that, or have to spend like an emperor. Or a French king, but neither was a guarantee without the army ...

Radio Free whatever only works if you have a safe place to broadcast from, your enemy cannot reach. Which the rebels didn't have as they relied on hiding and running fast when the Empire managed their hiding places.

It's probably more like the 90s-early 00s post-Soviet, or post-Yugoslav countries. The majority is poor, and relies on a mix of ancient tech and whatever ad-hoc solutions they could come up, whole the filthy rich can afford everything the rich westerners could.

The STAR*DRIVE rpg did it officially. FTL comms are ridiculously expensive (and only connect to one other star system), so if you're too poor, you rely on "data merchants" aka freighters which have been converted fully or partially to carry data, running either regular service, or ad-hoc contracts.

we can put everything on the blockchain ... :P

Or he thinks it's easy, just like the key rollovers real time ...

Or that it'd work after like a week of field exercises, under the "tender" care of your average enlisted...

Option C: all those bored people work out how to disable the whole system. Or it's just breaks after a week of exercises and nobody bothers to fix it ...

You don't even have to go that far. Like how they ensure that the whole system remains working out in the field, under the "tender" care of a rookie who just went through basic, and got dumped by their high school sweetheart?

Or that bored people on duty would't find a way to circumvent it?

Being good at coding doesn't mean they have an inkling about how to setup and run websites or email servers securely. It's more or less a different disciple you either learn from someone, or learn by mistakes.

Having the whole DOGE infra setup in a hurry didn't help either ...

Retrospective analysis showed that the Pinto's overall safety was the best of it's class. And some analysis using publicly available data(sales are secret), suggests that Cybertrucks already killed more people per units sold than the Pinto ...

I gathered that, and yes that's the first generation Uno. It was a pretty popular motorized soapbox over here in Europe too, until it got replaced by the Punto.

My dad had the Van edition with the 1.7 diesel as a company car. Not fast. slightly uncomfortable, but quite a lot of torque for it's size

Unless you are in LATAM, it's a motorized soapbox from the 80s. LATAM got a different design of a soapbox in the last decade.

Not the best, fastest or anything, but gets the job done.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Uno

That could be two different outage. I can see them having an undersea cable from St. Petersburg to Kaliningrad for example, that goes through Russian and international waters, and they accidentally cut that ... Or say between St. Petersburg and Vyborg, all in their own waters.

two different outage can happen at the same time. Or some funny misconfiguration ... Back in 2008-ish, Hungary had a near complete internet outage one fine Sunday afternoon, caused by someone cutting a trunk cable at the as end of nowhere ... which led to a collapse of routing infra at Budapest ...

They were green, before green was cool ...

Or as usual the whole picture was pulled out of some journos 's backside