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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What is this thing? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by Vupware@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This dish was erected atop a roof of a shopping center near me a few weeks ago. It’s super ominous looking and it bugs me regularly.

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[–] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago

My old apartment building in a dense city got our Internet with a setup like this. The ISP transmitted the internet wirelessly to our building and then the existing copper wire POTS cables were used to distribute it throughout the building. Pretty weird setup but I still got 200 Mbps down 🤷.