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A project led by the Chinese Academy of Engineering has seen technicians able to transmit 1.2 terabits per second - which is the equivalent of transferring 150 films per second - as part of its backbone connection, beating out the typical 100 gigabits per second rate seen around the world and the specialist 400 gigabits per second seen in some places in the US.

At a press conference, Project leader Wu Jianping from the Chinese Academy of Engineering said: "The superfast line is not only a successful operation, but also gives China the advanced technology to build an even faster mass internet infrastructure."

It had previously been speculated by industry experts that transmitting 1 terabits per second would not be possible until at least 2025 but now an joint effort between Tsinghua University, China Mobile, Huawei Technologies, and Cernet Corporation has seen the development of the infrastructure that spans over 1,860 miles of optical fibre cabling.

Earlier this week, Wu described the technological move as "unprecedented" but hinted that it could reach the mainstream at some point.

He said: "The FITI project is unprecedented across the world. It is open to society and is capable of supporting experimental trials of innovative network structures.”

[www.gmx.com] https://www.gmx.com/technology/11464378-chi...connection.html

Is that why China got excluded from Asia in H@H lol?

[www.gmx.com] https://www.gmx.com/technology/11464378-chi...connection.html

Is that why China got excluded from Asia in H@H lol?

Isn't that their military fiber backbone? Is it for consumers? If its for consumers what speeds will they be able to get?


The US research / military backbone already upgraded to 46 Terabit/s


My country has some of the most expensive internet access prices. I am on one of the better priced plans but its like $65 for 120mbps unlimited a month. Other countries are now getting that for like $10-20


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This video explains the internet access situation in my country.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Nov 20 2023, 03:40

Changed my phone's default browser from Mull to Fennec last night. Something had been essed up ever since Tenboro introduced the end of October EH update.

With Mull, I could still download the image as usual via "Long press on the image > Save Image". But not all the original image (xxxMB .PNG) is displayed directly by the webpage, instead the resampled image (xxxKB .JPG).

The issue only occurred when trying to download the original image through the "Download original" link at the bottom right of the displayed (resampled) image (long press on the link > Download link). For whatever reason, Mull downloaded a HTML file instead.

I then tried opening the link by clicking it directly and opening it in a new tab. The image is loaded again but the browser still ended up saving a HTML file in both instances.

Ipv6 was already disabled via About:Config. So I suspected the reason might be due to the browser's cross site tracking protection. Issue still persisted after turning off Enhanced Tracking Protection & even disabling uBlock Origin.

I proceeded to install a download manager and copied the image's URL into he app and it ended up downloading a file called "bounce_login.php".

Changing to Fennec appears to have solve it. The only issue was the initial download errors during last night, most likely due to EH servers under too much load. Downloads were fine since this morning and with Enhanced Tracking Protection & uBlock Origin both enabled.

Oddly enough, I couldn't reproduce the issue on my laptop's default browser even though the laptop was connected to the phone's hotspot.

Regarding the 5s delay enforced by Google on Youtube, I just figured it affects Newpipe as well, as the app parses the YT mobile site instead of using Google's API. I counted the time it took for video page to load in Newpipe and it is more or less 5s each time. I've noticed the delay for months, but attributed slowdown to my mobile data.

Got a thinkpad T510 up and running rather quickly (with most of my weird configuration changes and scripts transferred).

I still don't think I'll use it much.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 22 2023, 23:46

Nvidia getting rekt in a lawsuit.

They hired a staff member from Valeo to help them get into AI driver assist technology. In a meeting about how they would resolve the clash on a contract for an automotive company and work out a deal to work together the former employee when presenting on the progress that Nvdia had made equaling many of Valeo's capabilities... He accidentally showed valeo's source code and his 'valeo docs' folder which when they then went back and did an audit found he had copied all their source code database on his last day.

Nvidia had lost a previous lawsuit because Valeo were claiming that same person had shared IP and trade secrets. Nvidia had claimed they developed everything independently and from scratch and he had no non-complete clause.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Nov 24 2023, 11:51

Buying 2 big HDDs right before black friday was a dumb idea but well, at least I got extra storage as soon as I could to dump stuff to.

