You might be interested in the documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight” about the engineers who keep the Voyagers alive.

This was my favorite quote from the article.

But neither of those books was actually checked out from the Hayden Library on his trip. One of the books was checked out from another library, and another was stolen off the shelves. Norris refused to return the books at first, and Alexa Eccles, the executive director of the Community Library Network, told me in a phone call that, when Norris eventually returned them, the barcodes had been cut out of the book covers, and the library has not been able to return them to circulation or get new copies.

Beeper Mini registered your phone number with Apple and connected directly to the iMessage servers. That version was killed after three days of usage. The mac mini farm still works but that’s just through an apple ID email address.

iOS 17 uses a small gpt-2 based model for predictive text.

They could have at least made this “controversial” collection of books opt-out instead of opt-in.