MOSAIC is done. After more than a decade of work by EAA, the FAA, and numerous others, MOSAIC (Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification) is now a final rule. The rule was announced by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy on Tuesday afternoon at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025. A generation after the creation of the original sport pilot and light-sport aircraft (LSA) rules, today we celebrate Sport Pilot 2.0 and LSA 2.0. Ninety days from now, about three-quarters of the general aviation fleet will be accessible to sport pilots and those exercising sport pilot privileges. One year from now, new and modern aircraft will begin entering the fleet with minimal certification costs. //
With MOSAIC, the weight limitation is removed. GONE! In its place is a new set of limitations; the primary limitation will now be a “clean” stall speed (VS1) of 59 knots calibrated airspeed. Aircraft with up to four seats are now allowed, although sport pilots will still be limited to one passenger. Sport pilots are also now allowed to fly aircraft with controllable-pitch propellers and retractable landing gear, with the appropriate training and endorsements.
Equally exciting to the future of aviation is the aircraft certification reform included in the rule. New aircraft are on the way! The original LSA rule proved that safe, modern aircraft could be certified with a minimum of FAA oversight by using industry consensus standards and simple forms of validation. Now, LSA 2.0 is set to deliver far more capability.
Mopani says:
July 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“Investors studiously seek to minimize or mitigate uncertainty.”
Absolutely 100%. The present operational method of the NRC militates against this very desire for certainty. ALARA and LNT both destroy certainty, and as others have pointed out, recent builds have proven it, with the NRC changing the rules mid-build. At minimum, once a construction license is awarded, the NRC should not be allowed to change the rules that the license was awarded under.
Mopani says:
July 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Separately from my previous comment, the US NRC logo in the article says everything about the viewpoint of the NRC: “Protecting People and the Environment” — from nuclear power evidently.
A better tagline would be “Clean & Safe Energy for All”. The NRC as presently constituted is not about promoting safe energy, its about promoting safety.
An illustration: If the first rule of traffic safety is “safety first” then 35MPH would be the maximum speed limit. If the first rule of traffic safety is “keep the traffic moving” then speed limits and other rules take their rightful place — accidents impede the flow of traffic, so traffic rules should help prevent accidents, but the rules become subservient to the primary goal of keeping traffic flowing.
The safety rules around Nuclear power should be subservient to the rule that nuclear power should be plentiful, cheap, and safe. Those are not unachievable goals. The failure of the NRC is to regard nuclear accidents as somehow more special than any other industrial accident, contributing to the culture of treating nuclear power as more dangerous than any other industry. As Petr Beckmann noted in the title of his book, “The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear”, depriving society of plentiful, cheap and safe energy is more hazardous.
The trial court declined to appoint counsel for Gideon. As a result, he was forced to act as his own counsel and conduct his own defense in court, emphasizing his innocence in the case. At the conclusion of the trial, the jury returned a guilty verdict. The court sentenced Gideon to serve five years in the state prison.
Gideon first filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Supreme Court of Florida. In his petition, he claimed his Sixth Amendment right had been violated because the judge refused to appoint counsel. The Florida Supreme Court denied Gideon's petition.[3] Later, from his cell at the Florida State Prison in Raiford, making use of the prison library and writing in pencil on prison stationery,[4] Gideon appealed to the United States Supreme Court in a suit against the Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections, H. G. Cochran. Cochran retired and was replaced by Louie L. Wainwright before the Supreme Court heard the case. Gideon argued in his appeal that he had been denied counsel and therefore that his Sixth Amendment rights, as applied to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment, had been violated.
