I got a report that this article is paywalled but am not seeing a paywall here. Is anyone having issues?
I can’t read the article, first paragraph gives a subscription scroll over popup.
I mean, my local server is the backup plan.
I can game for days without food or water and only need to emerge to forage like once a week.
Perhaps even visit the local market for fresh memes, but thats it.
I have like 800gb of memes I’ve saved like currency over the years.
Please give me a torrent so I can download culture too. 👌
I have every GB, GBC and NES game ever on a HDD, so don’t worry about me either.
Oh, right, forgot about the golden era of (Linux) handheld emulators. All the games you mentioned on each one.
The moment every hoarder with a home PLEX-server and an overflowing NAS has been waiting for.
Hell yeah come watch if you bring food.
The EU could also supply Ukraine with weapons, which could destroy Russias entire electricity grid, oil refining capacity, gas network and key pieces of its transport infrastructure. However there is no need to be loud about it, since everybody knows that is true.
It cant. Russia can’t. And there is no such thing as “The internet” there are many many different parts of it. This is just another version of “wE hAVe NuKes”
They can knock out huge sections. Most of the Middle East was taken offline some years ago with only one cable cut. The old redundant Internet of the Cold War is long gone even within the US. Most of the rest of the world never had redundancy to begin with.
they’re quite capable of taking out the satellite portion….
see also: Starfish Prime… weird how you just replied to the title of the article without reading it…
then we have no constraints - even moral - left to prevent us from destroying the ocean floor cable communications of our enemies,
they’re talking about cutting ocean floor cables…
and
In recent months, Russia has been accused of interfering with GPS navigation systems, causing havoc on commercial airline routes. As a result, flights from Helsinki to Tartu, Estonia, ground to a halt for a month in April.
nothing about nukes.
Technically they could down satellites, but thats nither the entire internet nor is it a good idea for themselves. Doing that would make it increasingly harder to operate any satellite in orbit due to the prices left behind, they don’t just fall down, its a gigantic shotgun cloud aiming for other satellites.
Also Russia is kinda using GPS themselves lol.
Furthermore there is the European Union or rather Esa made Galileo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation) GNSS is a backup for GPS (and even more accurate lol).
They do technically have nukes as well. Doesn’t mean using them is anywhere near reasonable or beneficial…
And i said its like “we have nukes” its a empty threat not literally we have nukes, you could use nukes to destroy the internet as a total. But that would cost everyone’s life.
undersea cables… the threat was about cutting undersea cables….
stfu, nobody said the entire internet….just read the article before trying to debunk the title….
Undersea Kabels wouldn’t really matter, it would impact the transfer rate/ping between usa and EU but it wouldn’t kill the internet.
Also most of these cables are very deep in the ocean and relatively small and very hard to find and where they are not deep (at the ends) there is heavy monitoring. Furthermore the locations of these cables are not publicly available. Finding them without the location data is like trying to find a specific grain of sand on a beach, its possible, but not very likely at best.
Btw, no reason to be so mad lol
Given Russia’s massive hard-on for spy activities, there is a near 100% chance they have mapped it out completely.
It still doesn’t matter, as the internet is Russia’s best weapon by far. They’re not going to change that anytime soon.
Oh no… I can’t do my job without Internet… please don’t do this… /s
Ah jeez that’d be terrible. I’d probably have to stay home because nothing in society would be working. Then to pass the time I’d have to do things like reading the books I’ve been dying for time to read or finally getting to my collection of handheld consoles and emulators.
Might even have to have a glass of wine to calm my nerves from the stress.
How are you planning to get the wine when every store is closed, and your credit card doesn’t work?
Yeah, it’s really disheartening that instead of simply going back 30 years and making them back in a decade or two, we’d probably fall all the way into the 1200s because of all the mass hysteria and chaos.
When I was a kid and power went out, cashiers would whip out their calculators and process stuff my hand. Now they just shut the whole store down.
Yea, same for the mess with Crowdstrike, there are few failsafes (some plces sorted things in paper), the most important being whatever social goodwill there is between people stick it out and figure the problem out.
From the cellar.
Can I come over?
All are welcome, but you may be forced into a D&D campaign. And you must accept my voices.
Nobody needs to force me to roll up a new character and start a campaign!
Russian warfare is 90% cyber these days. They troll, hack, spy and attempt to influence elections using the internet. Are they really going to cut off their ability to engage in those activities? It’s like saying they will blow up their own weapons factories if people don’t start catching their bullets.
They did waste vast amounts of own men and material when deciding to enter Ukraine to take a quick “short stroll” that somehow now already takes over 900 days. Wouldn’t be the first time they shoot themselves in the foot proper.
The foot keeps getting in the way.
Well, let them try. It’s unlikely to result in anything more than a temporary disruption and as a result a lot of current shitty practises would need to be improved so I see that as a net positive.
Russia is full of shit
What degree of aggression against the EU would spur the EU into action?
Russia already can’t take over Ukraine. It would not be able to fight on more fronts, and certainly not against a strong EU with many more resources to spare.
Cyberwarfare and individual assassinations, sabotage, and disinformation campaigns were not enough yet. The EU is patient, because there’s nothing to win. But the invasion of Ukraine showed that the EU can suddenly and significantly oppose Russia when certain lines are crossed.
Surely, it’s in the interest of Russia both as preparation, but in large part to try to unsettle the EU, mainly its citizens. Much like it tried with Nuke warnings. GPS disruptions across borders. Gas and oil cutoffs. Blocking Ukraine food exports. Etc etc.
Do they wish all their cities were glassed? Because that’s how you achieve that.
If they take out the internet, they lose their biggest manipulation tool. As if that’d ever happen…
