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Not really. Many scenarios where that would mean spending 50x the time or hiring a team.


Maybe not weeks, but there was extensive damage and parts of Berlin went dark https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/07/europe/berlin-power-outag...


That has 0 correlation with Northstream.


Op didn’t say they were connected. They were referring to two distinct but impactful events.


The phrasing implies a connection.

I was in a major car accident, I cannot walk.

Oh the car accident was years ago, I was fine. I cannot walk because I'm seatbelted into a car driving down the road at the moment. Why would you have ever thought there was a connection?


Two examples of vulnerable infrastructure.

But afaik both are related to the same conflict.

The current hypothesis is that a left wing group triggered the outage in “protest” against Germanys involvement in the war.


It would be highly impractical to go to war with all of them at once, but USA can still fix one country at time. Venezuella, Iran, hopefully Cuba next.


Why not? It wouldn't be acceptable in any other context - like running a lawn mower that spits oil onto your neighbor's lawn.


There is a plausible scenario in which a user finds some malicious example of cli params for running your command and pasts it in the terminal. You don't have to handle this scenario, but it would be nice to.


There is a plausible scenario where a user cuts their wrist open cooking dinner. You don't have to file the edge off cooking knives, but won't you think of the children?


Kitchen knives actually do have safety features, such as non-slip handles and finger guards, which users appreciate. I certainly do. Users also appreciate safeguards in cli tools, such as not deleting all data if input happens to be slightly wrong. Sure, you could design your tool to be used exclusively by leet hackers, but the idea of sanitizing your inputs is not completely preposterous.


The most interesting data running through Starlink is Ukrainian and Russian military comms (including feeds from drones). I wonder if Musk actually plans to tap into that.


I’m going to assume that they are encrypted especially for military purposes so unless they can crack the encryption it’s useless.


"Good luck" [in Russian accent]


Bots can authenticate just as well as human users. Both bots and trolls are completely different set of issues that cannot easily be solved, regardless of your approach.


Bots can have private keys that are only issued to humans?


You will need to implement some very invasive issuing mechanism to ensure that only those with a pulse can procure new keys. Even then, keys will still be bought or stolen - as was the case with pre-Elon Twitter checkmarks.


In Europe some countries have ID cards which have a private key on it. If you report it stolen it goes into the revocation list and they issue a new ID card to you.


USA is not Russia. I don't think an order could ever be made to level a "rebellious" city, and even if it were, it would never be followed.


> How doable is it with vanilla css?

Under all of the framework complexity that specific look is still achieved with CSS. In fact, you could rip out the CSS they use with very little modification and pair it with a ~five-line React component that doesn't require any third-party imports.


Most of Ukraine doesn't need to do it. The internet infrastructure is largely intact and very decentralised. The biggest challenge is the lengthy power outages, but mobile networks keeps running thanks to generators.


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