The Russians have had to shut down a docking port.
All posts by Rand Simberg
MIT Abandons Its Mission
“…and me.”
This isn’t just Heinlein’s crazy years. As he notes, it is totalitarianism.
A Bad Day For Facebook
As far as I’m concerned, it’s a good day for many of us.
[Mid-afternoon update]
Hackers threaten to reactivate Facebook if their demands aren’t met.
The “Renewable” Fallacy
“…and why I blame Jimmy Carter.“
The Insurrection Hoax
Yes, it was not an “insurrection.”
The New Secession Movement
…continues to grow. Basically, we have states that want to be part of the Republic, and states that do not.
Left-To-Right Political Change
Thoughts from NEO on the social costs.
I was talking to a college roommate about this yesterday, though in his case it wasn’t so much a political change — he’s always been libertarianish — so much as the costs of coming out now.
Safety At Blue Origin
This can’t give Tory Bruno a warm feeling about the engines for Vulcan.
Self-Replicating Protocells
This is an interesting result.
Weird Internet Issue
My desktop has quit communicating with Slack (slack.com). I can access it from a laptop, but not from my desktop. It acts like a DNS issue, but I can ping everything except it. It just started doing this a couple hours ago, and I didn’t change anything. Any ideas?
[Update a while later]
[root@localhost ~]
# ping slack.com
PING slack.com (54.87.197.95) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
— slack.com ping statistics —
14 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 13292ms
Same thing happens when I ping the address directly. So it’s not a DNS issue. Very strange that I can get to it from the Windows laptop, but not the Linux desktop.
[Update late afternoon]
It’s back up. I guess I was one of the one percent.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Aaaaaaand it’s down again. At least now I know there’s nothing I can do about it, and no point in wasting time trying to figure it out. I just have to hope that they’ll get it sorted.