Simple NomadA sign of the times.
Dan
Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)
De_Minimis
prunelierHi ! I have seen a lot of jokes about outlook software on artemis 2 mission ? May I have an explanation please?
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Lea@simplenomad
That they would use an overly complex and hugely bloated piece of 'business' software like Outlook for communication (and thus apparently Windows as the OS) for something as critical as a *spacecraft mission* is just mind-boggling to me. ๐ตโ๐ซ
That they would use an overly complex and hugely bloated piece of 'business' software like Outlook for communication (and thus apparently Windows as the OS) for something as critical as a *spacecraft mission* is just mind-boggling to me. ๐ตโ๐ซ
paelnever@leadore @simplenomad
You know everything even science and top tecnology is rotten to the root when they ship microslop software on a spaceship.
You know everything even science and top tecnology is rotten to the root when they ship microslop software on a spaceship.
Ray Greenwell@simplenomad Not to mention the obnoxious use of Roman numerals. That's an eleven on top and a two down below! It's bad enough the US is still using hillbilly measurements instead of metric, it's extra obnoxious to write numbers in an obsolete and flawed system because it looks more "epic" or something. Sad!
@wtfwtf_ok I agree! The mixing of the labeling with numbers from different systems is quite irritating for a very small part of the population, but I _am_ a part of that population and I totally relate! And yes we should be on the metric system as well as dumping dumping celcius for farenheit.
@simplenomad @wtfwtf_ok You want to be on the "metric system" (actually "SI") ... and you want to dump Celcius (the SI unit) for Fahrenheit (the one you're on now).
That's a very weird hot take.
Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath@simplenomad On the bright side for Microsoft, the company is now part of history ๐คฆ ๐คฃ
James Carr@simplenomad "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has experienced an unhandled exception."
fraggle@jcarr @simplenomad weirdly enough they actually did - 1201 & 1202 executive overflow alarms
Chris GossAnd Margaret Hamiltonโs code saved it.
"Margaret Elaine Hamilton: The Software Engineer Who Saved Apollo 11"
https://herwiki.org/stories/margaret-elaine-hamilton-the-software-engineer-who-saved-apollo-11/
Sepia Fan2026 already feels like one long stumble โ and weโre not even halfway through yet. ๐ฌ
Indy Richard ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ@simplenomad Am not surprised. A Microsoft product not working is an everyday thing. Microsoft seems to have lost sight of what it provides its customers. There was a time when the customer was always right. Now the corporations laugh at us, we have AI rammed down our throats and features we don't want. As part of my conscious effort to buy fewer US products, I have decided not to upgrade my desktop to their current OS. It is maybe a drop in the ocean, but it is still a drop.
Licho@simplenomad o tempora o mores
swope"There's a turd floating through the air" -- Thomas Stafford
Apollo 10, 1969
Gabriele Marcosanti 
@simplenomad "Have you tried turning it off and back on again?"
grrl_aexApollo 8 astronaut William Anders took the iconic "Earthrise" image (which features on the Artemis mission patch) in 1968. It is credited with inspiring the rise of the global environmental movement in the 1970s.
In 2026, Reid Wiseman took the iconic Artemis image of Earth, which is titled "Earthset". Unknown what that image may inspire.
I find that sadly ironic.
(B&W image is the first pic of Earth from Moon taken by a human, Anders, 1967, shot just before "Earthrise"..)
LisPi@simplenomad As expected of proprietary malware.
thriftwicker@simplenomad A Wiseman once said.
decapitae@simplenomad The signs are there, Linux it - FOSS
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@simplenomad *ahem*
AGC PGNCS Alarm 1202 Executive overflow - NO CORE SETS
AGC PGNCS Alarm 1201 Executive overflow - NO VAC AREAS
@simplenomad Also Apollo 11 actually put people on the moon.
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