I think what you say is not as strong as you think it is. It only applies to limited things like due process, not necessarily all constitutional rights such as those restricting search and seizure. There is something called the "entry fiction" where people who have entered can be treated as if they are requesting entry and therefore only have the rights they would have at the border. See this podcast episode. Rights they have do include a few things like habeas corpus and due process, but, as I understand it, not things like freedom from search or right to silence or freedom from indefinite detention. And, as others point out, currently federal law enforcement is even ignoring many of those rules or massively abusing them.

Now I think the entry fiction is an incorrect interpretation of the U.S. constitution and should not exist, but my understanding is that it is the current functioning precedent of law in the U.S. Among other things this is the hole through which the current administration is trying to create its police state - if they claim someone entered the country without authorization, the entry fiction kicks in and they can detain them effectively indefinitely. And how exactly does one go about proving one did not enter without authorization while sitting in detention? And there is no one phone call required in this type of detention. You're just gone. This is happening to people right now. Someone else has to notice the person disappeared.

Iâ(TM)m aware of long-lived companies who got advised to: sell off then lease back their real estate, reduce cash on hand myriad ways, changing buying habits (so inventory value on the books plunges), etc. Literally, theyâ(TM)ve been coached to eliminate every bit of those decades of reserves.

When a bad thing happens, the company dies.

I use Firefox + uBlock Origin , on Linux as well as Android.
No ads in YouTube at all ...

And there is a bonus: videos continue to play, even when the tab isn't the on that has focus. Handy for listening to music, while reading.

Drupal's code used to be self hosted by the Drupal Association using plain Git and some custom code wrappers.

But that changed a couple of years ago, where Drupal is now self hosted on an instance running Gitlab.

You can even see the Gitlab logo on the code's page.

I think the Mars thing has always been Musk's social hack to both force humans to expand beyond Earth and make him a lot of money. Step 1: build the only private rocket company that can send humans to Mars; step 2: strand a bunch of people there; step 3: effectively forcing the government to pay you gobs of money to save them. This moon thing seems like a similar scheme that is just slightly less ambitious, or just another step added to the beginning to get the government to fund a larger chunk of your startup costs. The thing to keep in mind is that once you can move tons of cargo to the moon, you can pretty much put it anywhere in the solar system. It is getting out of Earth's gravity well that is the challenge. Besides the making him rich part, it really is a big step forward toward genuine spacefaring.

I think it is also worth keeping in mind that the budget to do any of this still small compared to what the US spends on the military all the time.

How does 40 NVMEs fit in one PCIe bus?
Or are they connected over another interface thar is slower, then into PCIe.
Can someone knowledgeable answer this?

AI-Native you say?
Oh, I see ... you mean hype-compliant.

Also reminiscent of blockchain hype ...

Remember when a tea company added blockchain to its name and its stock soared 200%?

Later, they were investigated and charged by the SEC.

This is definitely a sign of the current bubble (LLMs).

And some of us do remember ...

For example when a tea company added blockchain to its name and its stock soared 200%?

Later, it was investigated and charged by the SEC.

Just like Pets.com in the dotcom era.

2. Those who don't give a damn about ethics at all and make no bones about it.
...
People who don't give a damn aren't really a problem either, since in a world populated by mostly good people, they'll ultimately be shamed and marginalized or end up in jail.

Or, they get elected president, twice ... destroy the economy, country's reputation, and start a war they can't end.

Totally agree with you ...

But it is not only libraries, there are other factors at play, me thinks ...

Developers don't have a culture of being economical with resources.
It is not taught, nor do first jobs they get care about those aspects.
For example, don't get me started on the infinity scroll which eats up RAM like crazy, rather than a pager of Next/Previous page.

There are also the layers involved, specially with web development.
It used to be HTML only, then CSS was added, then Javascript was added for certain smarts.
Then whole frameworks were invented and used for JS.

Anyway, there is no easy way out of this.
Maybe RAM shortage will compel developers to use RAM sparingly?
Nah, that is a pipe dream ... unfortunately.

But how much of that is paying for the case and power supply?

Didn't get what you meant there.

NUCs usually come with a case and a power supply.

I bought one a couple of months and it came with those, as well as RAM.
It didn't have any storage though, because it was from a corporation, and didn't want to risk selling SSDs with data on them.

Raspberry Pi's are the right fit in specific cases.
For example, you need to interface the GPIO pins to some devices.

But there are issues with it in other cases.
For example, the cost rises as you include accessories, such as a case, fan, various hats, and so on.

If you just need a low(er) power x86 platform to run a stock Linux distro, then plain mini PCs or older models of Intel/ASUS NUCs will fit the bill nicely.

You can get a 2018 NUC for ~ $100 or so.

They already come with M.2 slots, and some have SATA connectors.
They have SODIMM slots so you can upgrade RAM later if you want.

Running Xubuntu or Ubuntu Server is a breeze.

The first steps to real human space usage are: (1) building a prototype centrifugal habitat in low Earth orbit, and (2) building remote operated vehicles to mostly replace EVAs. (1) is necessary to determine what gravity is needed for humans to be able to live off-Earth for longer than a year without debilitating health consequences. It's unlikely that the moon's gravity will be enough for this, but maybe mars is, or maybe not. The cheapest way to figure this out is not to build a moon or mars colony first. Seems like it would make a lot more sense to know the health effects of moon gravity before planning the structure of a long-term moon installation. As for (2), using EVA for essentially all external maintenance, as is done on the space station, is not viable for accomplishing large amounts of work in space. Having humans present locally to operate the ROV is a big plus, however putting those humans in space suits just doesn't make sense. Just to have gloves that a human can squeeze without excessive fatigue, the person has to go through a lengthy decompression-recompression protocol. This is not viable for efficient and effective everyday work. Suited humans likely have their place, but most maintenance should be done by ROVs, just like it is done on deepwater installations on Earth.

Until these two things are on the agenda, manned spaceflight seems to be just a vanity project targeted at space tourism (short-term visits) or showing up other nations. (Note that the push for effective, affordable heavy lift is separate and has many other benefits outside manned spaceflight.)

Some background from personal use of Astral's products ...

Astral makes a tool called uv, for Python.

It offers one solution to an important problem in the Python ecosystem.
Certain projects require certain versions of Python.
You may end up with two projects that you need on the same machine, but with different Python versions.

For example, you want to run Home Assistant and AppDaemon.
Using uv, you can have two separate virtual environments (venv) each with its own version of Python.

It is also lightning speed for pip.

So it replaces venv and pip in one go.

Home Assistant recently dropped regular user support for it being run from PIP or uv, so I moved to Home Assistant under docker.
But for developers, doing a git clone, then using uv is still very helpful.