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  • Wifi 15 gigabytes per second — Researchers demo invention

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  • Putting fiber in the ground is expensive. I work for an ISP, and we estimate fiber overbuild costs at $15/ft. So a mile of underground fiber costs about $79,200.

  • Speeds drop on ONT restart

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  • I can't say for certain that this is what is happening, but it would fit.

    I work for an ISP and deal with problems like this a lot.

    In our system, we have a master keeper of information. We call it "The Biller". It keeps all the records of what services you have and at what tiers.

    Then, there's the fiber optic equipment. There's a small building somewhere near your area that houses the equipment on the other end of your fiber optic line.

    By default, the biller and the fiber optic equipment don't communicate with eachother, so there's some middleware software that 'provisions' the service automatically.

    When I get these kinds of complaints, there's generally some software glitch or misconfiguration in either the biller or the provisioning software. When provisioning is triggered, the middleware queries the biller for the information about your service (what services do you have [TV, data, phone?], what are their features [channel lineups, speed profile, calling plan, etc], what equipment is used to deliver that service [ONT serial number, etc]) and it builds a configuration file that gets sent to the fiber optic frame equipment in your area to set those services up on the device you have in your home.

    For some reason, when you reboot your ONT and it fetches a configuration file from the OLT, that configuration file is saying you should only get 100Mbps. When you call in to support, my bet is the support agent is manually fixing the speed profile on the OLT without looking into why the OLT is getting the wrong speed profile.

    It's likely an issue with your account, and unfortunately it's squeaky wheels that get the grease. If you want this resolved, I would recommend making it happen a lot one day. Just keep rebooting your ONT and calling in to support. Eventually, someone will find and fix the problem.

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    the cold war

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  • And don't forget it's hard-coded to inject affiliate links on certain sites.

    Oh, wait, I forgot they said that was an "accident".

  • We need to boycott Firefox

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  • You know, that's a fair point. But I think it will still be a measurable shift if people start using privacy forks of their codebase.

  • We need to boycott Firefox

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  • Unfortunately, there aren't many options in the 2025 internet browser market.

    Unless something has changed, the gecko engine Firefox uses is the only distinctly different engine from Chrome, and I don't think writing a browser engine from scratch is easy. So if the solution is to hard pivot away from Firefox entirely, I don't know how you don't end up using some Chrome based browser.

    At least Mozilla hasn't tried to kill adblockers like Google clearly is trying to.

    Forking the codebase and stripping out any AI code is much easier than trying to invent another wheel.

  • Ok, honestly, is cast-iron really any better than a non-stick, stainless, copper (anything else?) pan?

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  • Imo, the main advantage to cast iron vs literally everything else is how you can abuse it as long as the one rule you follow is to clean it after use.

    Teflon and other nonstick coatings are too easily damaged by things like scrubbing pads or metal utensils.

    Cast iron don't give a single fuck.

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    I wonder if K-pop Demon Hunters is so popular because it's a ready allegory for the fight against fascism and authoritarianism...

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  • Yeah, totally not literally disappearing people en mass to feed their souls to Gwi-ma. Just totally harmless, innocent demons.

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • Interns aren’t that intelligent, either. But they can generate content even if they’re not intelligent and that’s helpful, too.

    An intern has the capacity to learn, an LLM does not.

    Having the right answer is a lot less useful than looking like you have the right answer, sadly.

    Only if you care about accuracy, which is 100% the problem with LLMs.

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • It’s got intern-level intelligence

    The problem is, it's not "intelligence". It's an enormous statistical based autocorrect.

    AI doesn't understand math, it just knows that the next character in a string starting "2+2=" is almost unanimously "4" in all the data it's statistically analyzed. If you try to have it solve an equation that isn't commonly repeated, it can't solve it. Even when you try to train it on textbooks, it doesn't 'learn' the math, it tries to analyze the word patterns in the text of the book and attempts to replicate it. That's why it 'hallucinates', and also why it doesn't matter how much data you feed it, it won't be 'intelligent'.

    It seems intelligent because we associate intelligence with language, and LLMs mimic language in an amazing way. But it's not 'thinking' the way we associate with intelligence. It's running complex math about what word should come next in a sentence based on the other sentences of that sort it's seen before.

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • No company has to tell me that they are inclusive. I just assume that they hire the best person who applied for any given job. If that person was LGBT, I fully expect them to have given that person the job. If you have to tell me that you are, that means you werent.

    Welcome to being gay in society just a short few years ago. We live in a world where Alan Turing was arrested, charged, and convicted of being homosexual and chemically castrated as a result. It didn't matter that he helped the Allies win WW2 and he wasn't hurting anyone, it was a crime to be gay. When AIDS was first ravaging the homosexual community, there was talk of just letting it run rampant as it was just killing 'the gays' not anyone important.

