// A developer walks into a job interview

Job Interviewer: "What's your experience with Git?"

Developer: "Oh, I know all the important commands. git clone, git add, git commit, git push, ......"

Job Interviewer: "Sounds good. What about git rebase?"

Developer: (Sweating nervously) "...git blame?"

*Everyone in the room laughs because they've all been there.*

@zstg

You're very welcome!

And thanks for chiming in on that other convo bringing to light Iceshrimp and it's capabilities. I really believe there needs to be a concerted effort to raise awareness within the Fediverse itself that masto is but one of the myriad solutions, and a lackluster one at that.

Apologies for whatever mangled that first response though, lolz.

@zstg

wow! I don't know what went wrong, but I tested the post above in two different Markdown editors and everything looked good, so I'm going to leave that and post elsewhere, tagging you, so you get everything syntactically correct and intact, in the order it was penned...

brb ;)

@zstg

I initially followed a Youtube vid on it a couple of months after the VoD was published. Everything went according to plan, pretty much exactly a year ago by my estimation, since I was staying in a cabin at an RV park for a couple of weeks in Northern California and attempted this feat on an Android - DON'T DO THAT, "Oh, Cringe!".

So, the UX was so atrocious that I eventually gave up trying to deploy my 'forever free Oracle cloud server', but I succeeded in setting up my account and everything else.

There's like, two levels of account/login involved, so keep very verbose notes of your progress (I Keep everything in my .kdbx databse - KeepassXC is really good for that), you'll need to refer back regularly when logging in, etc., to your control panel(s).

At first, I reached an impasse with some sort of spam/fraud trap and the account was immediately flagged as suspicious; but this wasn't the end of the story. I had already expended some effort on this and so took it upon myself to dig around and find an actually support email PoC address.

I wrote to that address, explained that I'm a real person, and requested their assistance in unlocking my account. I made sure that anyone reading the email would immediately realize that there was no way I could be a robot by personalizing my request, leaving phone and other contact info, Etc., and Several days later I eventually did receive a response notifying me that I had passed their muster and everything was good to go.

Like Everything government, IBM, and Oracle, it's a UI mess. IMO, they could launch a certificate program in proficiency for navigating those resources but I digress...

Okay, here's what I keep running up against whenever I actually try to launch my VPS (cloud server). I get everything filled out from the pick list, in the particular region where this Free Forever virtual machine can be spun up, and then whenver I've clicked on deploy (or whatev), it comes back with some sort of component that isn't actually free - I can't recall actually, perhaps 'maintenance' for the public binding of my IP address?

I'll go in and check that again, maybe update, but in the meantime if you do that first please do @mention me here, DM me, or ping me via one of the other direct contact methods in my profile. It would really be nice to have one of those, of course it would be low volume traffic, but just a very small utility box for storing a few personal things, Running BIND for DNS, or a PostFix/IMAP server for a single account/domain, even a small (non-AcitivyPub powered) personal website would be really nice to have - I don't think Oracle is going away anytime soon ;)

tl;dr:

* Yes, you'll simply SSH into your box once you deploy it.

* Yes, IIRC, you may be required to either generate, or upload your public RSA or Ed25519 key that you generate with OpenSSH. It's a really good idea to use an SSH key anyway.

* Although not strictly needed, you're probably going to want to have at least one hostname for your box - you can get free hostnames and manage your DNS for those domains here. I trust Joshua and he's been around for over two decades providing quality free and premium DNS. There are hundreds of domains to choose from, and I recommend you take a look at how many years they've been part of the project to ensure the continued longevity of your hostname.

* Last but not least, I strongly recommend moving your OpenSSH server daemon to listen on a non-standard port for incoming connections, use ALLOW, listing your non-priv username on the host and then doing an su - to root when you need it.

