shirro @ shirro @aussie.zone

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Many distros have independent community generated package repositories though most aren't on official infrastructure. Ubuntu has PPA which is close. I try and avoid AUR as much as I can. It is a potential attack surface and packages are sometimes poorly maintained and break. I like it for system stuff and I mostly review the PKGBUILD. It seems like a good way for software to find a path into the official repos. There was a lot of resistance from me initially but for most desktop applications flatpak has proven to be a better solution.

Every NASA crewed launch to ISS from US soil is on a stack that uses Linux for avionics: Falcon 9 and Dragon 2. The Starlink constellation is also a massive deployment of Linux nodes in space.

The other crewed system from the people concerned about Linux safety culture hasn't flown people yet and probably won't this year, perhaps never. They somehow managed to have two critical software failures on their first orbital flight test, either of which would have caused loss of vehicle without intervention and which should have been caught with comprehensive in the loop testing.

For complete fairness to everyone we should tax every vehicle on road or path from scooters and bikes to b-doubles based on the 4th power of axle load to properly account for the impact on road maintenance costs. Then additional levies for disproportionate environmental costs and harm to vulnerable road users. Keep the overall tax amount the same but shift the burden so people with smaller vehicles pay substantially less than they do now. And then add strict liability for anything much larger than a kei car.

It is tricky. This isn't Reddit and we don't have the numbers but it would be good to have some of the same discussions.

Best to keep the posting rules a bit relaxed compared to the SpaceX sub. More like lounge. While news is appreciated I don't know that a flood of bot posts is any substitute to some good launch threads and starship dev thread.

It is also a problem not having a place to discuss NASA, rocketlab, ula, Artemis, bo, ESA and other space launch news. My space multi was huge.

As far as I know the bulk of the damage to personal property was the expensive cameras used to record the launch and they would have been placed knowing there was a risk. The only significant damage to a car I saw was NSF's rustbucket camera platform which was parked in the restricted areas and was worth considerably less than the camera equipment mounted on it.

The failure of the pad surface and ejection of dirt and concrete was an avoidable and spectacular fuckup but not very impactful. The 1997 Delta IIR launch destroyed a lot more vehicles and China drops boosters on villages. SpaceX need to be held to a high standard and we expect them to demonstrate a better safety culture than China or Boeing. I don't think the pad is going to fail as spectacularly again though an explosion on the pad or shortly after lift off is still a frightening prospect.