For space systems, there are a few choices.

For ground based gateways, there are a lot more choices.

For domestic flights, most in-flight WiFi is ground based (think a really sophisticated form of cellular technology). This is because you only need a few ground stations in various locations in the US for coverage. It's also much cheaper than space-based systems, which is why most domestic flights have made in-flight WiFi basically free.

It's also why international flights the in-flight WiFi is often horrendously expensive.

The real innovation here is that Starlink is relatively cheap enough that you can offer in-flight WiFi on domestic flights for basically free as well and be competitive with the ground based systems.

Trying to get the real table to update the ball at 20fps is proving insanely difficult.

Maybe on a 20Mhz 386, but by the time Windows XP was being tested, it would do over million FPS so the XP version was hard-limited to 120FPS, dropping the CPU to under 1%.

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Age-verification at OS levels was always a terrible idea. It's difficult to see under what rationale Linux should be granted an exception for this dumb idea. The solution is just to repeal the law and flog the sponsors.

Well, the problem is age verification to begin with. But since we have some states wanting age verification, it's a privacy nightmare. OS based age verification seems to solve the largest problem of all - needing to submit to a third party your ID information to confirm your age. Because they've all been hacked and that ID leaked But if you can embed that in the OS - and Apple and Microsoft know information about you to get a good estimate (e.g., if you have a credit card), then it can be used to attest your age instead of having to submit to the third party.

That's why they don't mind doing the Linux exception - because if the OS doesn't want to do it, then those users can rely on the third party services. Those third party services will exist anyways to handle the many OSes that won't work.

If you think the CloudFlare interrogation is bad now when you use a VPN...

Probably it will be a posthumous Darwin award.

I don't think there have been any Darwin awards that were not awarded posthumously. The award requires you to have removed yourself from the gene pool in order to be considered for the award.

I do love it when malware advert javascripts can upload random new firmware updates into my mouse and keyboard turning them into stealth keyloggers. This is great.

This feels like when Flash sandbox breaks became a thing, but worse. At least in those days we got smooth fullscreen vector animations and games to enjoy. I'd rather Flash had just been bloody fixed instead of browsers themselves becoming Shit Flash But Holy Cow It Runs Worse And Gets Worse.

You'd have to really be terrible to let it happen. First, you have to authorize the device to be accessed - and almost always web serial devices are using libusb. They have to as no OS allows direct access to USB devices - you must always go through a driver. Libusb is the only thing that really pipes a USB device through to userspace. And if you're using libusb, the OS driver is not running.

And to accomplish this, you almost always have to override the OS settings to prevent loading the OS driver over libusb, especially for things like keyboards and mice. It's possible, but it's complex, and it's why in the early days, you had many peripherals saying "do not plug in without installing driver".

Honestly, it's far easier to develop just a malware program in general than to try to break out via web serial. And if you already have the user to run the malware, why bother with web serial at all?

Also, it's a permission you need to give a website, and almost none request it because it's only for web=based IDEs to program embedded things.

You want a larger surface area, you attack things like WebGL, which you'd want to do as there are performance critical paths in getting from the browser to the GPU, and many of those paths are not protected very well

Then again, how many projects use Xilinx parts?

Most FPGA projects are using Intel/Altera parts - MiSTer, etc.

I can't understand the thought process behind them making everything public by default. Why on earth would anyone want personal financial transactions public?

That's the first setting I changed when I installed the app. I don't use it much, but some people prefer to be paid that way.

Likely it was a "social" thing. They want you to use them for things you do in public - I sent you my share of the restaurant bill and that becomes part of the social media chain of events - you went to a restaurant, and then you paid your share via Venmo to your friend.

It was supposed to be something you did like you posting food on Instagram and other things.

The only problems came about when people started using it as an alternative to Paypal (even though it was owned by Paypal) and having those defaults meant some rather shady transactions became exposed. I still don't really get why you'd Venmo people instead of Paypal them. It's the same company.

I was thinking the same thing on the average. I'm assuming executives will get the biggest share of that, while the common workers will get, what, say 10k? Not that that's anything to sneeze at, but let's not pretend the average low-level person is getting 340k.

No, it's likely the union members get a big chunk of it.

