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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

Houston, I've dropped the stilus! Noise iiiiii

Eheeeeeh can I go get it? Noise iiiiii

Negative! That's a negative young man! You shouldn't have been playing on it during flight, you dad told you to put it away! You're supposed to be there in the moment and enjoy the flight and to look back at planet earth as the pale blue ball. Now sit there and wait until the engine stops.

[–] fenrasulfr@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

That is probably why Microsoft removed the BSOD, so that they can deny being responsible for the death of the astronauts.

All jokes aside, I imagine it is a heavily curated version of Windows with only the strict nescessary for operating the systems and multiple redundencies. I can't imagine NASA risking a disaster while their budgets are being slashed.

[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I believe it was the 2006/7 Seattle New Years or 4th of July fireworks that had been rigged up to orchestrate by "the latest microsoft technology" and the thing refused to execute and they rebooted the machine three times before someone just gave up and went and hit the firework triggers manually. Most people are pretty sure it was a wide beta version of Vista.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Windows 11 is a hot pile of garbage. Windows 10 was a "better" choice TBH

[–] mech@feddit.org 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

RHEL 7 would have been an even better choice, though.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

And Rocky would be an even better choice.

[–] mech@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure you can't get approval for a community-maintained OS without enterprise support to send people to the moon.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

NASA are big fans of FOSS Linux.

I don’t like depending on corporations for anything and I’m not even a government agency or launching rockets.

[–] mech@feddit.org 3 points 6 hours ago

RHEL 7 is also FOSS Linux, though.

[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I saw him typing in his pin code too. It was 3939.

[–] mech@feddit.org 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

brb hacking the moon mission

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

When watching the launch, I just imagined if a random fan was in charge, and it suddenly became a kerbal mission.

No fuel and orbiting for 400+ days? Jeb will be fine...

[–] Jomega@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Doesn't NASA use older tech because it's more secure? I think I remember reading that somewhere.

[–] mech@feddit.org 10 points 7 hours ago

Yes, they used to use Debian Oldoldstable on Thinkpads in the ISS. Don't know if they still do.

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I was always told it had to do with how long it took to get things approved. I remember when it was a big deal that the space shuttles were upgraded to 486s… in 2002.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

it's also because the smaller a transistor is, the more sensitive it is to cosmic rays. and there are a lot more cosmic rays in space than on earth. you can "rad-harden" them, but there are physical limits. as a result the most popular cpu architecture in space is the RAD750, based on the PowerPC 750 from 1997. the perseverance rover and the james webb space telescope are basically underclocked gamecubes, or those candy-colored imacs. like, perserverance runs at 133MHz and has 128MB of RAM.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 66 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

At this point, I'd feel much safer on a Win10 powered spaceship than a Win11 one. At least it isn't "30% AI-generated".

[–] musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 21 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"The trajectory of your ship has changed because a critical windows update rebooted your ship during launch. You are now heading directly into the sun. Press the task bar for a list of AI suggested solutions."

-Ground control

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 hours ago

Look to the right end of the taskbar for the weather in your destination as well as the latest UV index

[–] lime@feddit.nu 78 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

could be worse. last year, deutsche bahn put up a job ad looking for a developer familiar with windows 3.1 in a networked environment to work on their fleet of high speed trains.

[–] mech@feddit.org 69 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] lime@feddit.nu 17 points 13 hours ago

clippy is too modern for the ICE.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 19 points 15 hours ago

Industrial embedded software is such a shitshow. Somehow Microsoft convinced companies that Windows is a great solution for controlling heavy machinery.

Tbh there's no reports of that choice leading to actual accidents, but still you're stuck with an old version of Windows with no possibility of upgrade.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

On the plus side, you might also end up maintaining their own Linux distribution Linux4ICE (or the newer one called EULE) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 12 hours ago

specifically i think it's the speedometers that run windows for workgroups. it might be one of those controlled systems you can't switch out without recertifying everything.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 51 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

I program for ships (the water kind) and buddy, you ain't seen nothin'. I'm talking server infrastructure from 1991. Spaghetti code from the 80's. I had a program that had to run on a dos box, and we had to replace the whole thing because the original developer fucking DIED and no one could read his shit.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Hire me...... a greybeard that does cobol and fortran

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 hours ago

the original developer fucking DIED and no one could read his shit.

Now that's how to secure job security

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like a lot of people are in the bank of "why change of it ain't broke?" That's how you have people working some CNC machines on hardware and software available when the business started.

[–] Glemek@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

There are still manual machinists around who have jobs like bore a few individual holes on some weldment.

[–] tjsauce@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

So DOSBOX has a place in industrial settings? Glad it's open source

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I worked in medical electronic manufacturing. Changing a single setting for ease of use to the operator was planned as a 2 year project. Literally change a 0 to 1 in one of the files....

[–] mech@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

A friend of mine writes code for the control systems in nuclear power plants. He told me, on average he writes 13 pages of documentation for each line of code.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'd imagine that one is because of medical more than anything else. There are all sorts of regulations around medical devices. That slows shit down.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago

Absolutely. I got well acquainted with the regulations. The sad part is it was so slow to update anything nothing got updated.

This system needs to be operational by next week. It will be a month before its well made. This needs to be operational by next week. Ok, but then we can fix it right?

Not to mention any changes to anything got evaluated as either a notice update, a 90 day submission, or a full submission(6 months - 2 years depending on fda, bsi and severity of change). That's in addition to the actual work. I could make a change in a afternoon and may see it in production next year.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 26 points 15 hours ago

Opens Windows.

Air escapes. Asphyxiate.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 25 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Your rocket will ignite in fifteen minutes.

Actually, it's looking more like six days.

No wait, thirty seconds.

[–] Fetus@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago

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Windows is installing updates. Please don't turn off your computer.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago
[–] Murse@slrpnk.net 10 points 13 hours ago

"T minus 10... 9... 8... 7..." System restarting for updates, do not power off... ... ... Yo, wanna back up all your shit? Click here to let us save a copy of all your shit to our servers! Ehhh check that out, it's time for your FREE upgrade to Windows 11! Click here to... wow, fucking rude. Alright. How about an office suite? Ya want an office suite?? Nevermind that Office is already installed, this one's special! ...what are you a fucking peasant or something? Alright fine, here's access back to your peasant-ass operating system and an image of a cartoon cat wearing a wrestling belt for some fucking reason. 🖕

"...-T THE FUCK ARE DOING, I SAID ABORT DAMNIT! THE WIND PICKED UP, HARD! YOU CAN'T BRING THE FUEL TANK THROUGH THAT MUCH TURBU--" explodes

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago
[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?

[–] jdr8@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

It’s fine! Totally fine! Because they have Copilot.

Badumm tss

I’ll see myself out…

[–] JamieDub86@piefed.social 4 points 14 hours ago

But does it have an XBox controller?

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Is this better or worse than macOS?