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Next hardware reset and automatic reorientation for Voyager 2 is October 15th. Yes the device automatically resets itself about four to five times a year. Communications are expected to be reestablished then.

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In the meantime, they’re going to shout at it.

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That’s good news! I was about to ask whether they have some absolute software recovery procedure and glad they do!

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That’s great to know. This post made me weirdly depressed and was a bad way to start the morning lol.

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Almost like real engineers planned for such an event!

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Someone ran ‘systemctl restart networking’ while SSH’d into the probe.

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Unrelated but I’ve been wondering this for years: What’s your avatar from and why do so many people across the web have that exact same one?

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No idea, I found it somewhere a decade ago and have been using it. I think I’ve only seen someone with it like one other time. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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I remember it used to be popular in gaming groups and some music around 2008-2012 and a lot of variations of the same gas mask character were made

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The guy I know who uses gasmasks everywhere does it because it’s a fetish.

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sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

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starman is not in the sudoers file.
This incident will be reported.

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Oh no, Linus Torvalds is gonna call me again

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Linus calling you to belittle your management of the sudoers file is the FOSS form of swatting lol.

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sudo rm -rf i_want_to_delete_everything_in_this_folder /*

oops…

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sudo rm -rf /*

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Great that they included these automatic hardware resets. Way to go if your computer will never see a human or human-made thing ever again

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https://www.npr.org/2023/08/02/1191341035/nasa-voyager-2-spacecraft-contact

Sounds like it’s a recoverable error (if the scientists can’t do it the spacecraft has an automated process that’ll kick in in October.) Still, I can’t imagine what that must feel like.

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https://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/04noaanreport/

Probably a lot like the person responsible for dropping the NOAA-19 satellite.

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I imagine they feel bad. Not really bad, like a loved one died, but pretty bad, like a passion they worked really hard for just fizzled out.

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