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Cake day: September 24th, 2024

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  • What even is the point

    Scheduling correspondence generally falls into one of a couple categories:

    1. This message contains information you don’t want them to have until after an event. Raises, Layoffs, Reorgs
    2. It’s 2am and you don’t want to bother them at this hour. (more important for Slack)
    3. They’re not in our timezone and you want it to hit the box when they’re fresh to work on it. You don’t want them to start a sprawling project at 4:30 on a Friday.
    4. It’s the weekend and there’s no reason for them to worry about it until Monday.

  • The edge of Ukraine to Moscow should be something like 450 - 500 miles.

    Quadcopters we’ve been seeing on the news aren’t anywhere near efficient enough to make it that far much less carrying a payload. Off the shelf dragon link uhf would only give them vision for about 27 mi.

    Commercial fixed wing planes could carry a little more and go a little further.

    If they’ve managed to get their hands on some proper military drones They could get there at low altitude with almost enough range to get back.


  • I was reading up on the satellite hacking communities back in the 00’s. 1969, that old stuff had only basic security if any at all. It’s possible that anyone all the way down to an amateur might have commanded it to move.

    From the description it sounds like it’s orbit has become somewhat elliptical. If some state entity was trying to screw with it, they probably would have left it in more of a stable geosynchronous position. You don’t have to move it far to make a point.

    Seeing that it’s dead and they’re not likely to have logs from it, maybe it had a malfunction or a propellant leak.