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  • 4 years ago (best number I can find, considering IAs blog pages are down) IA used about 50 petabytes on servers that have 250 terabytes of storage and 2gbps network.
    From this, we can conclude that 1 TB of storage requires 8mbps of network speed.
    Let’s just say that average/all residential broadband has spare bandwidth for 8mbps symmetrical.
    We would need 50,000 volunteers to cover the absolute minimum.
    Probably 100k to 200k to have any sort of reliability, considering it’s all residential networking and commodity hardware.

    In the last 4 years, I imagine IA has increased their storage requirements significantly.
    And all of that would need to be coordinated, so some shards don’t get over-replicated





  • If only that was the government that invested in the R&D and tech to make it happen.
    Gaining funds from taxes (meaningful taxes), and investing that money in making their country better.

    Hopefully this decision is because carbon taxes that will make consumer products representative of the actual cost of the item (not the exploitative cost). >

    No no, let the free market decide.
    Fucking AI threatening to replace basic jobs (when it’s more suited to replace the C-Suite) gobling up energy and money, too-big-to-fail bailouts and loophole tax rules bullshit.

    So yeh, someone needs to spend the money and that should be the government.
    Because they should realise that carbon fuel sources are a death sentence.


  • I agree, and it is possibly the only good thing to come out of AI.
    Like people asking “why do we need to go to the moon?!”.

    Fly-by-wire (ie pilot controls decoupled from physical actuators), so modern air travel.

    Integrated circuits (IE multiple transistors - and other components - in the same silicon package). Basically miniaturisation and reduction in power consumption of computers.

    GPS. The Apollo missions lead to the rocket tech/science for geosynchronous orbits require for GPS.


    This time it is commercial.
    I’d rather the power requirements were covered by non-carbon sources. However it proves the tech for future use.

    For a similar example, I have a strong dislike of Elon Musk. He has ruined the potential of Twitter and Tesla, but SpaceX has had some impressive accomplishments.

    Google are a shitty company. I wish the nuclear power went towards shutting down carbon power.
    But SOMEONE has to take the risk. I wish that someone was a government. But it’s Google. So… Kind of a win?



  • I don’t think smart phones are conventional communications. The are smart. They are still the “tech of tomorrow”.
    Smart phones use conventional communications to do very clever things. But those clever things are range limited and require specialised equipment. They also have absolutely no “hackability” without specialised equipment (easy to get, sure… But still pretty much single purpose)

    AM is literally a couple caps, inductors, resistors (edit: and diode) then an amplifier (a couple transistors and resistors). And the range of lower frequency radio waves is (or can be) phenomenal.
    It’s just that it takes some experience to operate on these frequencies, and their bandwidth is limited.

    Smart phones do away with the experience requirements, and trade higher frequencies & higher data rates for range (and I guess trade digital encoding for simplicity)

    I see parallels to software.
    People are nervous to “side loading apps” on their phone, but have no issues downloading and installing an exe on windows.
    Smart phones give you the “this is how” kind of experience, and abstract away the sheer amount of technology they leverage. Which is amazing, and is what makes them smart!
    But the underlying technology is phenomenal. And I feel it’s a shame that the majority of people don’t have any understanding of “installing an app” or similar (like calling internet access “WiFi”… 2 distinct things!)


  • It’s pretty serendipitous, actually.
    The past month I’ve done a somewhat deep dive into LoRa for a project.
    I ultimately dismissed it due to the data rates, but for simple remote controls or for sensors - things that report a couple bytes - it seems awesome.
    I’m sure you can squeeze higher data rates out of it, but when I evaluated it I decided to go with a hardwired network link (I had to have stability, dropped info wasn’t an option. But the client had a strong preference for wireless)


  • WiFi uses BPSK/QPSK/OFDM/OFDMA modulation.
    LoRa uses CSS modulation.

    This is about hacking WiFi hardware to make WiFi modulated signal intelligible to a receiver expecting CSS modulation, and have the WiFi hardware demodulate a CSS signal.
    Thus making WiFi chips work with LoRa chips.

    LoRa doesn’t care about the carrier frequency.
    So the fact that it’s LoRa at 2.4ghz doesn’t matter. It’s still LoRa.

    I’m sure there will be a use for this at some point.
    Certainly useful for directly interfacing with LoRa devices from a laptop.
    I feel that anyone actually deploying LoRa IoT would be working at a lower level than “throw a laptop at it” kinda thing



  • The issue is with how aggressive Microsoft is about it.

    Trying to download chrome? “Hey, are you sure you don’t want to try Edge?”.
    Changing default browser? “Hey, are you sure you don’t want to try Edge?”.
    Windows update… “We’ve done you a solid, because we know you want to use Edge”.
    I’m sure at one point, it was a warning in the security center that you aren’t using Edge.
    Also Teams (in sure there are others) will open links in Edge, despite what default browser you have set.




  • If you want remote access to your home services behind a cgnat, the best way is with a VPS. This gives you a static public IP that your services connect to, and that you can connect to when out and about.

    If you don’t want the traffic decrypted on the VPS, then tunnel the VPN back to your homelab.
    As the VPN already is encrypted, there is no point in re-encrypting it between the vps and homelab.

    Rathole https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole is one of the easiest I have found for this.
    Or you can do things with ssh tunnels.

    For VPN, wireguard is very good


  • That’s like any FPS game ripping off any other FPS game.
    Fight, capture, tame, train, breed animals.
    Base building, research tree, enemy raids.
    Exploration, resource gathering, survival.

    I don’t think Nintendo has a monopoly on enslaving animals.

    I know what you mean, tho. It’s always described as “Pokémon with guns and 3xE gameplay”.
    But does Nintendo actually have a case that will hold up in courts?
    Pocketpair seems confident they can defend against it. So either they have done their research and are up for a fight. Or they (think they) are calling Nintendo’s bluff.
    But Nintendo has a whole pack of lawyers.

    Unfortunately there are no details on what the patents being infringemed upon are, just that they relate to “Pocket Monster”.