• @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        i wonder what would happen if someone was to point a laser at coincidently same direction as where the plane is

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          Fuck all most likely. You’d have to have an extremely steady hand and do it as the plane was landing. But the pupil of a pilots eyeball is an extremely small target.

          • @[email protected]
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            13 months ago

            Oh, i thought it would do something more. At least I have had an assumption it would mess with some sensor or cause somekind of alarm

  • circuitfarmer
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    153 months ago

    The FAA is changing the rule which makes this information public. The FAA is fully controlled by the rich.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      I thought they just slightly obfuscated it, but bc the importance of tail numbers for safety, they can’t do so completely. I’d love a complete explanation from someone knowledgeable.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        Just months until they apply the Steve Jobs rule to tail numbers.

        Lease a new private jet every 3 months and you don’t need plates, or tail numbers.

    • Pup Biru
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      113 months ago

      ADS-B is public broadcast though… if you’re in range of the plane, you can pick up its air traffic control data (elevation, speed, heading, registration, etc)… services like flight radar 24 don’t work on FAA data: they are a huge network of regular people across the globe with ADS-B receivers contributing everything they see

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          Yes, exactly this ^

          While I can appreciate the ADS-B bit, it seems clear that the change to public registration would still negatively affect tracking.

        • Pup Biru
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          23 months ago

          ahhh right! i see! yup that’d ruin everything 😭 you’d have to make some correlations to find the registration then

          • @[email protected]
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            43 months ago

            Just sit next to the airport with a telescope on days you know he will be there. He would have to change IDs every flight to avoid this.

        • @[email protected]
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          83 months ago

          Sure… Until he takes his private jet out of the United States of America and has to register the information with a non USA equivalent of the FAA

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      The rules will really change when the first billionaire on a private jet gets taken out by a DIY suicide drone.

  • One2many
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    33 months ago

    Wow, imagine being so out of touch you defend a billionaire

  • @[email protected]
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    533 months ago

    The only reason I give the slightest slightly green toilet-bowl-staining shit about this is because it upsets him and he deserves to be upset

  • sandbox
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    13 months ago

    Everyone should track him and post to Tiktok just for s*s n giggles

    • Luffy
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      33 months ago

      Just say shit. You are on the internet. You can say shit, piss, fuck, asshole, and even „Du kleiner hurensohn ich ficke deine mutter”.

  • Jeena
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    93 months ago

    Now do it for the other Billionairs.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        Tim Cook, Larry Ellison, a plane owned by Google, and a few megachurch guys among others, if I recall correctly

    • @[email protected]
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      13 months ago

      like a global map with filters by business sector, flight reason, etc

      man this would be sick hehe

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      Air traffic information is already publicly available. The author of the bot simply scrapes data for Elon’s Jet. You can use websites like FlightAware, Flightradar24, and PlaneLogger that provide real-time tracking of flights, including private jets. You can also search for specific aircraft or view flights in a particular area. I remember shortly after Elon bought Twitter he got the account suspended.

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        Except the commercial aggregators have all started filtering the data of specific planes on request - you won’t find Elon’s or Swift’s ADSB data on popular sites/apps like FlightAware or Flightradar24. (I’m not familiar with PlaneLogger). Open source aggregators like OpenSky or ADSB Exchange will have them though, but the UIs of those sites are far less polished and have fewer features.

      • Pup Biru
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        53 months ago

        and worth noting that by “publicly available” here, it’s not like it’s published on some FAA API: ADS-B is broadcast from all aircraft, and anyone can receive its data… these services run by networks for regular members of the public contributing the data from their ADS-B receivers

        • skulblaka
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          43 months ago

          So you’re telling me it’s only a matter of time before Skum orders his pilots to go dark and cease broadcasting, and then they’re going to hit a jet liner full of families trying to escape his corporate hell.

  • @[email protected]
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    53 months ago

    i figured that some did it when elon banned that account on twitter i never got around to looking for it

    • @[email protected]
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      123 months ago

      I remember him getting really mad about his plane being tracked. Didn’t know it was on Twitter.

    • @[email protected]
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      223 months ago

      Nah, he just purchased the world’s biggest megaphone from which he could propel his ketamine fuelled opinions into the deep uncaring void of the internet.

  • @[email protected]
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    633 months ago

    In unrelated news, the graphics for the Switch 2 are fucking incredible - look at this shit! This is wild!

    • @[email protected]
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      03 months ago

      The best part is that if any of them get taken down, another one will pop up on another instance :D