agent86
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 3 months ago
> That should clear the next flight to go to orbit and deploy operational satellites!
Mid-stream they said they were deploying 20 real V3 Starlink satellites.
At the end of the stream the said all 20 had checked out as well.
Comment · 8 months ago
Two Notes:
1) I had to abbreviate the title as the official article title is 4 characters too long for HN.
2) The gift link in use to bypass the Verge paywall was posted by the official Verge account to /r/Android on Reddit[1].
[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1rktkbp/comment/o8...
Comment · 8 months ago
I couldn't find something to read about it, but I did find this to watch and learn about it.
I won't spoil it here either :-)
Comment · 9 months ago
In the LoRA/radio device sense, Meshtastic[1] is probably the easiest to get started with. It's the biggest player in the space, has devices that come pre-installed and configured, the most likely chance of making contact with someone else, etc. MeshCore[2] is the other major player. It's newer and tends to have been adopted by communities that have run into issues with large Meshtastic networks.
If you meant PC-based mesh networking, I'll leave someone more knowledgeable to speak about that :).
[1] - https://meshtastic.org/
[2] - https://meshcore.co.uk/
Comment · 9 months ago
And, as of 3 weeks ago, the one man is "stepping back from all public-facing interaction with this project".[1]
Further, "Occasional updates may appear at unpredictable intervals, but there will be no support, no responses to issues, no discussions, and no community management in this or any other public venue."
Nothing salacious here - just another one man open source project with a burnt out maintainer :(.
[1] - https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/1069
Comment · 1 year ago
> even the secret way to turn on 30-sec skip on the TiVo
Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select ;-)
Also can't forget the ,#401 dialing prefix to enable the device to call home over the Internet using a USB Ethernet adapter instead of the phone in the early days.
TiVo's whole approach to commercials in recordings was largely informed by ReplayTV though. ReplayTV took a lot of heat and lawsuits for their automatic commercial skip functionality, which is why TiVo never implemented it and buried 30 second skip behind the code.
Comment · 1 year ago
ESPN is already partly doing this with "SC For You" [1]. It gives you a personalized feed of sports clips, generated and narrated by AI that uses the voices of ESPN on-air talent.
[1] - https://support.espn.com/hc/en-us/articles/40378137547796-Wh...
Comment · 1 year ago
For anyone interested, ESPN has a HAM Radio club - WE1SPN[1] - and they are live streaming some of their Field Day operations on YouTube[2]. They're not operating overnight, but should be back in the morning eastern US time. If you'd like to make contact the operators are actively monitoring the chat.
[1] - https://we1spn.org/
Comment · 1 year ago
I'd like to play devil's advocate for a minute and ask a question:
Does anyone know exactly what the Bosch service sends the dishwasher?
While I agree that connecting a dishwasher to the Internet should not be necessary, it does open the door to an interesting scenario if what gets sent to the dishwasher is not a command to run a mode but an actual program to control the dishwasher. In theory that would mean that Bosch could alter the programs that get sent to improve the dishwasher over time.
On a dishwasher with no connectivity the modes simply are what they are from the factory. But on a connected dishwasher if the Bosch engineers figure out that when in ECO mode using every third sprayer saves water while not altering the cleaning performance expected of that mode, they can update the payload and make the dishwasher you already have even more efficient. They could also in theory create a whole library of modes for specific use cases or scenarios (All glass, hard water, etc.)
Of course, this has potential drawbacks as well. They could change a mode and alter behavior you expect, and it could potentially be a hacker's playground, but if done well it could be a net positive.
Comment · 1 year ago
The system I'd love to have a better understanding of is the one TiVo deployed for the transmission of data to their boxes in the early 2000s.
They would buy a 30 minute paid programming in the early hours on cable TV networks under the name "Teleworld Paid Programming". The box would tune the channel, record the show, and then decode the data from the recording.
I always thought there was something interesting there, as the process would need to survive the MPEG encode/decode process on the TiVo itself in addition to whatever they needed to do the broadcast.
Comment · 1 year ago
Direct URL is https://bfcm.shopify.com/
I had to run the link through TinyURL because using the original URL pulls up the 2023 HN thread which is entirely different.
Using your list I'd likely keep one IDE and comoposite video cable, but toss the RG59 and CAT5 because I could use a current RG6 or CAT6 cable in their place.