Inflation is a bitch.

The current version of my TV on sale is $1k more than what I paid two years ago.

It has slightly newer tech but that doesn't explain why the price is so much more.

They hired a staff member from Valeo to help them get into AI driver assist technology. In a meeting about how they would resolve the clash on a contract for an automotive company and work out a deal to work together the former employee when presenting on the progress that Nvdia had made equaling many of Valeo's capabilities...

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I cut it down too much but maybe not enough, it flowed on to the following line which was a paragraph before.


In a presentation to Valeo, a former employee showed off stolen Valeo source code as Nvidia's new AI driver assist technology.



edit: Why is cassette still a format that people buy? Yes, you can buy the high quality cassettes but good luck getting the good quality players. With LP at least you can still get good quality players.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Nov 25 2023, 05:36

I cut it down too much but maybe not enough, it flowed on to the following line which was a paragraph before.
In a presentation to Valeo, a former employee showed off stolen Valeo source code as Nvidia's new AI driver assist technology.
edit: Why is cassette still a format that people buy? Yes, you can buy the high quality cassettes but good luck getting the good quality players. With LP at least you can still get good quality players.

You can't get high quality (metal) tapes, last I knew. Not new.

It's hipsters. Just hipsters.

There are people making brand new decks. They aren't Nakamichi dragons, but whaatever.

Wish laserdiscs would get a little love, but the barrier to entry is a lot higher for making those (discs and players) compared to a decent tape deck.

I have one (a cassette deck) that's seen about 360 minutes of play since it was new sitting under my TV. I think I used it once in the last 5 years to copy a commodore VIC-20 program tape. It's a Pioneer Dolby-S deck (CT-W604RS). Was still in the box when I got it.

Tapes are cute and stuff, I guess, but it's nostalgia and the low barrier to entry. The actually good tape formats (reel-to-reel mostly, plus DAT) haven't had the same revival of interest. Also it could maybe be because vinyl records used to be the cheap way to get music used; now that that market's been ruined by collectors and ebay, people are falling back on cassette tapes. God forbid anyone read up on Nyquist theorem and realize they could just be buying CD's.

I have a somewhat distant friend (near the edge of my 'friend group,' not especially close to me, he's not a bad person or anything) who collects cassette tapes. He hasn't explained it to me like that, but that's still what I suspect is going on.

Does that sound reasonable, or do you think it might be something else?

I have a handful of cassettes, but I am not especially fond of the format.

Sold a little Sony tape recorder/TV/radio combo (powered off 6 D cell batteries) at a convention I peddled at last week. The buyer was some old guy, but I got a lot of interest from younger people first.

I really hope he has some fun with it. It's cute. If I wasn't trying to make space I'd have loved to have kept it.

Someone else gave me contact info about a possible Apple //e I could acquire. I really shouldn't, but I'm considering taking them up on the offer. Yet another had an IBM 5150 (original PC).

I hope the joysticks I sold the IIe guy all worked like I thought they did. I know at least a couple do. But the OEM atari ones are so shit.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 25 2023, 07:52

Didn't think carefully when buying my new PC case and it's way too high, almost touching my desk leaving little space to use the front IO. But well new HDDs.

Nvidia getting rekt in a lawsuit.

They hired a staff member from Valeo to help them get into AI driver assist technology. In a meeting about how they would resolve the clash on a contract for an automotive company and work out a deal to work together the former employee when presenting on the progress that Nvdia had made equaling many of Valeo's capabilities... He accidentally showed valeo's source code and his 'valeo docs' folder which when they then went back and did an audit found he had copied all their source code database on his last day.

Nvidia had lost a previous lawsuit because Valeo were claiming that same person had shared IP and trade secrets. Nvidia had claimed they developed everything independently and from scratch and he had no non-complete clause.

Apparently his name is Mohammad Moniruzzaman and he was already convicted back in September.

