Category Archives: Technology and Society
Starship Troopers
This looks potentially promising, but I hate to get my hopes up.
Bringing Ancients To Life
Stunning sculptures when they are given life by AI pic.twitter.com/P0LoJVFKip
— Rose (@simple2work) March 15, 2025
Crew Or Automated
An interesting thread:
Will the flight crew get to “drive” Starship HLS during terminal landing on the Moon, or will landing be fully automated? The idea of a pilot landing something so tall and massive by hand on rough terrain seems a little… difficult? But if there’s no crew in the loop, how will… pic.twitter.com/338ApLPcLx
— Dr. Phil Metzger (@DrPhiltill) March 14, 2025
Warfighting In Space
What weapons the Space Force thinks it needs.
Linux Update Problem
When I ‘dnf -y update’ it downloads all the packages, but at the end crashes with this error message:
Importing OpenPGP key 0x7FAC5991:
UserID : “Google, Inc. Linux Package Signing Key linux-packages-keymaster@google.com“
Fingerprint: 4CCA1EAF950CEE4AB83976DCA040830F7FAC5991
From : https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
The key was successfully imported.
Importing OpenPGP key 0xD38B4796:
UserID : “Google Inc. (Linux Packages Signing Authority) linux-packages-keymaster@google.com“
Fingerprint: EB4C1BFD4F042F6DDDCCEC917721F63BD38B4796
From : https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
The key was successfully imported.
Transaction failed: Signature verification failed.
OpenPGP check for package “google-chrome-stable-134.0.6998.35-1.x86_64” (/var/cache/libdnf5/google-chrome-6ed7e4f336f6863c/packages/google-chrome-stable-134.0.6998.35-1.x86_64.rpm) from repo “google-chrome” has failed: Import of the key didn’t help, wrong key?
Any idea how to tell it to ignore this and just do the other updates? I don’t see any obvious options on “dnf update.”
Thanks for the advice in comments. Unfortunately, I can’t deal with it until I get back from a trip on Friday.
[Friday update]
The problem seems to have resolved itself while I was gone. I updated last night with no issues.
About That Falcon 9 Booster Loss
It was caused by a fuel leak.
Leaks happen.
Utterly Compelling Historical Research
The figure we know as "JD Vance" was likely a historic person only in the sense that King Arthur was.
— G.S. Quay (@hemingquay) March 7, 2025
A political leader by that name probably lived in the early third millennium, but the figure that's come down to us in the sources is likely an amalgamation of traditions,… pic.twitter.com/zDNXfMp5K3
The Growing Business Of Space
An interesting interview with an economist, with transcript.
About To Launch
Sorry for not starting this post earlier, but comments are open.