The reason they went on strike is SK Hynix (also Korean) gave the excess profits to their workers - to the tune of about half a million dollars each. Samsung executives refused to do same when Samsung employees asked so they were threatening to strike over it.

So it's likely going to go to the workers. The executives were going to get their cut anyways.

It's less about the repository and more about the whole lifecycle tracking it provides.

It hosts code, but it also provides an environment to report issues, and have those issues tracked through to a commit. It also makes it easy to handle contributions from other people.

If you have a small project, it's no big deal to do it manually. But once a project gets big enough, you really want something to track bugs, support tickets, fixes, releases, pull requests and code reviews.

And "big enough" is basically at the point where you need to have more people.

GitHub, GitLab, etc., are going to do fine - because the main customers are corporations who run their internal self-hosted version (enterprise editions) because it's the exact same issue managing 100+ developers on a codebase.

Linux is special - and they had a whole development methodology set up for large scale distributed development long before things like SourceForge even existed.

Well, to be fair, the memory companies have suffered the past 3-4 times that memory prices skyrocketed, they brought more factories online, and then prices plummet just before the factory comes online so they're selling increased capacity into a surplus market.

It's why a company like Kingston exists - Kingston exists solely to absorb surplus memory. If memory makers make too much RAM, they sell it to Kingston and Kingston makes a bunch of memory modules from it. Likewise if they make too much NAND flash, it goes into USB sticks and SSDs. It's why Kingston RAM and flash products are so variable - they just take the surplus parts and put them into products. You might get Samsung products one day, the next day it's SK Hynix because that's what's coming in the factory.

None of the memory makers are bringing up their timelines of increased RAM production from the late 2020s/2030 because they don't want o bring it online into a market th's flooded.

Great, so Vizio is violating the license and has no right to reproduce the software. I believe the statutory damage limit for each infraction is $150k? That's gotta be a few billion to split amongst the various projects that are having their copyright violated by Vizio.

Times each unit sold.

Anyhow, there's no right to tinker with the TV firmware - it can be as locked down as you want it if the software is all GPLv2 or so. It's why GPLv3 has the "Anti-TiVoization" clause in it. TiVo (which is still around) locked down their Linux based DVR and while they did give you the source code to everything minus the proprietary bits, you couldn't use it on their boxes.

It's why a lot of projects are still GPLv2 - they are used heavily in products. Also why you still have things using SMB1 - Samba went GPLv3 a few months before introducing SMB2 support (Windows Vista) so no product using Samba could use SMB2 without obeying the terms of the GPLv3. Even today many devices still require you to enable SMB1 on Windows just to use their network functionality.

Of course, other companies like Apple, Synology, etc., wrote their own SMB server implementation after ditching Samba. And other projects often have lists of features that have to be disabled to keep the license GPLv2.

Re-pricing the lifetime Plex pass to $250 or so would probably be reasonable and would still get good uptake, but I can understand why they want to move most people onto a subscription model and that does not seem unreasonable for a good product with good support.

Chances are they want to get rid of the lifetime option. They're basically announcing it - it's there, but it's crazy so you're not likely to ever pick it because it would take 10 years to recoup.

But instead of incurring the negative publicity of cancelling lifetime as an option they're keeping it around but making it not make sense to use.

And hey, some people just hate subscriptions they'll take the all-in price.

Well, TIL what HCM stood for. Then realized why the HR system was named that.

All they're doing is moving up the frequency from Ghz to Thz.

Of course. The problem was, Sony thought they were doing Microsoft dirty by buying up Bungie. After all, Bungie propelled Microsoft big into the console market with Halo, and what a coup it would be for Sony to buy Bungie out from Microsoft.

The problem is Sony was trying to get them into a market they themselves have saturated - the Games as a Service - or the market of online team shooters along the gist of Fortnite, Destiny and others. If you look at them, most of them were done by Sony - they had practically all their first party studios working on games like this. And they really should've taken note of Concord which they scrapped after it was released on the market a few months due to poor sales. As in, the market is saturated with those gamese

And now you have Bungie trying to create the same genre of game in an over saturated market - it's not going to do well. The people interested in these kinds of games already have heavily invested in other games. And the people not interested aren't going to start playing because "hey it's from the Halo guys".

The appeal of games with microtransactions is huge, but when the market is tapped out, releasing more won't produce more money.