anachronist

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anachronist , to Technology in Elon Musk's SpaceX contracted to destroy retired space station - BBC News

The space station's orbit has been adjusted continuously over its lifetime initially by attaching a shuttle to it and doing a burn of the shuttle's engines and later doing the same with progress modules.

My bet is the original expectation of the designers was to deorbit by attaching centaurs (or whatever) to the existing docking ports and rotate the beast to the right attitude for a deorbit burn.

NASA has more recently said they want the reentry to be as steep as possible to minimize the size of the debris field, and is using that to justify the development of a new specialized deorbit vehicle. No doubt SpaceX will declare that Starship is the proper vehicle for this, and then will plow the $800 million into the Starship program. The money they got for Artemus is already long gone and Starship has failed to demonstrate key components of the Artemus plan. Dear Moon has been cancelled so NASA and Artemus are the only customers they have left. NASA knows that without a cash injection Artemus is at risk.

anachronist , to Technology in Elon Musk's SpaceX contracted to destroy retired space station - BBC News

Honestly this seems like a way to back-door inject another $800 million into the failing starship program.

anachronist , to Technology in Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ

anachronist , to Technology in Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly

Their new CEO is a McKinsey consultant so this is pretty much guaranteed.

anachronist , to Europe in New German citizens required to affirm Israel's right to exist

Hey nothing's more German than genocide amirite?

anachronist , to Technology in Tesla recalls every Cybertruck again

Last recall was also a real recall: to rivet the slipping gas pedal cover down.

anachronist , to United States | News & Politics in Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a vocal Israel critic and 'squad' member, loses primary

So I wonder how much this cost AIPAC on a per-vote basis? I suspect that might be a new record for dollars "invested" per vote received?

anachronist , to Technology in Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

The one big law about lending out digital copies of books you own is that you only lend out as many as you physically own.

That is not what the lawsuit is about, and that was not what the plaintiffs or the judge argued. Their argument is that if you can not take a physical copy and digitize it.

If you want a digital copy to lend, you must beg the publisher to allow you to have a digital copy to lend and you must accept their terms. If they don't want to provide you with a digital lending option as a library, then you can not lend it. If they want to make you use their DRM software you must use it even if it spies on your patrons and charges you per-lending fees, or even "expires" the book after so many loans, or "blacks out" or "embargoes" lending of titles you are supposed to have in your catalog (these are all features of publisher-backed digital lending schemes).

anachronist , to Technology in Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

This is depressing as hell and a statement about the time we live in and the corporate overlords who control our lives.

Jimmy McGee made a great video about it last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJoGm8c523M

anachronist , to Technology in YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes

I mean we're sitting here on the lemmyverse having a conversation..

But yeah creators should upload to peertube but they won't get any meaningful viewership there. The only way to break the network affect stranglehold google/youtube has over video content on the internet is making sure that if you do produce that content it's available via other channels.

anachronist , to World News in Nikki Haley writes ‘Finish Them!’ on Israeli bomb bound for Gaza

baby murdering killers

As opposed to Israel?

anachronist , to Ukraine in M1 "Abrams" with an anti-drone turret cage near the front line.

Yeah they were attempts to either fool the Javelin's sensor and make it fly too high or serve as improvised spaced armor to reduce the effectiveness of its HEAT round. FPV drones have much smaller HEAT rounds and a lot less kinetic energy so improvised spaced armor may be more effective.

"Cope cages" to describe improvised armor was always propaganda though. US soldiers in Iraq put improvised armor on their humvees to protect against IEDs. In WWII solders piled sandbags and spare tracks on their tanks (you can see many pictures of tanks like this). Field improvised armor is as old as warfare. Often it was not effective. For instance, tank designers in WWII thought that improvised armor reduced the chance of a ricochet, which was a serious problem with the era's AP rounds that saved a lot of tankers. Improvised armor gave the AP round something to "grab ahold of" and aid penetration.

anachronist , to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

Yeah the fediverse has lower engagement all around because the community is a lot smaller. This is especially true in "long tail" communities. However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

That being said, while I appreciate the chronological feed I do wish there was some way to "weigh" less active communities so that I can see their activity in my feed without them being drowned out by the busier communities. I've noticed that I've gone to communities that I'm definitely subscribed to, and seen that there were several posts that I missed because the posts were drowned out by content in busy communities like, for instance, technology@beehaw.org

anachronist , to Technology in Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

"Self driving cars will make the roads safer. They won't be drunk or tired or make a mistake."

Self driving cars start killing people.

"Yeah but how do they compare to the average human driver?"

Goal post moving.

anachronist , to Technology in Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand

Look up "interurban railways". Most towns east of the Mississippi used to have frequent rail service with whistle stops at every farm and crossroads. In addition to passengers these railroads also transported the harvest, Sears purchases, kit houses, even hearses!

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