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  • Wouldn't want unmoderated* information and opinions appearing in Microslop search results now would you?

    *unmoderated by Big Tech Fascist AI Filters

  • The system was reverse-engineered almost as soon as it was released. You can do the reverse of what OP is asking using OpenHaystack (track a non-Apple device using Apple's Find My Network).

  • At the least, you could access Find My through the iCloud website, so you don't need an Apple device to use the tracking interface.

  • We have thousands of years of works of philosophy discussing these exact ideas, but I would guess that some scientists don't focus too much on the humanities in their education.

  • No new yacht for Gabe this year :(

  • And it definitely sank to the bottom of the ocean with the ship despite the fact that the crew were arrested. Do they think we’re stupid?

  • speech-dispatcher on linux now supports piper which is a pretty good modern TTS engine.

  • Did you write this comment yourself?

  • 07/08/2025

  • Boy, am I glad that I started moving all of my digital services away from Big Tech a year ago.

  • Proprietary software will always end up this way. The only sustainable software ecosystems are FOSS.

  • Well it's a couple of things.

    First off, a wireless transmission speed of 120Gbps sounds really impressive but remember from the Shannon-Hartley theorem that the maximum channel capacity is just a function of bandwidth and SNR. This means that you can get an arbitrarily high transmission speed by increasing bandwidth to an obscene amount and/or by increasing SNR (by transmitting at an obscenely high transmission power).

    In the paper they say that the transmit power was 15 dBm which is a normal transmit power for WiFi, so it's the 40GHz bandwidth that's doing the heavy lifting in allowing that data rate.

    The second thing is that WiFi 6 (for example) uses 1.2 GHz of bandwidth in the 6GHz range, divided into seven non-overlapping 160MHz channels. WiFi 5 uses about nine 80MHz channels in the 5GHz range, and so on. So if you want to use the technology demonstrated in the paper for WiFi (as the headline of the article is suggesting) then you'd need a bunch of 40GHz channels in the higher ~200-300 GHz range which would be in the very high microwave range, bordering on far infra-red!

    If you want to imagine how useful that would be, just think about how useful your infra-red TV remote is. You would only be able to do line-of-sight point-to-point links at that frequency.

    IR point-to-point links already exist, and the silicon they invented for this paper is impressive, but the hype around it being a possible future WiFi standard doesn't really hold up to basic inspection.

  • Wow I didn’t think my list would take effect so quickly!

  • Every day, someone in a position of power tries ChatGPT for the first time and goes "Holy shit! The computer is actually talking to me! This is the biggest thing since the invention of the telegraph!"

    Then they start writing memos and press releases without actually spending the other 60 minutes using it that it takes the rest of us to realize "oh it's actually just full of shit."

  • Another company to add to the list.