I have a cheap noname chinese switch with 2x10gbit ports and 4x2.5 Gbps ports, so I have the 10 Gbit ports to the internet and my computer, and use a 2.5 gbps port for my NAS, everything else is 1 gbit

This is why I’m still using a Synology ¯\(ツ)/¯

I can install all the fun stuff I want in Docker, but for the core OS services, it’s outsourced to Synology to maintain for me

(or even Ethernet)

Technically, those 100+ Gbps fiber LAN/WAN connections used in data centers are also Ethernet, just not twisted pair.

That said recently I was in a retail store and saw “Cat8” cables for sale that advertised support for 40 Gbps copper ethernet! I wonder if any hardware to support that will ever be released. It is a real standard, approved way back in 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Gigabit_Ethernet#40GBASE-T

I have symmetrical 10 Gbps at home ($30/mo) and I’ll agree. When it’s nice when you have big updates, for most households 1 Gbps is going to be just fine. As you say, the vast majority of users are bottlenecked by Wi-Fi.

The bigger crime are all the asymmetrical connections that people on technologies like Cable TV networks have, where you get 1-2 Gbps down but only something tiny like 50 Mbps up. This results in crappy video calls, makes off-site/remote backups unfeasible, means you can’t host anything at home, etc.

They’re probably not building out 50 Gbps to the rice farmers

Most residential fiber globally currently is GPON with a 1-2 Gbps shared line using passive optical splitters, split up to 32 ways. Raising that shared line to 50 Gbps is a great upgrade.

I guess technically, yes

I’m not a fan of victim blaming but who the heck thought it was a good idea to use Oracle to begin with??!??

It’s for running AI on the GPU. You need a really expensive PC GPU to get more than like 16 GB of RAM or whatever, so the bottleneck for large AI models is swapping in and out data from system RAM over PCIe.

The Mac has an SoE with unified memory, where the GPU can access all 192 GB at full speed, which is perfect for AI workloads where you need the GPU to access all the RAM. There’s always a tradeoff where the PC GPUs have faster processors (since they have a way bigger power budget), but the Mac GPU has faster memory access, so it’s not always a slam-dunk which is better.

APUs/Integrated GPUs on PCs also have unified memory but they always targeted the low end so aren’t as useful.

“Oooh it’s December, time to raise taxes to 20%. Ok January again, lowering taxes to 0%. The people love me!”

APFS still supports resource forks just fine - I can unstuff a 1990’s Mac application in Sequoia on a Apple Silicon Mac, copy it to my Synology NAS over SMB, and then access that NAS from a MacOS 9 Mac using AFP and it launches just fine.

The Finder just doesn’t use most of it so that it gets preserved in file copies and zip files and such.

He’s explicitly said he wants to make “X” the China-WeChat-style “super app” of the west that you need to have installed to do anything and everything, and that includes payments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-app

This is so Elon Musk can send out “morale boost” emails about working very hardcore.

The old internet, where the worst crime you could do was hot-link an image, and the worst punishment there was was having it replaced with goatse

Trump can’t change the law, he can only pinky swear that he won’t enforce it.

Would you trust Trump’s promise to the tune of $5000/download fines?

😎10Gbit🇯🇵

ChatGPT (and presumably the there chat LLMs) is way way better at this than DeepL or Google Translate, because you can give it context before. Like “A is a x and B is a Y, when A says z, what does that mean”

As recent as the 90’s it also used to be left-wing to oppose immigration, since it was seen as a way for the right to devalue labor and lower wages.

A lot has changed.

Originally calling everyone old a “Boomer” was a reaction to older people calling everyone who was young “Millennials” even when millennials were now in their late 30’s

They weren’t even planning to create a fork.

• Matt said his company was going to all but stop contributing to WordPress for now out of spite against WPEngine https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-sponsored-contributions-to-wordpress/

• These people said “OK we’ll take responsibility for the next release within the current WordPress organization framework so that work can continue”

• Matt said nuh-nuh, no you aren’t https://wordpress.org/news/2025/01/jkpress/

Basically Matt interpreted their “we’re going to take over work within Wordpress since Matt abandoned it” as “we’re taking over Wordpress from Matt” and is telling them through some tortured rhetoric “you aren’t Wordpress, I’m Wordpress, you go do it in a fork instead”