Shot at 333 seconds exposure from CTIO's Blanco telescope (4 meters), the lines are from light pollution from Starlink satellites.
It seems that you accessed a website using Starlink or a similar mega-constellation network. Or maybe you want to understand why the service they are delivering to a few is less important than the harm they do to our societies and our environment.
We are not supporting the deployment of those mega-constellations to access the Internet:
Because they are yet another consumable. Several companies are already launching their own mega-constellation of satellites. In a few years, tens of thousands of those competing satellites (up to 42.000 for Starlink) will fly above us, their short lifespan requiring to launch thousands of new ones each year to maintain the fleet, causing important CO2 and methane emissions as well as many other environmental impacts.
Our environment, our climate and our sky are common goods. They are too precious to be privatized to bring Internet access to a few privileged humans.
I am using Starlink for [reasons] and I still want to have access to those blocked websites
Use a VPN.
How does it work?
All the private companies running those mega-constellations own a few blocks of IP (v4 and v6) ranges, we are simply blocking those IPs and redirecting them to this website.
I want to support the initiative
Spread the word on your favorite social platforms, and especially to anyone you know who hosts a website (your friend, your colleague, your sewing club, your local café, your government, etc.)
You can also contribute to the project on Github by improving the blocked IP lists or adding ways to apply this list to other hosting solutions.
How do I block Starlink & co myself?
I host websites on nginx
Put the IP blocks file in your /etc/nginx/conf.d/ directory.
Add the following code snippet to all the websites on which you want to apply the block:
server {
...
location = / {
if ($starlink_user) {
rewrite ^ https://fuckstarlink.org/;
}
}
...
}
