Don Thompson @guardeddon@qoto.org

@bloor @simonzerafa
The ‘author’ tried that a number of times.
He had previously built a flight path prediction tool. Using regularly operated routes, which generally follow airways (perhaps with offsets), and knowing weather (head/xwinds), paths could be predicted but a number of times his predictions/alleged WSPR derived tracks were contradicted by ADS-C data logged at adsbexchange.

@bazcurtis @bloor
Jeff Wise… when he parted with the Independent Group in early 2015 I knew exactly where he was going, he hasn’t contradicted that appraisal.
He knew how intractable the problem is.

Have to say, the US Army & defence tech companies sponsoring a music festival is peak enshitification.

From: @mark_ohe
https://mastodon.energy/@mark_ohe/112088180020079653

@jon
Cross border rail improvements, Irish Rail/Translink-NIR
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/ni-enterprise-train-guaranteed-seat-booking-and-double-capacity-as-part-of-translink-plans/a943915693.html

@JohnS_AZ
‘Then came the lawyers, then came the rules’

@ImpossibleUmbrella
Californication!

(Altho aware that there’s a railway running nearly parallel to El Camino Real in Silicon Valley)

Given some knowledge of the MacOS directory services I likely could have simply modified group membership, that might come later.
While intermittently cursing MacOS’ obfuscation of something analagous to other *nixes ‘single user mode’, my realisation that recovery mode affords, practically, the same thing has been a useful learning point.

I hit a snag after the OpenCore upgrade to Ventura. Somehow, the ‘admin’ privileges previously attributed to my user had been rescinded.
Booting OCLP recovery is at present (v1.3.0) non-functional so I used my Big Sur install media to get a ‘terminal’ & delete the AppleSetupDone file off the system volume thus enabling me to rerun local machine setup & create a new user with admin privileges.

I am quite excited by this… the Macbook Pro that is displaying the installer is officially only supported by Big Sur, OpenCore Legacy Patcher has configured a Ventura install. The hardware was bought to provide a donor screen to a more recent Macbook & this is a useful ‘sandbox’ unit for testing, experimenting, and so on.