Yes you can still update to 15.7.3 the usual way in Settings
It'll present you the Tahoe upgrade but underneath in small print it'll show other updates, which you have to then open and manually select the 15.7.3 update
And you really should keep up on the point updates because there's been a ton of major security patches since 15.4
What you call scaling up sounds more like monetization. Others (especially customers) might call it enshittification instead. Youtube is a great example of how bad it can get.
Why Mozilla won't let people financially contribute directly to Firefox development and continues to pursue these stupid monetization paths is a mystery.
HN hasn't focused on those topics in a long time, they rarely are on the front page. Skip the top 20 articles and you'll start to see some interesting content instead of all the VC & AI drivel.
Hackaday is a content aggregator site that usually has more content on these topics - https://hackaday.com
Possibly the most common open source mailing list software, mailman, has had configuration options to address both email address and header exposure for at least 15 years
At least with email, you're in control of what shows up in your inbox as well as message routing with filters of your choice
It's worse than that - SLS siply can't do what it was supposed to on paper even after 10's of billions, resulting in the secondary boondoggle of the Lunar Gateway which will waste billions more and still fail to achieve lunar-relevant
> can someone outside of NASA send requests to Voyager to change its code?
Unless you've got your own very-very high power transmitters and large dishes, you're not communicating with either Voyager satellite
"Newer" science & research satellites from the late 2000s onward do support a variety of encryption in transit and authentication from the ground stations
It'll present you the Tahoe upgrade but underneath in small print it'll show other updates, which you have to then open and manually select the 15.7.3 update
And you really should keep up on the point updates because there's been a ton of major security patches since 15.4