Eric Berger is a disgrace to journalism. He is clearly scared to lose access to #SpaceX and #ElonMusk and would rather walk on eggshells when writing an article or a book on the topic. It has been very apparent for years. I have no idea why the fuck #ArsTechnica has not parted way with this compromised scumbag.
I've been tooting lately about location #privacy and my #self-hosted implementation of @owntracks to protect location data I need for tax residency reporting.
So, this article from #ArsTechnica naturally caught my eye.
Simply, got gotta read it if you care at all about privacy. Let's hope the #FTC wins its case.
Be sure to follow the link to the amended complaint. What the #government alleges is astonishing.
Bizarre blip: Cases of fetuses with flipped organs quadrupled in China
Doctors in China are reporting a startling and unexplained spike in fetuses with situs inversus, a rare congenital condition in which the organs in the chest and abdomen are arranged in a mirror image of their normal positions.
This is one of the weakest Ars articles I've read, not for the content but the narrative thread it tried to weave. TL;DR great engineers from DEC populated projects at Microsoft (WindowsNT), AMD (Athlon and x64 extensions), and Apple (custom ARM dev) to make products we use today. Like with much engineering they learned from the past, including things they built at DEC (VMS and Alpha). But that does not in any way shape or form mean DEC is still powering anything. It'd be cool if it were. I was looking forward to seeing an example of it, like how 6502 chips are used as microcontrollers all over the place. The article minus the clickbait narrative is great at showing how DEC engineers made their expertise flourish in so many areas. #history#ComputerHistory#DEC#ArsTechnicaarstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/1…
“ Elon Musk, SpaceX's founder and CEO, said in mid-June that the company could be ready for another Starship test flight in six to eight weeks. Taken most generously, that timetable has now expired.”
It’s funny how an Ars Technica space report that is not written by Eric Berger is suddenly much less reluctant to throw #ElonMusk under the bus when appropriate.