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That jamming near Kaliningrad must surely be impacting the Russian residents as well, right? Unless it is very carefully aimed which seems unlikely since it is
by Schlagbohrer 5mo ago
That jamming near Kaliningrad must surely be impacting the Russian residents as well, right? Unless it is very carefully aimed which seems unlikely since it is also trying to cover a very large volume.
- q3k 5mo agoKaliningrad is one big military base.
- TFNA 5mo agoDoesn't sound like you have actually been there. Military is a major employer, but in a territory inhabited since 1944 there are generations of people born there who didn't see a reason to live, the same foreign gastarbeiter as in any Russian city, etc. I.e plenty of ordinary people who could be inconvenienced.
- lukan 5mo agoI don't think you meant it like that, but Kaliningrad, or Königsberg is inhabited since a bit longer. For example Immanuel Kant lived and taught there.
- TFNA 5mo agoObviously. But since the Russian occupation infamously expelled the natives completely, when I talk about “inhabited since 1945” in the context of people living there now, I’m obviously referring to the Russian population.
- sorenjan 5mo agoAlso the birth place of graph theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsbe...
- TFNA 5mo agoreason to leave, sorry.
- lazide 5mo ago1) with the exception of probably a few pensioners (who also depend on gov’t funding), everyone in the area is dependent on the military. It’s a giant military base in the middle of nowhere. 2) anyone not military (and hence in on it), is a pensioner or the like and won’t give a shit about GPS. This is not a thriving urban metropolis or tourist location.
- Thlom 5mo agoThe city has half a million residents and the oblast has a million residents. There's restaurants, museums, grocery stores, car dealerships, parks, zoo's, malls, stadiums, factories, train stations, an airport, ports etc etc. It's a real place.
- lazide 5mo agoI never said it wasn’t. Killeen, Texas is also a real place. How many people do you think don’t have at least a 2 degree connection to the US military? Do you think anyone there is going to think twice about going along with what the military is doing? Or could if they wanted too? And Killeen is far, far less isolated geographically.
- akho 5mo agoWhy lie? It _is_ a tourist location, with > 2mln tourists annually (for their 1 mln permanent population). It also has quite a diverse economy, with Avtotor being a major car assembler (though not quite what it was pre-war), a fishing industry, amber mining, a TV manufacturer, &c. With a significant military presence, of course, but "giant military base in the middle of nowhere" is just ridiculous.
- rcxdude 5mo agoJamming in general will affect everything using those frequencies (and potentially more besides) in a given area, so if you're using it you're weighing up the effects it'll have on your stuff as well. (early in the current Ukrainian invasion, reportedly Russian electronic warfare units were screwing up their own side more than the Ukrainians)
- Havoc 5mo ago>must surely be impacting the Russian residents as well, right? They don't give a fuck. Was watching a youtube video by a russian the other day talking about war & sanction impact and things like ride sharing apps literally say on screen the location is going to be wrong and to select pickup spot manually. It's just assumed to be fucked as a given even at an app development level
- N19PEDL2 5mo agoThey don't even have internet anymore... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr510de17jlo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr510de17jlo
- brokensystems 5mo agoBit of a reach, their internet may be restricted to a degree, but they sure do have internet... my partner calls and video calls their family back in Russia daily from half way around the world.
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- Joker_vD 5mo ago"Do not ever give up your guns", har-har. In the guerilla stage of the Second Chechen War one of the ways to deal with the insurgents who would barricade in a building was to drive a T-72 to it and fire a couple of HE shells at it. The house would fold in like, well, a house of cards; I believe there even used to be recorded footage on YT. I imagine a single fragmentation shell would be enough for an average American house. My point is, in the modern days having small firearms is not really going to help you against a government who would be willing to use its military on its own territory; you'd need automatic weapons and artillery at the very least, and a lot of foreign funding and training as well. Even then...