The Supreme Court assigned Gideon a prominent Washington, D.C. attorney, future Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas of the law firm Arnold, Fortas & Porter. //
As a second point, Fortas presented during oral argument that it was widely accepted in the legal community that the first thing any reputable lawyer does when accused of a crime is hire an attorney. As an example, Fortas noted that when Clarence Darrow, who was widely known as the greatest criminal attorney in the United States, was charged with jury tampering and suborning perjury, the first thing he did was get an attorney to represent him.[7] Since Gideon had only an eighth-grade education, Fortas suggested that if a lawyer as prominent as Darrow needed an attorney to represent him in criminal proceedings, then a man without a legal education, or any education for that matter, needed a lawyer too.[7] Fortas's former Yale Law School professor, longtime friend and future Supreme Court colleague Justice William O. Douglas praised his argument as "probably the best single legal argument" in his 36 years on the court.[8]
rhhardin | July 21, 2025 at 6:23 pm
The Fed matches the number of dollars circulating to what the economy can do at once, so that the dollars don’t bid up the price of stuff that’s more than the economy can do at once, or have parts of it fall idle for lack of bidding dollars.
It does this by creating or destroying dollars.
It creates or destroys dollars by selling stuff it has (e.g. bonds) at a greater rate, or buying back stuff with newly created dollars (buying back debt, e.g.).
What regulates this selling or buying back is the target interest rate. They change this target rate in monthly meetings according to leading indicators of inflation. If inflation looks rising, it sells more debt and burns the dollars it gets. You can’t spend debt so that restricts bidding for goods and services. If inflation looks falling, it buys back more debt with newly printed dollars so there can be more bidding on goods and services. In between setting new targets, whether the market short term interest rate is above or below the target tells the fed to buy or sell more to hold the interest rate at the target.
Something gold can’t do for you.
What most people don’t understand, I think, is that money is not wealth. It is to an individual, but not to a country. Money is a ticket in line to say what the economy does next, presumably something for you. The Fed creates and destroys tickets to match what the economy can do at once.
There’s no increase or decrease in wealth, anybody’s wealth.
Maybe that takes some of the sinister magic out of it. //
rhhardin in reply to CommoChief. | July 21, 2025 at 8:36 pm
If productivity goes up 10% as well, then your $100 buys exactly what it did before. LIkewise is money velocity declines by 10%. Stuff changes and the Fed responds to keep the value of the dollar constant. Actually 2% inflation is the target because that adds stability to the economic system against sudden failures. //
Milhouse in reply to CommoChief. | July 22, 2025 at 3:03 am
Chief, the problem with a gold standard is that the gold supply grows at random, at rates that have no connection with the need for an expanded money supply. The gold supply grows and shrinks as new mines are discovered and old ones play out. If you suddenly have a huge influx from newly opened mines, you get inflation; even hyperinflation, as Europe experienced when the gold from the New World started flowing in. And if production has a major spurt, and the gold supply doesn’t increase enough to match it, then you have deflation, which is even worse than inflation; no one wants to invest money in anything, because they’re better off just sticking it in a vault and letting it appreciate on its own.
The idea of the Fed is to control the money supply and make it grow at the same rate as production does, or as close to it as possible. Now at times the Fed has failed to do this, but at least when it’s doing its job properly we can expect good results, whereas with gold it’s always up to pure chance. //
Milhouse in reply to destroycommunism. | July 22, 2025 at 2:57 am
Money doesn’t need to be “backed” by anything. It’s a medium of exchange in itself, and its value comes entirely from the fact that people are willing to accept it in exchange, confident that other people will be equally willing in turn. And they get that confidence from the fact that the IRS guarantees it will accept it, so if worse comes to worst you can use it to pay your taxes, and also from the fact that it’s legal tender, so you can discharge private debts with it whether your creditor likes it or not.
The idea that the government must be willing to sell you gold for dollars, at a fixed price, is obsolete and stupid. It reflects a mindset stuck in the olden days when gold was money and dollars weren’t themselves money but merely represented money. It’s the opposite now; dollars are money, and gold is merely a commodity, exactly like diamonds or wool. //
Milhouse in reply to rhhardin. | July 21, 2025 at 8:30 pm
What most people don’t understand, I think, is that money is not wealth. It is to an individual, but not to a country.
As Smith taught us 250 years ago! The Wealth of Nations should be required reading before anyone comments on economics in any way.
Smith destroyed the “gold equals wealth” myth by pointing out that Spain was flush with gold, but was a very poor country. Beggars had gold plates but nothing to eat off them. Whereas Poland had very little gold, but was a very rich country. Therefore the quantity of gold in a country could not be a measure of its wealth.
