Starlink sats have enough transmit power and receive gain to use normal cellular frequencies with a normal antenna on the phone side.
You might think it's a long way to space, but a few hundred kilometres of direct line of sight to your cellphone antenna isn't that much more to overcome compared to say, 25 km to a cell tower on the ground.
The biggest hurdle was getting a few thousand satellites into orbit so that coverage and availability is there.
The ATO would know, and while they are slow, once it is raised with them if there are any legitimate issues they get there in the end. About 5 years after I left a job I got a letter out of the blue from the ATO saying that they'd chased down a quarter's worth of super payments that the business didn't pay when I left.
Perhaps not 15 years later though, but it's worth a shot.
You know what else sometimes flies low over residential areas?
737s coming in to land that are full of everyday slobs relying on two now-blinded pilots up front to get them on the ground during a critical phase of flight.
consider what happens if the actual data contains them.
Then you'd escape them by using another character in front. But if their data format is ASCII text or is guaranteed not to have characters below ASCII 32 then using ASCII delimiters is fine.
Mainly when you are building a single-purpose , "appliance" device and you have the bare minimum of RAM/storage available. You just want to get the board powered up and initialised and then jump to your application.
So you build a kernel with only the correct drivers you need, you skip initrd, you skip initscripts and (lord forbid) systemd, you just jump straight to your program, with possibly busybox available if you need debugging.
Edit: I'm talking more about building it from scratch here, not LFS. Regarding security issues, you then "only" have to deal with kernel exploits, with a limited surface as you have limited modules linked, and exploits in your application.
It's designed and implemented for copy protection. Otherwise you can design a esp32 device that includes software you've written and 15 minutes later a clone device with exactly the same software will appear on <insert Chinese electronics website here>
The doors aren't violent, they're resolute
New sign on doors:
"The door WILL close.
Puny human flesh is not an obstacle worthy of stopping the inevitable closure of the door."
You can just use a soulseek client.
However I have a build of this daemon running on a Qnap storage device, which is super handy just for ad-hoc music searches, and people can also peruse my music library 24/7.
The range just isn't there.
Apart from a few name brand food items, they generally only stock one type of item. So you don't have 5 different types of alfoil you can buy, but you can still buy alfoil.
There are phases of sleep that you pass through. Seems like you pass through the lighter ones relatively quickly and you're getting dragged awake out of a deep sleep phase.
Either give it a little bit longer (like 35-45 minutes) or try 10 minute catnaps.
Then you end up with an inbox full of drive-by spam to abuse/admin/aardvark/.. (insert dictionary here)../zack/ziggy.
Trying to, because there is no more money to continue development.
Hopefully they can pull it off and do the same as Pebble did when they released a last firmware update for their watches that allowed third party servers to be used.