Also, drink a lot of water or tea.

And if you're British, tea on its own might do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTocYVghimE

I cannot really tell satire apart from genuine opinions anymore.

(But I do hope it was satire, if not, cooling satelites was/is a big issue and they only have very modest heat creation. A data center would be in a quite different ballpark)

From this githubpage:

"Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.. "

But also: "open source" -> "open core" (9 months ago) [1]

[1] https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/commit/0cc906d07e73...

Well, some people use it as a IDE, so there are more feature they need. But I am not sure if a less frequent update routine would be safer.

With enough effort, anything can be obfuscated. But effort costs money and also state level actors have limited funds and time and want to go home to their families ar some point and if the purpose was to get a message across (don't mess with china, otherwise face the consequences) there is no need to really hide the origin.

I read those stereotypes as people phantasizing about being wild and free and a fierce (coding) biest, without actually knowing the wild. But it does have the effect on me to not being able to take it serious. If they don't even know basic facts about the animal they want to use as their metaphor, I expect way more to be wrong.

He got attention?

Building a reputation of being wise?

There was another group of people famous for building innovative rockets, but are otherwise not associated with human progress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb

So it is about the big picture. (And about small pictures like that of Elon making a salut like the other group).

So yes, currently his rockets do not transport explosives. But that can change anytime and I expect it will very soon.

I thought American space flight etc was directly indebted to the people behind the V bombs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

The Saturn V was simply a scaled up V2. The critical components were all there:

1. boundary layer cooling

2. pre-heating fuel and cooling the nozzle by pushing the fuel through tubes in the nozzle

3. baffles to prevent pogo-ing

4. turbo fuel pumps

5. supersonic airframe

6. guidance system (although primitive)

The V2 was an ineffective military weapon that did little damage - because its guidance system was too primitive to be able to hit a target. Hitler also poured enormous resources into the V2 program, shifted away from producing weapons that were effective.

Elon rockets are only interesting because they can be reused.

What use is a reusable rocket with respect to explosives?

A car can be used to take people to the hospital, or it can be used to transport explosives.

They can bring explosives to space, loitering space ammunition.

Pretty easy. The only limits are your imagination and depravity. You launch the rocket, drop an orbital vehicle behind, and land. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

That vehicle could deorbit and drop a tungsten penetrator, smallpox, a nuclear device or any number of things.

All funded by a combination of government spending and defrauding the public via the Tesla Ponzi scheme.

Dropping a tungsten penetrator from orbit is an idea only science fiction can justify. In the real world the economics never close.

Huh?

In the real world we so far just managed to keep space free of military weapons not because they are expensive, but because of treaties. I just don't expect those to last much longer.

And frankly I never looked into the concept, but why do you think, a space base tungsten penetrator would be way more expensive, than a nuke on a missile?

The idea as proposed in various places is a very large multi-ton vehicle. He chose to focus on trivia. Pretty common for Elon fans.

Humans are pretty clever at devising ways to kill each other. The Russians put a garbage can of concrete on a ersatz ballistic missile on a terror strike against Ukraine. Like you said, these things don’t exist because of treaties.

If you put on a reflective vest they might.

your bias is showing. humans would certainly almost do anything they are told to do when the person acts confidently.

I had a construction worker absolutely screaming at me to go through an intersection and refusing to look where I was pointing, when I was correctly waiting for a pedestrian to cross.

So, naturally, I ran over the pedestrian.

If a person confidently told a human to run over people in the intersection ahead of them, they would almost certainly do it?

Depends, are they doing something super interesting on their phone?

"who they'll share data with and in what circumstances"

Anyone who offers them money?