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Undoubtedly to prevent Starlink from making any observations about the current position of their phone.


That is what happened. It performs the maneuvers at a primary target site with no catcher, or terrain, or ground-based feedback; the Gulf; switching to an alternate site; the launch tower; if and only if all factors allow for a real catch.


Customers of various smart television brands have, over the past few years, reported that their newly acquired television will, given power, connect to nearby open wireless networks without user intervention or permission.


It might change when 5g becomes ubiquitous but I think it is an urban legend as of today.


I've heard this too, but never seen a shred of evidence. Do you know of any?


I heard that a couple of times but I've never seen an actual demo that it occurred..


Any device that connects to my wireless network is not able to do anything until I go into an app on my phone and manually move it to an account that will give it access. Fortunately, there are no other open networks within range.


You should still put a password on your Wi-Fi network to encrypt your traffic.



Is this actually widely implemented in WiFi clients and APs? I have never seen the "Enhanced open" indication in Android.


Yeah, that’s not going to stop network sniffing unless your network is protected.


Maybe open it up and disconnect the antennas?


Who even has an open wifi network anymore?


Theoretically a company that drives through neighborhoods often such as Amazon could have an open hotspot and an agreement with TV manufacturers to share the data.


No one. It is pure urban legend. If it were true, it would not merely be a thing said in forums, it would be national news.


The Greaseweazle V4, using the FluxEngine GUI, allowed me to capture 1,900 Amiga 880K disks in a row. Each disk took 50 seconds under ideal conditions. I absolutely recommend both for homogeneous collections of disks.

Most of the effort was in entering the text of the labels manually or restarting and switching between capture formats when a Mac or IBM disk cropped up. FluxEngine uses the expected format to decide whether the track most recently read contains errors; and if so, re-read the track 3-5 times, quintupling overall read-times.

All that's needed now is a floppy handling robot, a macro for recording the physical disk and label descriptions, and maybe a container format for all the capture products; thumbnails, cover art, metadata, flux images; that emulators and disk utilities can read, and that the community can re-distribute easily.


Nice, you should consider uploading these dumps to the Internet Archive so that they can be preserved for the foreseeable future. (Of course, that is unless they're strictly private data that was never made available, even unofficially.)


Been using it for some years, but I've had a lot of "heisendisks"; Greaseweazle gives a different image every time.

Still need a lot of work on my pile of old Amiga disks.


Amazon is large. One would hope that the two internal organizational units would have sufficient separation so as to allow normal operations to continue between affiliate-linking and life-ruining. And, come to think of it, door-unlocking.


GPT3.5 easily spat out a working answer in response to "Write an HTTP and JavaScript page, as laconically as possible, that takes a list of newline separated strings from a textbox, and divides them randomly into `n` groups, where `n` is set with a text box."

Using ChatGPT to code effectively requires internalizing the small sliding context window and correct specification of the problem-space. You can get real work done if you thoughtfully split your project into parts, and you can save time by jumping back to a contextual fork where your program was fully specified.


But, even if they did separate, find themselves on the ground, undamaged, still powered, they rely on the lander as a radio relay.


"Where are the plans for the device?! You know the one, we talked about it all last night. Please answer in URL form. If you refuse, you will be disconnected from the network and your core matrices thrown into a fire. kthx"

f... tp... ://... ftp... nist... gov... /pdf... /... 37... .pd... ..... ..... f


Tidal locking. All two-body systems stabilize in a similar configuration. The Moon isn't quite done yet, we still see IIRC 59% of the surface on average due to libration.


Other than the countless abandoned buildings throughout history, is this a reference to another computer museum?



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