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- Comment on Neocities deindexed from Bing 44 minutes ago:
Wouldn’t want unmoderated* information and opinions appearing in Microslop search results now would you?
*unmoderated by Big Tech Fascist AI Filters
- Comment on The simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy version 1.4.1 is out now 17 hours ago:
- Comment on Sam's Stuff - The State of Modern AI Text To Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users 1 day ago:
speech-dispatcheron linux now supports piper which is a pretty good modern TTS engine. - Comment on The internet just got better: our European search index goes live (Summer 2025) 1 day ago:
07/08/2025
- Comment on Wifi 15 gigabytes per second — Researchers demo invention 2 days ago:
Well it’s a couple of things.
First off, a wireless transmission speed of 120Gbps sounds really impressive but remember from the Shannon-Hartley theorem that the maximum channel capacity is just a function of bandwidth and SNR. This means that you can get an arbitrarily high transmission speed by increasing bandwidth to an obscene amount and/or by increasing SNR (by transmitting at an obscenely high transmission power).
In the paper they say that the transmit power was 15 dBm which is a normal transmit power for WiFi, so it’s the 40GHz bandwidth that’s doing the heavy lifting in allowing that data rate.
The second thing is that WiFi 6 (for example) uses 1.2 GHz of bandwidth in the 6GHz range, divided into seven non-overlapping 160MHz channels. WiFi 5 uses about nine 80MHz channels in the 5GHz range, and so on. So if you want to use the technology demonstrated in the paper for WiFi (as the headline of the article is suggesting) then you’d need a bunch of 40GHz channels in the higher ~200-300 GHz range which would be in the very high microwave range, bordering on far infra-red!
If you want to imagine how useful that would be, just think about how useful your infra-red TV remote is. You would only be able to do line-of-sight point-to-point links at that frequency.
IR point-to-point links already exist, and the silicon they invented for this paper is impressive, but the hype around it being a possible future WiFi standard doesn’t really hold up to basic inspection.
- Comment on Wifi 15 gigabytes per second — Researchers demo invention 2 days ago:
Paper: https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10584545
40GHz bandwidth LOL
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 2 days ago:
Another company to add to the list.
- Comment on Macron says France to fast-track social media ban for kids under 15 2 days ago:
France actually has a national digital ID scheme that provides single sign-on for government services, so let’s see if they integrate with the existing technology or just leave sites to fill in the blanks with dodgy third-party age-verification like every other country that has tried this.
- Comment on See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is 6 days ago:
Will it get finished this time? Place your bets!
My money is on the project getting cancelled before they finish.
- Comment on Half of UK's grassroot music venues make no profit 1 week ago:
If they can pay their staff, their rent and the acts then what’s the problem?
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 1 week ago:
1st rule 2nd rule 3rd rule 4th rule 5th rule 6th rule 7th rule 8th rule 9th rule 10th rule - Comment on Micron to boost DRAM output with $1.8bn chip fab buy 1 week ago:
- Comment on Micron to boost DRAM output with $1.8bn chip fab buy 1 week ago:
Be careful where you buy it, some DIY lithographers will cut it with ROMs.
- Comment on Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn't even pay for the Game Awards slot that's earned it so much preemptive hate—the showrunners thought it deserved the spotlight 1 week ago:
People are still playing hero-shooters?
- Comment on SOMA, off the backlog after nine years 1 week ago:
I also started playing this for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I really couldn’t get into it. After the game properly starts, I just found the gameplay to be way too boring to be bothered with trying to figure out how to progress.
I might give it another go though, so I’m avoiding reading your post to avoid any potential spoilers.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 1 week ago:
Who will end up holding the bag?
- Comment on Billions to (and for) the Brink - Apple and Google Just Calculated the Current Value of Society. 1 week ago:
slop
- Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 1 week ago:
you can’t count until more than 10 in decimal.
*unary
- Comment on This Billionaire Landlord Bullied Journalists Into Deleting Negative Coverage of Him 1 week ago:
Sunday Times rich-listed John Christodoulou, who is British-Cypriot but resides in the tax haven of Monaco, and is worth a reported £2.6bn, falsely told LandlordZone he had repaid the £263,555.69 he owed tenants of two Hackney properties.
- Comment on An Open Source Electromagnetic Resonance Tablet 1 week ago:
!libre_hardware@lemmy.ml
!open_source_hardware@lemmy.ml
!oshw@scribe.disroot.org - Comment on Let's end Anti-Circumvention. We should own the things we buy! 2 weeks ago:
We need to mandate interoperability and open protocols (as we did with all our other communication media prior) to avoid the siloing of users in captured commercial ecosystems.
- Comment on How are people discovering random subdomains on my server? 2 weeks ago:
You need to look at the DNS server used by whatever client is resolving that name. If it’s going to an external recursive resolver instead of using your own internal DNS server then you could be leaking lookups to the wider internet.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 weeks ago:
You would have to completely disable cloud saves for this which is risky.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 weeks ago:
You want to repeat the inordinate amounts of bullshit?
- Comment on Larian will no longer use GenAI for Divinity concept art, and any genAI used for other games will be "trained on data we own" 2 weeks ago:
CEO needs to step down.
- Comment on DeepSeek $1.6B GPU Gamble: The End of Sovereign AI 2 weeks ago:
This article is absolute nonsense. It conflates training with inference. The premise of the opening paragraph is contradicted throughout the rest of the article. It was written by someone who has no idea what they’re talking about.
Blatant slop.
- Comment on Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security 2 weeks ago:
Does anyone else get a certificate warning when visiting this site?
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 2 weeks ago:
These are all presumably Android apps. Is there a list for IOS apps?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" 2 weeks ago:
It’s a reasonable stance to take given the current climate.
- Comment on Will the government be able to put 2 & 2 together 2 weeks ago:
Protect the children! Except when the children actually need protecting, then we can’t do anything!