I do the same thing. My concern is that if somebody makes the decision to spin up an open wireless network it’ll just try to connect to that and upload all of the telemetry it’s been holding onto.
I’m considering opening mine and taking a desoldering braid to both the RJ45 and wireless antenna solder joints. This might break the TV, but at this point if it does I’m ready to just throw it in the trash and find a commercial display.
I bought a television. I didn’t buy an invitation to be watched in the name of surveillance capitalism and until America gets its shit together with data privacy and consumer protection laws this is just going to continue happening.
I haven’t had a chance to watch this yet, but I did watch the preview and all of Steve’s latest work has been great so
I’m sure it’ll be great.
Yes, I agree with you. He is both real and it is depressing as the state of world is. I sometimes have take solace in utopian fiction like Kim Stanley Robinson's have my spirits high and have a positive look out. It is just me.
I’ve been using Opencode, but recently migrated to oh-my-pi and have really enjoyed it.
I’ve also had luck with copilot-cli, but find that to be more limiting and it’s only really worth using if you are paying for GitHub Copilot (or your company pays for it, as is my case).
This is a prescient concern and it all came about due to the initial export controls placed on Fable on a Friday afternoon with zero warning. It was partly Anthropic’s fault though. Engaging in criti-hype by going on an advertising blitz explaining how their new model is some kind of genius super hacker didn’t help their case.
Nevertheless, it happened. The problem is that businesses demand stability. Building an application, service, or business process around an API that can be turned off whenever a government demands represents an unacceptable risk.
It’s not a mental exercise when it has already happened once before and likely will happen again. If you control the weights and invest in your own hardware to run them (or rent it from a cloud provider), that risk can be mitigated.
Those export controls might have saved the flow of open-weight models from China. There was talk about Qwen moving away from releases... until Xi himself started promoting open weight models!
Maybe not intentionally (at least by the U.S. Government, but the consequences are far greater now.
Now that GPS has subsumed a large part of air navigation as more VOR and ILS approaches at non-towered airports are being left to fall into disrepair, it forces more and more aircraft operating in instrument conditions to fall back to a navigation system that may not operate to the tolerances that you need to shoot an approach to LPV minimums (which puts you close to 200 feet or so above the ground) or LNAV minimums (higher, but still pretty low to the ground). If you lose signal integrity, you abort the approach. You don't want to break out at minimums only to find that the runway is 33 feet to the left or right of the centerline when it's not a circling only approach where you're expecting it. If that field only has RNAV (GPS) approaches, you have to divert. Hopefully the alternate airport you filed has a ground based approach plate available that is authorized .
When SA was around, we had more VORs, more VOR and ILS approaches, and while NDBs (decades old radionavigation beacon that operated on the AM band) were on their way out, they were still around.
One of the reasons SA was discontinued was that if you knew the coordinates of a base station, you could correct for the error. Are airports not doing this already?
Actually, several airports are. So you have normal WAAS and it has a ground segment. Most (new) IFR certified GPS receivers installed in airplanes today are WAAS capable.
To that, you can augment something called GBAS (we used to call it Local Area Augmentation System but switched over to the ICAO name for it). It’s basically a ground station that sits at an airport and corrects for GPS errors where you need it most (airports definitely qualify here and that’s where you need the best GPS performance).
Ultimately, the FAA is going to go 100% GPS and it’ll fall back to the minimum number of land-based sources for redundancy. It’s about cost. The issues with GPS may cause them to push the timeline back and develop plans to mitigate the issue, but they’re too far down this path to stop now.
To meet its integrity budget, a GBAS needs at least triple redundancy, not just a single station.
If one has a lot of patience, one can read the details of how it works at https://elibrary.icao.int/product/299828 (along with SBAS, the ICAO name for what WAAS does; the constellations they can augment; GRAS, a weird hybrid between GBAS and SBAS that apparently went nowhere; ILS; VOR; DME; and VHF marker beacons). Annex 10 Vol I probably doesn't say explicitly that triple redundancy is required, because if you had a single receiver with an MTBF of something like 10 billion hours then you could use just that one.
This particular 30-foot error should go away almost entirely for future receivers that implement DFMC SBAS or ARAIM.
I’m considering opening mine and taking a desoldering braid to both the RJ45 and wireless antenna solder joints. This might break the TV, but at this point if it does I’m ready to just throw it in the trash and find a commercial display.
I bought a television. I didn’t buy an invitation to be watched in the name of surveillance capitalism and until America gets its shit together with data privacy and consumer protection laws this is just going to continue happening.
I haven’t had a chance to watch this yet, but I did watch the preview and all of Steve’s latest work has been great so I’m sure it’ll be great.
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