I usually recommend the following changes to your /etc/ssh/ssh_config to accomplish this on any machine you administer:

PasswordAuthentication no # you're going to use your SSH key
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no # This is also password based authentication
PubkeyAuthentication yes
PermitRootLogin no # obvious, but change to yes if you include 'root' in "AllowUsers"
Port 51555 # or some other unused high port number above 1024
AllowUsers joeuser janeuser # space delimitted - only these users can login to the system, yes, you can include 'root' if you want but I recommend against this. I also like to put this as the last line in the file for convenience of editing.

what happened to cobol? 🤔

That's good news!

https://news.itsfoss.com/archlinux-arm-riscv/

#archlinux #linux

Okay it's one of those, "What's peculiar here?" kinda things.

Consider the source itself. And I certainly don't mean code of any sort. 'Why' would 'They' cite Wikipedia, as good a resource as anyone might think it to be?

Why not cite yourself? Instead of citing someone else - who will merely turn right around and cite you as the ultimate source reference?

#FOSS #DOS, get it? I was rather amused. Anyway, Here it is.

#tallship #Microsoft h/t to: @csolisr@azkware.net You can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

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This is an example of a marketplace listing in Flohmarkt.

What "I" did here...

- Went to the "All" tab over at Flensmarkt - Much like PeerTube, there's a Home, Local, and All tab, the latter of which includes items from other instances that you've manually federated with within the radius you've specified from your location.
- Next, there's a choice to make if you're interested in an item. You can register for a local account (I don't see any reason to do that unless you want to post a listing on that particular server), or you can remotely add yourself (like I did). Since the remote features don't quite seamlessly work with Mitra, I tried this from a masto server - no joy. I tried it from another masto server (a masto fork) - no problem this time, even on an older version of masto. That was humorous to me, as I've a bit of disdain for mastopub servers and found it amusing that even some of the instances running the very latest version of masto won't work, while older one's based on forks do; but I've got a twisted sense of humor.
- So next, you can engage with the seller directly from your local instance on most Fediverse platforms (support is added for various additional Fediverse platforms all the time). In this case, (visible because I chose the "All" tab), the particular item was from yet another #Fohmarkt server elsewhere - this is a very nice feature, like #DeSoc #eBay!!!
- From there, once you boost the item in the listing, others can see it in their streams, boost it further, make arrangements directly with the seller, etc. Kinda Kewl.

This is different from how most other attempts to deliver a marketplace into the #Fediverse. Usually, what I've seen is someone trying to integrate the functionality local to a platform, which networks (via ActivityPub federation) only with other like platforms. That's not a Fediverse solution - that's a platform solution and leaves everyone else on the fediverse not running that particular platform disenfranchised.

For example, using the Epicyon server platform as an example, it is first to be understood that this particular server platform is designed for very small numbers of user accounts per each instance. You also have to manually contact the admin of remote Epicyon servers yourself (or be contacted by them), then mutually agree to federate each other's marketplaces separately and distinct from any wider federation configurations your server has. Considering the inconveniences with locating other Epicyon instances that may or may not have enabled and made use of their marketplaces and establishing a mutual publishing agreement, coupled with the likelihood that each of your instances between 1 and 10 users, posting an item in the marketplace has a pretty high probability of being more effort than its worth - especially since it dosn't federate with any other Fediverse platforms.

Others follow a similar design, but also generally operate like normal #ActivityPub federation using a blacklist method, as well as being able to accommodate potentially hundreds, or even thousands of users per each instance (yeah, I know, semi-monolithic); so even if those marketplaces didn't already automatically federate across the Fediverse with all instances of other like server platforms, it's still a huge improvement over the previously discussed smolweb platform's model.

But they're still not Fediverse wide...

This is where Flohmarkt really starts to shine - it's fully Federating (Still a WIP wrt some platforms - see the wiki for particulars) across the entire #ActivityPub portion of the Fediverse.

You can check for the latest particulars on Flohmarkt's current Federation status if you're interested in your particular Fediverse platform and level of interoperation with Flohmarkt instances.

