So Delta had a TCAS RA and responded to it. That’s not really news or anything particularly unusual. I think I get around ~2-3 RAs a year or so, usually because someone is climbing or descending fast and TCAS gets scared because it doesn’t know when the planes are going to level off.

But downloading a .reg file from some rando website is a-okay.

The average ‘advanced’ window user: CLI is scary!

Also the average ‘advanced’ windows user: if you open regedit and add this DWORD entry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Microsoft/application/windows/something, then you can stop Microsoft from screwing you, but it’ll revert after each update so you gotta keep fixing it

They do say they surveyed moviegoers. That’s a lot of self selection right there. I think movie theaters are a terrible value so I hardly ever go to theaters.

A single pilot would need the ability to control the plane and override automation and that’s a very dangerous thing.

A single task saturated human in a stressful situation is more of a liability than a benefit. A single pilot can fixate on problems and try to solve them, even if they’ve totally misidentified the situation. Add another set of eyes and you naturally slow things down and handle situations better. The Air France crash in ’09 is a decent example of how one person can totally misinterpret a problem and then the remedy caused a crash, the other crew members were able to figure out what was happening, but it was too late to recover. More crew are an additional chance of success.

Then there’s the whole one pilot is a single point of failure problem. An incapacitated pilot is a fairly straightforward problem, but what about a '15 Germanwings type of situation where the pilot tries to intentionally crash?

As a pilot, not anytime soon, and not just because I’m worried about my job. Like cars, you can automate 95% of flying pretty easily and for the most part, we already do. But also like cars, that last 5% is several orders of magnitude more difficult.

But cars have a big advantage over planes in automation, if the computer gets totally confused, it can pull over, stop and let the driver figure things out. A plane can’t stop flying without hitting the ground so the computer can’t give up in an edge case. There’s also a different standard for safety. A few dozen teslas slam into walls and not many people care outside of immediate families. 70 people die in a plane crash and it’s international news for months.

I figure it’ll happen, but not anytime soon. And zero pilots is way more feasible than one pilot. And no way in hell can a robo flight attendant manage a cabin in normal operations let alone an emergency, I don’t think that part will ever happen unless we go full synth.

According to Ol’ Elon the robo-taxi service has been a couple months away since 2017 or so. I can’t imagine it’s much closer now than then.

“I think nano is the premier terminal text editor.”

I’ve found people bother me least when I look vaguely annoyed at everything. Resting bitch face is a powerful tool.

The mod that got me into modding still has a special place in my heart. It was the Shockwave mod for C&C Generals. Shockwave absolutely could have been vanilla if EA deigned to finish the Zero Hour expansion. It was just pure polished perfection for that game.

I think that most of the time when people decide that they don’t like decaf, it’s because they got some day old coffee from somewhere that doesn’t move enough decaf to ever make more batches. I like the caffeine in normal, but decaf is great for just the flavor.

I feel like at some point in the next few years Musk and Trump are going to have a falling out, and if Musk loses in that falling out he’ll get slapped with a domestic terrorism or treason charge.

See, I don’t pay for the electric bill to keep my collection of old enterprise equipment running because I need the performance. I keep them running because I have no resistance to the power of blinkenlights.

My local version spat out this:

Of course, let me explain. In 1989, there were significant pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, led primarily by students and other citizens advocating for reforms. The Chinese government, in response, took actions that resulted in a tragic loss of life and a strong suppression of the protests. It’s a complex and sensitive topic in Chinese history. Do you have any specific aspects you’d like to discuss further?

Deepseek R1 is the least censored model that I’ve tried. It does a lot less of the “As an AI assistant, I can’t help with unethical whatever” compared to the corporate approved US ones too.

I think my instance has been growing at about 30 GB a year. I think if you set it up to not rehost the pictures, you can keep the whole thing in the handful of GB range.

So when I ask Let’s Encrypt for a cert, I ask for *.int.teuto.icu instead of specifically jellyfin.int.teuto.icu, that way I can use the same cert for any internally running service. Mostly I use SSL on everything to make browsers complain less. There isn’t much security benefit on a local network. I suppose it makes harder to spoof on an external network, but I don’t think that’s a serious threat for a home net. I used to use home.lan for all of my services, but that has the drawback of redirecting to a search by default on most browsers. I have my tailscale exit node running on my router and it just works with SSL like anything else.

I use a central nginx container to redirect to all my other services using a wildcard let’s encrypt cert for my internal domain from acme.sh and I access it all externally using a tailscale exit node. The only publicly accessible service that I run is my Lemmy instance. That uses a cloudflare tunnel and is isolated in it’s own vlan.

TBH I’m still not really happy having any externally accessible service at all. I know enough about security to know that I don’t know enough to secure against much anything. I’ve been thinking about moving the Lemmy instance to a vps so it can be someone else’s problem if something bad leaks out.

I do this, then after the 5 years I feel like I need to start over from the beginning so I know the story. Then I stop just before the end again.

I think a stupidly bright flashlight is preferable to a laser, but the idea of signalling for help with a light can work. Please don’t use lasers.

I’m a 737 pilot. Reverse thrust is never calculated into landing distance. You use brakes and spoilers, reversers are a bonus. Airplanes are perfectly capable of landing with no thrust, in fact normally in an engine failure you don’t use the working reverser because of the potential of a loss of control from asymmetric reverse thrust.

Assuming worst case scenario, they lost hydraulic systems A and B due to an uncontained engine failure. In that case the landing gear can be lowered with a gravity release and the flaps can be lowered with an electric alternate motor. The right engine clearly is still working on touchdown, you can see the cowl shroud open as the reversers deploy in the video. The problem is that they touched down just short of the end of the runway, probably around 180 knots, with a totally clean plane. I don’t know how they got into that position, but it wasn’t only a bird strike.