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RedOrGreen
·2 years ago·discuss
Yes, in a way.

Think of a single dish radio telescope as a one-pixel camera, where measuring the emission intensity at each point in the sky lets you build up a map. Typically, this is done with high resolution on the frequency axis, which is used to map Doppler shifts for spectral lines of Hydrogen, for example [1].

With a rooftop antenna, it's not likely to be a very sensitive map, though. You'll see the Sun, and its easy to see the Milky Way transit overhead, but other than that ...

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/galfahi/
RedOrGreen
·2 years ago·discuss
Very nice, even with no planes overhead. But it looks like the map orientation is reversed (off by 180 degrees)? Real bug, or just me?
RedOrGreen
·3 years ago·discuss
Oof, yes, I didn't even mention corporate compliance.
RedOrGreen
·3 years ago·discuss
Paraphrasing: "If you don't want to, don't sideload apps, no one is forcing you to" - do people really not see the problem? It's not that technically unsophisticated users will want to sideload apps. They don't know / don't care / have different things to worry about.

But they want their Facebook. Or SnapChat, or Insta, or TikTok, or whatever.

Once other app stores are allowed, there's nothing stopping Meta (for example) from revoking their existing apps, and requiring the use of the Facebook App Installer for access to Facebook. They've paid people in the past to use their Onavo VPN app to bypass Apple's privacy controls, so this would be unsurprising.

Of course, that's just an example; replace with the next SnapChat, TikTok, whatever. If that's the thing that teens want, and the way to get it is to click a bunch of "Yes I agree" dialogs, they'll happily do it. And now suddenly some developer has access to all your family financials through your teen.

If your solution is "well, people shouldn't do that then", you might not understand teens. (Or grandparents. Or regular people.)