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Please site the relevant sections of this supposed law you claim exists.

Do you measure WiFi 7 for packet loss? UniFi might be better but I stand by my advice and still suggest 802.11AC or AX for consumer grade router.

I've worked as an engineer in the Wi-Fi industry. Here's my advice: stay at least one or, even better, two generations behind the current Wi-Fi standards. Vendors care about only t…

Apple can be a very insular; just license the technology!

"(I personally don't mind coding boilerplate stuff, especially since I can learn how the framework works that way)" ^ Isn't that what folks used to say about programming in assembl…

The article has this: "Charging your phone with a higher wattage USB-C charger, those above 20 watts, may also make the devices toasty. " Total BS. The wattage of the charger is no…

The article quotes Jake Williams as a former NSA hacker. He seems pretty flippant that this occured and how good Microsoft did. Is he impressed with Microsft's key rotation policy?…

^ agree! What an easy mitigation this would have been.

yeah, I heard that electric and modern vehicles don't need software or good engineers anymore.... Ford is going old school.

I worked on forward error correcting codes for a variety of systems. A few big issues with Turbo codes: 1. Decoder complexity - often 4x or more the complexity of simpler codes. 2.…

All the money and talent devoted to these AR glasses should be spent on a Siri 2.0 project using the latest large language models like GPT-4. Apple put neural network processors on…

I use the FakeSpot extension for the Brave browser. Works with any Chrome based browser. Uses AI to analyze reviews as well as the reviewers other reviews. Then it gives a letter g…

Does anyone know of a good comparison between FF and Brave regarding both security and privacy?

I think OpenBSD is still more secure than FreeBSD

“You can’t get a de­gree in how to fly to the moon,” says Dana Dens­more, who joined the lab in 1965 and be­came a con­trol su­per­vi-sor for the lu­nar-lan­der soft­ware. “You had…

Do yourself a favor: head to a newsstand or Starbucks and buy a copy of today’s WSJ. This special insert on the Apollo mission is well worth it.

Best quote in the excellent article: “You can’t get a de­gree in how to fly to the moon,” says Dana Dens­more, who joined the lab in 1965 and be­came a con­trol su­per­vi-sor for t…