fractalizard

dont let the dream tax people catch you working while asleep. https://dresdencodak.com/2006/10/07/summer-dream-job/

My first guess would be: mines, tons of them.

Indeed.

Some people should just grow up already :)

why are you putting hackers in quotes? they presented their findings at a hacker conference and they used some cool hacks to fix trains, does that not qualify them as hackers?

* Mike Oldfield starts playing in the background *

Reading the wiki article reveals they used whoever was available and cheap: Soyus 2 (Russian, until 2022), LVM 3 (Indian,since 2022), Falcon 9 (USA, since 2022)

It makes sense for a company that does not build rockets to just use whats on the market.

hydrofluoric acid

Not sure if serious but just in case: why would there be any HF in a lithium ion battery?

It makes a lot more sense once you consider where you are starting from: a rock hurtling around the sun at breakneck speed (29.8 km/s). You can not really bullseye something when you are going almost 30 km per second sideways to it.

crows are omnivorous scavengers. eating other dead birds is regular crow behaviour.

How many PSUs are installed in the Poweredge server? In the manual it says it could be 1 or 2 and the power per PSU could be 1100W so if it is 2 * 1100W then that could explain why the UPS has problems with it.

I think you can even draw a defining distinction there because if it is not believed then pseudohalucination would be the better description.