Put your money where your mouth is and open source the Tesla software. Do it. I fuckin’ dare ya
I want a world where anyone can go to space. It the thing I wanna do the most. But I’m not rich and I’m no super smart and I have awful health.
I know what you mean, but if it’s any consolation, you are in space.
I want to be in space by myself
How do you know you aren’t alone?
Because of all the noisy motherfuckers around me all the time.
My dog barks at walls and is constantly reminding me of the inevitability of our ultimate demise.
I’m sure she hears things.
Blanket fort?
I mean, you right lol
We gotta figure out a better way than strapping ourselves to a continuously exploding bomb and pulling some serious Gs for 8 minutes.
Wonder how some of those SSTO space plane projects are doing…there was a British one I can’t remember. Used hybrid air-breathing scramjets, switching to internal oxidizer once it was going fast and high enough.
Space planes carry along heavy-as-fuck wings, control surfaces and a lot of other bullshit that’s only useful inside the atmosphere, and which massively increase fuel consumption for every single maneuver while your space plane is actually where you want it to do stuff - in space. And the only benefit is that the atmosphere helps lift and fuel your vehicle to about 10% of orbital velocity. The other 90% it will have to accelerate just like any other rocket.
The SpaceX approach is much better: Land and reuse all parts of your rocket, but don’t carry them with you further than where they’re useful. Rockets leave the atmosphere where wings would work within a few minutes anyway.
Yeah but…most people’s grandparents aren’t going to be riding rockets. This isn’t sustainable for widespread access to space.
Open sourcing the falcon 9 software would almost definitely be a violation of ITAR… On second thought it would be fun to see him go to prison.
Source code is protected under 1st
I think there has always been and always will be exceptions for military technology.
That’s like saying state secrets are protected under the 1st lol
I don’t think it’s true
Source code is
While courts have ruled source code is first amendment protected. Your statement is still very very wrong. Just because it’s first amendment protected doesn’t mean it can’t be classified normally or made illegal to leak because of ITAR.
But go leak some of the source code from XKeyscore or a schematic of a pair of GPNVG if you’d like to test our code classification and ITAR systems.
I’m not taking about sealing some government secrets. I’m taking about building a fun hobby project with some sort of targeting system. Think a small rocket that drops a payload or a water balloon launcher.
Okay but that has no relevance at all to what the comment you were replying to was about. Companies contracted by the government and DOD specifically to create rockets are guaranteed to be covered by ITAR. Meaning open sourcing them would be impossible, regardless of the first amendment or anything else.
There’s a massive massive difference between the software for a DOD contracted rocket like SpaceX makes, and hobbyist rocketry.
In the U.S., you can build rockets all day long, they cannot be guided.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2332g
You’d have to convince the feds it was never designed to be a weapon. Good luck with that.
Oh yeah I forgot about the first anyways the guy who really killed JFK is
Nothing could possibly go wrong open sourcing a
misslerocket guidance system…
Do you really want countries like North Korea, Iran and China having access to software that would certainly be used for missile guidance?
Why not. If everyone has it, everyone will be afraid to use it, because they know everyone else has it, but what they don’t know is how many have developed a working prototype.
Yes like in America gun violence never happens because everyone has guns.
Hmmm
Ehh, mutually assured destruction has worked so far, but there are some crazy assholes out there who might not act rationally.
Yeah, that is true.
No, not just open, free it entirely. License the code under a GPL license.
It’ll probably be MIT… just like the rest of the corps.
Fuck. That does it. I’m off to BSD.
Eww, we stepped in some Elon… 🤢
oh, so that’s why its so musky in here
oh look, its the same time as that stopped clock.
29.2 tweets a day?
At a rate of 10,658 tweets a year, I’d hope he tweets at least one useful thing
Last year’s winner was Amber Heard in Overwatch cosplay
29.2 tweets a day?
The brilliant businessman is clearly hard at work.
Tesla board member and close Musk confidant Antonio Gracias once took Musk’s phone away to prevent him from tweeting late into the night, Isaacson said during a Twitter Spaces event on Wednesday.
“At one point when Elon was firing off tweets without filtering them in the least, they were on a trip and Antonio took his iPhone — Elon’s iPhone — and locked it in the hotel safe with Antonio punching in the code so that Elon couldn’t get up at 3 a.m. and start tweeting again,” Isaacson said, describing Gracias as “one of Elon’s closest friends.”
Musk later got hotel security to open the safe at around 3 a.m. so he could start tweeting again, Isaacson said.
The biographer added that Musk is “almost addicted to the drama that comes with Twitter” and sees owning Twitter as a way he can be “king of the playground.”
“It’s something he loves — loves almost to the point of compulsion,” Isaacson said, adding that some of his friends, including his brother Kimbal Musk, attempted to convince him not to buy Twitter.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tesla-board-member-once-locked-172209587.html
I’d hope he tweets at least one useful thing
Nope.
inbefore Musk-OS
Linusk
My money is on MusX
XOS
OS X
Wait a second…
forks Hannah Montana
Creates Tesla Texas linux
Hahaha haha, right, right, hahahaha
Please don’t fucking touch anything to do with Linux Musk. Please.
Linux Musk Cinnamon. Yours for a modest subscription.
Linux Musk sounds like the evil counterpart to Mint. A fork of Red Star OS, etc.
Crazy, rich South Africans is how we got Ubuntu
But would you like to upgrade to Ubuntu pro?
Ubuntu pro is not at all a bad thing. It’s free to consumers but you can also just ignore it if you don’t need it.
Can we disable the prompt?
The ssh prompt? I think you just need to mess with the files in /etc/update-motd.d
The prompt on the desktop that says there and pending updates that can only be installed with Pro.
I’ve been using Ubuntu for about 3, years now on the desktop and I don’t know what you’re talking about. Where exactly is that prompt? And they’re not hiding updates behind pro, it’s just extra on top of the updates you’d get on other distros.
It’s free?
It is for up to 5 devices, so small-scale homelab stuff can be covered without cost.
How tf does one do that
It’s also how we got snap packages and apartheid, and I’m not even sure which of those is worse. (yes, I’m joking)
Ubuntu is a gateway drug to Arch.
And arch is a gateway drug to NixOS or gentoo
Select your drug now
I have selected Fedora. Where did I go wrong?
Something something IBM something
I smoke my Linux with a filter.
Ah, a Zorin user
I’m an Arch user flirting with the idea of NixOS. Is it too late to save me?
Hes to far gone SMH
I ran nix for awhile and it was super stable, i just kinda got bored of using it. I know its really powerful with nixpills and flakes.
Could you elaborate on this for those of us who don’t know the context?
Ubuntu
Canonical, the company that is responsible for Ubuntu, was founded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to sell B2B Linux tech support.
Aha thanks for letting me know 👍
I don’t fall for this, I switch back to Windows
Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn.
A broken clock is right twice a day.
An ultra wealthy idiot sometimes says something correct by complete mistake
ooh I like that one!
You know what they say about stopped clocks.
No grains no gains
Huh?
He’s just mad Bill Gates is still shorting Tesla lol
Especially since Gates won that bet, last time Tesla was that low is at the end of 2020
Time to switch to BSD
So PlayStation os?
Hey, if it works for gamers, it works for me.
Fuck off Musk.