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- Comment on I got an old Cisco AP and I looked inside! 4 days ago:
hard to say for sure, but U109 and U208 could be UART into those Cisco baseband or radio chips. one placement for the 2.4 GHz (G) and 5 GHz (A), respectively. would be interesting to probe around there and see if you get a serial interface to it... obviously for extra credit ;-)
- Comment on California says AT&T can't shut down copper DSL network 6 days ago:
didn't Verizon overbuild most, if not all, of the area with FiOS? not sure how they're getting away with it in the rural regions unless there are still CLECs operating. All this to say... fiber still has the issue of power outages and nonfunctioning customer backup batteries in the ONTs and I vaguely remember some drama over Verizon not offering replacement batteries or providing backups at all.
- Comment on Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' 1 week ago:
I think you mean McDonnell Douglas, it's what happens when companies fire all the engineers in charge and replace them with beancounters.
- Comment on What's going on with kbin.social? 4 months ago:
- Comment on 200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | "There's wires everywhere, and it's gone." 4 months ago:
Haven't looked up the station's license to see how much power they could have been pushing, but if I were the "authorities", I'd definely be checking local hospitals for records of anyone coming in with mild to severe [RF] burns. With [low frequency] AM stations, the tower itself is basically the other half of the antenna electrically... probably lit them up like a Christmas tree.
- Comment on YSK: Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuit mix makes fantastic waffles. 4 months ago:
We were so preoccupied with whether or not we could that we didn't stop to think if we should.
- Comment on A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks 6 months ago:
turn your key, sir!
- Comment on Windows 11 scores dead last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros 6 months ago:
it wouldn't hurt. i wish my work would just give me a VM to remote into instead of dealing with it on my network, at least in my case all the EDA tools I use are ran on Linux anyway... my last employer put so much
spyware"security" software on their work issued laptops that Suricata on my router/firewall would light up like a Christmas tree. no idea what it was trying to do without breaking out Wireshark and analyzing captures, but that's when i said enough is enough... can't be trusted. - Comment on Windows 11 scores dead last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros 6 months ago:
amen, i love EndeavorOS. i've jettisoned all Windows support in my house and anything that needs Windows gets put into an isolated VLAN that can't talk to anything else. and for the archaic business crap that only has a Windows release, CrossOver is a godsend. same CodeWeavers devs that made Proton and is essentially Wine Premium.
- Comment on Fedia.io is shutting down (and re-opening as a Lemmy instance) 8 months ago:
mbin is a very recent fork (has all the latest commits from the kbin dev branch as of today), so not much of anything "new" or groundbreaking has happened yet. i think the main thing right now is catching up on the backlog of PRs that have been stuck in the kbin queue for months, even basic things like bumping the dependency versions to improve package security was enough to convince me to move my instance over.
- Comment on Fedia.io is shutting down (and re-opening as a Lemmy instance) 8 months ago:
- Comment on Remote desktop 8 months ago:
i use Tailscale on everything these days (or use Headscale if you want to self host the control plane). with the free plan you get up to 100 devices on a "tailnet", just set the right ACLs to only allow the remote connection ports of choice, pair it with self hosted RustDesk, and you should be good to go. the NAT traversal of Tailscale is pretty good from what i've observed, but sometimes you might get stuck on a relay (called a DERP) if it can't get across the firewall(s).
- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 8 months ago:
It probably wouldn't be too hard to diplex it with one of the low band antennas, wouldn't be great reception but it'd give you something for FM stations that are close enough.
- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 8 months ago:
from what i recall almost every QCOM chipset has the circuitry baked in, it's just disabled. https://www.wired.com/2016/07/phones-fm-chips-radio-smartphone/
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- Comment on What is your favorite programming language? 8 months ago:
Zig is really starting to grow on me, it's basically an unfucked C (screw you, macros) and you can translate C into Zig code...and it has comptime, very nice! I don't have the patience for Rust in my hobby projects and the standalone-ness of Zig is perfect for embedded/systems programming. it definitely needs to mature more before the masses start taking it seriously, but goddamn it's nice to code in.
- Comment on If God loved the GOP as much as Republicans think he does, he wouldn’t have made Jimmy Carter the longest living president in US history 8 months ago:
"only the good die young"
- Comment on This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more! 8 months ago:
it's also a big FU to anyone accessing Gmail's web interface over geostationary satellite internet connections. i had to deal with that shit for a few months and HTML mode was the only way to ease the pain of how bad the latency can get. the "normal" view would hang like a mofo all the time.
- Comment on WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE 8 months ago:
_Except for me
You know why?'Cause I had my tray table up
And my seat back in the full upright position_ - Comment on T-Mobile users say other people’s account information is appearing in their app 9 months ago:
seems like this is an area that a nice "arrangement" could be made, that is, US congress: you grant T-Mobile their band 41 licenses that are being held up by your own incompetence in exchange for T-Mobile actually addressing their own repeated incompetence involving anything related to data security. sell it to the public under the guise that it would be determinantal to the US consumer by letting T-Mobile to continue to expand their infrastructure by continuing to disregard the importance of data privacy and security... and you can go on taking bribes from AT&T and Verizon in the meantime, dunno, sounds like a win-win to me.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
environmentalize, motherfucker
- Comment on Apple A17 Pro SoC Within Reach of Intel i9-13900K in Single-Core Performance 9 months ago:
hell, even intel tried to get away from x86 with itanium but failed miserably... and they screwed themselves again by recently dumping the RISC-V pathfinding a year after initiation. i worry about the future of Arc, but maybe they'll pull their head out of their ass on that one.
- Comment on SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million 9 months ago:
Yep, find a cheapo 5g modem with an ethernet port that's capable of being given an identity crisis from the usual sources and you'll be golden...ask me how I know. We ain't got shit out where I am other than garbage DSL, but decent 5g coverage from the big 3 surprisingly.
Starlink only serves a purpose in truly rural or remote areas where, unsurprisingly, they'll make no money. The number of people I see using it as a backup connection or aggregate it with terrestrial cable or fiber connections is obscene... and a waste of money imo.
- Comment on France bans iPhone 12 after finding radiation levels are too high 9 months ago:
and different parts of the body resonate at different frequencies...part of the reason 2.4 GHz was picked for the common household microwave is water molecules resonate there (and other harmonically related frequencies too... it's why a lot of the unlicensed ISM stuff is allocated there: crappy atmospheric propagation). also the necessary magnetron and waveguide for that freq is conveniently sized for a kitchen appliance and not too complicated.
- FCC Proposes Voluntary Security Labels For ‘Internet Of Things’ Devices Most Companies Will Probably Ignorewww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 9 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Disney creates task force to explore AI and cut costs - Reuters News Agency 9 months ago:
what happened to K.E.V.I.N.!?
- Comment on Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” requires workers to return to the office 10 months ago:
Don't let it fool you, they'll make exceptions to the rule for the ones they want to keep. This is just a way to make their "worst" performers miserable so they quit instead of laying them off. All the
shittech companies are doing it. - Comment on The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports 11 months ago:
Hello Mr. Yakamoto and welcome back to the GAP!