DDG and Kagi and Brave are also bullshit due to AI.

FreeBSD is also free software as defined by the FSF. ZFS is too.

When were you born?

They were a membership organization run by 3 universities.

I agree. Sadly, software engineering is not engineering. Nobody, out side of safety critical systems, analyses the program structure and makes valid correctness claims for it as part of their quality process.

Software is at a stage that architecture went through before structural engineering really became widely adopted towards the back end of 19th century.

While we have pretty good tools these days that could do formal verification of our software, the process is incredibly time consuming. Moreover, all formal verification can ever do is show conformity to the specification. The specification can, of course, still be wrong. The move from the informal world of business to the formal specification of a system leaves a lot of room for mistakes.

How does a buyer of software know whether one piece of software is higher quality than another? Is there any real way for them to independently judge the quality of the code in most purchases?

My final thought to reflect on is that acceptable quality is enough quality and for most users that is reached fairly quickly. People will tolerate software that is really quite buggy. Games developers are actually giving us relatively deep insight in to that part of the economics. They still make money shipping games that are basically broken.

This point about game development is quite illuminating I think. The reason that most software is quite buggy is fundamentally an economic question - not an engineering question. Generally speaking, people are not prepared to pay for quality. They want enough quality that the software isn't a false economy - and we as an industry largely supply software of that quality.

ESP-32 is about twice the $4 price.

The problem is that keys used today are weak - and the ones used in the past even weaker.

In 2030 it will be trivial for a nation state to forge an email sent in 2020 that matches today's DKIM, and for a bedroom hacker to do it for an email sent in 2010.

Encryption that we tend to use is good enough for now - but not for 20 years time. In the 2032 election when Donald Jr is dukeing it out with Ocasio-Cortez, it will be easy for Russia, China, Nigeria, or probably even 4chan, to fake some SKIM signed emails from 2016 showing they actually planned to secretly take over the country in a Kang vs Kodos way.

He also mentions "In 2018, the Associated Press used it once again to verify leaked emails tying a Russian lawyer to Donald Trump Jr."

Literally the sentence before.

Your bias (and that of slashdot) is showing. He's not being partisan, but you are

But was it protected? Did they have lights or ladders or people just outside the 4:3 safe part which were cropped out in post? I believe that was a key reason TNG couldn't be done widescreen (sure you can recreate widescreen CGI, but while the actual film may have been available 16:9, it wasn't filmed 16:9 safe.

It's one of these things I find online, especially talking to Americans, is this desire to believe in any wild conspiracy theory that crosses their mind.

A vast conspiracy within the Democrats to deliberately turn off their own power to hurt Trump's re-election chances is just laughable. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Who did it? How? and Why? I'm not convinced your why is good enough.

Between 160,000 dead American and him saying "it is what is" - he doesn't need a giant conspiracy to take him down. He can do that all by himself.

It's a survation poll, a reputable polling company. The questions asked, and the answers, are at https://okfn.org/about/press/r... and the linked sheet

The only thing OKF had to do with it was setting the questions. Now that in itself can be very powerful (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA), but here they didn't get the answers I think they wanted so if they were trying to rig the poll, they didn't do a very good job

Wouldnâ(TM)t it take a little more due to oberth effect of burning at GEO rather than LEO?

The 1500m/s is to do the uncontrolled crash and burn - hitting atmos at thousands of metres a second.

You might get a slightly more efficient (1300?) if you burn into a lunar free return trajectory if everything lines up, someone who has a clue may know more.

No. From geostationary orbit, it is significantly easier to escape into space

It's about 4.3km/sec at GEO isn't it, so a delta-v of about 1300m/s, not much less than 1500m/s back to earth? Or am I remembering figures wrong?

Of course some would enter a lower orbit, the amount of energy needed to get them to LEO or start getting drag from the atmosphere from GEO is about 1.5km/s.

Sure, it would only need about 10-15m/s for some debris to get down to GEO from graveyard, but the risk is obviously less in graveyard than leaving it in GEO.