Is this Frog Fractions 3?
Readit NewsGhostty has a hard-to-find "quake mode" that may interest some.
During the beta I had it configured like this on macOS:
keybind = global:cmd+space=toggle_quick_terminal
quick-terminal-animation-duration = 0.1
Unfortunately no tab support yet in the quick terminal, and it does not work on top of fullscreen applications.
Would be great if these things would work at some point.
Currently I am using Wezterm and iTerm2 for the quake style terminal, but using two different terminals is quite annoying. I really miss Visor and TotalTerminal.
milgrim commented on Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit spacenews.com/intelsat-33... · Posted by u/milgrim
I know the Boeing connection is the most "sexy" cause, so people are probably going to run with it anyway, but I also have to wonder about a space debris collision. GEO is already quite polluted, and the "graveyard orbits" commonly used have been shown to be inadequate.[1]
Can anyone tell whether (at 60 degrees East and at 4:30 UTC October 19) the satellite was passing through the intersection with the main plane of lunar perturbed debris? This would hint at a possible debris strike.
Sadly I can't seem to find a 3D satellite visualization that lets you go back in time. :-(
[1] https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2008/03/Spacecraft...
The more interesting part for me is that a satellite just exploded, that it's made by Boeing is just the cherry on top.
milgrim commented on Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit spacenews.com/intelsat-33... · Posted by u/milgrim
How does a satellite break up in orbit? Was it struck by something?
The satellite here was using the same Boeing bus: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/new-video-of-intelsa...
So something similar might have happened here.
milgrim commented on Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit spacenews.com/intelsat-33... · Posted by u/milgrim
For some context:
The same Boeing satellite bus already experienced a major issue some years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19658800
milgrim commented on Intelsat 33e loses power in geostationary orbit spacenews.com/intelsat-33... · Posted by u/milgrim
I wonder if debris in GEO orbit is a problem for other satellites in GEO orbits. It'll be up there for a very long time I guess.
But maybe it just stays orbiting at about the same velocity in the same orbit, so it's not really a big issue for other spacecraft in GEO?
Here's a Wikipedia page with some ideas about it (look for "Higher Altitudes") -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris
At least collision avoidance manoeuvres are not that common in GEO as far as I know, so things like this are more the exception: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/flaviomurolo_meteosat-mtg-sat...
Well, there's also the Russians sneaking around: https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-russian-sigint-...
milgrim commented on Intelsat 33e loses power in geostationary orbit spacenews.com/intelsat-33... · Posted by u/milgrim
"Late on 7 April, the Intelsat 29e propulsion system experienced damage that caused a leak of the propellant on board the satellite resulting in a service disruption to customers on the satellite." [0]
Intelsat 29e, way back in 2019, but that's interesting. Some kind of onboard issue?
[0] https://www.intelsat.com/newsroom/intelsat-29e-service-outag...
Boeing would be very unlucky to lose two satellites with the same bus to external causes.
milgrim commented on Intelsat 33e loses power in geostationary orbit spacenews.com/intelsat-33... · Posted by u/milgrim
I know it's subjective, but it feels fast and lean, while iTerm felt cluttered. I really like WezTerm also, but not having a quake style terminal meant that I used iTerm in parallel. So being able to use only Ghostty now is super nice. I just hope that support for tabs in the quick terminal (that's the quake style terminal in Ghostty) is coming at some point.
It'a also great to see how quickly Mitchell reacts to issues on GitHub. It was nice to report an issue and see it fixed only a few hours after that.