…doesn’t need more international regulation from the UN.
Especially from the UN.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
In Which I’m Quoted
Boeing’s Latest Starliner Woes
CNN is generally a terrible news source, at least on politics, but Jackie Wattles is an excellent space reporter.
[Update a few minutes later]
Not space related, but an example of how scurrilous (and hypocritical) CNN can be in general, despite their good reporters.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Is this vehicle cursed?
[Friday-morning update]
The latest, from Jim Meigs.
[Bumped]
[Saturday-afternoon update]
The return is now delayed indefinitely.
[Bumped]
SV Preference Cascade For Trump?
David Sacks is predicting one. I’m sure that there have been a lot of stealth Republicans there for a long time (as there are in LA), but once the dam breaks, they can come out in public.
The Stanford Internet Observatory
A recent House Judiciary Committee report alleges that, by cooperating with the Department of Homeland Security, the SIO’s Election Integrity Partnership “provided a way for the federal government to launder its censorship activities in hopes of bypassing both the First Amendment and public scrutiny.”
Of course it did.
Nifty Fifty
After the quickest achievement of fifty flights, an interview with Rocketlab’s Peter Beck.
Israel And Space
I need to write an essay on the topic by Monday. Comments are open for ideas for me to steal.
Disk-Copying issues
I’m trying to clone my SSD Linux boot drive to an on-board NVME. I use dd to copy, and it says it’s done, but when I look at the drives in Disks, the main partition on the NVME is 1G smaller than the one on the SSD ( 248 versus 247, and the NVME has a few gigs of free space), and it doesn’t recognize the partition type. I’ve tried it twice, and gotten the same result. Is there something I’m missing?
[Update a few minutes later]
[Update a while later]
OK, so it turns out that it did work, even though it wasn’t supposed to. When I rebooted and looked at the disks again, they were identical (except that the NVME had some free space on it, so apparently it was a little larger than the SSD). All seems to be well so far, and for the first time, I’m booting from the motherboard. So if someone tells you that you can’t clone a Linux boot drive to an NVME with dd, tell them they’re wrong.
Writing Versus Typing
I believe this, but I despise writing by hand with a white-hot passion.
[Saturday-morning update]
It’s worth noting that this topic is about taking notes, not writing per se.
Continuing Windows Problems
Decided to start a new post from the previous one.
I followed the instructions on how to create a Windows install drive to the letter, the files seems to have been copied cleanly, but the machine still refuses to recognize the drive as a bootable drive, after several attempts.
Now what?
[Friday-afternoon update]
I hadn’t realized that I hadn’t followed up on this, but I ended up giving up and just using Media Writer in Windows from the laptop. It went off without a hitch, except that her Windows installation wasn’t salvageable. That’s why I keep data on a different drive in both OSs. I just did a clean Windows install on the new 1T NVME that I’d installed on the motherboard (this all started when she was running out of room on the 250G SSD that Windows was running on). Anyway, all is well now.