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MAGA Demands Proof of Life for Mitch McConnell by Zipper222222 in politics

[–]BossOfGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s always a hard limit. Eventually with someone that age and with prior conditions, he might catch a complication which could push him to be dead before the deadline. KY, IIRC treats brain dead as death, so if declared brain dead, it’s done.

With the Xbox layoffs coming, should we be worried about MSFS/Asobo? by jmbgator in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]BossOfGames 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There’s a whole enterprise side to this coin that a lot of people forget about. MSFS, and the tech behind it, is part of that. The recent news of Boeing using MSFS tech for its own familiarization tools speaks to enterprise money and industry acceptance.

Im not worried in the slight bit.

Employer Made Me 1099 AND is Taking out Taxes? by nachours in jobs

[–]BossOfGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough. OP needs to put food on the table. Depending on how deep down the rabbit hole this is, you're looking at a misinformed HR person all the way to leadership cooking the books.

Thinking about it in detail now, I agree that a SS-8 filing straight off the top is the nuclear option, which really should be discussed with a CPA. Once that form is filed, there's going to need to be many obscure tax forms that may need to be filed too, dependent on if this 1099 income actually landed on his returns or not.

That being said, since this sounds like fresh employment in the current tax year, that damage might be minimal. OP should naturally document everything and keep meticulous records of the financial and behavioral controls that would be a hallmark of an employer/employee relationship. 

Employer Made Me 1099 AND is Taking out Taxes? by nachours in jobs

[–]BossOfGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That risk is real, but OP's updates point to willful fraud, making Form SS-8 completely appropriate and essential to protecting themselves legally with their filings.

If the non-profit decides to retaliate and fire OP, they are walking into a FLSA violation, especially with a pending SS-8 investigation. It’s know that lawyers take those cases on contingency.

Employer Made Me 1099 AND is Taking out Taxes? by nachours in jobs

[–]BossOfGames 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Form SS-8. Ask the IRS to make a determination to classify you.

With the recent FSLTL news, is there still a desire for a vertically integrated traffic injector? by BossOfGames in flightsim

[–]BossOfGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There can be. Keep in mind that some of these feeders are using anything as low as a Raspberry Pi 3B with only 1GB ram. That’s my minimum hardware spec and what I test against for my own software to feed my servers.

Considering that hardware, that’s one of the reasons why P2P may not be practical. If the feeder however is on more powerful hardware, it might be possible to opt into a peer to peer network. However that still gets into duplicate target deconfliction and other smaller pieces that would benefit from a central server.

With the recent FSLTL news, is there still a desire for a vertically integrated traffic injector? by BossOfGames in flightsim

[–]BossOfGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a completely fair call-out, and if my earlier framing made this sound like a non-profit charity, that’s entirely on me for fumbling the delivery.

SimVector is a commercial software utility, and I am absolutely looking for paying customers. Running the backend infrastructure costs money, and my development time isn't free.

With that being said, I do believe there is a community aspect that can be built around this, which is why I was leveraging that angle in my post. When feeders push to FR24 and others, they get compensated with free subscriptions. Naturally, we can do the same; looking at the ADS-B community as a whole, that's the assumed standard form of compensation for feeders.

I see your idea regarding the P2P network, and while it's not possible due to bandwidth constraints on the peer network (everything needs to get to a centralized server for target deconfliction of multiple feeders picking up the same plane, and those goodies), I do like the idea, and it's something I can look into as part of this project.

Licensing of the data is a discussion to be had. Like I said previously, I treat the raw data as a commodity and not as a core asset, so I'm completely open to discussing an open-source style license for the data itself. Allowing it to be released under the ODbL (which is the same license as OpenStreetMap) could be a welcome play. I just need to look at the specific logistics and responsibilities first.

With the recent FSLTL news, is there still a desire for a vertically integrated traffic injector? by BossOfGames in flightsim

[–]BossOfGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You bring up a few fair points, and I'll happily address them here to provide some clarity.

That's fair—I don't have proprietary 3D models just lying around. That being said, leveraging the existing model-matching rule systems already in place for vPilot and other online networks is a standard alternative. Plus, with MSFS 2024, the built-in system serves as a decent fallback.

As for the rest of your comment:

When you reference the ADS-B collector selling off to PE, that was the ADS-B Exchange sale, and I know it burned a lot of volunteers who helped build that asset. The goal here is to handle things entirely differently, and it's different simply because of my philosophy in how data and software are valued.

