Mission to the Cloud Server

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• sober_monk@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s a scene in Space Force where a flight controller can’t do something crucial because of a forced Windows update. I remember thinking “this is such a silly, cheap gag, there’s no way a space organization would use Microsoft”.

  Well. I stand corrected.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Every organization uses Windows because they can’t fathom that Ubuntu is perfectly fine to use.

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    • JayGray91@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Meanwhile Big Tech’s backbone are mostly libre software

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Usually it’s because Windows is way cheaper to use.

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wait till I tell you many nuclear power stations and submarines run ancient versions of windows for their control software

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    • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Imagine having a nuclear meltdown because of windows

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    • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve worked in more than a couple factories and fabrication shops. Everything was on XP.

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    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      At least these ancient versions won’t try to update in the middle of a sea fight.

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• kablez@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Meanwhile the Chinese government have their own Linux variant Kylin which is developed as part of a national resilience and strategic initiative. It’s wild to me that in this day and age few governments will spend even .0001% on open source expertise but they’ll throw billions at idiots like Microsoft because some politician was wined and dined by their sales people. If more people knew how broken the procurement system was and how their tax dollars were wasted on corporate welfare they would riot.

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  • gurty@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its way too tin-foil-hat of me to bring up how Bill Gates was in bed with the shadiest world leaders and how that might influence these sort of decisions, right? I’m definitely just being a conspiracy theorist here.

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    • undeffeined@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think it’s too far fetched given the evidence we have that these people all hung out in the same social circles.

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    • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No he was in bed some russian women and almost certainly under age girls with Epstein, it is after all, why he got divorced.

      But yes, NSA_KEY, skype, bitlocker, etc…

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s got a really nice ui

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    • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Didn’t they skin it to look a lot like Windows?

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• Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Joke aside, it was the personal device of one of the crew members. Not NASA provided nor mission critical

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• blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It needs to run a second process to send all your data back to Microsoft.

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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Microsoft Copilot now requests full access to the flight control system.

  Abort? Retry? Fail?

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  • lauha@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Copilot erases whole guidance and navigation. Ejects control systems computer. Vents atmosphere

    Artemis crew goes Mark Watney mode and miraculously save themselves.

    Microsoft calls it a hiccup and asks people to ease with the Microslop

    Pentagon invests billions into AI

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    • TheOctonaut@piefed.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      CoPilot and Copilot, despite both being Microsoft-owned, are different things, and scare tactics like confusing what CoPilot can do with what Copilot can do is irresponsible, particularly now that there’s also Copilot 365, a different set of capabilities again that you may be purposefully also muddying the water with. Do you even stop to think who you are hurting?

      ~Please for the love of god don’t make me use the tag~

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• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s something to be said for a computer that’s as dumb as a calculator.

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• Blackfeathr@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They were troubleshooting a GoPro earlier too, lol. Was interesting, same problems up in space as we have down here.

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• gergolippai@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  why would you want to have email on a spaceship? why do they need email on a spaceship?

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  just use Teams

  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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• prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is a fairly common government furnished equipment issue lmao

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Have you tried turning it off and then on again?

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Guess NASA didn’t want them writing SMTP rules while circling the moon.

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