Computers IRL #12
[NB: 70 degrees is 70°C or 158°F and not 70°F!] Yes another example of AI misbehaving: PocketOS's company database deleted by AI despite instructions to require confirmation before executing any…
Computers IRL #11
As seen on a Köln, Germany U-Bahn: No image found. The URL on the right takes you the description of the digital improvements completed on the public transport system: modern…
Attribution Done Right
While visiting the Netherlands recently, my wife and I rented a car for a short driving tour: Texel, Groningen, Den Bosch, and, most importantly, Keukenhof. The roads in the Netherlands…
Societas Non Grata
As an outcome of losing its US anti-trust case, Microsoft was forced to allow users to easily choose and install non-Microsoft browsers , the judge ruling that Microsoft had illegally…
Productionizing My ADS-B Feeder
Overview Last September I started feeding ADS-B traffic to FlightRadar24 and FlightAware using a Raspberry Pi and a customized image. An antenna was first mounted on our 2nd floor deck…
Letter Writing and Digital History
Mom wrote a letter to Grandmother when I was nine months old, thanking her for baby clothes. [Gotta love the AIR MAIL: despite the trials and tribulations of the United…
Security Through Stupidity
Nostalgia and happenstance had me visit my former high school in Miles, Iowa to watch a girls' high school basketball game. Much had changed since I last visited 10+ years…
CVE by License Plate
Unlikely the car itself represents a real CVE but my curiosity got the best of me: what are 905 CVEs? Let's query and find out! There are 26 distinct CVEs…
Computers IRL #10
The Athletic, the online sports section for the New York Times, posted a long article about John Harbaugh's first thirty days as the coach of the New York Giants. The…
Computers IRL #9
From The Independent: United Airlines warns of a planned system outage. United is upgrading (upgraded?) their reservation system, which included (I believe) moving data centers, requiring an outage during which…