- The Linux screen command is a versatile tool that allows you to run terminal applications in the background and switch back to them when needed.
- It supports split-screen displays and can be used over SSH connections, even after disconnecting and reconnecting.
- With screen, you can create new windows, run multiple processes, detach and reattach sessions, and share sessions between multiple users in real-time.
With the Linux screen command, you can push running terminal applications to the background and pull them forward when you want to see them. It also supports split-screen displays and works over SSH connections, even after you disconnect and reconnect!
U.S. states have built less than 400 electric vehicle charging ports through April under $7.5 billion federal infrastructure programs, the Government Accountability Office said Tuesday.
As of April 2025, 384 charging ports are operating at 68 stations in 16 states, GAO said, saying a joint office overseeing the program "has not defined performance goals with measurable targets and time frames for its activities." //
Nationwide, there are about 219,000 publicly available EV charging ports, according to the Energy Department. //
Oh, and for the sake of comparison, there are 198,443 gasoline stations in the United States, and to make it apples-to-apples, since the number of EV charging ports are just that - ports, equivalent to one single gas or diesel nozzle - just for the sake of argument, let's assume an average of six pumps per station, with two nozzles per pump; that's 2,381,316 gasoline or diesel ports in the United States. Even our own little local gas station, up the road in our little Susitna Valley village center, has six gasoline pumps and two diesel pumps, so I'm pretty confident with that number.
The great movies, directors, actors, and writers of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s produced what has since been called the Golden Era of Hollywood. Technological advances, especially sound and color, also contributed. Scripts came from great novels and works of history, and from compelling stories serialized in magazines. One of those who contributed mightily to the Golden Era, in particular to the movies of John Ford, was the writer James Warner Bellah. His stories were powerful, poignant, and filled with men of character and courage. He himself was a veteran of not only World War I but also World War II. //
From the late 1940s through the 1960s, Bellah published eight books and three dozen short stories and articles. He also wrote or co-wrote nine screenplays. He will probably be best remembered for his work with the legendary director John Ford. The two first met, not in Hollywood, but in India during World War II. Ford’s famous cavalry trilogy, Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), and Rio Grande (1950), came from the pen of James Warner Bellah. //
Probably the best of these films is The Sea Chase (1954), starring John Wayne and Lana Turner.
Sympa is an electronic mailing list manager. It is used to automate list management functions such as subscription, moderation and management of archives. Sympa also manages sending of messages to the lists, and makes it possible to reduce the load on the system. Provided that you have enough memory on your system, Sympa is especially well adapted for big lists. For a list with 20 000 subscribers, it takes 5 minutes to send a message to 90% of subscribers, of course considering that the network is available.
AudriusButkevicius
Jun 8
The usecase [of glusterfs] was sharing thumbnail cache between multiple ec2 machines in the same az, serving an e-commerce site, before efs was a thing.
The performance of the site tanked really badly due to how long io and discovery took on files in glusterfs, way beyond of what was acceptable.
The cross site (resd eu->us) gluster sync was also a pile of dirt, failing with obscure errors and getting stuck quite often.
This is just first hand experiences and I don’t want to touch it ever again.
Earth is expected to spin more quickly in the coming weeks, making some of our days unusually short. On July 9, July 22 and Aug. 5, the position of the moon is expected to affect Earth's rotation so that each day is between 1.3 and 1.51 milliseconds shorter than normal.
OurAirports is a free site where visitors can explore the world's airports, read other people's comments, and leave their own. The help pages have information to get you started.
The site is dedicated to both passengers and pilots. You can create a map of the airports you've visited and share that map with friends. You can find the closest airports to you, and discover the ones that you haven't visited yet.
Behind the fun and features, OurAirports exists primarily as a public good. When Australia forced the US government to shut down public access to its Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) service in 2006, there was no longer a good source of global aviation data. OurAirports started in 2007 primarily to fill that gap: we encourage members to create and maintain data records for airports around the world, and they manage over 40,000 of them. Many web sites, smartphone apps, and other services rely on OurAirport's data, which is all in the Public Domain (no permission required).
