Mastodawn

Hot take: The Artemis livestream is a damning indictment of modern computing devices. It seems like half the radio chatter is troubleshooting email delivery problems, confusing user interfaces, or devices not booting or connecting. Literal astronauts with years of training can’t make our stuff work.
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OMFG… I just heard Mission Control tell Artemis II literally, “Everything but email is go” LOLSOBBING MY ASS OFF NOW

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R.L. Dane

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5d ago

@beccadax

My heart sank when I learned they are running outlook.

Taking the most bloody cursed piece of software imaginable to the Moon.

What a time to be alive.

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Rupert Reynolds 4d ago

@rl_dane @beccadax I guess (hope) it's only there for personal messages such as "See you next week, sexy knees!" and to include the crew in the general run-of-the-mill admin such as meetings once they get back.

But that's a Hell of an attack surface to carry into space. I hope even its firewall is protected by a firewall...

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Becca Royal-Gordon

@RupertReynolds @rl_dane I think they pretty much use Outlook the way any worker would use Outlook—for non-critical asynchronous communications and scheduling—as well as to communicate with their families.

Flight-critical systems are on completely separate computers running real-time OSes and programmed to almost sadistic coding standards. (For example, it's not unlikely that they're forbidden to use dynamic memory allocations or recursive algorithms.)

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Rupert Reynolds 2d ago

@beccadax @rl_dane That's all good.
If it were my mission, I wouldn't even want it sharing a connection with more important stuff :-)

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It's just sad to me that there's this comically enormous dichotomy between the mission-critical software running on the important systems, and the slop-coded trash the Microsoft puts out.

At least have the decency to use something basic, like Fedora and Thunderbird, ya ninnies. 😞

Running Windows 11 and "Copilot" on the moon mission, in any capacity, is a travesty.