• yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    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. . .

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      5 hours ago

      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.

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      6 hours ago

      They absolutely have internet.

      It’s just state controlled. So basically a national child safety lock. But they 100% have access the internet.

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          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.

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      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

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    13 hours ago

    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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    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?

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      13 hours ago

      you guys are aware trump has already admitted to arming dissidents over there, right?

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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.

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        Trump said they tried this by routing them weapons through the Kurds and the Kurds just kept the weapons.

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          Weird, I wonder why the people Trump left to die less than a decade ago don’t want to help him out??

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            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!

        • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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          17 hours ago

          “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

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      The Internet isn’t broken it’s turned off

      The reason its turned off was because of protests.

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      At this point, the shutdown might even be strategic, to make it more difficult for the us to gather leaked information

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        …and keep US propaganda and tech Oligarchs out. Any nation that doesn’t control its information borders, risk ‘regime change’ by the US regime…

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          Or the Russian regime. Or at this point the combination.

          Would your country like to join the Internet borg?

          • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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            hybrid warfare baybee! the northern empires are real good at it! it’s just mass media manipulation from the 1930s only this time again

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    That article reads like a ChatGPT summary, though I’m not sure if that’s partially due to translation from German or not.

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    … longest in world history

    the world history have appear to forget that the longest there was without internet was literally a few billion years.

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      They probably had internet in Atlantis, or something like it, so that would be a shutdown of like 20,000 years or so before it was invented again.

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      Don’t be a pendant, you know what they fucking meant.

      Edit: actually, it’s not even pedantic, it’s just wrong. Before the internet existed, there was never an internet shutdown.

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      Akshually, they have Internet, it’s just turned off.

      The Internet and infrastructure didn’t exist for billions of years, so they couldn’t be without something that didn’t exists

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      Considering Iran shut the Internet off before the us/Israel attacked due to protests, I’m not sure we’ll ever know…

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        before the us/Israel attacked due to protests

        Israel and the US aren’t attacking due to the protests. They’re attacking because Israel wants to be like Nazi Germany leading up to the world wars and the US wants to help them.

        I question whether Iran actually did this because it seems like an extremely convenient timing of events that almost perfectly mimics the “WMDs” the media harped on about for weeks before we invaded Iraq almost like they’re following the exact same playbook used in that illegal invasion.

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      It would be very odd if the US or Israel did it, because this started when Iran wanted to stop communications among citizens who were protesting the government.

      TL;DR, yes. It was Iran. It began before the attacks on Iran (back when it was Iran attacking its own people)

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        It began before the attacks on Iran

        Not true. Iranian people have been attacked by murderous US+EU sanctions killing tens of thousands of them every year for decades now. The protests were literally engineered by the US as a form of justification for the war, look at Iranian Rial exchange prices on the months before the protests. Hell, Trump literally admit a few days ago to sending weapons to the “protestors”.

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          Iran’s government has done plenty to deserve those sanctions. War is wrong no matter which side does it, and Iran is very guilty.

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            I wish you and your family never have to go through the “deserved sanctions” of the USA and EU, which together murder half a million people yearly since 1975 per latest medical research

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              saddly nobody has found a better option. Iran has had particularly evil leaders for decades. (Why is interesting history itself - but not relavant to today)

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          Sure, and Iran isn’t under a regime now, right? They shut down the internet because they didn’t like what was said over it.