frezik
@frezik@midwest.social
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 1 day ago:
AP headline: “Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift”
They mention that Ukraine isn’t even at the table several paragraphs in. Jolly.
- Comment on Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix 2 days ago:
Maybe we can put it on the open 2.4GHz spectrum and encrypt it with RC4.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 2 days ago:
“Prompt Engineer” makes a little vomit appear in the back of my mouth.
- Comment on GoneWild was once about people feeling wild and posting pictures of it. Now it's just OnlyFans sale 4 days ago:
It was always that, partially because people didn’t want their livelihood affected by having nudes on the Internet. With the rise of an option where having nudes on the Internet can be their livelihood, there’s more faces in those pictures.
The better option would be for people to feel free to express themselves this way without worrying about their livelihood.
- Comment on Teenagers turning to AI companions are redefining love as easy, unconditional and always there. 1 week ago:
I believe there was a documentary about this.
- Comment on An update on Micro LED 1 week ago:
I can’t wait to buy one with forced ToS changes every 6 months.
- Comment on Emma 1 week ago:
It’s an AI, and no, it doesn’t.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 1 week ago:
Hey, ICE, I’m posting negative things about you online. Glad we cleared that up.
- Comment on A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. 1 week ago:
JSON libraries are stupidly well optimized. There are binary encoding schemes that are faster and more compact, but its hard to beat JSON for text-based.
- Comment on A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. 1 week ago:
Depends on the implementation, but most will, yes. There are other forms of associative arrays, like trie or binary tree, but hash is the most common.
- Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market 1 week ago:
Price. CDs are dirt cheap to reproduce, and successive generations of optical media are only somewhat more expensive. Plastic shells and mechanisms cost money. CDs are probably the cheapest physical audio format ever (at least as far as production costs are concerned).
- Comment on The original teaser for Picard 1 week ago:
Y’all think Riker got around, but Picard is the real ladies man on the ship. He’s just more discreet.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 week ago:
Maybe don’t rely on cloud garbage for basic development?
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 week ago:
We’re not using the bandwidth we have. Many US cities have service with 1Gbps download speed available. I have it for my own reasons. Servers are the bottleneck; they rarely even reach half that speed.
If we’re not using 1Gbps, why should we believe something would pop up if we had 50Gbps?
Now, direct addressing where everyone can be a server and bandwidth utilization is spread more towards the edges of the network? Then you have something that could saturate 1Gbps. But you can’t do that on IPv4.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 week ago:
Except we need IPv6 before that’s at all viable.
We are not even filling out the bandwidth of pipes we have to the home. “If you build it, they will come” does not apply when there’s already something there that isn’t being fully utilized.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 week ago:
lol
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 week ago:
Those cables are hard to terminate properly. There’s an outer grounding sheath that needs to be connected up at both ends. Except for short connections, I find it easier/cheaper to use fiber.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 week ago:
You can always hope it’s better than it actually is.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 week ago:
It has nothing to do with latency, and everything to do with not being able to directly address things behind NAT.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 week ago:
That goes without saying.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 week ago:
There are diminishing returns. Unless you’re going to host your own YouTube, the use case for 50Gbps connections to the home is quite small. 4K video streaming at Ultra HD Blu-ray bitrates doesn’t even come close to saturating 1Gbps, and all streaming services compress 4K video significantly more than what Ultra HD Blu-ray offers. The server side is the limit, not home connections.
Now, if you want to talk about self-hosting stuff and returning the Internet to a more peer-to-peer architecture, then you need IPv6. Having any kind of NAT in the way is not going to work. Connection speed still isn’t that important.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 week ago:
We’ll solve that with AI. Because you can solve anything by saying “AI”.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 week ago:
Also doesn’t help that SMB is single threaded. Completely mismatched for the era of multicore processors and SSDs.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 week ago:
Not OP, but I have my NAS and my office PC on 10Gbps SFP+ fiber, but that’s so I can have fast speeds to my NAS. Spinning platters are now the limiting factor on throughput, and it’ll be a while before SSDs come down in price enough for the kind of data hoarding volume I have. Roughly needs to be cut in half two more times, which is maybe closer than we all think.
2.5Gbps switches are generally good enough for home use while using plain copper wires, but I use a lot of old enterprise hardware on my network. Enterprise hardware never heard of 2.5Gbps ethernet.
Also, I found out my Unifi Edgerouter X maxed out at 500Mbps unless I shut off a lot of features. Upgraded to an OPNsense box.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 week ago:
Interesting–when I made a similar argument on Reddit some years ago, networking geniuses assured me that they needed more than 1Gbps to play lag-free games. This on /r/programming, no less.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 week ago:
360 VR experience with 16K resolution, highly textured touchable surfaces, and smell-o-vision. Only a $40 Meta subscription with ads.
- Comment on Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis. 2 weeks ago:
Alpha, yes, and modern Windows has been ported to ARM.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The majority of “We the people” voted for something else. Don’t let Trump have the narrative that this is what the American people asked for.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Right; what do people expect, here? A “general strike” that someone calls at random won’t do much more than a few extra people calling in sick. It takes time to build solidarity to agree that we’re all going to do this. If we had that kind of solidarity, I don’t think we’d be in this position in the first place.
- Comment on Insights on the Cancelled Sony-Nintendo Console Project 2 weeks ago:
Nothing too groundbreaking here, but fills in some details. Nintendo’s tendency to be a control freak caught up with them; they were worried Sony would have too much control over the new format. A shooter prototype–never developed into a full release–gave Sony confidence that they could make their own games.