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Re:Flash Player EOL, Adobe Announces 12-Day Grace Period on Thursday December 10, 2020 @11:56PM (#25382458)
I admitted upfront it's wholly unsubstantiated, but something to the effect of a sovereign entity with the ability to compel the maintenance of access so as to not burn some 0-day involved in some ongoing operation/investigation/etc.
Re:Flash Player EOL, Adobe Announces 12-Day Grace Period on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:35PM (#25367099)
Maybe I'm just jaded, but when I read "12-day grace period" it makes me wonder if they were compelled to maintain access until...something finished.
Re:List of Twitter mute words for your timeline on Friday January 24, 2020 @03:29PM (#22142144)
Life got so much better after blocking "@threadreaderapp unroll"

Interested to see how these work.

There are also ground based systems at airports which increase reliability / integrity for things like simultaneous parallel approaches. [1] says to within +/- 1m horizontal and vertical.

[1] https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Ground_Based_Augmentatio...

Different divisions, I'm sure, but I'm leaning towards "don't take Boeing's word for anything," given recent events.
Re:U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices on Saturday December 21, 2019 @12:10PM (#21852197)
Good point, we'll get the Navy right on that.
Airbus A380 sustained a catastrophic uncontained engine failure due to a Rolls Royce flaw. Landed and everybody went home. Maybe they can help.
This reminded me of the time I mistakenly deleted /var/tmp/ instead of just deleting the contents of /var/tmp/. The router was not pleased.