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.