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Damn, it'll stink if they lock down these more. A fair number of professional astronomical instruments have pretty much open FTP sites / git repositories / etc
by nullc 3y ago
Damn, it'll stink if they lock down these more. A fair number of professional astronomical instruments have pretty much open FTP sites / git repositories / etc. and you can go download and rifle through the stuff people are working on, control code for the instruments, etc.
- wbl 3y agoSure, but there are ways to keep that openness while having a very locked down observation submission layer
- aragilar 3y agoI presume by submission layer you mean remote control? The original noirlab press release noted that the "Mid-Scale Observatories (MSO) network" was disconnected as a precaution (which is likely some kind of site-to-site VPN), which is likely the only way to connect to the telescopes remotely (the mention of "service mode" means that people can still request observations, but they can't do them themselves without flying out to site). Service mode is becoming quite common on larger telescopes, with smaller ones heading towards automation (and being single purpose).
- eternityforest 3y agoCan't they just mirror it on GitHub, or GitLab if people don't like GitHub?