A lot of people were celebrating the anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing.

Yet, who is celebrating Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otwkXZ0SmTs

I have lost count of how many moon missions in the public and private sector are currently underway, wasting inordinate amounts of time, money, energy, when we already know that the Moon is incapable of sustaining life as we know it.

Given how many humans are homeless, struggling with food scarcity, driving other species to extinction, maybe humans aren't too stupid to stop wasting resources on the Moon? Maybe, the powers that be want to make Earth as inhospitable to life as we know it as the Moon is?

I am not among them. We should stop ignoring our artists and start making this planet a better place to live, lest we infect the solar system and stars elsewhere with our maladies.

#Apollo11

That Trac ticket someone opened in MacPorts re: DSA key support turned off in OpenSSH 9.8p1 keeps going.

I still don't have spoons to re-engage after the last time I responded.

A part of me was halfway tempted to just make a variant to shut them up, but then I remembered: no grey, that isn't going to do anyone who fails to understand security challenges any favors, & also you haven't slept or eaten in a while.

Meanwhile, though I haven't been terribly active on the FediVerse in over a month, for reasons that escape me there seems to be a rather irate OpenSSH MacPorts user complaining about OpenSSH's DSA deprecation.

That drama is being aired publicly in MacPorts' Trac, and I am low on spoons to want to look at it presently, but my general takeaway was:

"uhh, upstream announced DSA keys being deprecated, a really long time ago. They have given notes about it going away entirely in 2025, I am really having trouble understanding why this is my problem."

If only people with that much energy would complain as vociferously to Tim Cook et al about removing headphone jacks, maybe tech wouldn't be so full of it.sh right now? But even if that's my opinion, I am not clogging Apple's bug tracking systems with it.