Notices by Shantara (shantara@mastodon.social)

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@arstechnica “I don’t like X. I wanted to try X to see if I would like it. Nope, still don’t like it”

While this can have some interest as a personal story, this article is completely useless for someone who’s making a product purchasing decision.

@arstechnica Given's Google past track record, I'll believe their promise to support their products when I see it. Ask me again in about 7 years from now.

@arstechnica Haven’t read this one yet, but there’s another book on the subject that I can highly recommend - “Humans to Mars. Fifty Years of Mission Planning, 1950–2000” by David S. F. Portree. It’s available for free on NASA website.
The main thread that goes through the entire book is that the Mars mission planning was constrained mainly by financial considerations and a lack of political support, and not as much by technical considerations.

@arstechnica “X user quits paying for Twitter Blue to protest X commandeering his account.”

That'll teach them a lesson!