WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
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WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
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#2Reminds me of the time I dumped CANbus data off a Yamaha R1 bike, made sense of the data, and displayed it on a bunch of charts.
Interesting data like Accelerator Handle position, you can figure out how much a rider is really cranking it, and how aggressive they are riding.
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#3Love this kind of stuff.
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#4I'm an Alaska (relatively) frequent flyer. That airline offers a free "messaging" plan, that lets you send and receive messages on apps like iMessage, Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp. Though, it somehow prevents images/attachments from coming through on those platforms.
I've always wondered how this is implemented technically, and if it might be possible to setup some kind of protocol/wrapper to send data that looks like it's being sent over those protocols, but offers access to other parts of the internet.
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#5Thats funny, I discovered the same thing a few months ago and built a CLI flight tracker[1] that uses the API. I've tried it across a couple of airlines and it worked almost perfectly across all of them, because they were all using the same in flight ISP.
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#6Glad someone looked into the flight tracker, I was always curious how real the data in it is.
Although it doesn't answer my curiosity about how they manage to mess it up occasionally. I've had flight data from different flights pop up a few times on Southwest, which is never reassuring to see.
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#7I'm an Alaska (relatively) frequent flyer. That airline offers a free "messaging" plan, that lets you send and receive messages on apps like iMessage, Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp. Though, it somehow prevents images/attachments from coming through on those platforms. I've always wondered how this is implemented technically, and if it might be possible to setup some kind of protocol/wrapper to send data that looks…
Could always send base64 data strings!
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#8I'm an Alaska (relatively) frequent flyer. That airline offers a free "messaging" plan, that lets you send and receive messages on apps like iMessage, Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp. Though, it somehow prevents images/attachments from coming through on those platforms. I've always wondered how this is implemented technically, and if it might be possible to setup some kind of protocol/wrapper to send data that looks…
I'd suspect it kills TCP connections once a threshold of data has been transferred, and the threshold is enough to let text through but not enough for attachments.
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#9Fun story =)
Anyone else freaked out by that "time" format though? Seems like a strange choice, would have expected something more standard like ISO 8601 with timezone offset. "time": "Sun Sep 24 22:02:19 2023"
Re: WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
#10I'm an Alaska (relatively) frequent flyer. That airline offers a free "messaging" plan, that lets you send and receive messages on apps like iMessage, Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp. Though, it somehow prevents images/attachments from coming through on those platforms. I've always wondered how this is implemented technically, and if it might be possible to setup some kind of protocol/wrapper to send data that looks…
United wifi is similar. I've found that notifications work for most things, including my Home Assistant instance—they must all use the same Apple push service.