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"Mayday - Air Crash Investigation" is a documentary series about air disasters. I predict that the following air disasters will be covered in the 27th season of Air Crash Investigation, which will be released in 2027:

• Britannia Airways flight 226A

• Pinnacle Airlines flight 3701

• Dan Air flight 1008

• Air Canada flight 621

• United Airlines flights 1175 and 328 (shared episode).

• Olympic Airways flight 411

Date: 2027. Evidence: These are widely known disasters not yet covered. Shared episodes have already been made in the past, like the episode "Cold Case".

A sparse file is created using truncate -s 100M example.bin on a file system that supports sparse files, like ext4. This will not take any space besides the file metadata, which can be checked using du -s -h example.bin.

However, is there any way to detect blank sectors (sectors with only null bytes) on a non-sparse file and mark them as sparse after the fact?

Without root access and an unlocked bootloader, you don't truly own your phone.

By default, Android places lots of restrictions on the user, for example they have no normal write access to the MicroSD card since Android 4.4 and USB OTG media since Android 6.

Google provided no menu option to let the user opt out of these restrictions, so rooting is the only way to gain normal access to your property.

Unfortunately, bootloader unlocking requires a factory reset, and backing up in-app data can be difficult to impossible depending on the app. By the time people learn about rooting, it tends to be too late.

Do not accept this nonsense as normal. This is an ownership violation.

I hereby release this post into the public domain ().

It will not be found anytime soon due to the lack of a pressing need for it, besides providing closure to the families, which the Malaysian government has - let's face it - little reason to care about. Besides, something like MH370 has never happened again since then, because the air traffic controllers are better prepared this time.

The overwhelming majority of signs point to a pilot suicide, specifically by captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, see the video by Green Dot Aviation.

The flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) will unlikely contain anything useful, if they are readable at all. Almost certainly, Zaharie pulled the circuitbreaker for the FDR before his vanishing act, and let the CVR run so it would overwrite itself due to the two-hour limit, destroying all evidence.

If the remote possibility that the wreckage has already been seized by some authorities but it is covered up from the public is true, then this post of course does not apply. But this post presumes that the wreckage is still at the bottom of the ocean.

Date: 2040 - 2049. Evidence: see above.

I release this post into the public domain, CC0 1.0.

Mainstream smartphone operating systems (Android and iOS) let applications arbitrarily disable screen capture, screen recording, and screen mirroring to an external display such as a television or an MHL connection to an HDMI monitor.

I am surprised smartphone users have been conditioned into accepting this ownership violation as a "normal part of life". It is not.

As a device owner, you should be able to screen-capture anything that appears on your screen, without exception. App makers have no business deciding what you can screen capture.

Two well-known examples of screenshot blocking and screen recorder blocking are the , and .

The first one probably only intended to prevent incognito mode from appearing on external displays such as a television, which is accomplished though the same feature as screenshot blocking and screen recorder blocking (). So screenshot and screen recorder blocking are apparently collateral damage.

Samsung also added the "secure" flag to their lockscreen key pad in 2023. The goal of this is to prevent it from appearing on external displays, so screenshot and screen recorder blocking are side effects. There is no reason to prevent the device owner from screen recording the keypad if they voluntarily wish to do it, which can be useful for a demonstration or bug report, using a temporary passcode.

See also my prediction on :

And regarding WhatsApp profile pictures: Screenshots of profile pictures are not privacy violations and never were, but have legitimate reasons such as preserving good memories.

Everyone knows that one should not upload something onto a visible spot on the Internet that one does not wish to be preserved by others. A profile picture is such a spot.

A privacy violation is, for example, . Here, developers are being coerced into disclosing personally identifiable details (including home address!) that they probably wished not to, in order to be able to release applications that work on most Android smartphones sold (network effect).

But a profile picture is something one voluntarily chooses to make public, and not even a mandatory requirement to be able to use WhatsApp. Not a privacy violation.

Ironically, this comes from Meta, Inc. - one of the biggest data harvesters in history.

I hereby release this post into the public domain ().

I never understood why popcorn seems to be so popular in cinemas. It tastes boring, and sometimes popcorn pieces get into your throat, drying it up.

While udev (automount) mounts FAT32 file systems with utf8 encoding, and mount -o iocharset=utf8 can accomplish the same effect, the Linux default with no mount options is iso8859-1.

What is the benefit of defaulting to iso8859-1?

After all, it is Microsoft who created FAT12/16/32, and they picked UTF-8 on Windows.

I predict that Mentour Pilot will soon create a documentary on Japan Air Lines 123 from 1985, the worst single-aircraft disaster.

Date: Before mid-2026. Evidence: Most lethal air disaster he hasn't covered yet (besides 9/11, which had external causes, so it is out of scope for him).

That might sound pessimistic, but the sad reality is that the average mobile phone user won't notice until it is too late. The average mobile phone user just wants to get their daily dose of Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, or whatever is popular.

Google will ignore the campaign like they ignored the avalanche of complaints after they took away the option to turn off pull-to-refresh in Chrome, and will get away with it because its users have almost nowhere else to go (Apple was locked down since the beginning) or are too dependent on Google services for their daily lives.

While any smartphone vendor can use Android, Google services like Play Store and Gemini require phone vendors to be "Google Play certified", meaning they have to strictly comply with requirements set out in its certification process. No source links because I am tired of fighting the spam filter. Look it up for yourself if you want to.