    I'm happy that we've made progress as a society that this isn't as well known anymore, but that doesn't change that it did happen.

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • I dunno, these don't feel the same to me.

    Having LGBTQ representation is a way of trying to attract customers: "Get a Mastercard because we're LGBTQ friendly" is different than your boss saying "Jim, I know you have a wife and kids to support, and that you're a valuable member on this team; but we've decided it's more cost effective to have this LLM code our app and have two junior developers clean up the code, so you're being laid off."

    The quote I've seen and agree with is something along the lines of "The AI push exists to try and give the owners of 'Capital' access to 'Talent' without giving the talented working class people access to 'Capital'." It exists solely to try and make paying workers redundant.

    Having a gay character in a show isn't anything like that at all IMO, unless your the type of person who thinks homosexuality is contagious and/or that you're scared you might realize you're gay if you watch two men being romantic with each other.

  • How did you get over leaving a toxic relationship?

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  • It took me getting arrested over some bullshit to get me out, then it was just time and therapy.

    I can't recommend a good therapist enough. Mine has helped me untangle lots of things, and I'm still getting better 5 years after the split.

  • Is connecting a Windows computer to your wired network worse than keeping it on Wi-Fi?

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  • Fire up Wireshark on a different machine and transfer a file between two other machines, you won’t see anything.

    This is true, but only because we've replaced Ethernet hubs with switches.

    An Ethernet hub was a dumber, cheaper device that imitated a switch, but with a fundamental difference: all connected devices were in the same collision domain.

    I don’t know too much about WiFi but it probably does the same, it’s just a bridge to the same network.

    Wireless communication has the same problem as Ethernet hubs, with no real solution like a switch though. Any wireless transmission involves an antenna, and transmitting is similar to standing in your yard with a bull horn to talk to your buddy two houses down. Anyone with an antenna can receive the wireless signal you send out. Period.

    So some really smart people found ways to keep the stuff you send private, but anyone can sit nearby and capture data going through the air, it's just not anything you can use because of the encryption.

  • Always Choose OS with Dual Boot?

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  • That's not a problem at all, so long as the first boot device is the Linux drive.

    GRUB has no issue chain-loading the windows bootloader. You can even set GRUB to default to Windows if you want, it'll just show the menu for a while (whatever you set the timeout to be, I find 3 seconds to be plenty) and if nothing is selected, it will hand off to Windows.

    If you want to boot Linux, just hit the down arrow key when you see the menu to stop the countdown and choose what you want to boot, then hit enter.

  • The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source - Revisiting and Contextualizing the designed xz backdoor, multi-year-long effort

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  • I feel like this is missing a big point of the article.

    The vulnerability that the xz backdoor attempt revealed was the developers. The elephant in the room is that for someone capable of writing and maintaining a program so important to modern technical infrastructure, we're making sure to hang them out to dry. When they burn out because their 'hobby' becomes too emotionally draining (either because of a campaign to wear them down intentionally or fully naturally) someone will be waiting to take control. Who can you trust? Here, we see someone attempted (and nearly succeeded) a multi-year effort to establish themselves as a trusted member of the development community who was faking it all along. With the advent of LLMs, it's going to be even harder to tell if someone is trustworthy, or just a long-running LLM deception campaign.

    Maybe, we should treat the people we rely on for these tools a little better for how much they contribute to modern tech infrastructure?

    And I'll point out that's less aimed at the individuals who use tech, and more at the multi-billion-dollar multi-national tech companies that make money hand over fist using the work others donate.

  • F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

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  • Sure, but who knows what shenanigans the techs and pilot were trying to convince the machine to drop the landing gear.

    Under normal operations, I'd agree, but I'll bet they were putting something in a maintenance state while it was in the air, and at that point all bets are off.

  • meme_pihole_smartTV_transparent_logo_png.jpeg

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  • Firewall redirect and masquerade.

    Bitch you thought

  • Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data

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  • "You mean if I delete data, then it's gone? No matter what platform?"

  • ChatGPT 5's PHd level intelligence is breathtaking \s

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  • This is the fundamental problem with LLMs and all the hype.

    People with technology experience can understand the limitations of the tech, and will be more skeptical of the output from them.

    But your average person?

    If they go to Google and ask if vaccines cause autism, and the Google's AI search slop trough contains an answer they like, accurate or not there will be exactly no second guessing. I mean, this is supposed to be a PhD level person, and it was right about the other softball questions they asked, like what color is the sky. Surely they're right about that too, right?

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    Apt package updates take longer than expected - where to look?