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You can send to many different services at the same time!

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 lot of traffic that wouldn't be tracked any other way than by MLAT from Mode-S).

The Piaware Pro stick is one of the best out there; it has the appropriate 1090MHz filters.

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).

Try https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ for a good unfiltered map.

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, and there you'll need to either do a lookup against (often commercial APIs) or build your own registration database from public data.

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 support soon, but, hey kittens!).

You can find it here: https://github.com/shbisson/OverPutney . This version is currently at 33 days uptime on my Piaware set up, and tweeting at @OverPutney.

It's enabled in the Pi 4 compute module; the carrier board has a PCIe slot.

See Power Toys Run

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

That would be up to Vernor.

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 networks where latency is unknown and strong consistency is not guaranteed.

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 legislation and societal violence Stand On Zanzibar: overpopulation and media saturation The Shockwave Rider: rapid technological change

Brunner was a fascinating man; I only got to meet him a couple of times before his sadly early death, but his work has influenced many across more than just genre fiction. His role in late 1960s and early 1970s activist politics in the UK is often ignored, along with his autobiographical novel of the founding of CND, The Days Of The March.

Yes, it's phishing. It's common enough that it's got its own name: smishing.

It's not even OG; just initialsurname@bigmailprovider is enough to get your account filled with people's personal information.

It used ADSBExchange as a data source.

About the only thing that's gone past me without any transponders are the civilian marked up Dauphin II used by the SAS...

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 called multilateration (MLAT) using time of flight data and a bit of trigonometry.

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 those bots, so some of the data there comes from my receiver; which has a surprisingly long range with a decent antenna: I'm regularly tracking aircraft 190 or so miles away...

You can set up a system for under $120 with a good antenna and a 1090MHz-filtered software defined radio stick. I use the Piaware distribution, which sets up the basic software needed to feed data and to generate your own maps. An added bonus of being a feeder is that you can get free access to commercial ADS-B networks like Flightradar...

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 local stores.

We've already seen one mall owner in the UK go into administration.

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 on-site library was closed down.

I left shortly afterwards.

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

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, and with a deft use of military history as a plot driver.

Start with The Labyrinth Makers and go on from there. It introduces the key characters, Dr David Audley and Major Butler.

Yes. It helps to live somewhere with decent healthcare too.

At the end of the day, yes. But we get our pay checks from the publishing companies that commission our words.

I ordered one yesterday from the Pi Hut here in the UK. It shipped today...

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...

Windows uses 9P, it uses CIFS.

Yes they are. It's an ext4 VHD, mounted under WSL.

I have a bunch of Excel spreadsheets that I use to handle invoicing and expenses; they're easy enough to feed into tax software at the end of the year.

If you still have the barf bag, it adds value!