Right idea, wrong number. Satellites in low Earth orbit are typically moving at about 7-8 km/s, depending on the exact altitude. The speed required to get from the surface to deep space (i.e., the “escape velocity”) is 11.2 km/s.

The escape velocity for the Earth is 11.2 km/s. If you shoot a cannonball upward at that speed, it’ll have enough energy to completely leave Earth and never come back.

I understood that reference. ♥️

Insurance never covers damages from war, because that’s a good way to bankrupt the insurance company. Even they don’t have infinite money.

I was skeptical, but the source checks out.

Luminet, J.-P. (1979). “Image of a spherical black hole with thin accretion disk”. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 75: 228–235. Bibcode:1979A&A…75…228L

Canada was an open participant in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, and a clandestine participant in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which kinda sounds like picking a fight to me.

OK, now explain why you can’t find a decent ISP in a major American city. (That’s right, it’s because of monopolies and enshittification.)

JAQing off

Were you talking to John Carmack or John Connor?

What? This is a press release from the California Attorney General literally taking about what they are doing in court right now.

How do you go from that to “thEy’Re DoiNg NothIng”?

I never knew bands could reproduce by mitosis.

They want US$7,000 for a chair and some monitor support arms? I want to try one, but not that much.

This is just for city of Los Angeles, which is a small portion of Los Angeles county, let alone the entire state of California.

NVR = Network Video Recorder. It’s the box that has the hard drive(s) to record all the video streams coming in from the cameras over WiFi or Ethernet.

I have a Reolink setup that’s entirely air-gapped. No app required, just configure everything through the NVR unit.

Ah, the classic “all eggs in one basket” strategy.

Relevant song: Just Glue Some Gears On It and Call It Steampunk

ISO8601 / RFC3339 gang represent. You’ll have to take four digit years from my cold, dead hands.

Meanwhile in space: “We’re rich!” x Infinity

A lot of open-source software uses copyleft licenses like GPL. If a company uses that code to build its own products, then some or all of their new code may also become open source. This is an important part of how open-source projects stay open. Organizations like FSF have taken big companies to court over this and won.

AI companies trained their slop-generators on that open-source code. In many cases, it will reproduce it line-for-line. But courts currently hold that the generated code is no longer subject to the original copyright restrictions. It’s nearly impossible to publish open-source software without being scraped for AI training.