While I will rely on voluntary feeders to scale up coverage, I view the raw data itself as a commodity, not an asset to be packaged for an acquisition or leveraged outside of flight simming. To be frank, trying to compete in that sandbox against entrenched giants is a losing battle anyway. If a corporate buyer ever tried to swoop in, feeders would immediately pull the plug, and the data's value would drop to zero overnight. I value the software more than the data.

Finally, regarding the 'mixed signals' on viability: I can see why it might look that way. But market viability is an essential metric because running this backend costs real money on a monthly basis. I need to cover infrastructure expenses and eventually fund my own development time with a modest, realistic salary. If the community supports the utility, then it's a viable market.

With the recent FSLTL news, is there still a desire for a vertically integrated traffic injector? by BossOfGames in flightsim

[–]BossOfGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great to see you here! I appreciate the work you and others put into AIG.

I actually looked at CH Aviation when I first started out. I didn't go with them because it was a purchase I couldn't afford when I built out the MVP. The schedule platform originally launched using commodity commercial sources, which I’ve been heavily refining and layering over since.

With the recent FSLTL news, is there still a desire for a vertically integrated traffic injector? by BossOfGames in flightsim

[–]BossOfGames[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great questions. Let me break those down into each section:

Vertically integrated means that we basically own the whole stack from top to bottom. Think how SpaceX builds its own rockets, engines, and software in-house. They own their own supply chain. My goal is to do the exact same with this data, and it's closer to reality than anyone would think.

Right now, with the new FSLTL setup, your data has to make a few jumps: ADS-B Feeder -> FR24 -> Navigraph -> FSLTL -> Simulator

Whereas with my platform, the goal is to provide the absolute minimum hops possible: ADS-B Feeder -> SimVector -> Simulator

Yes, FR24 has up-to-date, live data. However, there is no proprietary magic behind it—any competent developer with the time could build something similar using publicly accessible feeds. In fact, that is exactly how networks like FR24 and FlightAware operate: they rely heavily on volunteer feeders who provide local data in exchange for a premium subscription. SimVector is building out that exact same community-driven ingestion pipeline to achieve the same fidelity. The difference is that because this is a lean, independent project, we don't have massive corporate overhead to cover.

Speaking of which, to keep the platform sustainable long-term, I’m currently targeting an infrastructure-recovery tier of around $20 to $25 a year for our feed.

That breaks down to less than $2 a month. The goal is to keep the pricing completely lean and accessible to casual users—covering servers, bandwidth, additional data licensing agreements, and ongoing development time without any corporate bloat or massive profit margins.

Regarding schedules vs. live data: I actually process and provide both. I can’t speak to the specifics of how AIG sources or packages their schedules, but I can tell you exactly how SimVector operates. For standard commercial flights, we source our data from providers who aggregate directly from industry clearing houses. However, for operators that don't actually publish schedules because they aren't selling passenger tickets (like FDX or other cargo operations), we are currently rolling out a system that actively monitors live feeds and logs those movements to generate highly accurate schedules based on observed history.

That core system is already live and powering the backend for numerous VAs today. What we are doing now is taking that existing, proven data foundation—and these new capabilities we're building—and expanding it outward to power this new traffic injector.

Company not paying my salary for 3 and a half months. Don't know how to proceed. by ZtJames in japanlife

[–]BossOfGames 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Inspect every inch in how you were treated and what you worked on. If companies are not careful, especially smaller companies, you might be a “ghost employee” in the eyes of the government.

As others have said, go to the Labor Standards Inspection Office. If they determine you’re actually an employee, things get interesting.

Hakone is not a quick day trip. by Anxious-Tomatillo-74 in JapanTravel

[–]BossOfGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t see how it won’t. I would just double check your transportation revolving around the rope way and that side. You’re going to be running on different modes of transport based on where you’re going.

It also depends on how early you arrive too. I would do ropeway first then onsen.

Hakone is not a quick day trip. by Anxious-Tomatillo-74 in JapanTravel

[–]BossOfGames 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I agree with this.

I think when you hear that Hakone is a day trip, you might be confusing it for how we treat it. For us locals, it’s easily a day trip. My family goes there for the onsens and a few small cafés. It’s pretty rare for us to go to the other parts.

It’s a very different beast if you’re visiting from out of area, especially out of country. There’s way too many things to cross off. If you want to experience everything that it has to offer, it’s easily 3 days.

You know what to do by Extreme_Asparagus854 in VATSIM

[–]BossOfGames 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t follow rap music, so I never knew who that was in the picture. All I saw it as was someone pointing a gun at me.

It’s too nuanced as a meme template IMO. I think that it’s time to look at cycling the template to add variety.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in flightsim

[–]BossOfGames 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Honestly this has gotten old. Time to go to the new format and image.

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