The messages of fear that trickled out while Gaza was disconnected
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A connectivity blackout on Saturday meant people could not contact friends, family or even ambulances to help the injured.

A connectivity blackout means people cannot contact friends, family or even ambulances to help the injured.

  • Kalkaline @leminal.space
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    11 months ago

    Are there internet-like protocols where you can daisy chain transmission of text and pictures from device to device over WiFi or Bluetooth? Seems like we see these situations pop up fairly frequently and there would be some value in being able to spread communications that way without an ISP.

    • Silverseren@kbin.socialOP
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      11 months ago

      Hopefully so. Most of what we’ve been able to see in the past 24 hours has been from people with satellite phones, which is a slow process.