It doesn't seem possible to disentangle LEO lift from missiles with rocket technology so you can understand the argument.

Same with Starlink. We just learned that the attack on the Girl's high school dorm in Luhansk last week was done with four plywood and epoxy drone airplanes with manually targeted rockets strapped to the wings. Strapped to the top of the fuselage was a Starlink mini, per analyst reports (cf. Garland Nixon stream from last night) so operators could guide the rockets into the dormitory.

Perhaps with Exodus Technology's lifters we can get away from rockets for lift. I'm rooting for their success.

Some are blaming AI targeting but that just shows Musk is hip deep in the whole kill stack. Most of his stuff is dual-use, so there is always public cover. Same can be said of NASA of course.

The biggest problem is caused by the deficiencies of legacy IPv4 and the various kludges to mitigate those deficiencies instead of using the proper solution.

Early versions of HTTP/HTTPS assumed one site per IP. It was quite easy for a firewall to whitelist and/or blacklist individual sites.
Then they added host headers and SNI to allow multiple sites to share a single IP. This is because legacy IPv4 is expensive and in short supply.

So now in order to whitelist/blacklist sites you need to filter at a higher level as you need to be able to match the host header not just the IP.

Once you add in SSL it gets even worse as your firewall devices cannot inspect the Host header without breaking SSL. Some places implement full SSL interception and MITM, but this then totally breaks with applications that enforce certificate pinning etc.

Yes it's a mess of kludge upon kludge, resulting in security problems, Move to IPv6 with unique IPs per site and these problems can go away.

This is one of those rare comments that needs to end up with (-1, Funny)

You'd get a popup to choose the port and grant permissions.

Have you ever flashed a Meshtastic or ESPHome device or updated firmware on a radio transceiver?

That's what they're talking about here.

Yeah, they could have suspended Air France and Airbus's business license for 17 years and given them parole by now.

Corporations as immortal unpunishable sociopaths will seem like one of the craziest ideas in History.

They switched to Mac, not Hackintosh.

If the company were serious they'd buy supported hardware from System76, Framework, Dell, Lenovo, local shop, whomever.

It is true that buying an untested Windows machine and expecting full Linux support on a traditional distro, isn't guaranteed to work.

A rolling Arch or Gentoo might do better, buy why not get the tested ones? Employee time really isn't worth saving a day's wages on a hardware promp discount.

Umm, I never said I was offering a solution here. I'm just identifying a problem. And the problem is a lot bigger than "Trump". He's just the latest one in the line-up.

It's pretty clear we've had a long string of shady deals and the public being kept in the dark on what our government is really doing.

Only reason you can try to pretend the whole problem is the Republican Party is the fact they've been in a power a lot. I'm old enough, though, to remember how awful things were under the Carter administration with the "stagflation" and his turning our relations w/Iran from a close alliance to a geopolitical crisis. I also remember how, despite his ability to relate to the people and make people feel good, Ronald Reagan also pulled some corrupt B.S. Perhaps most insultingly? He did all of it while quoting very Libertarian key points and principles. Clearly a case of "do as I say, not as I do" when you look at the Iran Contra scandal or his non-working "trickle down economics" he's known for taking from his advisors and running with, despite it just being a failed experiment. President Clinton was fingered for shady campaign funding/financing methods, from the start, followed by firing all 7 members of the White House travel office and replacing them with friends and associates. Plenty of reasons to question Joe Biden's ability as President when he got a shot at it -- including millions of dollars from foreign countries funneled into his family's own bank accounts, and admission that he improperly removed a number of classified documents and tried to keep them at home. (No charges ever filed for "mishandling" those though, which probably tipped off Trump that he could get away with the same!)

I didn't even bother to mention Bush, Sr. or Jr. here but clearly, they had personal agendas too.

It's all a steaming pile in Washington DC ... and it just keeps getting worse, the more the leaders figure out they can get away with.

I don't totally agree with that Starlink assessment though. They're far from "maxed out" on potential customers. Where I work, alone, we have 50+ remote docks and warehouses in random parts of the country. All of them need Internet access desperately but most are only serviced by an LTE cellular connection because they're in too rural an area for other options.

Starlink would be ideal for them, and we've used it in a couple of locations already. The main objection seems to be the complexity of the setup. (EG. We can program up a hotspot and SIM card easily enough and ship it someplace. Tell some dock worker to plug the thing into power and attach a network cable between it and a patch panel on a wall, and done. Can't expect them to properly install a Starlink antenna and the whole bit.)

Starlink just needs a free installation offer as part of buying it, with some kind of minimum contract required, and a lot more people would bite.

The crazy part? US taxpayers are propping up ALL the things! NASA didn't just stop receiving any government funds because Space-X exists. You get to foot the bill for both now!

The Republican Party hasn't been about small government for quite a while now! (Individuals who identify as Republican, by contrast, often still are.)

That's the real disconnect.... NEITHER party is about anything but getting more power or control for themselves and playing favorites with private sector businesses they have personal reasons to favor.

It's not strictly Communism because we still support the idea of the private sector. Anyone can start their own small business and not expect government to swoop in and claim ownership of it. But it's definitely "Corporatism".

Ok... you have me questioning the details now, but the AI overview I just checked says:

"Yes, Apple's M-series chips integrate the RAM directly onto the processor package. Because the memory is built-in as "Unified Memory," it cannot be upgraded or replaced after your Mac or iPad is purchased."

Now that the Big Tech companies have done all their training on illegal material it's important that no startups can compete.

You didn't read the whole post: "Set up your TV to simply be a monitor and use a cheap little computer as an HTPC".

Seriously who bothers with the crapware built into a tv anyway? Just use it as a dumb screen and attach other devices to it. The devices are cheap and much easier to replace than a tv. I have a tv from more than 10 years ago which i still use in one room, with a newer box connected to it. The built in crapware on the tv is now totally useless as it stopped being supported years ago.

Yep... back as far as 2006, several execs were indicted for price-fixing RAM:

https://www.justice.gov/archiv...

There was a class action lawsuit in 2018 over the same issue.

I assume Apple, at least, feels they've taken steps to control RAM availability with their transition to the M series ARM processors, because they integrate the memory and the video memory into the CPU itself?

Clouds will depend on the frequency.

X-Ray lasers are extremely difficult but they exist. Stepping down from extremely difficult to merely difficult may have some merit.

Whether it's worth the cost will be interesting. Microsats is curious - geostationary would be an easier place to start without the steering complexity.

An interesting project for sure.