They’re tech entertainers, and Linus is the clown jester.

There’s an actual prayer at the end of that article.

Edit: nm, it was quoting a prayer from one of the farmers at the meeting

Too bad they ended funding for suicide hotlines.

I forgot about that. IIRC, Canada had setup some new hotline to help Americans or something along those lines.

so it’s not like a stopped clock being almost right makes up for his bullshit.

Nice try, Jessica

Where did I show any hatred for China? Are you confusing criticism of the “Dear Leader” with hatred towards the country and its people? Maybe that implication was deliberate on your part.

Xi doesn’t hold a monopoly on corruption

to avoid the state from falling into corrupt hands

That’s decades too late

I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad idea.

No, this is a bad idea. It’s a terrible idea.

What you said is like saying “well, I need surgery, having the monkey from the forest come at me with a knife is better than nothing.”

Microsoft has proven themselves over and over to be the last company you should trust with your data. Even recently they’ve been responsible for losing a life’s worth of data because of OneDrive

They’re already uploading people’s data off of their computers to OneDrive without consent, then deleting the local copies.

Plus their tech work culture is lacking. When they screwed something up with Office 365 and Outlook wasn’t available for over 18 hours (for basically the whole world), their response was a tweet that it’s fixed.

Whereas CloudFlare messed up something for only an hour, they released a comprehensive breakdown on their blog of what happened, what the root cause was, and what they’re going to do to prevent it from happening again.

Which company seems reliable to you?

My simple rule is that if it uses a neural network model of some kind, then it can be accurately called AI.

Ya, I knew there were analogue “upscalers”, but I’m not familiar enough with them to confidently call them an upscaler vs a signal converter.

Well, the algorithms that make up many neural networks have existed for over 60 years. It’s only recently that hardware has been able to make it happen.

AI gives it bit of marketing sprinkle to something that has been a solved problem for years.

Not true and I did say “any upscaler that’s worth anything”. Upscaling tech has existed at least since digital video was a thing. Pixel interpolation is the simplest and computationally easiest method. But it tends to give a slight hazy appearance.

It’s actually far from a solved problem. There’s a constant trade-off beyond processing power and quality. And quality can still be improved by a lot.

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They don’t require AI neural networks.

Sharpening and denoising don’t. But upscalers worth anything do require neural nets.

Anything that uses a neural network is the definition of AI.

You’re putting words in my mouth. I was speaking in generalities about physical connections, not specifically about fibre.

Where? In the US? It’s already been paid for multiple times over, through government grants and subsidies.

It’s still worthwhile.

Fibre deployment is getting cheaper and easier. Both in terms of cost of materials and in the equipment and labour skills.

It’s also much more secure from interference and disruption.

For populated areas, there’s zero justification to rollout wireless over fibre lines. And most major cities already have fibre in most, or many, areas. And the thing with fibre is that the physical lines can be used to deploy faster speeds with upgraded endpoints.

Tech bros would have you think physical connections aren’t a good choice anymore, because laying down fibre isn’t sexy enough for that VC money.

With cable here I’m “supposed” to get “up to” 1000mbs down but my upload speed is at best 40.

Man, you get 40 up? I’m stuck on 30 up. And the funny thing is that just on the other side of the creek on the other side of my street is where they stopped the fibre rollout.

somewhere, between you and the server you are connected to, the bandwidth is shared.

But the difference here is that on a fibre connection the shared portion goes over higher speed trunks which gives you most of that 1Gbps bandwidth. A wireless connection has a limited number of slices in the same band that it can share.

It’s the same issue with too many people on a single WiFi connection.

Musk wants control over the entire internet.

This is the number one reason my friend and I refused to even consider StarLink. We don’t live in the US and do not want all our traffic going through there.