| ▲ | Schlagbohrer 3 hours 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. |
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| ▲ | Havoc 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| >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 |
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| ▲ | sorenjan 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes, 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/ |
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| ▲ | mapt 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | How far is the horizon from the tallest antenna mast in Kaliningrad? | |
| ▲ | stef25 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | That covers most of Poland, wtf | | |
| ▲ | lenerdenator 17 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Why 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. |
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| ▲ | ponector 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No 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. |
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| ▲ | preisschild an hour ago | parent [-] | | Thats 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 35 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I'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 |
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| ▲ | rcxdude 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Jamming 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) |
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| ▲ | NoSalt an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Do you believe Putin cares who he inconveniences? |
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| ▲ | lazide 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 1) 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. |
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| ▲ | akho 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Why 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. | | |
| ▲ | Scroll_Swe 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Crazy what the Russians destroyed... (you?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nigsberg_Castle | | |
| ▲ | akho an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes, we Russians are entirely responsible for British carpet bombing. (I, of course, do not agree with the decision to demolish the remaining ruins in 1968; it could have been handled better.) | |
| ▲ | lazide an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Hey, old military installations (albeit ancient) are still a type of tourist attraction lol. Most places in Russia are hunting and fishing locations too, hah. |
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| ▲ | Thlom 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The 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 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I 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. | | |
| ▲ | u8080 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | It is like saying Detroit is military base because there are some military related buildings. | | |
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| ▲ | u8080 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It is not. I.e. there is one of the largest passenger vehicle assembly line Autotor. |
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| ▲ | q3k 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Kaliningrad is one big military base. |
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| ▲ | TFNA 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Doesn'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 an hour ago | parent [-] | | I 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. |
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| ▲ | Scroll_Swe 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| >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. |
