This right here. I've done the same. It's absurd the level of password hoops at some places. I appreciate the secure password, but when it's hand written in marker and faded it can be quite frustrating.
What kind of implant you do have? I can't get mine to read the LF side of my NExT. I think it's the type being emulated but I don't have a different ID to test.
I can't agree enough about invasions being bad. You acknowledge the issue with the US so I'll abstain from Pot-Kettle analogies. Although, I would ask that your awareness of current conflicts the US is engaged in actually become part of your radar. If what you claim you want to happen you truly want to happen, you would acknowledge that those negative repercussions should be happening right now because we have never stopped violently interfering in other countries and their affairs. We're literally dropping bombs as I type this. So check your false pearl-clutching and feigned concessions.
I'm not 'pretending' to be concerned about the telescope. I am absolutely concerned about the progress of things that work to unite us instead of dividing us. Based on your previous comment you should be as well.
Thanks for just avoiding the issue I raised and attacking me though. Functional discourse at it finest here on HackerNews.
Germany turned off instruments being used on a joint project that si currently at Lagrange 2. This in turn resulted in Russia shutting down the project completely.
This is hardly "nothing happened". Perhaps you should have "wasted time" and read it...
Post-Installation Disabling. It's like John Deere for space parts...
"And a German astronomy team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, switched off a German-built instrument on the Russian astronomical observatory Spektr-RG halfway through its planned observations."
Does anyone else find this rather concerning, and in some ways quite petty? I realize people are taking hard lines on these events. So don't sell them any more, but switching off post-install? Perhaps they do some sort of processing for the data? I have no idea. The article is quite vague.
Surely one can just block the update service via something like a pihole? I do this for my Vizio TV. They're notorious, as as most smart TVs now, for calling home and everywhere else.
Experience and a basic level of observation would show that you're reaching to find a justification here. It's clear that the masks are covid-related and not pollution related. Gymnastics are for gymnasts not for research.
I am continually amazed at how quickly people are willing to wholeheartedly believe everything that comes out of the PR offices of organizations they once rightfully recognized as being corrupt and unethical simply because it now fits their needed personal political narratives.
We see it with sudden insta-faith in governing institutions, corporations (tech and pharmaceutical are just the most recent examples), and NGOs with what can only be termed as having a very checkered past to put it unduly mildly.
It truly does border on strict religious adherence and fervor. Those like Bellah and Ellul were more right than they could have ever known.
I agree wholly with this. Living in Southern NM we have a lot of stars. Just short drives and we can see the actual Milky Way band. I've always been saddened when I think of people who live in large cities and don't get to regularly see these things.
Then, the first time I spotted Saturn and Jupiter with my telescope in my driveway I was struck with fresh awe. I had seen them before, in larger telescopes and higher resolution, but to track it with your own, to see them and try to comprehend how big they are in order order to be seen from so far away... I still get chills.
I agree these bugs that Signal has are serious. With hat said, your examples aren't that great for counters.
"a nation state storing their communications in a database" - The power differential and historic missteps of governments makes this ludicrous to think of as "OK" in comparison.
"Facebook graphing their contacts and using them for friend recommendations" - but, it's not just for friend recommendations and possibly more importantly, it's not just their users, is it? Not to mention it's ignoring the purposeful opinion-biasing they have openly taken part in to manufacture consent for any number of issues.
While these bugs are bad and should be prioritized for fix, they are seemingly random. Sure they can possibly be exploited (possible, haven't seen proof of concept for purposeful exploitation), but random bugging vs clear and present danger on current and historical precedents of governments and technocratic oligarchs? Me thinks your trust may be a bit misplaced or you're just being obtuse for sake of obtuseness.
"This is akin to Fauci saying he didn't think we should be wearing masks, and changing his mind as more data came in."
Only that's not what happened. This is a bad analogy, or a good one depending on how you view the overt false narrative-creation of much of today's media. Fauci didn't "change his mind" with more evidence. He readily admits to overtly lying because he made a determination that some lives were more valuable than others. That. Is. Frightening.
This isn't intended to be a political statement, simply a fact that you are memory-holing.