That's what the flight termination system is for, and thus it'll be exploded remotely instead.

An FTS does not prevent 100t of debris of which a significant amount is designed to survive re-entry from impacting the surface. If you blow up 100t you still have 100t of debris, just in lots of bits (and honestly, still big chunks - an FTS does not atomise or even close - it punches a hole and then the vehicle collapses structurally)

All it really does is remove the explosive potential of the fuel.

So no, it's not designed to do this.

Once in orbit the FTS system is usually deactivated (safed).

It's designed to survive re-entry in a very particular, and repeatedly adjusted, orientation. It's unclear how much would survive re-entry in an uncontrolled tumble. But better safe than sorry.

Yeah, you do not want the FTS activated on orbit. It's not something you want going off where it can leave 100t of hazardous debris in orbit.

Debris in orbits that nearly intersect the atmosphere are practically harmless. The issues arise when you have an orbit that will intersect other orbits a billion times before decay.

While the reality is very complicated, you can make a rough handwave model for orbital debris in a circular orbit: At 100km it lasts 1 orbit (90 minutes) at most, and every ~100km you add after that increases orbital lifespan by ~10x.

You want to turn a single dead 100t object in orbit into 100t of randomly blasted debris in orbit?

No it's not the tech news that he's saying is bad, it's the ads.

Huh? The author is very explicitly writing first about general news, and then about tech news.

> I do like to follow tech news, and for me, this is done 98% through Ycombinator’s hacker news. But I started to get the same feeling I had ten years ago: it’s all negative.

That's followed by the list of some sample categories negative tech news that they are concerned about. Most of them have nothing to do with ads. Even for browsers only one of the things they are concerned with is ads (and it's not something that actually happened, it's something the author imagines could happen).

Most countries do better every year. There are only a small number of countries that are worse off than, say, five years ago.

Especially giants like China and India are doing very well.

See: https://ourworldindata.org/human-development-index

most of the bad news of companies is driven by the profit motive. that's where the connection to ads is. they are also driven by the profit motive. (there is also news about companies pushing more ads)

the conclusion of this author is that the profit motive will drive companies to build ads into browsers. (microsoft is already putting ads into windows. browsers will be next)

I read it differently than ads:

> the ONLY thing you hear on the news.. any news.. are bad things(tm). War, corruption, you name it.

How is this not an outright advertisement?

Based on the name initially I thought Wiretap was a MITM proxy for Wireguard.

Much better name. Initially I thought Wiretap was a MITM proxy for Wireguard.

Perhaps you could submit updates to the database as diffs and commit them via normal git channels

Which is still usefull for querying a large database without having to download the entire thing.

That's a bit misleading. IndexedDB is a standard maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is supported by all major browsers. Web SQL Database was a prior API developed by Apple. But Firefox refused to add support for it and argued against it becoming a standard because it would codify the quirks of SQLite. It was thus deprecated in favor of IndexedDB.

I had a look at your personal site (linked from the one you posed) and I don't know how (or why) you dare to put so much of your personal information online. What's the worst that could happen? I don't know, but identity theft is up there and can have significant consequences.

I would like to think that something like this would by buoyed to the top on most news sites/aggregators but the fact of the matter is that regardless of how much news you read, there's always things going on that you will miss.