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Eleven days after Ukraine's Starshield terminals started mysteriously malfunctioning,
there is still nobody in Washington who will take responsibility,
while Trump administration officials continue pointing fingers firmly at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
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Analysis: Ukraine’s Starshield access is still crippled, and no one is taking the blame
Eleven days after Ukraine's Starshield terminals started mysteriously malfunctioning, there is still nobody in Washington who wants to take responsibility, while Trump administration officials continue pointing fingers firmly at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 23 that U.S. President Donald Trump had ordered Musk on Oct. 21 to lift the restrictions on Ukraine's Starshield terminals, claiming Trump was "frustrated the system's speeds remained capped at around 100 mi

Reminder: Am Samstag hatte Instagram mitten an deren Aktionstag den #NoKings Account gesperrt.
Das zeigt, wie umfangreich die politischen Einflussmöglichkeiten solcher Konzerne sind.
Problem: Die Menschen die durch ihre Reichweite den öffentlichen Diskurs maßgeblich prägen ("Influencer"), sind in Einkommen und Identität massiv von den problematischen Monopol-Plattformen ab…

Periodic reminder for people interested in #HomeAssistant
There is a @… bot that replaces the old gup.pe home assistant bot.
Mention it in your homeassisitant posts and it will boost them. Follow it to see all the #homeasistant posts it boosts that may not normally get federated to your instance.
There’s also @… - follow that and it will automatically boost everything you post with #homeassistant without you having to remember to mention the bot.
For those who don’t know, these bots exist because when you look for a a hashtag, your server only checks the posts that have been federated to it.
In order for a message to be federated to your server, the author (or one of the people boosting it) have to be followed by someone on your server. If no one touching the message is being followed, it’ll never get federated to your server and you won’t see it.
Hashtags are great for finding messages, but only messages that were federated to your server. They don’t help message propagation, but these bots will.

#PhantastikPrompts 21.10.: Groschenromane, eine Story unter 100 Seiten – wäre das ein Format für dich?
Das sind zwei Fragen in einer. Zunächst einmal möchte ich eine Lanze für die Groschenromane brechen. Sie kriegen teils durch ihre formelhafte Handlung (besonders bei Romantik sind die Schritte präzise vorgegeben, in Richtung "der erste Kuss muss zwischen Seite 18 und Seite…

What the actual hell? Even corporate America shuts off IT access at termination. Police agencies can't figure this out? #FlockAbuse #Deflock

Cops left the force. They kept tracking people with a powerful camera network.
Police kept access to Flock’s vast surveillance system long after they left the force. Some used it to track the locations of romantic partners.

Periodic reminder for people interested in #HomeLab and #SelfHosting
There is a @… bot that replaces the old gup.pe homelab bot.
Mention it in your homelab or self hosting posts and it will boost them. Follow it to see all the homelab posts it boosts that may not normally get federated to your instance.
For those who don’t know, these bots exist because when you look for a a hashtag, your server only checks the posts that have been federated to it.
In order for a message to be federated to your server, the author (or one of the people boosting it) have to be followed by someone on your server. If no one touching the message is being followed, it’ll never get federated to your server and you won’t see it.
Hashtags are great for finding messages, but only messages that were federated to your server. They don’t help message propagation.

I keep hearing "superintelligence" everywhere now and it reminds me of Syndrome in The Incredibles: "And when everyone's super, no one will be."

Do you want a minion? (short post)
https://www.codevoid.net/ruminations/2026/09/21/do-you-want-a-minion.html

Shopware 6: I found a database snapshot command in Shopware's source, wrote half a blog post about it, then the console insisted it doesn't exist. It does — just only in one specific environment. A reminder that some Shopware services hide behind an env check you'd never think to look for.

Ancient Christian Complex Reopens in Syria After 14 Years, a War, and an Earthquake https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ancient-christian-site-reopens-in-syria-after-14-years-a-war-and-an-earthquake/