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@nihl these are my oldish notes https://docs.skunkwerks.at/1F9bz6fvS5q-EAcwk2OAUQ?both#
It doesn't explicitly say, make sure you upgraded to latest 14.3pX but it should.
I am reasonably sure most of the errors I encountered here are now resolved.
If I have time tonight I'll whizz through them in a VM.
Okay I watched the second NTSB press briefing twice yesterday and have some juicy deets to dish out for you fine folks. Some of this was previously available/self evident but I wanted to wait a bit for the NTSB to do its thing. Here we go 
Longer post so maybe bookmark and read later.
First off, as the chairwoman succinctly emphasized: If a airline crash happens, many things likely went wrong. Flying is so safe because it has defense in depth built in. I personally would like to say we must resist the very natural desire to focus on "okay, who f'ed up". This is a search for the truth.
The controller clearly at least twice told the truck to stop before the crash
Two controllers were in the air traffic control tower cab (in layman's terms, the top most part of the tower with windows where the active ATCs oversee things and work) at the time. They had just gone on duty for the "midnight" (22:30-06:30) shift at ~22:30ish local time.
There is conflicting information on which air traffic controller was in charge of operations on the ground.
The controllers at the time were dealing with another emergency on the ground. So there was a heavy workload on controllers who were also working multiple positions. NTSB cautions about talking about "controller distraction" as they were doing their job.
The controllers were doing combined positions since it was the midnight shift. This is the standard operating procedure for a lot of airports, including Newark. (See other #ChillyATCAdventures posts). The chairwoman has concerns about this nationwide common practice and so do I.
Conflicting reports on how many certified ATCs were in the facility overall. ATCs are supposed to take periodic breaks and be relieved by another controller.
The truck did not have a transponder to report its location. The airport did have airport surface detection equipment (ASDE-X) but the ground radar did not alert since the proximity of multiple ARFF trucks caused the system to have low confidence.
Chairwoman Homendy is awesome, as usual
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"Israel using white phosphorus to scorch earth in south Lebanon, researcher says" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/25/israel-white-phosphorus-south-lebanon-researchers • "Rule 45. The use of methods or means of warfare that are intended, or may be expected, to cause widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment is prohibited. Destruction of the natural environment may not be used as a weapon." https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule45 • "Rule 44. Methods and means of warfare must be employed with due regard to the protection and preservation of the natural environment. In the conduct of military operations, all feasible precautions must be taken to avoid, and in any event to minimize, incidental damage to the environment. Lack of scientific certainty as to the effects on the environment of certain military operations does not absolve a party to the conflict from taking such precautions." https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule44 • "Rule 84. The Protection of Civilians and Civilian Objects from the Effects of Incendiary Weapons" https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule84 • "Rule 85. The Use of Incendiary Weapons against Combatants" https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule85 • "Rule 71. Weapons That Are by Nature Indiscriminate" https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule71 • "Rule 70. Weapons of a Nature to Cause Superfluous Injury or Unnecessary Suffering" https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule70 Et cetera, et cetera.
The European BSD conference, EuroBSDcon 2026 will be in Brussels, 9-13 September 2026.
You can send your talk, tutorial, BOF or other session submission to our program committee before June 20th, see https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/
For more about the BSD conferences, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #development #programming #devops #bsd #conference @EuroBSDCon
Another superb sunny day … but tomorrow and Friday temperatures will plummet. Enjoy it while you can!
They’re not great photos but I loved the walk.
If you are wondering how this "democracy" thing is going over at the Emperorship of Hungary weeks before the election: independent investigative journalists Direkt36 report that the Constitution Protection Office has used made-up child pornography allegations to force the Child Protection Bureau to investigate the people operating the opposition TISZA party's technical infra. One of the high-ranking officers of the Child Protection Bureau explains the many oddities they have encountered in the process, uncovering a plot to collapse TISZA's IT systems in a bid to prevent them to partake in the election, and finding that these people were cajoled, coerced and incriminated with methods and resources "akin to those of the secret service".
Resume / Curriculum Vitae GitHub Gitea Profile Upstreamed Patches Code Analyse and work on fix for a race condition in libvirt during shutdown of libvirtd Enable OpenGL threading in Mesa for a specific Unity application after validating its behaviour Fix Debug Logging in RAUC Update the Kernel config and boot parameters of the hardened NixOS Linux Kernel Fix audio plugin detection in DAW Ardour on NixOS by patching in NixOs specific paths Fixes for PS2 Homebrew related tools vclpp and openvcl Build Systems OCI Dockerfile refactoring Fix an OCI Dockerfile and CMake based build pipeline Documentation Fix the Btrfs Balance manual page Improve the Audacity build instructions for openSUSE and Fedora My Projects rpmo - building containers from scratch (on hiatus, started in 2023) SNMP Client that queries MACs connected to each ports on multiple managed switches and draws a network topology graph (on hiatus, started in 2021) Serial Console XML Configuration Parser and REST Exporter (started and completed in 2022) Collection of Linux / Unix related notes, scripts, configuration options etc.
#NetBSD folks, ive been poking at pkgsrc, after many years away. Being someone who doesn't like vanilla firefox, or chromium what do you all suggest in terms of browsers? If anything ? (Been using Waterfox on FreeBSD & Linux) Thinking about putting together a NetBSD+XFCE machine.
EDIT: Hey folks, im looking for sugestion that are actually in pkgsrc that run on NetBSD.
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