Installation and setup commands (for systemd managed systems). If you are using a different platform, email us or post on the community development forum.
Step 1: Add the package repository
Step 2: Install the agent
Ubuntu, Debian:
sudo apt install -y ntppool-agentEnterprise Linux, Fedora, etc:
sudo yum install -y ntppool-agentStep 3: Enable and start the service
sudo systemctl enable --now ntppool-agent@testStep 4: Monitor the logs (in one terminal window)
sudo journalctl -u ntppool-agent@\* -fStep 5: Setup the agent (in another terminal window on the same server)
sudo -u ntpmon ntppool-agent setup -e test -a 1d03ggnStep 6: Open the provided link from the setup process to authenticate the agent to your account
NTP Pool Repositories
The NTP Pool monitor and other tools are built for Linux and FreeBSD (i386, amd64 and arm64).
Yum and deb package repositories are available, in a “test” and “production” flavor.
The NTP Pool Monitoring Agent package is ntppool-agent.
Roku SoundBridge Legacy Proxy
Let the Music Play...Again!
- July 01 2024 nginx and regex combinations baffle me sometimes. I love doing backend scripting and hate design. so yeah this is ugly. but it works.
- July 8th 2024: things to do. 1: symptom,buffers over and over.If $sent_http_icy_metaint < 1024, turn off icy, no song info but it least it will work. 2: Prioritize MP3 feeds over others. 3: if destination is http, stop. no need to proxy. 4: setup a forum so i can herar from others?
- July 9th 2024: older Soundbridge models version 2.1.x now work with proxy.
Prefix https preset URL with: http://www.opieproxy.com/roku/
RTX subsidiary Pratt & Whitney brought its Boeing 747SP test bed to Oshkosh as part of the company’s global centennial celebration, commemorating 100 years since its founding in 1925. The 747SP is expected to be here until Thursday, July 24, offering attendees a rare opportunity to tour this iconic flying test bed.
Pratt & Whitney began operations in 1925 with the invention of the R-1340 Wasp engine, which revolutionized military and commercial aviation. The 1940s saw more innovation as the company powered several era-defining aircraft for the Allies in World War II and began exploring jet propulsion.
The Boeing 747SP (for special performance) is a shortened version of the 747 airliner that features a longer range than its full-sized counterpart and is powered by four Pratt & Whitney JT9D engines. Only 45 such aircraft were produced, with Pratt & Whitney owning the only two that are currently airworthy. The test bed variant features a fifth engine mount separate from the four main powerplants located below the wings. This extra engine configuration allows for testing engines in real-life weather conditions. Since 2001, Pratt & Whitney’s test beds have completed more than 1,400 ground runs and flight tests using 71 different experimental engines.
The latest available CDC data shows a measles vaccine rate of about 92.7 percent for kindergartners in the 2023-2024 school year. This is down 2.5 percent from the 2019-2020 vaccination rate, a modest drop considering the fallout from the CDC pushing and the federal government seeking to mandate the experimental Covid vaccine in 2021. For comparison, the vaccination rate was between 61 and 66 percent for children between 1 and 4 years old from 1971 to 1985.
Furthermore, there are currently only 35 more measles cases than the total number recorded in 2019, according to the CDC. This is still about 800 fewer cases than recorded for the year of 1992 — the last time the number exceeded 1,300. It is also far lower than the 9,600 cases in 1991. Yet the corporate media continues to drive a narrative of fear based on the point that we are seeing “the most measles cases in more than 30 years.” //
The U.S. technically eliminated measles in 2000. According to the CDC, elimination means “there is no measles spreading within the country and new cases are only found when someone contracts measles abroad and returns to the country.” //
It’s interesting, then, that the state with the highest number of measles cases also has the highest number of illegal border crossings, but, unsurprisingly, corporate media outlets have failed to draw that connection or hastily minimized it. Outbreaks more than five times as large as that of Gaines County currently exist in Canada and Mexico, and the total cases in Ontario, Canada, and in Chihuahua, Mexico, both far exceed total cases in the United States in 2025. //
In Chicago last year, 57 measles cases were recorded in connection with a migrant shelter. A tuberculosis outbreak was associated with Chicago shelters at the time. In 2023, migrants apparently brought measles to New York City. The CDC and others have conducted studies on the prevalence of infectious diseases among immigrants and refugees, including tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhea, Hansen’s disease, HIV, and hepatitis B and C.
