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A Ukrainian soldier puts it more starkly. “Starlink is our oxygen,” he says. Were it to disappear “Our army would collapse into chaos.”

Quite worrying that such critical infrastructure is in the hands of one person. Especially that person.

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/01/05/how-elon-musks-satellites-have-saved-ukraine-and-changed-warfare

How Elon Musk’s satellites have saved Ukraine and changed warfare

And the worries about what comes next

The Economist
Formatting: There's no text formatting in toots. At least I haven't found anything. However, given the nature of #mastodon, I guess there might be clients that support markdown formatting by interpreting **bold** and *italic* and displaying it appropriately. Is anyone aware of a client that does this?
Formatting: There's no text formatting in toots. At least I haven't found anything. However, given the nature of #mastodon, I guess there might be clients that support markdown formatting by interpreting **bold** and *italic* and displaying it appropriately. Is anyone aware of a client that does this?
Clients: There are several options of clients you can use for #mastodon. I'm currently using #tusky. I like the optics and the fact that it's open source software.
https://tusky.app/
Tusky - Mastodon client for Android

Tusky is a lightweight Android client for Mastodon, a free and open-source social network server.

tusky.app
As I'm new to #mastodon, I've decided to create a thread with my learnings. Maybe some other some others can benfit from that as well...
Are private messages on #mastodon actually end-to-end encrypted? That is: Are there any guarantees that only the sender and receiver of the message can read its content?