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by mopsi 7y ago
There is no need to treat religion and atheism as polar opposites. Atheism, at least in the west, has considerable overlap with Christian theology on topics like human rights. There is little rationality behind human rights, they can't
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by mopsi 7y ago
My memory isn't perfect, but from the past few years I've had Mikrotiks, I don't remember any effective attacks against properly configured devices. By "proper configuration" I mean disabled telnet, no management ac
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by mopsi 7y ago
A similar thing happened with the captain of SAS MD-81 in 1993[1]. Clear ice had formed on the upper side of wings overnight, but it was not detected during de-icing. Shortly after takeoff, pieces of ice broke off and hit engines, deforming
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by mopsi 7y ago
> Having a bus or lorry use an active runway is just a single, malicious UDP packet away... There are multiple safeguards in place to avoid single points of failure, such as runway crossing procedures with mandatory call to air traffic c
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by mopsi 7y ago
> I sometimes feel like many systems built are just much to over-engineered and don't even attempt to exploit physics to do their job. PAPI lights are my favourite example of this. For those that don't know the system, PAPI lig
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by mopsi 7y ago
Skimmed over the whitepaper and did not notice any mention of ILS monitoring systems. Modern ILS has continuous automatic monitoring that triggers alerts or shuts off the whole system if disturbance of beam characteristics is detected. Such
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by mopsi 7y ago
How does this look like to you? https://i.imgur.com/rQaopcS.png Taken from Philips A60 leaflet.
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by mopsi 7y ago
You can use smart plugs like Sonoff S20[1] and flash your own firmware. They have the widely used ESP8266 inside. I use ESPurna[2] on them, which has many common integrations built-in (Alexa, MQTT, etc) and is very easy to extend further. [
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by mopsi 8y ago
Landing a plane is fairly trivial considering that autopilot simply guides the aircraft down a radio beam, cuts throttle and raises its nose a bit when on-board radio altimeter crosses below 50 feet. First fully automated landing in revenue
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by mopsi 8y ago
All forms of private business were forbidden in the Soviet Union. Punishment: 5 years of imprisonment and confiscation of property. Individual state-owned butcheries were managed by regional centers, which belonged to the ministry of meat a