shortwavesurfer
@shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
- Comment on It’s Time To Rethink 6G. 3 weeks ago:
You know, I totally see where this article is coming from. My current fiber provider gives me 500 symmetrical for $55 per month. And if they offered a 250 plan for $27 a month, I would downgrade in a heartbeat because I don’t need what I’m getting.
It’s like owning a super fast sports car. Sure. You can drive at 300 miles per hour. But when are you ever going to get the chance to do so?
As for cellular speeds, they don’t really need to improve to give a single individual enough bandwidth they need to improve to give a bunch of people a decent bandwidth in a crowded situation such as stadiums, concert venues, protests, etc.
I could step outside my door right now and run a speed test on my $15 per month phone plan from T-Mobile and get 250 MBPS which is great. Now what would happen if my entire city lost power and that was the only operational service provider? That’s where the question would come in.
- Comment on Can The EV Charging Business Survive the Trump Administration? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but in a diminished capacity, perhaps.
- Comment on AT&T Pouts, Pulls Home 5G Service From NY State Over Law Requiring It Provide $15 To Poor People 4 weeks ago:
I have my doubts as to whether it was because of the $15 one. At 25 MBPS fixed wireless can provide this easily. I think the bigger problem is the $20 for 200 MBPS which fixed wireless cannot reliably provide and therefore would cause AT&T to be in violation of this law quite often. Knowing New York, they were unwilling to compromise. And so AT&T just decided it wasn’t worth it.
- Comment on Cloudflare claims to have mitigated biggest DDoS attack on record with requests flying in from 5,500 IP addresses per second 5 weeks ago:
Back in August of 2023, the Tor network implemented proof of work for onion services to mitigate denial of service attacks, which seems to have helped a lot. I wonder if doing this on the clear net would have any tangible benefit.
- Comment on AT&T pulls its 5G internet service in NY over new affordable internet law 1 month ago:
They don’t have fiber in the state at all and a guaranteed 200 MBPS is quite difficult to do over fixed wireless.
- Comment on Telegram hands over data on thousands of users to US law enforcement 1 month ago:
Hell no, it’s only E2E in single conversations where you have activated it. Otherwise, it is not. And most people never activate it, so it never is. It’s crazy how many people live managed to convince that it is E2E when it is not.
- Comment on Starlink broadband attracting residents to remote West Virginia - West Virginia Explorer 1 month ago:
You should read Gray Mountain by John Grisham.
- Comment on Starlink broadband attracting residents to remote West Virginia - West Virginia Explorer 1 month ago:
I have a friend who lives in northeastern Kentucky and so I’ve been there a couple of times and completely agree it’s absolutely beautiful country but that area is very economically poor because it was so big into coal mining. If I remember correctly, the county where she lives is one of the poorest in the United States.
- Comment on What You Should Know When Joining Bluesky 2 months ago:
Personally I use Lemmy the most, Nostr second, and I keep a Mastodon account around though it doesn’t see a ton of use.
- Comment on “Incognito Market” Owner Pleads Guilty For Operating One Of The Largest Illegal Narcotics Marketplaces On The Internet 2 months ago:
What exactly are they going to do when these markets go completely decentralized and have no administrator and only have a peer-to-peer DHT network? They’re going to be fucked.
- Comment on Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets 2 months ago:
You’re right, we should actually file our serial numbers off of our guns, and we should also 3D print them so that they have no serial numbers to begin with.
- Comment on Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets 2 months ago:
No, but the proliferation of automated license plate readers and location tracking through them is definitely surveillance. And therefore, if changing your license plate number trivially can make that damn near impossible, I’m all for it.
- Comment on Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets 2 months ago:
Perfect!
- Comment on Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets 2 months ago:
Anything that makes evading law enforcement surveillance is good in my book. Personally, if you’re going to hack them in order to avoid traffic issues, please use the license plates of police officers instead so that they have to investigate themselves. Please don’t use like little old ladies or something. That would be mean.
- Comment on AI Features Fall Short: 73% of iPhone Users and 87% of Samsung Users Say They Add Little or No Value 2 months ago:
Glad I don’t have my money in banks then.
