@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social#Galileo, the EU's own sovereign GPS, is relied upon by industry, every modern phone and every modern car. Yet earlier this month Galileo gave us an obscurely worded 5 day warning of a *test* that might take down the whole service. They also refused to clarify. Here I write on how during the test the satellites broadcast outdated data, and also urge the EU and EUSPA to take their users seriously. And not do such disruptive tests anymore please: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/galileos-testing-communications/
@bert_hubert “Everyone tests in production”
@adamshostack so it appears.. in a way this probably was very educational, I don't doubt that! But the communications.....
@bert_hubert @adamshostack
Sometimes it is necessary to test the production environment for possible disasters. Otherwise you are blank when shit happens.
In our company we do this every 2 months on the production environment. Checking if the diesel generators fire up in time. Killing network connection to see if the satellite backup fires up. Stopping water supply for the water cooled servers or flooding the server rooms to test the sensors. And so on.
In March, Galileo was approved by ICAO for use in aviation.
This was a Big Deal. Unlike your phone, which probably supports both Galileo and GPS (plus, maybe RU and PRC systems), avionics used GPS exclusively. Now, Garmin and others can certify gear that supports Galileo.
The US military appears not to have been amused by this EU expression of independence.
No idea what's really going on here, but it's not too hard to imagine the "test" having something to do with these things.
@lolcat we might learn a bit more in a few months. I understand official questions are being asked. The answer will likely still be vague but perhaps support the ICAO theory. Could be..
I have no special knowledge of Galileo or EU politics. Anyone else's guess about any of this is literally as good as mine.
I see that by my typical Mastodon standards, the previous toot is getting a lot of attention. ICAO approval of Galileo is good news, but it's more than likely the recent "tests" are completely unrelated. If you encounter my previous toot, read it in this context.
@lolcat @bert_hubert USA and EU are not enemies, they are actors.
They are all playing the same control games to make people think they are at odds with their neighbours.
Russia sells energy to the west but not to EU, WHO and UN they have the same control programs with CBDC and vaccine passports and biometric ID as western nations. There is no difference in the plan, just window dressing.
Look up the book/video "All wars are Bankers wars" to see how obvious it is that countries are just labels that the banking class put onto their pieces as they pit them against each other.
"The EU and NATO have respectively 27 and 32 member states, of which 23 are members of both."
@bert_hubert struck me as "software upgrade we don't know WTF will happen". I look at the calendar-and of course it's a Friday.
Nobody should upgrade on a Friday-shows unrealistic optimism that nothing will go wrong.
I like Tuesday. One day to prepare, one day to execute -and three days to recover. It also lines up for any handling any problems which take exactly 7 days to surface. Everyone who has worked with Kerberos will know about those
Even Tuesday upgrades should be announced well in advance
#software
@bert_hubert Damned straight.
@bert_hubert I just requested @fragdenstaat to add the EUSPA so I can request all relevant documents under the EU FOIA/IFG-equivalent [1]. So we will either know more in about two weeks, or at least know what „reason“ they try to use to hide behind. Their legally mandated (art. 12 of [1]) document register [2] seems awfully empty at 160 docs since 2010, with a handful for each of the last years.
[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32001R1049
[2] https://www.euspa.europa.eu/about/corporate-documents/register-of-documents?s=&field_date_value=&field_date_value_1=&year_enhanced_filter=All&field_language_target_id=All&order=field_year&sort=desc&page=0
@m @fragdenstaat from what I hear the reasons are "secret", so that is probably what they'll say.. but very interesting!
@bert_hubert @m @fragdenstaat it's always SECRET (also to be written in ALL CAPS), or at least some other classification level.