Most are hours but there are enough that are a day or more that it is a valid consideration. As to when, honestly I think there are more not snow related. Long stretches of wet (or floods) and high winds not a good mix.

IIRC pre-covid when the program was quite new, customer could buy the batteries outright. Later on they added the lease option.

One of the issues with these is the limited storage capacity. While it is nice for short outages, there are sometimes multi-day events in the winter. I think the longest was in the late 90s from an ice storm and was over a week. If you have solar, less of an issue but not everyone does (though solar does have surprisingly good install base in Vermont).

I've not checked to see if GMP limits the install locations but do recall some states/munis trying to limit them to outside the home due to fire risk.

"WordPress 7.1.2 has been released containing a fix for the vulnerability, and as a courtesy to users on older branches the fix has been backported to all branches back to 4.7"

As a courtesy, I try not to say more than one bad thing about WP every day. FWIW about 1/3 of installs are not on the recent 7 branch.

There was a time I looked up to Matt Mullenweg, but never to Wordpress.

I've been building https://github.com/Qbix since 2008 and let me tell ya, I took a lot of great ideas from Drupal, Kohana, Symfony, etc. But never Wordpress. It's just ... a mess. Wordpress just won by being first, basically. Kind of like Bitcoin.

PS: Years ago, I hired a guy in Pakistan to work with me on some Wordpress sites, for clients. I thought that the Divi theme and basic Wordpress would be secure. Every one of those sites got pwned, badly. Sure, maybe it was the plugins. But why take the chance? In 2026 it's way past time to not have to worry about basic security.

A tale as old as time... I made money by outsourcing to third party labour to a much cheaper country than my own, using a third party low code theme builder and third party plugins I didn't vet. All of my customers got hacked.

This is the problem WordPress faces - it's powerful enough for people to get stuff done on a shoestring. But the professionals who want to do things on a shoestring are also likely cutting corners elsewhere (hosting, backups, security, etc). In many cases there's money changing hands and it's easier to blame WordPress than poor decision making.

I have more sympathy for those building with it on a shoestring for personal/charitable projects who may lack the skills/experience to follow https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/secu.... They're probably better off on Wix or Squarespace.

WP won by having a very simple but flexible admin page.

Drupal admin was not for humans back then.

Wordpress wasn't even first, Movable Type was the big thing before it.

WordPress began as a FOSS replacement of Movable Type after Moving Type 3 made the controversial decision to change its licensing fee for some features. So it was like a Unix/Linux situation.

That was Perl though, wasn't it? mod_perl more specifically, IIRC. That alone relegated to a small pool of users.

WordPress doesn't to LTS. WordPress usually backports security fixes to older branches (like the 6.x branches) but going all the way back to 4.x isn't something they'll do for every fix. Who knows how many bugs lie in wait for older versions that are out of support.

If you run WordPress, you should be aware of this already. Either upgrade to the latest versions, constantly and quickly, or have extremely restrictive WAFs up and ready. Especially if you have any plugins installed (as those are usually where the WordPress exploits are coming from).

I'd recommend everyone unhappy only finding out about WordPress' long-standing support policy to ask their money back.

The Rubble and NGR have the same size mirror but they are constructed differently. The former is not sharp over the entire field of view, the latter is - that coupled with a much, much larger camera (nearly 300MP) lets it record images at least equal to to HST but over a very wide field of view.

As to speed, it is not just the camera view that makes NGR faster but also physical factors such as not having to wait for earth to get out of the way.

just a psa for others: there is at least one, likely multiple youtube accounts that are making AI generated Feynman slop. Don't trust anything posted prior to the current dishearenting era.

Don't you mean after the current era?