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by sbisson 6y ago
I've moved my Pi4-based system over to SSD; living here near Heathrow I destroyed my first SD card in 3 months of writes...
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by sbisson 6y ago
It was originally set up to cater for folk photographing low flyhing in the Welsh mountains, particularly around the Mach Loop. So it's historically a subscription service with its own ICAO lookup database for military aircraft in the
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by sbisson 6y ago
You can send to many different services at the same time!
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by sbisson 6y ago
A Pi4-based rig can feed multiple services; I'm currently feeding six or so, including a semi-provate service that specialises in low-flying military traffic in the UK (I'm just off the main cross-London helicopter route, so get a
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by sbisson 6y ago
The Piaware Pro stick is one of the best out there; it has the appropriate 1090MHz filters.
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by sbisson 6y ago
The antenna from Pimoroni in the UK are a good price and give you a good splat (I get nearly 200nm from near sea level in London with an antenna in a window).
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by sbisson 6y ago
Try https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ for a good unfiltered map.
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by sbisson 6y ago
If you are running your own receiver, you should see them on your map, especially if you are part of a MLAT network for calculating position data for aircraft that only transmit Mode-S data. The key issue is ICAO hex to aircraft mappings, a
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by sbisson 6y ago
I've been working on an updated version of the AboveTustin twitterbot code to work with the latest Piaware images, using chromedriver and tar1090, along with Josh Douch's free ICAO hex lookup APIs (I should be adding ADSBExchange
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by sbisson 6y ago
It's enabled in the Pi 4 compute module; the carrier board has a PCIe slot.
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by sbisson 6y ago
See Power Toys Run https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
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by sbisson 6y ago
That would be up to Vernor.
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by sbisson 6y ago
It's a powerful tool with some serious computer science work behind it; for example Dr Phil Bernstein's research added its distributed transactions, which are a fascinating solution to the pronblem of running ACID across arbitrary
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by sbisson 6y ago
Perhaps it's better to think of us living in a mash-up of all four of his Club of Rome Quartet futurist SF novels. The Sheep Look Up: pollution-driven ecological collapse and climate change The Jagged Orbit: corporate capture of legisl
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Talking with Jaron Lanier about bringing lessons from VR to collaboration apps(techrepublic.com)
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by sbisson 6y ago
Yes, it's phishing. It's common enough that it's got its own name: smishing.
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by sbisson 6y ago
It's not even OG; just initialsurname@bigmailprovider is enough to get your account filled with people's personal information.
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by sbisson 6y ago
It used ADSBExchange as a data source.
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by sbisson 6y ago
About the only thing that's gone past me without any transponders are the civilian marked up Dauphin II used by the SAS...
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by sbisson 6y ago
There's a side-effect of having a big array of receivers; if you get the basic Mode S data that all aircraft (including military) transmit from their transponders, a little math lets you quickly plot their location using a technique ca
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by sbisson 6y ago
I ended up using some lockdown time to put together a Pi-based ADS-B receiver, as I live close to the main low-flying helicopter route through London. I've chosen to feed data to a mix of services, including ADSBexchange which powers t
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by sbisson 6y ago
Of course the other question is: will there be any malls left open for stores like these? I suspect this a calculation many retail stores are toying with at the moment; we're in the middle of a fundamental shift in retail to online and
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by sbisson 6y ago
I worked at GEC Hirst in the early 90s. It was a fascinating place, and I learned a lot in my research into local loop technologies in the early days of the commercial internet. However it was clear that the writing was on the wall when the
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by sbisson 7y ago
As documented (among other events) in Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown . The book is online here in various formats: https://github.com/bdesham/the-hacker-crackdown
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by sbisson 7y ago
I'm currently working my way through the series of counter-intelligence novels written by his contemporary and friend Anthony Price. It's a look at a different aspect of military intelligence through a rotating cast of narrators,
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by sbisson 7y ago
Yes. It helps to live somewhere with decent healthcare too.
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by sbisson 7y ago
At the end of the day, yes. But we get our pay checks from the publishing companies that commission our words.
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by sbisson 7y ago
I ordered one yesterday from the Pi Hut here in the UK. It shipped today...
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by sbisson 7y ago
They seem to have missed one key container isolation technology; Microsoft's Hyper-V isolation as used on Azure: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...
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by sbisson 7y ago
Windows uses 9P, it uses CIFS.

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