No. You don't need to know the autopilot to get your PPL. You do however need to know how to follow the POH (pilot operating handbook, which may include manufacturer guidelines for the autopilot) and perform basic instrument flying in an emergency. I don't recall any significant expectations of autopilot usage at the PPL level though.

The trend is to include as much as the aircraft’s capabilities in the checkride now.

For an IFR checkride, if you do it in an aircraft equipped with autopilot, at least one approach will have to be flown with the autopilot.

Not sure if that’s made it’s way to the PPL checkride (or been codified) but it’s inevitable.

They can just use the free government services. Most of the 3rd party services just wrap the various government services behind an API.

Yeah maybe you can call it PCIe.

The bottleneck here is usually the locally hosted model, not the the assistant harness. You can take any off the shelf assistant and point the model URL at localhost, but if your local model doesn't have enough post training and fine tuning on agentic data, then it will not work. The AI Assistant/OpenClaw is just calling APIs in a for loop hooked up to a cron job.

Exactly. OpenClaw is good, but expects the model to behave in a certain way, and I've found that the local options aren't smart enough to keep up.

That being said, my gut says that it should be possible to go quite far with a harness that assumes the model might not be quite good (and hence double-checks, retries, etc)

Not significantly, it's one word.

Tokens are not words.

Relatively, they are the same, depends if it's word level.

There are jurisdictions (and cultures) where truth is not an absolute defence against defamation. In other words, it's one thing to disclose the issue to the authorities, it's another to go to the press and trumpet it on the internet. The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

Given that this is Malta in particular, the author probably wants to avoid going there for a bit. It's a country full of organized crime and corruption where people like him would end up with convenient accidents.

  > it's one thing to disclose the issue to the authorities, it's another to go to the press and trumpet it on the internet.

At least in the US there is a path of escalation. Usually if you have first contacted those who have authority over you then you're fine. There's exceptions in both directions; where you aren't fine or where you can skip that step. Government work is different. For example Snowden probably doesn't get whistleblower protection because he didn't first leak to Congress. It's arguable though but also IANAL

Wayback machine won't bypass paywall nor pirate content, not to mention they are under US jurisdiction. You can't have your cake and eat it.

Honestly, IMHO archive.today is just so much nicer to use in every aspect than IA, that unless they outright start to distribute malware (I mean, like, via the page itself — otherwise it's pretty much irrelevant), I don't think I'll stop using it.

Bandwidth is not that expensive. The Big 3 clouds just want to milk customers via egress. Look at Hetzner or CloudFlare R2 if you want to get get an idea of commodity bandwidth costs.

If you want a more powerful to-do list, look into IBM Maximo. It's the ultimate end all be all of todoMVCs.

The business is strong with Maximo: "Optimize asset investments with AI insights to cut lifecycle costs, align budgets and achieve your goals smarter and faster".

Optimizing with insights to cut lifecycle costs? Where do I sign up??

They are a todolist combined with a dependency tracker and a Cron job.

E.g. you own an old school Japanese car with no fancy computers. You only have a paper manual.

With something like Maximo, you can turn your maintenance into a DAG and routine stuff is tied to cron. Each Todo is called a "Work order". E.g. tire rotation every 10 000 miles, oil change every 15 000 air filter swap every 2 years.

Each day after you finish driving you enter into the Maximo GUI (or have an Arduino IoT sensor do it) your current mileage.

The timing chain also needs to be swapped every 5 yeard, but due to a quirk of engineering, it can only be done so after the oil had been changed.

Maximo automatically tracks everything, and after you are done, you have to upload a photo as proof that you have done the work.

It's a very simple system at its core, basically a glorified Todo list but entire industries run on it.

Because Maximo is used in nuclear power plants.