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Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work (www.404media.co)
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[–] Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml 47 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Nice April 1st. I mean that'd be almost as ridiculous as running nuclear subs on Windows, right? Long EOL'd versions at that, eh?

rustles papers

Oh.

[–] mech@feddit.org 19 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

[–] PhatalFlaw@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

On the stream you could very easily see his PIN code being put in, hopefully it's limited to that device!

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Shit, I left my 2FA device at home!

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 hour ago

"please provide fingerprint to verify"

Looks at glove

"Fuck"

[–] mech@feddit.org 10 points 4 hours ago

I think that's the point of PINs. Otherwise they'd just be very, very shitty MS account passwords.

[–] Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mech@feddit.org 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Of course a submarine's systems won't be connected to the internet, but using a Windows base with a "Custom Support Agreement" still gives a private US corporation the power to cripple their subs.
IMO something so critical to defense should be built by British developers, and based on OpenBSD.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

gives a private US corporation the power to cripple their subs.

You, umm, probably shouldn't look up who maintains the trident missiles those subs carry...

[–] mech@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Are they maintained by a private corporation?

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 hour ago

I bet it’s Adobe. Turns out making or maintaining nukes isn’t really that hard or expensive. It’s just the subscription to Adobe Apocalypse that’s the real blocker for most economies.

[–] Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I agree, but then I'm one of those really hardcore libre-software-only nutcases ;-)

EDIT: Though, to be fair, the Trident Missiles they carry are US-made, too, so...

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ha! They used to run Unix.

Or ..so I hear.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They use Debian on the ISS

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 49 minutes ago

It would be catastrophic to have windows on a space station