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I've always wanted to bring a lil router like a GL.iNet, pay for internet, then share it free for everyone on the plane hehe
Why not just use the hotspot on your phone?
I've always wanted to bring a lil router like a GL.iNet, pay for internet, then share it free for everyone on the plane hehe
[0] https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Monitoring_and_Reporting.... This basically detects any access points in a wireless network repeating a signal and automatically boots them. only works on 2.4GHz networks if I understand correctly.
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> WA chat is not HTTPS (or even TLS) If you don’t mind, could you expend on this? Are there specific reasons to not be using TLS?
I should probably refer you to the encryption whitepaper [1], but the basics are that Chat uses the Noise Protocol rather than TLS. All things being equal, the security properties are about equivalent, however all things aren't equal. The Noise handshake is smaller than the TLS handshake, and Noise doesn't have extraneous features WhatsApp doesn't use. Additionally, at the time of Noise adoption, TLS lacked a means f…
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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.
On an airplane in particular, you can set the limit lower for everything, and that doesn't violate neutrality.
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The plane is measuring altitude , which is relative to a reference point, unlike elevation which is relative to sea level. And if the altitude is determined by pressure sensor, musn't it be relative to the ground directly below the plane, anyway? (Although personally, I agree with the sibling comment that the variability is likely an artifact of the sensor resolution.)
It's relative to sea level. After transition altitude (18k feet in most places) the pressure setting to the altimeter is changed to standard (iirc 1013 hPa) so all aircrafts are in the same reference regardless of terrain.
When my son was younger - maybe 9 or 10 or so, we were on a plane and he was using his phone and I looked over his shoulder and realized he was on the internet... but I hadn't paid for an internet plan. I said, "son, how are you using the internet?" He said, "oh, a kid at school showed me - if you go here" (he opened up the wifi settings where the DHCP assigned IP address is) "and start changing the numbers, eventual…
Well, if he doesn't know there's anything wrong with it, it's not really temerity.
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That's an amazing anecdote! The state of "open Wi-Fi" security is actually really sad. I'm not aware of an easy way for the airline to actually do better than this! I suppose they could use Opportunistic Wireless Encryption [1] and bind session authentication to that (i.e. authenticate a given OWE session, not a given MAC address) if the device supports it, as at least modern Apple devices do? But I have no idea how…
In cases where the Wi-Fi is provided as a value-add or is bought via another channel than the Wi-Fi network itself, I think you can just generate one-time WPA Enterprise credentials, with a QR code to facilitate data entry? In case of in-flight Wi-Fi, the credentials/QR code can be printed on the boarding pass, or available in the app (the app caches it in advance while it's still on the ground, so when in the air yo…
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It was probably fairly precise already. To get their license, a private pilot must demonstrate via a checkride the ability to stay within 100 feet of an assigned altitude, even in a steep turn.
Not quite how it works. These are the instruments we are referring to not the ability of pilots. In fact in RVSM airspace the autopilot must be used. Instruments must be very accurate given the reduced separation in RVSM airspace. Often on modern aircraft multiple altimeters are compared and voted to provide a single output provided to the displays and autopilot.
If a human can manage to keep it within 100 feet of a desired altitude, an autopilot most certainly can; it didn't require new technology in the 2000s. Autopilots in the 1960s/1970s weren't seesawing all over the skies.
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Slack/Discord/Teams ? Those are desktop web applications hosted via Electron. Failing to leverage basic platform functionality is practically their telos. It’s a trivial, documented, supported, long-standing API for a common use-case. It is widely used, as documented, for its intended purpose. I cannot share information about specific applications.
Uh, all those apps have mobile counterparts. > I cannot share information about specific applications. So you don't have an example of an app using such a basic and widespread feature? Ok.
You’re the one with an extraordinary claim here — that applications aren’t using such a basic, documented, widespread feature.
It’s patently silly and I have no idea why you’re so self-assured in your ignorance.