I do have some criticisms of the particular functionality in federating that the developers have chosen to incorporate, however. Basically, The server admin still needs to manually federate item listings between the local instance and other remote Flohmarkt servers. It doesn't need to be this way however, but one must concede that after going over the documentation and seeing that the concern's of the dev team are over unchecked spam, phishing, poor quality ads, etc., I find it to be a very reasonable concern, although I'm still not comfortable with how the Dev team has hard-coded this conditional into the server's capability, when a slightly different approach might afford self-hosters much greater flexibility and incintive for adoption; namely:

- Make the current model the default
- Enable other configurations for federating between other Flohmarkt servers (and eventually, other platform marketplaces) via either simple configuration files, runtime arguments, or via a GUI in an admin control panel, including that of an uninhibited fully blacklist model of sharing listings between Flohmarkt servers.

I generally tend to think that hard-wired, opinionated configuration choices are a less than ideal (usually bad idea) than acknowledging issues surrounding such decisions and then choosing a default while affording server admins (or users themselves) of being able to manage the options for themselves. This is one of those cases where I feel it could make a huge difference in the viabilty and adoption potential for this, "Strictly Federating Marketplace" Fediverse platform.

The other (very minor) criticism I have for Flohmarkt is the pin & string radius solution as it is currently implemented:

- It's determined by the server admin, instance wide
- It's determined by the server location, or some other arbitrarily decided locale

The radius is a great idea, but I think the following would go a long way towards improving the utility of this feature set:

- The server admin decides whether to enable user-level radius configs or server level, as is the case at this time.
- Local users determine, and have control over whether an established is applied to either their entire user profile's repertoire of items listed, or on a per item basis.
- If he user chooses a per item radius, each listing could have a different radius established.
- The local users have location radius specifications that can be based on different criteria, such as pinning a location on a map of their choice, by country (the free IP2Location databases can accommodate this behavior).
- The user's particular radius settings for each listing must be preserved and observed by all federating remote Flohmarkt server instances (but not by individual remote user shares/boosts, which should remain unrestricted).

This Radius feature is extremely powerful and I think that every effort of the development team to exploit the potential of this feature set should be a major consideration. Eventually, Flohmarkt servers will federate with other server platform types, exchanging listings between say, Flohmarkt servers and Friendica servers, etc.. but the awesome power unleashed through following and boosting capabilities that are already fully available to remote users to share with others holds the potential at this very time to make Flohmarkt item listings ubiquitous across the entire Fediverse, ... And that is really kewl :)

Well, I'd rather tease your interest and see you go checkout more for yourself rather than feed you everything you wanna know about a really kewl #social_commerce communications tool - you really should experience how kewl it is for yourself.

I couldn't locate a #Matrix support room for Flohmarkt like most contemporary software products maintain in the FOSS world, but the more traditional irc chan #flohmarkt at #LiberaChat is readily available, and of course, there's the issue tracker at the Codeberg repo I previously linked to above.

What are your thoughts and impressions on this novel approach to embedding the marketplace commerce structure into potentially everyone's social streams in the form of both a dedicated platform and as passive feeds via the intervention of other #Fedizens who share and boost individual items and listings in Flohmarkt?

I hope that helps! Enjoy!

#tallship #FOSS #Marketplace #eBay #I_can_haz_Cheezburgerz? 🍔
@grindhold @me @flohmarkt_support #flohmarkt_support

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RE: https://fedi.markets/users/Yonggan/items/f7f7f8d1-6279-4249-890a-bdd97340d218

@Yonggan

@coffeegeek

Hi Mark,

I've got a follow up here for you :)

A few items, but for the tl;dr please scroll down towards the end. The first few appear to be precisely what you asked for, the third is my rather enthusiastic recommendation.

I believe this first one is the plugin I mentioned, and was found to be quite lacking, further, frustrating to most - This showcases the glaring problem associated with conflating mastodon with that of the #Fediverse - most things break, early and often, over and over again.

