Onno (VK6FLAB)

This is now what spammers are doing. I’ve got about 50 different “companies” offering their services complete with follow up, meeting bookings, reminders and encouragement to sign up now, then come the threats or request for acknowledgement, then they change their email address and start from the top.

Come to think about it, it’s probably more like 100 different attempts, each with their own repeating thread.

99% automatically land in my spam folder, but it’s just ludicrous. It also makes actual commerce via email pretty much impossible.

I’ve had offers for lead generation, appointment setting, transcript services, SEO, website redesigns, app development, social media marketing and management, investment opportunities, offers for speaking engagements, conference sponsorships, purchasing and product offers, the list is endless.

The OSIRIS-REx did manage to bring back some material from Bennu. We retrieved 121.6 grams and it cost around a billion dollars. It took 8 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSIRIS-REx

Edit: Fixed how much it cost.

You should take into consideration that AFAIK none of these companies have launched anything, let alone started mining.

We as a species are not yet capable of doing this.

We can barely land successfully on our moon, we haven’t made it to Mars with humans and many of the robots we did send crashed before becoming operational.

We don’t have the capability to run completely automated mining on Earth, people are so far always needed on site.

If we’re going to mine asteroids, we’ll need to have a lot more capabilities than we currently do.

Note that I’m scratching the surface here, we haven’t yet discussed travel time, keeping humans alive and sane, fuel or Earth resources required to mount the effort.

Right here is where the rubber meets the road. If the GDPR isn’t enforced, the outcome is worse for everyone because the companies in breach will point out that nobody has successfully won a judgement against them, so in other words, they’ve done nothing wrong, whilst all the while they’ll sell your private information out the side door to the highest bidder.

And as a surprise to nobody, except perhaps the “author” of the original article the aborted takeoff had nothing to do with tyres.

“The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says a gauge indicated the temperature of exhaust gases in the plane’s right engine was too high.”

“The ATSB said the rejected take-off was conducted in line with standard operating procedures.”

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-07/etihad-airways-melbourne-airport-aborted-take-off-cause/104792948

For me the icing on the cake on that image is the “Translate” link which makes me wonder how you might translate this into say Klingon or CEO talk or ELI 5.

Other than that, it’s a sad state of affairs that we’ve allowed this to happen unchecked and wholesale across the planet.

It’s weird that this report focuses on reporting the tyres rather than the reason for the rejected take off. It even goes on to discuss other unrelated aviation tyre events for no particularly apparent reason.

It’s like saying that the coffee cup spilled coffee when it was dropped onto the ground … duh.

If it matters that much to you, then calibrate each tool.

Money.

Doing this type of research is extremely time consuming so research needs funding, to eat food and pay rent and even if you discover things worth sharing, the current legal system often prevents you from publishing it, which costs more money to fight.

Not for nothing, there are legal reasons to remove these as well. Think about illegal images, gdpr requirements and other such liabilities.

Set up your own instance and make it happen…

Unfortunately the page you linked to hasn’t been updated since Nov 20th, 2022, event though before that it appears to have been updated at least annually.

I miss my SPARC, it had to be given away when I started travelling around Australia for five years. The last IBM ThinkPad replaced it, anyone remember recompiling kernels to support the PATA/SATA driver so you could boot the thing? I never did get all the onboard hardware to work and one day someone in the Debian X11 team decided that using multiple monitors as a single desktop wasn’t required any longer.

I bought a 17” MacBook Pro and installed VMware on it, never looked back.

I take your point on not needing server hardware. The proxmox cluster was a gift on the way to landfill when my iMac died. I’m using it to figure out which platform to migrate to after Broadcom bought VMware.

I think it would be irresponsible to go back to it in light of the developments since the purchase.

Yeah, I was getting ready to use NoMachine on a recommendation, until I saw the macos uninstall script and the lack of any progress by the development team, going so far as to delete knowledge base articles and promising updates on the next release three versions ago.

An added wrinkle is getting local USB devices visible on a VDI, like say a local thumb drive (in this case it’s a Zoom H5 audio recorder) so I can edit audio, not to mention, getting actual audio across the network, let alone being synchronised.

It’s not trivial :)

At the moment I’m experimenting with a proxmox cluster, but any VM from VMware don’t just run, so for ancient operating systems in a VM like Win98se, you need drivers which are no longer available … odd since that’s precisely why I run it in a VM. Not to mention that the Proxmox UI expects you to run a series of commands in the console every time you want to add a drive, something which happens fairly often.

For shits and giggles try finding a way to properly shutdown a cluster without having to write scripts or shut each node down individually.

As I said, not trivial :)

I’ve installed Debian on several bits of bare metal hardware since, Raspberry pi, suddenly doesn’t detect the usb wifi dongle that worked in the previous release. Or the hours trying to get an extended Mac USB keyboard to work properly.

Supermicro servers that didn’t support the on board video card in VGA mode (for a text console).

Then there was a solid-state “terminal” device which didn’t have support for the onboard ethernet controller.

It’s not been without challenge, hence my reluctance. I moved to VMware to stabilise the experience and it was the best decision I’ve ever made, other than standardizing on Debian.

I note that I’ve been installing Debian for a while. This is me in 2000:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2000/09/msg00038.html

I’m all for doing this, but I’m not particularly interested in compiling kernel modules to make my base hardware work, which is why I used VMware until June when my iMac died. This worked for me for 15 years. My Mac had 64 GB of RAM and was plenty fast to run my main Debian desktop inside a VM with several other VMs doing duty as Docker hosts, client test environments, research environments and plenty more.

Now I’m trying to figure out which bare bones modern hardware I can buy in Australia that will run Debian out of the box with no surprises.

I’ve started investigating EC2 instances, but the desktop UI experience seems pretty crap.

In my experience you’re describing loneliness and perhaps depression. These are not easy things to overcome, but they are universal.

Our society is well equipped to deal with broken bones, much less than its ability to mend hearts and minds.

Walking and sunlight are relatively easy circuit breakers, talking might be a little harder to find, but asking here is a good start.

If you have the financial means or employer support, it can be extremely helpful to speak with a psychologist, but just like plumbers, there are bad ones, good ones and great ones, so don’t hesitate to try a few different people on for size.

Reacting in anger gets easier the more you do it, the same is true for reacting with grace, but you have to practise to get better at it. Take an extra breath before opening your mouth is one way to get started.

Finally, find fun, watch a flashmob or a funny song on YouTube, dance, be silly. It’s hard to be angry whilst you’re smiling.

Good luck.

Disclaimer: I used Steam once.

Has anyone done any research into the quality of these 18,000 titles? What kind of uptake there is, how many purchases/downloads, etc. ?

If you’re going to ignore physics, you can decide specifically what the impact will be.