Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Lex Bezos' "Glenn" rocket successfully launched and released two NASA probes, and its reusable first stage landed successfully.

 

[Free]

Lex Bezos' "Glenn" rocket successfully launched and released two NASA probes, and its reusable first stage landed successfully.

If the ESCAPADE satellites successfully reach Mars, Blue Origin will have reached that planet in some capacity long before SpaceX will. Which is a slight embarrassment for them I'd say, even considering the near flybys of Musk's Space Roadster.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

At 10th of November 1995 the Windows Task Manager was born, so it is now 30 years old. His creator Dave Plummer is throwing a small party.

Fun quote: "So I can still trivially find the source code of the task manager online in source code leaks by searching for my reverse phone number. Yes, I still have the same phone number 30 years later - please don't call."

 

[Free]

Do do do, do do do do do.

SpaceX to Tell NASA the Moon Will Have to Wait

A leaked internal document suggests SpaceX could miss NASA’s Artemis 3 deadline by over a year.

gizmodo.com

SpaceX has fallen behind in developing a crewed lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission, prompting the agency to reopen the contract to other providers. The added pressure has pushed SpaceX to revise its strategy, but the new approach still appears insufficient to meet NASA’s target date, leaked proprietary information suggests.

An internal SpaceX document obtained by Politico lays out a new timeline for the Starship Human Landing System (HLS)—one that would put the Artemis 3 astronauts on the Moon by September 2028 at the earliest. That’s more than a year past NASA’s mid-2027 target.

 

[Ellie]

Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet
US company that defends millions of websites against malicious attacks says it believes issue ‘is now resolved’


A key piece of the internet’s usually hidden infrastructure suffered a global outage on Tuesday, causing error messages to flash up across websites.
Cloudflare, a US company whose services include defending millions of websites against malicious attacks, experienced an unidentified problem that meant internet users could not access some of its customers’ websites.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/cloudflare-outage-causes-error-messages-across-the-internet

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Mrs. Quandry's company uses a communication system that has Cloudflare as a component. They were getting errors all morning.

 

[Noodles]

I have 5 domains pointed at my webserver, all are on Cloudflare but I guess only two of them were set up for Cloudflare caching, because only 2 were down.

 

[Khamon]

It was totally Cloudflare. There was no external attack. An update affected a server process that cascaded errors through the grid. They are very sorry and hope they can rebuild our trust in their ability to provide consistent services.

 

[Free]

Cloudflare engineers:

 

[Free]

Oi. One would think he'd write it down somewhere, just in case. Or maybe tattoo it on his palm.

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body

A magician in Missouri lost the password to an RFID microchip embedded in his hand and now he can't access the chip.

futurism.com

A magician in Missouri had a kooky idea: implant a computer chip into his hand and then do some fun magic tricks with it. Too bad he forgot the password.

It sounds like a short story cooked up by Kurt Vonnegut, but it really happened to Zi Teng Wang, a magician and molecular biologist in Missouri — who posted about his predicament in his Facebook account this month, complete with an x-ray picture of his hand showing the white outline of the offending microchip embedded in the meat between his thumb and index finger.

“I’m living my own cyberpunk dystopia life right now, locked out of technology inside my body, and it’s my own damn fault,” wrote Wang, who goes by the stage name Zi the Mentalist.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The collaboration of the year nobody saw coming: fake Linus and real Linus are building a Linux PC together, with real Linus answering many questions from the community.

 

[Free]

Which Linus is the fake one?

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Which Linus is the fake one?

The one on the left. The one on the right is Torvalds.

 

[Free]

The one on the left. The one on the right is Torvalds.

Comedy is really difficult around here these days.

(Both have the name Linus, so calling one a fake Linus is...well...)

 

[Casey Pelous]

The one on the left. The one on the right is Torvalds.

"And the guy in the rear-r-r.......
Was a Methodist."

- Johnny Cash​

 

[Knutz Scorpio]

The collaboration of the year nobody saw coming: fake Linus and real Linus are building a Linux PC together, with real Linus answering many questions from the community.

Would like to watch Linux Linus, but at the moment can't take Spastic Linus, and him being a fanboy makes it worse.
I watch a lot of LTT stuff at times but it depends on my mood.

 

[Khamon]

NGINX is no more: Users scramble as critical open source project left to die

NGINX is an ingress controller in Kubernetes clusters that manages and routes external HTTP and HTTPS traffic to the cluster's internal services based on configurable Ingress rules. It acts as a reverse proxy, ensuring that requests from clients outside the cluster are forwarded to the correct backend services within the cluster according to path, domain, and TLS configuration. As such, it's vital for network traffic management and load balancing.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

If it's so fucking important they can fucking pay for it. Jesus.

What's upsetting people is, as one Reddit Kubernetes user cried: "Retirement of a service of this magnitude should be at minimum of a year. Hell, it's going to take longer than four months to get all the documentation rewritten." He's not wrong.

SO CRACK OPEN YOUR WALLET, SCROOGE.

 

[Casey Pelous]

NGINX is no more: Users scramble as critical open source project left to die

Okay, for me, this mostly read like Mandarin being spoken in a Scottish brogue by a tipsy Lithuanian.

I know a couple of the sites I run for folks use NGINX for the sole reason that the provider's control panel told me switching it on was a good idea. "Something, something, caching. Faster! More betterer!"

Do I need to switch it off now, or ..........................what? Thus far, the provider has not given any guidance on this.

 

[Free]

Do I need to switch it off now, or ..........................what? Thus far, the provider has not given any guidance on this.

Are the sites running NGINX on regular servers, or in Kubernetes containers? If the former, you don't have to change anything.

(The story is not actually about NGINX specifically, but an access controller for NGINX in Kubernetes containers.)