- A simple share button that breaks about a fourth of share attempts:

Here's Terrence Eden's article on the Share on Mastodon plugin. I thought a link to this article best, as it leaves you lots of breadcrumbs to pick up along the way to the plugins page at WordPress. Including Jan's blog article. I believe this was the one with the least utility, that caused the most problems with people, which is quite a bit more than frustrating for a lot of people, angering many. masto isn't even the big man on campus anymore - those days have passed, and are in the past; it's just one of many increasingly popular platforms that people use in the ActivityPub portion of the Fediverse.

I believe Jan is incorrect on the number of images that masto can accommodate - yes it used to be four, but lately, when authoring articles in the Fediverse with platforms that accommodate inline media in the posts, I've noticed that masto actually will include 5 images, the rest it summarily discards, making for an even more confusing event for those on masto (NGI Zero funding has just been secured BTW, to at least bring masto into the 21st century with Quote Posts - like pretty much everyone else has had for a long time, some for a decade now).

Perhaps in time this will improve, or you can get into it with the aid of some of the others below, or just move past all that and install the plugin at the end of it all which performs famously ;)

- Conflating mastopub with the Fediverse is a Bad thing:

I've heard a few good testimonies of how well the Fediverse share button performs. Note that no where in the description or documentation is the word mastodon used; no one is mislead to believe that there is such a thing as a mastodon network - because there isn't.

- People should be offered the opportunity to share interesting content into (and throughout) the Fediverse, not some small slice of the available platform choices existing there:

This next option was heavily inspired by the old AddToAny plugin back when a kazillion different silos were popular and extant. I remember using that plugin to support sharing across upwards of 30 or so various social networking, bookmarking, link aggregation, and other types of obscure sites in far flung places of the world. I've also heard some good things about this solution too - please take note of all the certified platforms that it supports, and yes, mastopub is one of those ;)

If you do choose this method, do please join us in the Fediverse-City Matrix room to offer a review / evaluation as to how well Fediverse Share works for you. Several project leads there are always interested in viable solutions that are inclusive and accommodate the wider community at large without any marginalization through misleading brand recognition.

I do like the colorful buttons too in the demo here. I also like the non-traditional "Lorem ipsum" example prose too. I find it refreshing :)

- Either through simple naivety or conscious exclusionary arrogance, here's some other masto branded share options, at least one, IIRC, was much less than satisfactory, but I typically don't traffic mastodon branded things anymore when the insinuation is that the product represents the Fediverse. You may find, however, that one of these is just what you need, and that with a little bit of tweaking will fit nicely into your website's business processes. A little branding can go a long way, but sometimes a solution depends on, for example, a "share API endpoint", not strictly compliant with the W3C's published specifications, that serves to marginalize all other platforms by excluding them (that's commonly regarded as EEE). I'll just post the links w/o commentary:
- mastodon share button
- Share on mastodon button
- MastodonShare
- Toot Proxy
- Yet another mastodon share button
*Share to mastodon

There's another utility by Nikita Karamov (creator of the Toot Proxy above) that doesn't embrace the predatory branding of a diluted trademark:

- Share₂Fedi - Share₂Fedi isn't a button, exactly, but the functionality is there and it is inclusive of the larger diaspora of the ActivityPub powered portions of the Fediverse, avoiding any sort of marginalization as a result of marketing through leveraging overt, and predatory branding campaigns.

Alright, I know you're interested in getting to the good part. Yes, I'm guilty of that same sort of mindset that makes you scroll down to the bottom of the ToS before you can click on the submit button. But before we get to the tl;dr:, we have one more which in spirit at the very least, is promising, I encourage you to read it:

- Honorable mention goes to shareOnFediverse, which works even with GNU Social, Diaspora, PixelFed, Hubzilla, Lemmy, Friendica, Kbin, Misskey, Pleroma, Etc.