- Comment on Google Search Testing Attach File To Search Bar (Ask Anything About A File) 2 months ago:
How could I make this worm more effective at destroying Google?
- Comment on Don’t use crypto to cheat on taxes: Bitcoin bro gets 2 years 2 months ago:
Primarily because he used Bitcoin and he turned it into dollars. First of all, Bitcoin is completely traceable forever and second of all, they control the fiat currency system.
- Comment on Apple to stop selling iPhone SE and iPhone 14 in Europe as USB-C deadline hits 2 months ago:
Once this happens for the rest of the world, it will be great because finally all phones everywhere will be USB Type-C and there will be a hell of a lot less charger issues.
- Comment on YouTube quietly made some of its web embeds worse, including ours 2 months ago:
Peertube
- Comment on Companies try to stop online support for CEO killer suspect 2 months ago:
If Amazon or eBay takes down your merchandise, you can always sell it on xmrbazaar.com and somebody could make a legal defense fund on kuno.anne.media
- Comment on PeerTube has launched a limited mobile app for iOS & Android. 2 months ago:
I downloaded it from the Aurora store just to have a look at it, but I will be waiting for the F-Droid release to start using it frequently.
- Comment on Cable ISPs compare data caps to food menus: Don’t make us offer unlimited soup 2 months ago:
Well, we recently learned how to deal with health insurers.
- Comment on Cable ISPs compare data caps to food menus: Don’t make us offer unlimited soup 2 months ago:
Depending on what kind of line it is and whether it’s dedicated to you or being shared between you and other people, it actually can have a negative effect on other people using the service. Take cable for example, where you’re sharing it with like 32 other neighbors. Another example would be 5G home internet. It works really well, but it can bog down under high utilization. But for dedicated customers such as fiber? Yeah, I don’t see any excuse for this.
- Comment on Scientists develop the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery, offering a 5,000-year lifespan — the device uses radioactive decay to generate low power levels 2 months ago:
I think it would really depend on just how much power the damn thing could produce. For example, it mentions sending back data from Voyager 1, and that’s great and all, but it seems like those transmitters would probably need more than what it could provide along with the science equipment. I would say to accomplish that you would either need a bigger version that produces more power or you would need some sort of super capacitor or something to store the charge in for short bursts at high power.
- Comment on Something to Remember Us By: Device Confiscated by Russian Authorities Returned with Monokle-Type Spyware Installed 2 months ago:
If your device is ever taken from you by an agency and then returned standard operating procedure should be to just ditch that device entirely as it is highly likely to be compromised.
- Comment on GenCast predicts weather and the risks of extreme conditions with state-of-the-art accuracy 2 months ago:
As much data as meteorologists have, it seems like they need more data. For example, I can look at the temperature in my weather apps and see two totally different measurements than what I see from the thermometer outside my house. Just simply due to the fact that the weather stations that are used for the apps are not at my house and so the conditions are different there. If there were more stations, for example, they could report and then take an average of all the reports that came in to get a more accurate measure.
- Comment on ISPs say their “excellent customer service” is why users don’t switch providers 2 months ago:
I think the fixed wireless providers such as T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon Home Internet are really a game changer here because they force these crappy cable providers to actually provide good internet or lose their customers.
- Comment on API error knocks PayPal, Venmo offline around the globe 3 months ago:
My mistake, so many people don’t realize that gift cards are a thing, but that there are other options as well.
- Comment on API error knocks PayPal, Venmo offline around the globe 3 months ago:
I mean yeah, I know you can buy lots of things with gift cards by buying the gift cards with the currency you intend to. But I mean like directly. As in you pay someone directly or narrow or Ethereum or whatever and they will send you a toaster or a coffee maker or a crockpot or whatever.
- Comment on API error knocks PayPal, Venmo offline around the globe 3 months ago:
Do people price items in ETH or is it just a utility token for the Ethereum network? Because it seems more like the latter rather than the former. Like, will somebody sell you a toaster priced in ETH? Because I will sell you a toaster priced in Monero today. xmrbazaar.com/listing/ivSz/