MAYDAY from the airwaves: Belarus begins a death penalty purge of radio amateurs

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• CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fucking insane, and very sad.

  I recall that during the cold war, US intelligence agencies were worried that American hams might be sending secrets to amateurs in the USSR. They commissioned some report and the findings were basically “The only thing these nerds talk about are signal reports and radio equipments”.

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  • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Step 1. Buy PC
    Step 2. Connect to Internet
    Step 3. Open terminal
    Step 4. Ping, speed test, trace route, and cURL all day to see if you’re still connected
    Step 5. Join a community and ask other users what equipment they’re using to ping, speed test, trace route, and cURL

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Holy shit, that’s grim. I was waiting for something to tell me it was satire. It is not.

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  • tankfox@midwest.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Belarus is a simple sock-puppet for russia. This is certainly an attempt to muffle the first shots of the expansion of the ukraine war into nato.

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    • deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Cutting down the international communication lines usually means incoming internal purge. But with belarus, I’m surprised there are still people left to purge…

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Holy fucking shit.

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