... OK, looking at old information sites about the mission, I see that while Ulysses looked at both solar poles with instruments like magnetometers and plasma probes, it didn't have a camera. So it made observations of the solar pole but this is the first mission to actually take images of the poles.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cosmos.esa.int%2Fweb...

Selecting software that is controlled by a potentially-hostile nation-state is simply poor security practice.

And since January 6, 2025, many US allies have come to see the US as a potentially-hostile nation-state.

What about the Ulysses mission, the first solar polar orbiter?
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

The geopolitical situation is different this time around. Countries rightly see reliance on US-based services and US-based closed-source software as a national security risk. So the amount of inconvenience they're willing to tolerate will likely be much higher than before.

I have been self-hosting my email since 2000. No deliverability issues.

Sure, you have to abide by best practices such as setting up SPF, DKIM and DMARC, but that's generally a set-up-once-and-forget thing. I also enabled DNSSEC for good measure.

Anyone reading slashdot... time to prune your history. /s

I retired two years ago from software development, and I am so glad that I did. I hear from friends still in the industry that this AI bullshit is being pushed on them everywhere.

Replying to myself... oh, OK, they decommissioned the domains, but left the DNS records pointing to IP addresses that were probably on AWS or some other cloud provider, so the attacker (somehow) obtained those IP addresses.

Well, that's just dumb. If you stop using a subdomain, you should unpublish the DNS records first before releasing the IP addresses.

How do you abandon a subdomain? Unless an attacker can infiltrate your DNS servers, there's no such thing as an "abandoned" subdomain.

Otherwise insert_random_string_here.microsoft.com would be fair game.

How do you prevent AI scrapers from getting hold of your content while allowing legitimate subscribers to see it?

How do you drive traffic to your site if it doesn't appear on the (by far) most widely-used search engine?

I detest Google AI summaries. They don't tell you where the AI got the information, so I don't have any way to know whether the informatin is reliable.

Not sure why we care one way or another about the Wikipedia version in an obscure language. This is really your number one complaint about Wikipedia? That many of the pages in a language that about a quarter of one percent of the world speaks were produced by machine translation of articles in English? That's pretty minor.

THIS is your number two complaint about Wikipedia? That it has templates to do routine math, like calculating dates?

The laughable nature of what you think is wrong with Wikipedia make me like it more. Really, if these are indeed the top two complaints you have, it's pretty damn amazing.

That definition is generic - as in math books (or Wikipedia).

The article lacks a definition (and implicit one is not the math one), but your explanation resolves that to be a "volume enclosed by a sphere" rather than a literal sphere. Thanks, I did not understand it that way!

This is rather contradictory, isn't it. On the one hand, the MAGA party line is that the COVID vaccine should never have been approved. On the other hand, they're saying that we need to make all drug approval like the way we approved the COVID vaccine.

An idiot... or the FDA, under the new "improved government efficiency by firing all the scientists" administration.