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I'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…
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In the US (I believe) Net Neutrality basically died. Even before that, it was allowed to zero-rate categories of apps (like messaging). That might be coming back now that the FCC has 5 commissioners again and can reinstate Net Neutrality. However, even with reasonably strict neutrality, this is still possible. Many mobile carriers zero-rated streaming services here, but unlike your operators they'd do it for any stre…
This is the situation where net neutrality falls over because there's very often more demand, even at 1.5Mbps for a stream, than an airplane's link can provide.
It is just 8 bucks for the full service... just buy the internet bro. It is actually pretty good.
Yeah, you can argue internet isn't a necessity. Neither is the bathroom, you can use a poo bag and a diaper. But we're a civilized society. So we provide bathrooms to anyone that needs them. And internet access.
What browser or extension has Copy as cURL and all those other functions?
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You're not understanding the point of the comment. The Flighty team did some amazing engineering work for anyone who doesn't pay.
> amazing engineering Background updates are a built-in, supported, documented feature, widely employed by applications on the platform, and accessible to anyone that reads the two pages of documentation required to use them: “Pushing background updates to your App — Deliver notifications that wake your app and update it in the background.” https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/... edited for po…
Autopilots are very good and they are servoing to the pressure altitude.
Many pressure altitude encoders used in modern aircraft (for example to drive altitudes that transponders report to SSR radar or via ADS-B) have 25 ft encoding resolution. That 25ft resolution is likely what is being seen here. Other encoders have 10 ft resolution but 25 ft is very common.
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I tried to change the flight level by PATCHing altitude, but it seemed to require authentication. Oh well.
This sounds like a good way to meet some upset people with expensive sunglasses shortly after you land.
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> amazing engineering Background updates are a built-in, supported, documented feature, widely employed by applications on the platform, and accessible to anyone that reads the two pages of documentation required to use them: “Pushing background updates to your App — Deliver notifications that wake your app and update it in the background.” https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/... edited for po…
I build AI/ML systems. I think delivering digital content through alternative pipes is amazing work . It has applicability far beyond simple aerospace wifi paywalls.
What’s the relevance?
Push notifications aren’t some odd “alternative pipe” and conveying data via push notifications is a known and supported use-case.
Did you have permission to do that ? Sounds pretty risky to be probing the network of a flight imo.
I'm not too concerned about the risk associated with fetching a JSON file that their flight status page is already fetching on a loop. That said, I'm curious what risks you have in mind.
Did you have permission to do that ? Sounds pretty risky to be probing the network of a flight imo.
The in-flight webpage was continuously fetching a specific end-point from the in-flight web server.
This end-point is basically public data.
All he did was duplicate what the webpage was already doing, and then do some basic analysis on the data the end-point was returning.