep the power in-phase.
This is true but it's not only GPS - it's the whole array of GNSS and associated tech.
Modern receivers SHOULD be using whatever GNSS is in view, including Galileo, QZSS, GPS, Beidou, and GLONASS. They SHOULD be internet connected to get authentication and trust certificates.
However, there are 10 billion pieces of GNSS receivers out there, so not all of them are modernized.
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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…
They're all susceptible to the same attack.
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