Though a fine of $15,750 seems rather low for stealing company secrets

Apparently his name is Mohammad Moniruzzaman and he was already convicted back in September.

Though a fine of $15,750 seems rather low for stealing company secrets

That was for an individual sharing their own knowledge which was trade secrets. This was a double down, showing he stole loads of source code and technical documents.

[youtu.be] https://youtu.be/Eq3bUFgEcb4?t=833

This part makes me think of all the ocr mtl shills who think technology can do a good job at manga scanlation. One of my friends, who have never read a single fucking chapter of manga in his entire life, thought a fully automated pipeline for scanlating manga is a groundbreaking idea.

I admire the diversity of products on a shop website:

Can't bother finding the time to figure how/why at some point the price increase by 0.01 (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

I admire the diversity of products on a shop website:

Can't bother finding the time to figure how/why at some point the price increase by 0.01 (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Just looks like a standard fail drop shit ship auto-generated site.

My problem is that google puts dodgy drop shipper sites ahead of proper established e-commerce websites.

As a search engine, google feels so shite lately. Its like they have regressed into Bing.

Drop shippers can go fuck themselves.
Discovered today there's a subreddit for drop shippers to discuss drop shipping on. I guess they feel no shame.

Anyway, I bought two chinesium T12 (Hakko tip compatible) soldering stations today. One for me, one as a birthday gift for someone. They seem to get a fair bit of praise on various places around the 'net, as well as from someone I trust that I've known for years on an IRC channel.

Also managed to find (at long last) who radioshack probably had a deal with for their rosin soldering flux paste. It's this nice, soft consistency, and a dark orange-ish amber color, almost like an iced tea color; also clear like iced tea. Very similar in appearance and feel to a natural pure rosin flux that's been put in a solvent to gel-ify it. Not rock solid wax like a lot of the stuff I see online. Easy to apply or dip stuff in. My trusty old radioshack tub is finally running a little low after all these years, plus I wanted to get some flux that I actually like/trust for my friend to learn to solder with for the first time, instead of candle wax garbage.

Caig RSF-R80-2. Sometimes seems to be "DeoxIt" branded, too. Made in America. RSF-R39-2 also seems like it might be good, but has a different ingredient list than the radioshack stuff I've been using did. On the plus side, it appears to be totally non-acidic (and not need cleaning off), where the radioshack stuff and the R80 needs to be wiped off or dissolved off (very lightly acidic).

Finally got a working PC-9801-86 sound card (YM2608 OPNA sound chip). It sounds great. I can almost tell myself it justified the cost :|

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Dec 6 2023, 10:54

Anyway, I bought two chinesium T12 (Hakko tip compatible) soldering stations today. One for me, one as a birthday gift for someone.

they are honestly completely fine and the tip selection is decent, for anything but the very rediciously big jobs the cartridges are plenty powerful. temperature is as accurate as you either bother to calibrate it or if you get the brand name hakko tips. for niceness theres quite a range of handles, from very cheap to completely fine and even high end feeling (the ones where the tip goes further in the handle)
the only reason I switched to the jbc245 knockoff recently is the specialized tips and unreasonable power, if I didnt have some disposable income and odd specific jobs I ran into I'd still happily be using the same 20 bux t12 station from the past decade

in long overdue thoughts posting, infrared cameras are great fun. picked one up last 11.11 sale for a couple hundred bux. an infiray c200 pro (didnt enjoy the usb phone dongly things)
256x192 resolution which is plenty fine to make out on a component detail level what is getting hot. fast refresh rate and no/little delay which the old ones usually had. also been going around checking my radiators and insulation.
allround really useful toy happy chinesium has gotten to this tech level with their own sensors and other advancement of recent years to push this tech to affordable hobby range.

This post has been edited by cate_chan: Dec 6 2023, 23:31

I really want to switch my AMD based Ryzen 5900X to Intel 14700K but trying to hold back one more generation, maybe Intel will actually surprise with 15th gen.