I'm indirectly involved / hear about a project that buys up old feature phones, mainly from Japan, to try and find ones that have data for old imode games on them, notably a FFVII spinoff called Before Crisis. It's difficult because they would release the game in separate data packs, the idea being people can remove data packs for parts of the game they already played to save space (also a feature on modern smartphone games). But since the servers are long gone, they need to find phones with the data on them to extract it.

But they've made really good progress in recent years, to the point that the game is now playable. Not sure if it's complete, but it's playable. See e.g. https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/work-begins-on-restor... for info.

And so the arms race continues.

So many (perceived) problems with spaceflight and building moon bases and the like are solved by simply making the process and cost of launching faster, easier and cheaper; the problem that NASA has always had is that each launch, even with the reusable space shuttles, cost billions and took years of engineering, planning, etc. To the point where yesterday's launch was done with (what I perceive to be) salvaged parts where the engineering was done decades ago, because engineering something new would be too expensive and take too long.

Sure, don't fix what isn't broken and all - *nix tools are decades old too after all - but still.

I was curious since I hadn't heard from Starship in a while, but by the looks of it they plan to launch the first V3 later this month!

I kinda get where you're trying to go, but is Moby Dick style writing the best way to convey information?

That is, prose is good for entertainment, but less so for conveying information, even less so for exactness.

Point being that things of high quality that are enriching sometimes require an investment

You'd be surprised: https://www.ethosdesignsystem.com/

(okay it's a design system, not so much a framework, but still)

A better question would probably what they don't do; just going off the wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM) for recent history, they're in health care (imaging), weather, video streaming, cloud services, Red Hat, managed infrastructure (which branched off into a company called Kyndryl, which has 90.000 employees in 115 countries), warfare ("In June 2025, IBM was named by a UN expert report as one of several companies "central to Israel's surveillance apparatus and the ongoing Gaza destruction.""), etc etc etc.

Basically they do a lot, but they're not showy about it.

Neat, there's no Street View coverage but there is clear sattelite imagery: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RjGUAMExUrD6aqs59

Apple's maps version has that section blurred out though.

Bing's sattelite images seem to be older, the antenna isn't visible on there yet and there's just building foundations: https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=48.690103%7E9.086240&lvl=18.8&s.... Can't determine how old those images are though.

Until around 2000-2004 there have even been 2 Antennas. The whole surrounding forest is a military training ground, obviously used by German Bundeswehr and US forces. There are German and US barracks on opposite ends of the area. Within the vicinity there are an UXO clearance service, K9 school, CQB training village, shooting ranges, lots of bunkers and who knows what.

These two don't have to be related per se, but it sure helps with maintaining a healthy mutually beneficial military relationship.

Isn't it also in the insurer's best interest that the hospitals do good work? They'd be another force against hospitals using AI to diagnose or misdiagnose people.

Of course, given that these are legal cases, it would take years for any consequences to be turned into actions.