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Musk's statements on this have been all over the place. First there was "starshield is run by the military, nothing to do with me", then the Bart Simpson defence "I didn't do it", and now "a violation of Starlink’s terms of service". Since Starlink doesn't work in Russia it means Starlink in Ukraine has been used "for offensive drone strikes to kill people", which Musk thinks Ukraine should not be doing. When you are invaded, defending against the invasion means killing at least some of the invaders. What does Musk think is happening in the largest war in Europe since World War 2? Why does he choose now to worry about terms of service?

I'm going to have to quote Bugs Bunny here: what a maroon.

They are extraordinary claims, beyond current science. So the claims they are true require extraordinary evidence, which is missing at the moment. It's not up to anyone to show evidence that the claims are false, those claiming they are true must show evidence that they are true.

I've worked within the federal government and while there I met people who if they weren't on drugs maybe they should be.

1 and 2 are fantasy. 3 might be true if you drop "and only you" part.

... you are forced to love it. or live with it...

... or leave it.

Backups? There are backups, right?

A blast from the past! An IBM 1620 was the very first computer I programmed, way back in 1969, likely a model 2. As part of a second year Applied Mathematics semester we were given a block of coding forms, a McCracken book on FORTRAN II and a list of problems to solve. There was no instruction on how to do this beyond reading the book, as far as I can remember. Someone punched cards from our coding forms and put them into the machine. We never actually got to touch the hardware, but we could look at it through glass windows.

That was a life-changing experience as it led to me dropping out of my Physics degree and eventually going into a computing career.

The sooner this guy is impeached the better. That's better than letting his term just run out as it offers more of a warning to other fruitcakes out there: the system _eventually_ works.

Not just Canadians. Commonwealth English generally uses "Zed".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_in_the_Commonwealth_of...

A blast from the past! Back last century I had tried multiple "pile of floppies" installs of early Linux, but they always failed. SLS was the first linux install that worked, possibly because it installed from a CD. Since then I've always been a primarily Linux user, moving from SLS to Slackware, Ubuntu and now Linux Mint.

The "ASCII" page in the Jargon File gives a few names for "-". It even says that the official ANSI/CCITT names are "hyphen" and "minus".

https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html

Getting the lucky break is only half of it. Recognizing a change as a lucky break and being able to take advantage of it is also important.

I don't see how my comment about using python 3 rather than the obsolete python 2 has anything to do with Lisp.

Python 3 is not ... what?

Another vote for getting into the Arduino world, which includes the ESP32.

To learn the basics there's still no better route than getting an Arduino Uno (or clone) starter kit and learning about digital electronics. The boards are programmed in C++ through the Arduino IDE. As you progress you could program larger-memory boards with python. Some people use other languages like Rust. You aren't limited to small AVR microcontrollers, you can program other microcontrollers such as ESP32, STM32, Raspberry Pi, etc. If you get to the point of having PCBs made you can use KiCad to design the boards.

There is a huge amount of online information and help available. Companies like Arduino, Sparkfun and Adafruit also have online material, some specific to their products, some general.

Apart from the actual hardware all the software used is free. Microcontroller boards, while not free, are cheap but powerful.

I'm a retired software engineer with an out-of-control microcontroller hobby.

https://docs.arduino.cc/

https://learn.adafruit.com/

https://www.sparkfun.com/documentation

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/microcontrollers/

https://www.kicad.org/

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=esp32-c3+board

A note from the article says:

    I suggest Python 2.7 for this code

No, just no. Use a later version of python 3. The article is 24 years old.

Don't know about .gov websites, but the ArsTechnica link is a horror in Brave and FireFox mobile browsers.

My comment was about the lack of any sort of link showing what you claim.

Surely a simple search on "vpn server cayman" finds some (or a lot) of possibilities. You'll have to dig a little to see if you want to try any of those hits.

Interesting. A "zero code" implementation?

> They care that the product works.

And that's the problem.

No, they were built to deliver some of your money to the app author. That's all.

I understand what the page is actually talking about. If I thought it was about extraterrestials I would be less worried.

If whitehouse.gov hasn't been hacked, if this is a serious statement, then it's past time to get very worried about the current US government. We have seen madness like this before.

Copy/pasted from the page right now, after refreshing:

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Nope.

Might want to proof-read a bit more:

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Simple answer. Microsoft bought github so I moved elsewhere. I find my life to be less "interesting" if I minimize my exposure to Microsoft.

Vi, or whatever actually gets executed when I type "vi" at the shell prompt. Used for python, C or whatever other language I'm using at the time.

Physics has nothing to say about social systems. Leave the last sentence out, it weakens your argument.