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In my opinion, all of these open source/free/open document signing tools are neat on paper (and technically fulfill the goal of being able to verify a document's chain-of-custody/s…

A related project, but for birds - https://motus.org Motus is a distrbuted network of ground stations for tracking birds and other species (like bats!) for research - they also use…

And just when I thought the DPE system couldn’t get any worse.

CarPlay and Android Auto were engineered from the start to be as agnostic to the car's hardware as possible. Your car's stereo is really just a dumb screen (i.e. just a display and…

It depends on the airport! Some smaller airports (like Corona Municipal Airport where the story is based) - are untowered, meaning that there's no central ATC to chat with when tak…

I'd recommend changing your tagline - > Share secrets from your terminal. One-time only. No accounts. No backend. No BS. A server sure sounds like a backend to me.

It’s there - just built into the binary. ;) but yeah that was upsetting - I was hoping they’d push them to a registry and make them… more available.

Even better - you don't even have to run Network - UniFi APs have standalone mode - https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/12594679474071-Standal...

1. This is an official Docker image/container from Ubiquiti themselves - no more relying on LinuxServer.io/jacobalberty, etc... 2. With the "UniFI OS" branding, the door is open to…

And don't downplay how much of a role politics can play at making those facts/performance metrics harder/easier to achieve - and some companies are excellent deluding themselves in…

I know the intro video is a render - but the folding of the purple sheet looks so... unnatural (to put it lightly) - like the cloth physics do exactly what is convenient for the vi…

Don't picture them as OTA firmware updates. Picture them as OTA navigation data updates (i.e. maps, charts, waypoints, airport info, etc...) - that's much easier to pull off. The p…

I can see what was meant with that statement. I do think compression increases Shannon entropy by virtue of it removing repeating patterns of data - Shannon entropy per byte of com…

As a pilot, yes, your conclusion is correct - it’s widely known “tribal” knowledge among most American pilots that any reporting on the FAA medical certificate application is ammun…

Reading this made me think “huh, where have I seen something like this before?” - an AT&T router was doing something awfully similar back in 2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…

Sure did - I think it was the iPod Nano 5th generation onward? https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/46843/does-the-ipo...

Carriers in the US are basically required to route 911 calls, even for devices not on their network - I wonder if that’ll include T-Mobile’s/Starlink announcement (since they’re go…

I’d imagine the number of highly skilled stunt pilots willing to do a stunt like this drops proportionally in countries with lenient aviation authorities.

> Best might have been to do this stunt outside of FAA jurisdiction. In order to do this, that would mean not using pilots with an FAA certificate, nor an American-registered aircr…

More than likely it'll be a fine for Red Bull/the pilots involved - and at worst a revocation of the pilot certificates for the pilots involved for continuing ahead despite knowing…

A backdoor in Curve25519 hasn’t really been a concern, because unlike P-256, the parameters for the curve didn’t come from NIST. Curve25519 is a djb ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

One of the nice things about NetMaker (at least that I've seen), is that it supports the vanilla WireGuard iOS app, just without the mesh capabilities and other automation. I have …

You’re in for a treat - https://youtu.be/qN8tm5RulFU

Smaller general aviation aircraft still use 100LL gasoline (the LL stands for low lead) - and even though there’s lead-free replacement candidates (still going through regulatory a…

In a way, it’s funded by the entities that actually need to pay for an FCC license (mainly commercial ones)… AFAIK, the FCC ULS (Universal Licensing System) is a unified database o…