Eric Schultz
Danie🏒🏒e is officially a PWHL fanOMFG… I just heard Mission Control tell Artemis II literally, “Everything but email is go”
LOLSOBBING MY ASS OFF NOW
I think it might be a good time to dump your Microsoft stock…
Aria <3 
benny
F4GRX Sébastien
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥@quephird Everything? So, number 1 AND number 2 are go? No peecicles on the outside?
Seb
Seiðr
ZenHeathen 🇨🇦@quephird NASA needs to use Linux
D Ingram@ZenHeathen @quephird Guess it's a different division? https://dev.to/rajpreet_gill/linux-in-space-how-nasa-harnesses-open-source-to-explore-the-cosmos-4nbp
Andrew Faden@quephird haha amazing, just found it on the broadcast https://mastodon.social/@faden/116354130816738591
urien2
BlueWinds@urien2 @faden @quephird It is just on their "personal computing devices" - which is the term for iphones and ipads, approvde for spaceflight but completely isolated from the spacecraft / actual operations.
Not mission-critical, it's just for their personal emails. And they use the same devices to take pictures, play music, watch videos, etc.
(I'm by no means defending microslop, just that it's not carelessness on nasa's part)
ewhac@quephird
by EDWARD JEFFRIES
FPI
HOUSTON, TX - The person responsible for approving the use of Microsoft software for the Artemis II mission has disappeared, and widely believed to be in hiding.
The ongoing failures of MS Outlook are just the latest black eye for the software giant, but came as no surprise to anyone -- except, apparently, the person approving its use. Said one anonymous NASA staffer, "What kind of boob puts MS software aboard a f---ing spacecraft?"
@quephird go, what do you mean? the programming language, or something else?
the vessel of morganna@esoteric_programmer @quephird "go" as in "ready"
YurkshireLad@quephird I’d rather use Pine for email on a spacecraft than anything from Microsoft. Maybe even just the old “mail” command in Unix/Linux!
Chris Abbey@YurkshireLad @quephird seriously. Good old UUCP was built for high bandwidth, higher latency, connectivity. Gimme back bang path addressing! If it could handle a tape that took overnight to get from one system to another, it could handle whatever deep space comms can throw at it. (Slap a layer of checksumming atop to catch line noise introduced bit flips and you should be well along the way.)
DeManiak 🇿🇦 🐧-The Stinkening
Keri Szafir@quephird next time they should use free and open source software... Thunderbirds Are Go!