Five years ago today, the so-called ‘primary sub-source’ behind the infamous Steele dossier was identified, and the entire hoax collapsed. //
Five years ago, a group of internet sleuths uncovered what remains the single biggest breakthrough in the Russiagate hoax: the identification of Igor Danchenko. Danchenko was the so-called “primary sub-source” behind the infamous Steele dossier, a Clinton campaign subcontractor whose fabrications formed the backbone of the fraudulent Trump-Russia collusion narrative. The FBI had buried his identity deep inside its classified files, hoping it would never come to light. But when it did, the entire hoax collapsed. From start to finish, it had all been made up.
That breakthrough didn’t happen in isolation. It rested on years of meticulous work by a broader community of independent researchers, writers, and investigators — all outside the corporate media, working without institutional backing or access to classified leaks. People like Mollie Hemingway, Margot Cleveland, and many others uncovered key pieces of the Russiagate puzzle while the legacy media actively worked to spread the hoax. //
Five years ago today, the Russiagate hoax was buried for good. The supposed Russian insider who fueled a national panic turned out to be a broke think tank wannabe saying whatever it took to get paid.
The entire scandal was a fiction stitched together by Clinton operatives, blessed by Obama himself, and weaponized by government agencies and their media allies. It wasn’t exposed by a Pulitzer-winning journalist or a congressional committee. It was exposed by a handful of internet researchers with day jobs.
And that’s the real story of Russiagate’s end.
If you're writing an open source system utility, for example, your chance of widespread adoption depends on its reputation as trustworthy, and that will reflect on you.
Who watches the watchers?
Talon is a case in point. A Windows de-bloater made by an outfit called Raven and distributed through GitHub as open source, it nonetheless got a rep as potential malware. Open source by itself guarantees nothing, and the conversation around whether or not Talon's bona fides checked out simply grew and grew. Enter YouTube cyber security educator and ethical hacker John Hammond. His day job includes answering the question "Is it Malware?" He has the chops, he has the tools, he has the caffeine. Speedrun is go. //
How might Raven have avoided being considered suspicious? There's a concept called defensive coding, where you consider each decision not just as how it contributes to functionality, but how it would cope if given an unexpected input. With Talon, the defensive process is whether a choice of technique will trigger malware scanners, and if it might, but is indispensable, how to make it clear in the code what's going on. You know, that pesky documentation stuff. The design overview. The comments in the code. If your product will need all those open source eyeballs to become trusted, then feed those eyeballs with what they need. There aren't many Hammonds, but there are lots of curious wannabes, and even the occasional journalist eager to tell a story.
Creating security is a huge task, and everyone who launches software for the masses has the opportunity to help or hinder, regardless of the actual intent of the product. Open source is a magnificent path to greater security across the board, because it keeps humans in the loop. Engineering for those humans is a force amplifier for good. Just ask the future historians speedrunning the history of cyber security centuries from now. ®
Because of Scheffler’s commitment to his household above all, his son will reap the emotional, educational, and financial benefits of growing up with his married biological father. As studies show, there is no greater, more impactful gift a dad can give his children. The result of successful, indispensable nuclear families like the Schefflers, in turn, leads to a strong and flourishing society.
Tax breaks and merely telling men that they need to step up can only do so much to help our nation’s family and fertility crisis. What young people need are real-life examples that money, career, and fame pale in comparison to raising little ones with your significant other.
When men in the spotlight lead well, the world follows by example. //
Scheffler is no sandbagger. He’s humble — his goal during the 2024 Paris Olympics, where he won gold, was to “have fun.” But he’s not making the world a better place because of his putting game or even his philosophical press conferences. The most significant mark Scheffler will leave on the world started at home with his decision to be a loving husband and present father.