With a Presidential election days away, the biggest ways to record online statements are conspicuously broken.

Layoffs, lack of pay raises for engineers, but they're not replacing programmers with Al. Wink wink.

Plus: Linux Kernel devs share Lunduke Journal video in attempt to make sense of anti-Russian programmer policy.

Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.

It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.

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Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.

Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣

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How One Line of Code Led to Catastrophe: The Mars Polar Lander

In December 1999, NASA's Mars Polar Lander was on a pioneering mission to explore Mars' south pole, aiming to unlock secrets about the planet's climate and the possibility of water ice beneath its surface. Equipped with cutting-edge technology and years of meticulous planning, the spacecraft represented a significant leap forward in planetary exploration.

But as the lander approached the Martian atmosphere, an unseen flaw lurked within its software—a tiny error buried deep in the code controlling its descent and landing sequence. This subtle glitch caused the lander to misinterpret vibrations from its leg deployment as a confirmation of touchdown while it was still high above the Martian surface. Acting on this false signal, the onboard computer prematurely shut down the descent engines.

With its engines off and no parachute to slow its fall, the Mars Polar Lander plummeted silently to the Red Planet, disappearing ...

IBM had a MIPS laptop?!? https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-mips-thinkpad-kind-of.html