Just wanna state that this has been going on since before US involvement. Two dictatirs fighting each other…
you can feel their liberation. thanks, US. good guys btw.
I think the US president threatening to wipe the entire country of Iran off the map is a bigger story.
when authoritarians fight, the people lose
ITT: people posting on the internet about something they found out about from the internet saying that an authoritarian regime shutting down the internet because the people under that regime were using it to coordinate resistance efforts is not so bad
sorry, i’d take y’all a lot more seriously if you were having that conversation over ham radio
For future reference, any time you want to coordinate some sort of resistance or even protest, the leadership should get on Meshtastic, MeshCore, or some other equivalent. Encrypted mesh communication over radios. The radios are fairly inexpensive starting at around $40.
absolutely. you need to own the infrastructure of the network
And the fact that it’s a mesh so theoretically it should be easy to avoid a single point of failure. If one person with one gets arrested or otherwise silenced, the network stays up. Probably need a way to rotate keys though.
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I say we shouldn’t take any platforms “seriously.”
This platform is small and open and hosted by volunteer individuals. That is what makes it nice for most of us, but it also means there will always be a variety in who you interact with and it will never be a consistent homogenous branded product.
The huge corporate platforms kind of flip that - you get a massive user base and a very intentionally designed user experience, but everything else about it is a nightmare.
I know a few Iranian people who are studying in my university in Italy and they are all Zionist… I understand that living in a dictatorship is bad but bro you can’t justify a genocide just because you want to dress up more revealing holy shit bro
A good chunk of the Iranian diaspora are the old supporters of the monarchy. Under the Shah Iran and Israel were allies. Also a lot of Iranians are strongly racist against Arabs. The fact that a lot of Arabs killed family members, when Iraq invaded them in 1980 and an eight year long bloody war followed, certainly does not help.
Not saying Israels genocide is a good thing, but the Iranian diaspora is probably a bad gauge to judge Iran by.
basically if someone flees a revolution and goes to live in a western country, they’re the worst scum in the world. they seethe with hatred for their former countrymen and they want nothing more than to be placed in power by a US invasion, to put their boots back on the necks of the peasants once again. Not only should you not listen to them, you should be actively hostile to them. If the war causes a global famine (via fertilizer shortages) and it comes to it, you should eat them.
Boo on you for fucking with Yanni’s rape dog training service!
Reddit just banned me for a harmless comment…and I’m pissed… anyone wanna talk about this?
You’re not alone. I got banned for wishing a missile strike on Putin…
noooo you got banned for calling for war crime?
First time?
Is it a war crime to attack the military leader? I kind of doubt that. Military targets are fine under international law.
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Reddit sucks. They have “bent the knee”.
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Just make a new account man its so easy. Im only here cause I got tired of making new accounts.
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You know, i think i might learn how to set up ad hoc networks to prepare for this sort of thing. I know its essentially wartime there now, but without internet, its harder to transmit the truth from the eyes of the civilians. Fucking sucks whats happening there. Repressive government, but filled with people who simply want a life free of the conflict, the endless battles, various ethnic groups simply wanting freedom from those who have invaded and partitioned their people.
This cant end well. . .
FYI, the old Linksys 54Gs can TRX packet radio over HAM frequencies.
couple it up with a LORA wan and you would have a pretty robust communication network.
They can track signals of said adhock networks. It’s unfortunately not that good preparation
would WPA3 and pre-shared keys not be enough? If every endpoint is scanning for malware, using host based firewalls, monitoring access logs and activity, it could be possible no?
Approximately 0.1 years out of 3 billion years, truly a crisis. Precisely what people occupied themselves with for 3 billion years before the internet existed we may never know. Some claim they spent quite considerable time as single cell organisms, then multicellular aquatic organisms, until the species reached it’s apogee, a flabby orange real estate pedo fraudster.
That’s a stupid time frame. Wouldn’t be so bad except nearly everything relies on the Internet now. Especially information.
lots of prepper fetishist weirdos in this thread who seem to think anyone who thinks electricity, plumbing, and internet is normal are ‘weak’.
because apparently if we were ‘strong’ we would all be hunting animals and coking their carcasses over fires and sleeping outside… and communicating via smoke signal… lol
Can I coke with you?
Survival of the fittest, but unfortunately for all things earthly, for a brief period of time the fittest inexplicably turned out to be an orange blob of shit, jeopardizing any further evolution for all species.
