i've been getting my emotional support from strangers on the internet and fictional anime girls. cant be that hard for a hunk of metal metal.
Posts by vekkq
120 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Oct 2021
China orders trial of aged care robots that can cook, clean, and provide emotional support
Europe's cloud datacenter ambition 'completely crazy' says SAP CEO
More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user
Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success'
GlobalFoundries commits $3B more to US fabs in Trump tariff flex
AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0
'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers
Cybercrime is 'orders of magnitude' larger than state-backed ops, says ex-White House advisor
Open source text editor poisoned with malware to target Uyghur users
Tariff-ied Framework pulls laptops, Keyboardio warns of keystroke sticker shock
Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans
China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms
Re: Duh, wut?
You may have missed the whole eu chat control and other police state level surveillance plans going on. some groups in the parliament keep pushing for this stuff.
data privacy works nicely, but germany isnt really pushing open-source. governmental bureaucracy heavily depends on microsoft still.
Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel
Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud
AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that
Vodafone: Be in the office 8 days a month or lose bonuses
101 fun things to do with a locked Kindle e-reader
HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls
Re: Liars
that's a nice idea. although it fails at which it has to be proven a willful lie.
populists tend to belief in their crap, so what they are spouting may be false, but not a willful lie.
plappering out what a third party told them, feign responsibility and denying willfulness also gets around to tell false statements.
Microsoft declutters Windows 11 File Explorer in the name of Euro privacy
Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to AI's insatiable thirst
Even Windows 10 cannot escape the new Outlook
Re: I'm sorry, *what*?
They forcefully installed the new Outlook for the past half year whenever you started Windows Mail or Calendar and the second time you started Windows Mail it would quit and boot Outlook instead. You could not stop it. At best you could repeatedly uninstall Outlook.
Because of this, the rating in the Microsoft Store for the new Outlook plummeted to 2.2 of 5 . MS then edited the rating to 3.6, despite its chart still showing an overwhelming bar of 1 star ratings. Since then MS deleted the bad ratings.
Microsoft, business as usual.
I switched to a new E-Mail client and I'll be back to Linux by the end of the year.
Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032
Only 1 in 10 Oracle Java users want to stay with Big Red
Tariff uncertainty looms large over budget conscious CIOs
Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well
How Chinese insiders are stealing data scooped up by President Xi's national surveillance system
Eurocops take down 'secure' criminal chat system known as Matrix
To kill memory safety bugs in C code, try the TrapC fork
Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30
Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
Microsoft admits Outlook crashes, says impact 'mitigated'
The .io domain isn't going anywhere anytime soon amid treaty
Microsoft on a roll for terrible rebranding with Windows App
We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?
NASA swings budget axe, kills $400M+ VIPER lunar trundlebot
NASA has a contractional limited budget per project, a fixed percentage of the total NASA budget. If a project exceeds it, NASA has to trash the project.
They would have to ask congress for an exception, to save the project.
A portion of the budget was wasted on unexpected delays and as they now approach the limit, they have to scrap it.
Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage
EU grants €15M funding for ICARUS inflatable heat shield
You need a nose cone on a rocket. A cone-shaped capsule is ideal for launch and reentry.
You could argue that for a non-uniform craft, a wide inflatable shield makes more sense, but it has nothing to do with size.
You won't get around having to deal with a lot of heat. Even more heat on a wide inflatable shield. The heat has to be dumped somewhere, if not in ablative material, of which you would need even more of on a wide shield because of safety margins. The whole concept is also more risky - have you seen how often panels and chutes fail to deploy? Any moving parts are a risk. Assuming someone even tries, an inflatable heat shield for reentry on Earth is entirely impractical.
> It's a relatively simple concept. Rather than carry a hefty rigid heat shield spacecraft and rocket stages could carry an inflatable heat shield deployed from a compact container to permit components to be safely returned to Earth, or land on other planets.
This inflatable heat shield will be heavier and bulkier than existing heat shields. The only use case for an inflatable heat shield is on Mars.