CNN Exclusive: 'How am I in this war?': New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire's Ukraine dilemma | CNN Politics
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Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”

of course he was afraid of russian nuukes. this only prompted Ukrainian engineers to bypass use of starlink entirely and current sea drones, like the one used in second Kerch bridge strike, or these used against SIG tanker and Olenegorsky Gornyak landing ship use domestic technology only

    • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      lemmy is the mastodon of the threadiverse in that it invents a standard and expects everyone to follow it and because it’s the largest of it’s type you can’t really do anything about it

      i bet what’s going on is that kbin is attaching images in the mastodon/microblog way and lemmy expects inline markdown images and doesn’t try to extract the attached images.

      (fun fact: lemmy custom emojis are just “macros” for markdown images and not real emojis like the rest of the fedi standardized on (which is how you get things like the hexbear problem of remote emojis being gigantic))

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        lemmy has a lot of questionable design decisions, and the justifications I’ve seen for them on GitHub have very frequently been disappointing

        on the other hand, it’s a lot easier for me to understand and modify lemmy’s rust-based stack than it is for me to comprehend the PHP kbin is written in, which is a big part of why this instance ended up with lemmy

        with that said, holy fuck am I looking forward to contributing to a lemmy fork with better development priorities one of these days

        • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          i’d love to take a peek at a “glitch-soc for lemmy” but not that many people seem keen enough to fork and take on the responsibility of maintaining the jank.

          that said i know of at least 2 instance specific forks (pawb.social’s and programming.dev’s), yet neither of them seem to have produced anything worthwhile just yet.

          • self@awful.systemsEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            I’m in a similar boat. ours is also a minor instance-specific fork, though trying to get our changes upstreamed is on my todo list (as are more changes — it’s kind of amazing how threadbare lemmy’s mod tools are, when a lot of them wouldn’t even be hard to implement)

    • downpunxx@kbin.social
      26·
      1 year ago

      not a fan of lemmy, probably having something to do with the fact it’s namesake was a man who owned the largest personal collection of nazi memorabilia for years until he died, so, tough titty i guess

        • CluckN@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          I also heard he named it Lemmy because whenever he saw a litter of kittens he’d strap on his steel-toed boots and go, “Lemmy at them”.