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@winbuzzer For great justice!
@SergKoren yeah, but you nailed that simile!
@wearywulf I’m grateful to wear shoes. Gravel parking lots, sawgrass and burning hot beaches are unpleasant barefoot. It’s a decent invention.
@jimcarroll What‘s your vector, Victor?
@DaveMasonDotMe moving to LibreOffice?
@nixCraft they said that about the Personal Computer too, but the fact is that most people with computing needs have neither the skills, knowledge or inclination to control every aspect. I enjoy self-hosting, but I have 3 decades of sysadmin experience.

Plot twist: Republicans and Democrats actually agree on something - keeping NASA funded! Senate blocks 47% science cuts that would've terminated 55 missions. Space: the final frontier of bipartisanship? 🚀

https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/07/10/161254/senators-signal-theyre-prepared-to-push-back-against-nasa-cuts

#NASA #SpaceExploration #BipartisanPolitics

Senators Signal They're Prepared To Push Back Against NASA Cuts - Slashdot

Senators from both parties are preparing to challenge the Trump administration's proposed 24% cut to NASA's budget, with the Senate appropriations committee advancing a $24.9 billion allocation that matches the agency's 2025 funding levels. The bipartisan pushback directly contradicts President Do...

@SergKoren the file has to be local? No network access? You could try a file:///tmp/ location if it’s MacOS.
@n8dmt Good luck, I haven’t had much luck listening to satellite passes with an HT antenna. I probably need to build a Yagi. 73 de N1LWI
@Beachbum @AkaSci zero agreement with Musk’s politics here, but most observers following closely believe that the Starship development program is funded out of Starlink revenue. The Starship HLS contract is a fixed price contract, so if he is wasting taxpayer dollars, his profit will be reduced. See the program architecture section of the Wikipedia article, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_HLS
Starship HLS - Wikipedia