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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2019 09:49:26 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
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   ♲ @szbalint@x0r.be: Reminder: within 5-8 years we’ll have low earth orbit isps covering most of the globe.
   
   OneWeb, Starlink (SpaceX) and Amazon are all in the manufacturing/launch phase for their hundreds-of-satellites orbital constellations.
   
   The practical impact is that in a few years most people in most countries will acquire the ability to use an american ISP.
   
   This will have quite a large impact in various countries.
   
   With electricity, some payment method and no govt jamming, internet worldwide

   1. Zordon (Linux Walt) (zordon@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2019 14:43:23 EDT Zordon (Linux Walt)

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      @clacke Can you imagine what the satellite lag will do to all these "load a ton of JS then let the JS load the site itself" sites? They're likely to be unusable.

      1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2019 20:45:10 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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         @Zordon (Linux Walt) Maybe the ubiquity of these networks will actually make people fix that. 😀