If it is not the end of the world, cover my losses.

I think “long” is very relative to the scam.

Carvana has been written about in the WSJ in glowing articles, that now have shifted to a questioning tone. This may be that inflection point.

Get over it. I walked out, chasing me into the parking lot is no way to get me to come back.

The fact that someone posted a link to the article that you probably didn’t read also refutes this premise.

Signal has this setting to tell the backend how much information to put into the push message. It can tell the backend to send a simple notification saying “new message” and not send information through APNS or enable it.

I am willing to bet Signal has a notification extension to handle edge cases where there is lag in settings to scrub the message metadata before it dings a screen alert.

It used to require very high power, expensive transmission lines, preamps and monstrous arrays of Yagis. Now with JT65x, and SDRs, you can use cheaper coax to get transmit power to the antenna eating that loss with more RF, and put SDRs for RX at the array. People running digital modes are getting away with needing less gain.

5650MHz is the only place to do it with this thing. Might want to break out a calculator before the credit card because path loss has to be more than 285dB. But if you can swing it, might want to buy two so you have someone to talk to. I have not heard anyone using 5650.

Yes, this is just the beginning of a huge swath of innocent APIs to identify people on the internet. Meta isn’t going to stop, and neither will governments.

It’ll take a decade.

Have at it Meta, you broke it you most certainly bought it!

I wrote the software for a breakout box that could handle 128 serial ports. It was an ISA backplane with an industrial 286 computer and multi-port serial cards. This was our solution for a MajorBBS system.

The BBS software would have to timeslice between all the cards handling each IRQ, then poll the card details to see which ports needed service.

GalactiComm eventually came out with their own around 1993 that could go out to 255 serial ports and did not require the 286 processor.

By the mid-90’s, Livingston PortMasters were the preferred way to aggregate serial connections, which quickly gave way to USR TotalControl.

The grand bargain of the web is gone and it ain’t coming back.

It takes about 24 cores with a GPU to do CONUS, Canada, Alaska, Pacific and Caribbean data. This should be 2x for redundancy. Even being cheap with main processing in my basement (gen power, backup internet) the cloud costs to serve it are $200 month plus data transfer. The standby grib machine spins up should it not see the cheap primary or the NOAAPort receiver is offline.

There is no money to be made without whoring out your user’s privacy. People just won’t pay for a privacy focused weather app. I keep this going as a hobby.