It reminds me of this story of a company that paid for WinRAR as opposed to using peazip which is FOSS… Their opinion is that paid software is better and more secure…

I can see that argument for UX/UI since paid software is often a fancy front end on FOSS but it still pisses me off. So much for capitalism being efficient lol…

People are trying to switch to proxmox too since VMWare continues to go downhill and smart IT planners know you shouldn’t trust them long term.

I use proxmox in my homelab so my impression is biased as a home user, but it’s nice if you’re already accustomed to being a Linux command line user. They haven’t fully made everything configurable through the GUI. 90% of the time you can use the GUI but for certain things it’s still command line only.

Yeah I’m new here if it wasn’t obvious by my prior comment haha

I’m still new to Lemmy but yeah I’ve noticed that too. They show up anywhere they see stuff they don’t like.

What’s kind of fun is you can basically summon them by saying “Trotsky wouldn’t have been better than Stalin” three times in a mirror.

FPO: future promise offering

It would be nice if instead of banning someone from your feed you could change their color (or color code their instance) so all .mls would be red I guess? Or maybe black like Stalin’s moustache?

I delete them when I don’t have the energy to argue with people online about things. They can be the one terminally online. I’m not chasing them down that rabbit hole. Especially when you get comment after comment replying to you and you know they don’t want to argue in good faith and you’re just signing up to get cyber bullied by a brick wall.

Yeah like that time I commented on horshoe theory on a tankie sublemmy (honestly my fault. That’s like smoking next to the pump at a gas station) which really pissed off a lot of tankies lol.

Embrace extend extinguish is a well known pattern microslop uses to kill open source alternatives. You’re right it was already big which is why they embraced it (we’re both agreeing here) all I’m saying is they make sure it’s impossible to develop an alternative due to network effects and vendor default lock in. “Embrace extend extinguish” is From their own internal communications found during discovery.

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Microsoft embraced github by buying it. They extended the features and ease of use to where it’s the primary website people use for sharing and collaborating on code. Now it extinguishes any alternative.

“the internet is 5 giant websites filled with screenshots of the other 4”

Non-Tesla cars have black boxes already and have for years so you yeah you’re right

Vagueposting clickbait? On the internet!? For views and clicks!?! The website is AIDS it’s so full of ads!?

Shoot themselves in the back of the head twice and fall off a balcony

Welp

Looks like a suicide to me boss…

I’m prefacing this by saying my background is playing KSP and inadvertantly making my own Kessler syndrome when running out of fuel braking during a station rendezvous 😅

Yeah you’re fundamentally trading energy. It depends on how the impact happens but orbital scientists think in terms of the average velocity of a collision event and their likely angle. 30⁰ head on at 7km/s is roughly normal I think?

A head on collision means that you have the full kinetic energy of both satellites to work with. Some parts get thrown up into massive orbits even up into medium earth orbit. Others deorbit due to hitting at the right angle to lose enough kinetic energy that their orbit drops.

Overall your debris ends up in a plume heading in the direction of both satellites, shaped like a flat cone. In the case of starlink they might have to deorbit the entire constellation while they still have control over them since that cone is invariably going to shotgun blast one or more satellites on the next orbital string

The only good news is any debris you generate has some part of its orbit extremely low due to starlink satellites being so low themselves. That’ll stop being true once debris finds something else to hit higher up but it’s easier to deorbit stuff this low since there’s really quite a bit of atmospheric drag at periapse.

Edit: I should clarify that even after a collision debris has to have an orbit that crosses through the altitude the impact happened at unless some more energy is added higher up in its new elliptical orbit

The attackers specifically targeted orphaned projects on AUR so it’s no wonder most of those aren’t familiar to us.

You can stop pulling the lever at any time. All that happens is modern society unravels as we enter the financial equivalent of a thermonuclear bomb going off. The same will happen but slightly worse if you keep holding the lever.

Also the five eyes is genius honestly. A lot of nations have strong laws preventing spying on their own citizens… Except it’s not illegal to spy on another country, especially with a tacit agreement that they can spy on your own citizens and you just trade information later.

He influenced me to hate apple and support right to repair.

I know what you mean but he’s the definition of influencer just instead of selling vapid sponsored products he’s selling 44 minute long autistic rants where his hyper fixation is consumer rights.