# tl;dr:

That bit of markdown above (the H1) may not show up on your platform, depending. Regardless, you've arrived. Here's the solution that I personally recommend, a very fine solution that not only allows one to share their content into the Fediverse by providing links back to their website, but providing the gateway for people in the Fediverse, #Fedizens, if you will, to engage the authors of news and blog and lifestyle and cookbook style tutorial and HowTo sites, directly, with two way commenting and sharing of dialog in true open and participatory fashion:

First, (and it has indeed come a long way since the post of this article), a page on how exceedingly simple it is to install and configure this, the WordPress ActivityPub Plugin:

- Making the Social Web a Better Place: ActivityPub for WordPress Joins the Automattic Family

Bear in mind that the plugin was in beta at the time, so never mind the sourpusses in the comments who wanted it, and yet couldn't have it because they weren't self-hosting #WordPress. I must reiterate that development has come a long way, the plugin is in general production release and available for any WordPress site, managed, self-hosted, or otherwise, and it's got a powerful feature set.

Posting links back to clear-net websites on the open Internet is fine, it's not like clicking a share to Faceplant or InstaSPAM button when you share an article that you like into the Fediverse, After all, it's every blogger's mission to drive traffic to their own site (not Faceplant or InstaSPAM), but then your visitors are limited to offering comment replies in the manner of a form submission on the site that really only allows you to subscribe your email for subsequent comment notifications for the article or thread that your commenters spawned.

What the #ActivityPub plugin enables for those who engage with you, is to provide an instant audience of several million MAU (monthly active users) throughout the Fediverse who will be able to directly participate and engage in the conversation from their own native Fediverse platforms, receiving replies as well.

I've called this, A Game Changer, before. A few times, actually. @matthias@pfefferle.org @pfefferle and his small team of developers created and curated this plugin that enables this hitherto (mostly) inaccessible feature set for the masses. Literally anyone in the ActivityPub portion of the Fediverse can now comment and reply to the comments of others on WordPress sites, which is pretty much like 40% of the entire word wide web nowadays, and you can check this out for yourself right now by visiting his blog at https://notiz.blog/ in the comment section of any one of his articles.

There were some issues, which could be attributed to the predatory marketing practices by Mastodon gGmbH, whereby a lot of what is actually ActivityPub or Fediverse centric was being referred to, and worse, attributed to mastodon in one sense or another, further diluting their trademark which places it in jeopardy of losing its registration (the first item in mastodon's general guidelines states, "Only use the Mastodon marks to accurately identify those goods or services that are built using the Mastodon software." - but the defense of trademarks themselves is another matter entirely, although the discussion has come up many times with the responsible parties, often, in very heated, public, forums.

Anyway, Mattias and his team have become incrementally more mindful of placing emphasis upon #Fediverse, the brand, instead of masto, the brand, and that's a good thing because it goes a long way toward correcting the existing confusion that exists due to the abuse certain marketing personalities have, and continue to pursue. Indeed, the plugin itself is named ActivityPub, which is appropriate - and it certainly is not an exclusive tool for mastopub.

You can download the latest and greatest version of the WordPress ActivityPub Plugin HERE, which was released just 3 days ago, and I know because I was on the periphery of an issue that was resolved, making this an even more relevant and quickly becoming (IMO) essential tool for #DeSoC and Fediverse aware bloggers, journalists, chefs, and anyone else that knows they can benefit from deploying their own WordPress site for business or personal use in communicating with the world beyond the walls of the deprecated, proprietary, privacy mining monolithic silos.

In wrapping things up here, it goes without saying that one of the very most powerful aspects of the #WordPress_ActivityPub_Plugin isn't actually that people can respond to your published articles from the comfort of myriad clients such as #FediLab, #Husky, #Phanpy, or the native web or desktop interface for their Fediverse instance, but the reality that they can simply follow you, on your blog, and receive your blog or news or HowTo articles in their streams whenever you publish a new item. From there, they can boost (more exposure for your published works), reply (of course), and even offer a bit of narrative introducing your work with a #Quote_Post. It's like a butterfly affect, or concentric circles emanating from one little plop of a pebble into a pond.

