Hell, seats in the back used to be the cheapest - takes you longer to get off, and generally noisier since it’s behind the wings/engines. It’s also a rougher ride.

I liked flying there because no one else wanted those seats, so I could often get an empty row (way back when)

Windows isn’t an OS? What kind of nonsense is this?

I’d say the team from DEC who created it, would differ.

Wouldn’t you validate that update on a test machine in an isolated environment…like we’ve done since forever?

I had to create an email filter to stop getting emails about that dumb shit.

Ah, that makes sense.

Once you have a slight more mass in any plane, eventually everything will move to that plane.

I generally agree.

But any decent code review process would’ve exposed this, or at least a data surveillance system that checks this stuff. I’ve received a few notifications about my logs storing inappropriate data, as a result of a scanning system.

Some manager knew about this during a code review, and signed off on the risk because it was only in-house.

My point being the extensiveness of a review process.

The more important a system, the more people it impacts, etc, the more extensive the review process.

Someone chose to ignore this risk. That’s intentional.

Then incompetence at a level that’s incomprehensible.

A code review certainly exposed this, and some manager signed off on the risk.

Again, changes I make are trivial in comparison, and our code/risk reviews would’ve exposed this in no time.

Oh, yea, I get the safety angle, but that work has already been done.

If I’m replacing a battery in something like thsas long as I use the same tech, where’s the concern?

If the factory battery has built-in BMS, then I should use the same, that’s about the only concern I’d have. And if it’s NiMH, well, even less of a concern.

And for this use-case, I wouldn’t be cheap on my replacements, like I am for stuff that’s low risk (like a flashlight that lives in a metal cabinet outside - if that lithium does a runaway, there’s little risk).

Wow.

Again, the kind of fix I’ve done thousands of times on all sorts of devices.

Ye, I’ve been to Twin Peaks. At least the food is typical American stuff, made well.

I’m just not into the whole theme. I’d rather pay less for the same thing at a decent diner.

The food sucks?

Which is exactly what I said. You get the interface you choose.

Yet Another Call Blocker has worked brilliantly for me, for years how. This stuff doesn’t even show up in my call log.

Those are pretty bright patterns in my book. More of the usual BS.

More like jingoistic, which is rather tiresome anymore. “Nazi” today is a virtually meaningless pejorative, and my dead grandparents are rolling in their graves having escaped real Nazis.

Russians are now Nazis?

Someone needs to read more history, and out down the Book of Pejoratives

XMPP/Jabber has whatever interface you choose (determined by the client you use), and does voice pretty darn well.

I’m currently using Jmp.chat as a SIM/data provider, and they provide an XMPP account via Snikket. I can connect to that account with pretty much any XMPP/Jabber client.

To me, XMPP/Jabber is the most flexible, because it’s a protocol, and you choose which parts you want. And you can choose which clients you use. I have 2 clients on my phone and one on my laptop. They all work fine with the same account, with messages showing up at all simultaneously. One client (Snikket) has multiple accounts in it. The thing is XMPP/Jabber as a protocol is like SMTP - it’s a standard, so all clients can communicate with each other, if they support the same features (eg OMEMO encryption, which is popular now).

Alternatively check out:

Teleguard, it’s from the folks at SwissCows. They claim E2E, and from the way you connect devices, and that you can’t recover an account from them, I tend to believe it. Though I haven’t seen a third party evaluation (I belive they’re closed source, unfortunately). So do with that what you will.

Simplex Chat, self hostable, they claim it’s very secure. I’ve used it some, the phone app is a bit heavy on ram use.

There are numerous others out there.

For sure.

Stuff can be kept secret, it’s just difficult, and is usually accomplished via all sorts of obfuscation.

Like doing something layered deep within something else, making it appear to be a day-to-event (hiding materiel in containers labeled as something else, making it weigh and move normally, then having military deliver it as usual, because who would think these drums of fuel are actually heavy water, or something like that).

The moon landings were live. Quite a bit harder, I’d think.

And the old saying “three people can keep a secret, if 2 are dead” comes to mind. The number of people who would know, just in astronauts, tells me someone would’ve squealed.

There was a movie in the 1980’s that used this premise, but the astronauts weren’t supposed to know (I think), or were only told pretty late. Capricorn One (with OJ Simpson if memory serves). Not a great movie, hell, not even good, just an interesting concept.