The average mobile phone user gets fooled by the avalance of corporate propaganda into accepting beint treated like a toddler on their own smartphone, a property they paid for.

Users have already been conditioned into accepting lots of ownership violations such as locked bootloaders that are difficult or not possible to unlock, screenshot blocking, meaning apps can arbitrarily disable screen capture against the will of the device owner, as well as serialized batteries, text messages that can be falsified after sending, and data lock-in which prevents users from backing up or transferring their user data.

Date: 2026-2027. Evidence: All of the above.

I hereby release this post into the public domain under CC0 1.0.

A famous lyric from Jake Paul's song "It's everyday bro" is Nick Crompton's "England is my city".

What he possibly meant:

• He is so famous in England that everywhere where he would go, he would be recognized as if he were in his home city.

• He knows England so well as if it were his home city.

Edit in response to comment: I am not implying it is true, but it is what he might have believed.

There is a piece of lost media many people in Germany are looking for. Unfortunately, no one in the German lost media community found it so far. Probably whoever out there happens to have it doesn't know it is sought after.

This piece of lost media is a YouTube video that had a medium six-digit view count, from a channel that had almost half a million subscribers at the time it was released, and now has over a million subscribers, so there is a realistic chance someone out there has preserved it.

An idea in the back of my mind was to ask for it through the Internet megaphone: a search engine advertisement.

Someone searching for specific terms would get an advertisement that asks them if they have a copy of said video.

The advertisement could look similar to this:

Do you have a copy of "[video title]" by "[creator]"?

or

We are looking for the video "[video title]" by "[creator]". Please send us a copy if you have it.

Followed by contact details.

Given that this piece of lost media is a YouTube video, I highly doubt Google would allow it to be advertised on their platform because , nor do I trust Google with my real-life identity (which they require advertisers to disclose).

Therefore, I would have to resort to alternatives like Bing and DuckDuckGo. DuckDuckGo loads advertisements from Bing from what I understand.

Do you have experience asking for lost media through search engine ads? Do you recommend it? How do you imagine such an ad would look like?

The two most well-known NTFS drivers on Linux are ntfs-3g (FUSE driver, used for over a decade) and ntfs3 (kernel driver since 2021, replaced read-only ntfs kernel driver).

by on :

I usually always remember to -t ntfs-3g in my mount parameters. The Tuxera userspace driver is a lot more stable, imho.

Something about it bothered Linus and he merged ntfs3 into the kernel instead. I can't really remember what is was though.

This got me curious and I decided to research it a bit, but couldn't find a definitive answer. Does any of you know what bothered Torvalds about ntfs-3g?

Was it something licensing/bureaucracy-related or actually a technical reason?

Er hat viele Videos aus dieser Zeit entfernt. Hat jemand von euch damals Videos von KuchenTV gesichert, insbesondere aus den Miguel Pablo/HeracAy-Zeiten?

Shazam, and by extension anything that relies on it (like Aha-music), can only list one result.

This leads to the problem where Shazam doesn't find the original instrumental track, but other media that used it as background music.

Examples that can be tested include "The Midnight - Collateral" matching "BrookHoliday - Paper Guns" and "Wayne Jones - Mr. Sunny Face" matching the video "Bad Money" by Mark Angel comedy, because it used this as background music.

Does anyone know a sound search engine that matches multiple results?

I predict that social media services in most countries and all first-world countries will be government-owned by 2060, like it is in China today.

Date: 2060.

Evidence: See what China did with WeChat ().

In September 2016, German YouTuber KuchenTV (Tim Heldt) who at that time had over 450K subscribers (now over a million) published a satire video titled "10 unglaubliche Orte wo keiner/kaum einer war ft. TrollwutTV", which translates into "10 incredible places where no one/almost no one has been ft. TrollwutTV". Even though its view count was in the six digits, it is lost media now.

It is listed in . The thumbnail is an auto-generated stock photo used in the video. .

The video ID was QOuDVjYV1GE (). It is indicated as private, not removed for terms of service violations, so it was him who took it down, but likely involuntarily. The most plausible reason he took it down was that he got frightened of getting striked on old videos after his channel and other channels like "OPEN MIND" (discussion about drugs) were temporarily terminated in 2018 (reinstated shortly after), so as a precautionary measure, he took down lots of old videos with edgy humor that could even remotely be considered offensive. ()

For reference, strikes on old videos are what lead to the termination of Mumkey Jones later that year, and Mumkey was not reinstated.

"10 unglaubliche Orte ..." is the first video he published after his video titled "Miguel Pablos Beerdigung" (translated "Miguel Pablos funeral", later retitled to "Bye Bye Miguel Pablo!", a video against Miguel Pablo as the title suggests), one of his most viewed videos ever, and . 2016 was the year where KuchenTV rose to popularity, so I am convinced someone out there has a copy of "10 unglaubliche Orte ..." as well.

At 50M or 64M high resolutions (depending on device), it only lets you select automatic flash. What is the point of this restriction? It seems completely arbitrary and unreasonable.

In comparison, Xiaomi allows manual flash at high resolution, and even continuous light, which Samsung doesn't have at all in photo mode. But to Samsung's credit, they have added the ability to turn the light on and off during (not just before) a video recording, which Xiaomi does not have.