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- sorenjan 5mo agoYes, it's very wide spread and not carefully aimed at all. It's also not done by satellite but a ground based station. https://gpsjam.org/ https://gpsjam.org/
- stef25 5mo agoThat covers most of Poland, wtf
- lenerdenator 5mo agoWhy wouldn't it? The behavior will continue until a consequence is imposed. Not on regular Russians, mind. Their ruling class. They're still free to move about the continent, make investments, do whatever. Currently Europe seems to be more interested in breaking away from the US than dealing with the power that has killed hundreds of thousands on their own continent.
- trumpdong 5mo agoEurope seems to be interested in neither. As a rule, elites in any country are not concerned about hundreds of thousands of their citizens being killed. I have yet to be proven wrong.
- Slow_Dog 5mo agoMaybe there are reasons Europe is pulling away from the US? The current US president has threatened to invade European territory, is attempting to impose Russia's preferred "peace" plan on Ukraine, and has recently relaxed sanctions on Russia. He also consistently denigrates the military support Europe's given to the US in the recent past. The US has basically cut aid to Ukraine to zero, while Europe continues to supply them, which is currently the best way of dealing with Russia, sucking their military power into a war their not going to win.
- lenerdenator 5mo agoAnd? When the Russians invaded Georgia in 2008, Europeans inked a deal for a second gas pipeline with them, Nordstream 2. When they annexed Crimea in 2014, Europeans went to the Sochi Olympics (which happened that same year) and went to the World Cup in 2018. And this is before you take into account the dozens of smaller incidents. Those aren't "threats to invade European territory", not even ones that were ignored by the military. Those were shooting wars that got people killed and redrew the map in Eurasia. Europeans continued to do business with Russia more-or-less unimpeded until 2022. Many Russians still live, work, and do business in the Schengen area. The US Congress passed a bill to fund Ukraine this week. [0] [0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-passes-ukraine-aid-bill-full-list-of-republicans-who-backed-it/ar-AA24SELD https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-passes-ukraine...
- Scroll_Swe 5mo ago>That jamming near Kaliningrad must surely be impacting the Russian residents as well, right? Russia does not care, nor does it care about its population. Where are you from? I ask because you have western privilege, like me, and assume our governments care about its people. Why I lucked out being born in Sweden, the more I learn about the world, the more I am convinced I lucked out ahahaha.
- ponector 5mo agoNo one gives a fuck what russian residents are thinking about it. And if they start to talk about issues - police will quickly force everyone to shut up.
- preisschild 5mo agoThats true, but its also true that most russians support this war. Maybe they dont say it, but they are the soldiers in the trenches, mechanical engineers building missiles, software developers building their military software, Oil/NG workers that fund the war and so on
- M95D 5mo agoI'm sure that if you ask any of them, they would say that they don't have a choice. Same as western IT developers that continue to support the enshittification of the internet. They don't have a choice. /s
- codedokode 5mo agoThe soldiers in the trenches now are mostly recruited from convicts/suspects who want to get a pardon, and volunteers lured by large salary and bonuses, and loan repayment suspension. Most prefer to support the war from the couch.
- mbs159 5mo agoIt's more reasonable to say that the russian people tolerate the war as long as it does not impact their economic situation over a certain tolerance threshold. Almost all of the fighters from the Russian side are on paid voluntary contracts for a reason.
- NoSalt 5mo agoDo you believe Putin cares who he inconveniences?
- codedokode 5mo agoRussians got used that GPS in Moscow and St. Petersburg often shows wrong position (I did not observe it because I never enable GPS though). We also have mobile Internet shoutdowns which are more annoying than GPS spoofing.
- ifwinterco 5mo agoI’ve briefly been somewhere for a few days with significant GPS interference, and yes, basically phone navigation doesn’t work reliably. For me it was a minor annoyance while driving but presumably any apps that rely heavily on GPS (Uber, food delivery) just wouldn’t work very well or at all
- hughmungus67 5mo ago"what is GLONASS" - you
- neonstatic 5mo agoYes, it does, and they don't care, bc russian "culture" has no regard for life or people in general. Everyone and everything is expendable.
- dyauspitr 5mo agoOne of Russia’s superpowers is that they don’t give a damn about collateral damage on their own people. This isn’t just a throwaway comment I’m making this actually bears out over several decades.