Oh, one more thing, there's nothing preventing you from including one of the pretty little Fediverse Share buttons either, in conjunction with the ActivityPub plugin. After all, some folks like to comment and let you know their thoughts, while others prefer to simply share it with others who will also tell two friends or themselves offer comments to your articles - it's a win win for everyone on both sides of the line that divides the Fediverse from those so-called Big Tech institutions comprising the walled gardens of subjugation by the #Sunnyvale_Syndrome.

I hope you've found this helpful, I didn't want to send you on an errand of discovery without making sure that there's been some decent coverage of several different alternatives currently available for you.

All the best!

#tallship #FOSS, #Automattic @pfefferle

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discovering that fewer cybertrucks have been sold than Sinclair C5s has amused me greatly. and honestly, if you want to drive a weird vehicle, the C5 is far more fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

Going back to Konversation for GUI stuffs. DCC file send/receive is kinda important to me. For everything else, including a lot of Matrix usage, WeeChat is still the Kewlist :p

https://bugs.quassel-irc.org/projects/quassel-irc/wiki/Migrating_from_Monolithic_to_Client+Core - just ain't gonna cut it right now.

I still love HexChat.

Honorable mention goes to Halloy, which I think looks really good, supports tiling, and says it supports DCC Send - I don't mind manipulating config files by hand, and I might check it out with a FlatPak, but if I'm sufficiently impressed it looks like I'll have to build the .deb and SlackBuild myself, ... Well? Somebody's got to! Right?

#tallship #FOSS #IRC #DCC #GUI #Quassel #Konversation #Halloy #HexChat #WeeChat

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I wrote a very small ActivityPub implementation in Flask/Python which accepts everyone who follows it and can be used as a base for posting / DMing (mostly for my own projects, but I tried to tidy it up a bit).

It's not really intended to be a library, as much as a copy-pastable start for others' exploration. It's less than 200 lines, much of which is actually verbose JSON. Most of the "work" is signing HTTP requests. (It does not validate incoming signatures. 😱​)

https://github.com/insom/pubb

Yes! Yes! Yes!

As the saying goes, "Real BOFH use tar and rsync!"

The blog article is an excellent treatment of using tar along with SSH to effect a reliable backup plan and schedule.

Another couple of great fav GoTo solutions of mine have always been Duplicity and Duply for those not comfortable rolling their own scripts w/SSH, tar, and/or rsync ​:batman:​

Thank you very much for sharing this @nixCraft !!!

#tallship #DR #backup #tar #rsync #SSH #Systems_Administration You can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

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RE: mastodon.social/users/nixCraft/statuses/112276456842443382

STS-1: The first launch of the Space Shuttle - Columbia, with astronauts Robert Crippen and John Young crewing on 12 April 1981: https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/launch-of-sts-1-from-ksc-complex-39

This was not, "The First Space Shuttle". Enterprise was the first space shuttle, enshrined on the Intrepid Museum at Pier 86 in Hell's Kitchen.

Enterprise was deployed into service on 17 September 1976 without engines or a heat shield in order to test shuttle transport, re-entry, landing and runway taxiing. Originally and eventually twice intended to be retrofitted for launch duty those subsequent plans were scrubbed because there was a slight design change during the construction of Columbia, so Challenger was constructed from later versions of test article components from the Columbia build.

Enterprise, it's namesake itself an homage to the various vessels named U.S.S. Enterprise; NCC-1701 of Star Trek fame, CVN-65 the very first nuclear powered carrier, and of course CV-6 - The "Big E", responsible for having downed a thousand planes, and destroying 300 ships in WWII.

USS Enterprise, NCC-1701 in 1966

USS Enterprise, CVN-65 - the world's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier

"The Big E", as CV6, perhaps the most famous of all the incarnations of the USS Enterprise are, and the most decorated ship of WWII

The Second time Enterprise received the nod for retrofit it was to replace Challenger following her demise, but Endeavor was built instead from again, leftovers.

At 59 seconds, Challenger was go at throttle up, then children and their parents all around the world stopped breathing

The crew of Challenger for mission STS-51L

The incident in this article by NASA is about the first flight, not the first Space Shuttle, as saying so is disingenuous and misleading. Only after a long career was Enterprise retcon'd into prototype status, as it had been designed to always be an orbiter.