There are some in the govt with whitelisted SIM cards and dissidents with starlink dishes but that’s it. Most Iranians are trying to get out of the country to get internet access at a risk.
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I heard about it on npr
Pretty sure North Korea does not have internet.
They absolutely have internet.
It’s just state controlled. So basically a national child safety lock. But they 100% have access the internet.
A nationwide intranet isn’t internet.
They do not. They have intranet. No access to oversea servers.
Some may do, but that’s obviously not for 99% of people.
Would they be able to also block or detect i2p traffic?
I2P traffic isn’t that difficult to detect or block, mainly because bootstrapping a node requires connecting to known reseed servers. They can block those reseed servers and your node would never be able to connect to the network.
Oh they certainly do and pop up in our hosting logs. The main one is a /22, so not very large at all, like a small ISP
Certain people in Iran also can access the internet to hack Western infrastructure, etc.
By your logic Iran’s internet hasn’t been blacked out either because politicians there can still post announcements on Twitter.
We weren’t talking about Iran? All infrastructure is hacked on a daily basis, weird propaganda post though.
It does but not for ordinary citizens. And it wouldnt be a shutdown since the Internet isn’t normally available.
What else are you pretty sure about?
Blue cheese is gross
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If i tried 1 that would change my mind, which 1?
So, there is some good in a bad situation.
Well, they’re kinda busy right now getting bombed so I don’t think it’s a priority now.
Like, sure, at first the blackout was due to repression, yes. But then after a while these two countries started bombing the crap out of Iran, so now it’s a slightly different situation.
Let’s imagine you have two crackheads smashing your front door: are you gonna be worried about fixing the internet at that very moment?
The Internet isn’t broken it’s turned off
The reason its turned off was because of protests.
But now they get to blame the US for everything.
Protests armed by the US, per Trump
What does my second sentence say, friend?
What does their first sentence say, friend?
What does panda_abyss last letter of their first sentence + second letter of the second to last word of their first sentence + the third letter of the third to last word of their second sentence + the fourth letter of the fourth word of the first sentence say, friend?
feck?
“terned”?
you guys are aware trump has already admitted to arming dissidents over there, right?
They always do this untill they decide to turn on them.
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And if there’s one thing you can rely on: we aaaaalways turn on you.
Unless you’re Israel.
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mujahideen flashbacks
Remember when we armed “Syrian Rebels” and then a few years later had to go and fight a suspiciously well armed ISIS?
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you guys are aware he’s a serial liar that can’t be trusted?
that’s a common us strategy though.
Lying about fuckin’ everything? Agreed.
AND sponsoring color revolutions and rebels everywhere, yes, both are really common.
color revolution
Oh god.
yes, it’s quite awful.
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Gives the regime a nice scapegoat to help turn the protestors anger at the US and external factors.
The smart thing would have been for the US to quietly back the revolution and provide them with support to overthrow the regime. But here we are.
it likely wont happened as they likely quashed the protests with tons of executions, plus they can just turn of the internet to prevent them from organizing further. they did with the murder of the little iranian girl years ago, there wasnt significant pushback since.
Trump said they tried this by routing them weapons through the Kurds and the Kurds just kept the weapons.
Weird, I wonder why the people Trump left to die less than a decade ago don’t want to help him out??
Art of the Deal ladies and gentlemen!
Hey! Whoa! That’s not fair to claim that trumps book and the bussiness style employed in that book relates to this situation! That’s totally an unfair thing to say! After all, the guy who wrote that book has nothing to do with the way trump does bussiness!
“i gave weapons to people desperately fighting for survival to give to people desperately fighting for survival. when the didn’t enact my vision, i threw a tantrum”
what a fuckin’ loser
At this point, the shutdown might even be strategic, to make it more difficult for the us to gather leaked information
…and keep US propaganda and tech Oligarchs out. Any nation that doesn’t control its information borders, risk ‘regime change’ by the US regime…
Or the Russian regime. Or at this point the combination.
Would your country like to join the Internet borg?
hybrid warfare baybee! the northern empires are real good at it! it’s just mass media manipulation from the 1930s only this time again
The Internet might just be the only way to call for help.
I lived half of my life without the internet. They’ll probably be happier.
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Omg that reminds me the fries used be so much better.
Those fries didn’t have an internet connection, that’s why.
There’s still good fries, just not at shitty fast food joints.
and people bitch and whine that they are 5 bucks, not 50 cents.
Fuck heise
That article reads like a ChatGPT summary, though I’m not sure if that’s partially due to translation from German or not.
