He was using live ADS-B data from an SDR, because this was way before global ADS-B websites and APIs existed.

(I wonder what he's up to these day, he was a fascinating person and presenter, and used to be a prolific blogger on interesting subjects. I also wonder what Pia van Gelder who used to run Dorkbot Sydney is up to?)

Note: Left hand wrist areas are currently out of stock.

> I bet colos will plug a KVM into your hardware and give you remote access to that KVM.

From the https://www.colaptop.com landing page: "Free KVM-over-IP access to your laptop - just like having it right next to you."

That gets you, what, 1 "vCPU" with maybe a gig of ram and a couple of dozen gig of disk.

If you (or a friend) work for a company of any size, there's probably a cupboard full of laptops that won't upgrade to Win11 sitting there doing nothing that you could get for free just by asking the right person. It'll have 4 or 8 cores, each of which is more powerful that the "vCPU" in that droplet. It'll have 8 or maybe 16gig of ram, and at least half a TB of disk and depending on that laptop quite likely to be able to be configured with half a TB of fast nVME storage and a few TB of slower spinning rust storage.

If you want 8vCPUs/cores, 16GB of ram, and 500GB of SSD, all of a sudden Digital Ocean looks more like $250/month.

If you are somewhere in that grey area where you need more than ivCPU and 1GB of memory, grabbing the laptop out of the cupboard that your PM or one of the admin staff upgraded from last year and shipping not off to a datacenter with your flavour of linux installed seems like it's worth considering.

Hell, get together with a friend and have two laptops hosted for 14Euro/month between you, and be each others "failing hardware" backup plan...

(I am old, but as a kid, I remember building what the kit was supposed to build once or _maybe_ twice, but using the parts from the kit and various other kits I had to make things purely out of my head pretty mush all the time. I _think_ that's not how people "play with LEGO" these days?)

(So, I suppose using "slack" in a positive sense by project management, while probably still being considered a pejorative thing by non technical management or beancounters...)

https://airguide.info/boeing-787s-must-be-turned-off-every-5...

> Am I supposed to be having issues with TCP connections right now? (I'm not.)

If my skim read of the slop post is correct, you'll only have issues on that machine if it hasn't spent any of that time asleep. (I have one Macbook that never sleeps, and I'm pretty sure it hit this bug a week or two back.)

I have a reasonably strong suspicion that I experienced this a week or two back, on a MacBook that doesn't go into sleep automatically and quite likely had 50-ish days of uptime.

It had all the symptoms described - tcp connections not working while I could still ping everywhere just fine, and all the other devices on the same network were fine. Switching WiFi networks and plugging in to ethernet didn't help. A reboot "fixed" it.

This assumption, by a clearly technical person, is a fundamental problem that keeps "the rest of the world" locked in to centralised services where that is true, and where that master key can be used against them by law enforcement, fascist regimes, and surveillance capitalists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)

It was sent to Mars with a plan for 5 flights and a total of 7 or 8 minutes flight time. It ended up flying for over 2 hours in 72 seperate flights before it damaged itself with a bad landing. Not quite the "this thing is still doing science almost 50 years later" that Voyager can claim, but impressively engineered so it lasted way beyond it's initial mission plan.

I think it's perfect - a very valid "David vs Goliath" reference.

I'm a little surprised the options aren't "Enable" and "Ask me later".