STS-1 was the first manned space shuttle launch, with two astronauts aboard - mission commander Robert Young and pilot Robert Crippen, who would make the approach and bring down Columbia onto the runway at Edwards Air Force base in manual deadstick fashion instead of allowing the autopilot computer software to land the spaceship.

Robert L. Crippen manually landing Columbia at Edwards AFB on 14 April 1981.

An interesting fact about the mission that is hardly ever mentioned, but was a very significant source of anxiety and relative uncertainty at the time was that even though Columbia was designed to land by automatic computer controlled software re-entry procedures (aka autopilot), when it eventually did re-enter the atmosphere it was determined on approach of Edwards Air Force Base in California that pilot Robert L. Crippen would manually pilot the spacecraft upon runway approach and subsequently land the space shuttle manually, by hand, without computer assistance.

Also not widely known is the very public existence of a second series of space shuttles, very similar in most respects, and almost identical in many, that were designed <cough, cough>, and built by the Soviet Union - Yup, they worked really well, and they've been keeping them in hangers for almost 40 years in prisine condition.

It takes a lot of care to maintain a fleet of Baran spacecraft.
Russians have bee really good about the upkeep of their Baran space craft, they've even gone so far as to always maintain a backup in case one is scrubbed for a mission at the last minute, with just the right amount of bird guano as a light protective coating.

What happened to that Russian fleet of space shuttles? They sucked, no surprise, bigtime, and only one was ever launched. After that, they were litterally abandoned in their hangers. They even built the world's largest plane to fly these puppies around all over and show them off.

An Antonov AN-225, the worlds largest plane in the world until the Russians destroyed it during the first couple of days of their war against Ukraine. PIggybacked on top is the Baran spacecraft itself.

There have been many subsequent space endeavors by many countries since the United States' space shuttle program, but the experience and information gathered and learned in the process of all the STS series of missions continues to fuel and guide the continuing NASA missions in a way that other space programs could in no way achieve.

So on this day, the 14th of April, the 43rd annivesary of the 1st flight of the space shuttle, take just a moment to ponder what all of the great acheivements were of the 20th century, and how are attitudes have changed with the advent of new technologies, as we're harnessed with new information and understanding of the world we live in. For example, as you'll note, astronauts Young and Crippen are just casually strolling away from Columbia and heading for their shuttle ride and a shower. No Quarantine, like all of the Apollo astronauts returning from the moon had to endure, and for whatever reason, there was actually a computer onboard Columbia that was responsible for automatically taking over the controls of the spacecraft during descent at Mach 25, then acuiring and navigating the landing path, even the landing itself.

John Young and Robert L. Crippen disembarking Columbia after successfully touching down on April 14th, 1981

We can do anything if we put our heads together in cooperation as a team. And let's not forget that Margaret Hamilton put two men on the moon in 1969 with a total of 8k of memory, okay? I'll have more on that in another story.

• Margaret Hamilton in 1995 - the world's first Software Engineer, by the way ;)*

Enjoy!

#tallship #Enterprise #NASA #Space_Shuttle @tallship_ @tallship@SDF.org @tallship@public.mitra.social @tallship_@Flipboard.com I can haz #Cheezburgerz? 🍔

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Thanks Evan, there's a bit to digest there, some of which I agree with, and some of which I don't, between what both you and the Other Evan had to offer.

It's good to get this stuff right out in the open, especially as the Fediverse is currently undergoing yet another paradigmatic shifts, perhaps an evolutionary step, but certainly, a complete game changer from much of the perspective offered in the Evan <==> Evan Essays ;)

https://fediversity.site/item/eed57428-ca9c-4ea1-a398-ef2d7319eff7

I hope that helps! Enjoy!

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #masto_Tron_is_Gone #ActivityPub #Streams #Identity

RE: https://evanp.me/2024/04/14/responses-to-rabble-on-activitypub/

@evanprodromou