Reminds me of Roger Boisjoly who desperately objected to launching space shuttle Challenger in cold weather. Managers struck again that day.

Please add a single line of description of the software for those who don’t know. The name gives no clue.

I get the reference. But coincidentally, the Apollo I accident was related to the same. (RIP Ed White, Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom)

They should have thought of redundancy for the HLS. For one, you have a space fuel depot with cryogenic boil off that has to be refilled by multiple (at least 12?) starships. And then you have a slender long full rocket stage that has to land vertically on soft and unprepared lunar regolith. For some reason, my engineering instincts are revolting just at the thoughts of it.

This is exactly what was predicted as the result of corporate surveillance and targeted ads. They are part of schemes to extract more revenue from you. Another example is the rising premium for health insurance. But people apparently had “nothing to hide”!

See, they say the Earth’s magnetic field is gradually getting weaker, and they’re not entirely sure why. So of course they’re doing lots of research into all sorts of theories as to why.

Weakening of the geomagnetic field is due the pole reversal that happens periodically over time. It’s bad news, but not catastrophic.

Well have they considered that over the past century, humans have wrapped lots of the planet with degaussing coils? We call them power lines…

I seriously doubt that the whole of humanity’s electric infrastructure is powerful enough to interfere with the colossal magnetohydrodynamic dynamo at the core of the planet.

I’m skeptical about this report though. The magnetosphere extends way beyond the atmosphere where the space junk burns up. And most metal fragments reach the surface. The metal dust that may remain suspended in the ionosphere doesn’t have the ability to block the magnetic field (the ionosphere already has a distinct sodium layer). All that aside, there are tonnes of metallic meteoroids entering the atmosphere every day without any issues.

The other reports I’ve seen suggest damage to the ozone layer and ionosphere due to rocket exhaust during the ascent.

Voyager’s computers may be no match for what we have today, but they were sturdy as hell.

Protecting the commons is something that is opposed by everybody with the means to exploit it. And they are the ones paying the salary of the governments. Even worse, orbital space isn’t the only commons under that threat.

There are reports that say that frequent rocket launches can damage layers in the upper atmosphere that are crucial to our survival.

Honey, the REAL answer is such tech ALREADY EXISTS! Your cynical snark doesn’t make you smart or right. It just makes you one ignorant fellow. I’m not even going to bother answering you, because you aren’t here for answers. You are here to insult, annoy and pick a fight with strangers. Go look for it elsewhere.

The latter - targeting from ground. While that sounds daunting, it’s already possible. Sats can aim data laser beams at other sats at even higher relative speeds.

Beam decoherence is a pretty big problem when you are lasering through the entire atmosphere, and both scenarios require an astounding degree of precision.

Beam coherence is the only problem with targeting sats from the ground. But remember, these sats come with big telescopes to collect as much light as they can. It may not take a lot of radiative flux to overload their sensors. I wonder how much it will take to completely fry them.

I wonder how much laser power its sensors can withstand.

This is just the first step at making protests illegal.

You’re right of course. But just to add - ‘reproducible builds’ is an ongoing attempt to make hash comparisons practical.

I’m aware of FTP. It’s still around in certain circles. But for a moment I thought that there was some sort of integration between ftp and git. I guess not.

No. I mean gitdirectory over FTP.

You won’t be able to contribute to a project on any of those instances, unless you register on it. So if you are a prolific contributor, you might end up signing up on dozens of those instances.

Forgefed is a federation protocol for such instances. It’s based on ActivityPub - the same that powers Lemmy and Mastodon. You can have just one account on a single instance and still be able to contribute to projects on multiple others. It’s still in the works though. It’s expected that at least gitlab, gitea and forgejo will support it.

Get one of those cheap thin-client or micro-ATK type desktop, install as a server and move your online services there. Too bad this isn’t that popular yet.

The forgefed spec itself is a work-in-progress. Not yet ready for a proper implementation.