The Garmin systems I flew were only certified for ops south of 70°N and north of 70°S. Nobody knew what would happen closer to the poles. Maybe the system was just not tested to certification standards out there, or maybe it would do something really stupid and want to fly upside down or backwards! Either way, I wasn't going to be the pilot finding out on a dark night.

It’s likely to do with satellite geometry at extreme latitudes leading to lower accuracy. Maybe also the weaker access to correction data from geostationary satellites.

Could be. The aircraft did not have inertial as a backup.

Mail-in-a-box (https://mailinabox.email) on Ubuntu Server which installs Postfix, Dovecot, nsd, NextCloud, RoundCube, nginx, spam assasin, postgrey ... and a good admin panel.

Mine runs on an Intel NUC at home, with the a sensible ISP who naturally can provide a fixed IP address (everything open), IPv6, and clean address.

Been very happy with it, both the software, and the independence :) A little IT and network knowledge is useful if you're doing more than the standard (VPS) install, but that's to be expected.

I'm having some trouble with the idea that someone who does know the type can get in and just go flying! Airliners are not like cars, different types are very different. If you don't know the type, you couldn't even get things started without days of preparation. And one hours notice to get the paperwork done on an unfamiliar aircraft, owned by someone else, in another country - dreaming!

He has several tens of employees; odds are one of them will be familiar with whatever type is at hand for a particular job. He probably even hires specifically for that knowledge diversity.

Another weird trick (that seems to be in play) - don't unpack them yet, so they are not yet depreciating assets! Listen to https://open.spotify.com/episode/1QjM5Ud5kjHzMIY5G7hjhW?si=o...

Also - all the gee-whiz AI companies are headed by people who don't have great business backgrounds, either by people from tech backgrounds (chasing the last of the VC), or by people with the kind of "interesting" background who you wouldn't lend your own money!

Agreed.

Also the sadder slice is all the X people token maxxing with no hope of distribution. Cool things are cool, but getting buyers is getting harder.

Or more to the point, it's surprising that humans can make sense of LLM text, quite as much as they do?

Because the sense and the semantics is entirely within the human.

It's disappointing that this article won't rate higher here, as it's spot on and most points very difficult to refute. Disappointing, but given the audience, unsurprising.

>> because semantics is not involved

And there, in five words, is the problem/feature/definition of AI.

And NEVER use an email address on some domain/service for administration of that domain/service.

Availability of an OpenWrt port is the first thing I check when looking for network hardware :)