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by Nextgrid 1y ago
ISPs happily collaborate with and put speed test servers in privileged locations on their network so you will get higher speeds there even if the actual peering to the outside world is much slower.
782.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
It has nothing to do with WiFi even; when running a test you need a server that emits the test data - this could be a standard HTTP server on the internet (in case of public speed tests) or a binary like iperf that synthesizes the test data
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
If that router has a 1Gbit port it’s physically impossible and likely a measurement artifact. Actual speed on a 1Gbit port is something like 940Mbps according to experience (I believe the theoretical max there is 970).
784.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Optimizing for top speeds is the wrong way of looking at this. Even the shittiest consumer WiFi will generally give a satisfactory speed test result with decent speeds, despite being completely unusable for anything real-time like video con
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Counterpoint: this just means UPS will stop being an option for high-resale-value items (like Apple products). The reason you pay people handling high-value goods well is to reduce the likelihood they run away with said goods. Otherwise you
786.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Which are absolutely shit because your data exits out on the other side of the world with 150ms extra latency. Getting an (e?)SIM from a local carrier is always better and often cheaper too.
787.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Western companies have the exact same problem though; I've dealt with plenty of incompetent people there too because the organization does not reward technical excellence and quality, so it is completely pragmatic for employees to focu
788.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Pay should reward doing something well vs merely doing something. Of course, this would generally mean you need to pay more than the competitor which will happily pay for merely doing something. So yes it is about pay.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Ideally these engines should be deployed near the NIMBY’s houses so that they can appreciate the symphony and aroma they produce. If it’s a problem, offer them the possibility to bid a certain amount (either in terms of current money or fut
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
But I don’t think an occasional user being sloppy would be grounds for a lawsuit. So I suspect a scraper did indeed go haywire and downloaded porn en-masse. Whether they trained on it is another matter. I suspect that due to the prevalence
791.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
The key is to make all the data public so there is no concept of “specialized access” and then you’re golden.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
I think there’s a difference between “indie dev” aka either an experienced SWE trying it or some really motivated person with an established identity, credit card & income stream and a kid/teenager tinkering around. In a “free fo
793.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Employees shouldn’t be using the corporate network to view porn. Everyone nowadays (especially Meta employees) has smartphones with personal hotspot capability. Just use that if you really need access to such content in the office. In fact
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Couldn’t this be explained by natural growth of the amount of cloud resources/data under management? The more you have, the faster the backlog grows in case of an outage, so you need longer to process it all once the system comes back
795.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
If you average it out over the last decade do we really have more outages now than before? Any complex system with lots of moving parts is bound to fail every so often.
796.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you actually need out of a VoIP/SMS provider beyond "send and receive SIP" and "send and receive SMS"? I'll give you that SIP is quite complex to deal with (aka the existing tooling ar
797.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
I think it originated on Reddit and it's since been parroted here in the comments on basically every smart TV thread but I have yet to see actual evidence. It seems like a trivial theory to test - disconnect from your wifi or change it
798.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
This nonsense keeps getting repeated over and over again for years now and I have yet to find a single documented case of it happening. You'd think that with all the attention, someone would've actually documented it by now. Enoug
799.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
Unlike conventional businesses where a good or "binary" service (it works or not) is sold, advertising is a much more nebulous good whose efficiency can't be accurately measured. This means there are tons of inefficiencies wh
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> who worked hard to make windows phone die You mean Microsoft? No backwards-compatibility with Windows Mobile to begin with (so companies can't reuse their existing investment into line-of-business apps on actually nice modern de
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
With bare-metal machines you can go very far before needing to scale beyond one machine.
802.
by Nextgrid 1y ago
You can call 911 outside of peak hours/major incidents and just tell them it’s a test. It’s fine if you don’t abuse it.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Don’t worry, with the latest Liquid (gl?)ass release, Apple is also catching up in terms of shittiness.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> The designers also seem stuck under an assumption the user is operating in an act-look feedback loop Remember that most of the technology industry today is primarily an ad delivery platform - either current one (aka there are ads there
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Companies that employ undocumented workers at scale have significant political power and deporting them en-masse would shock many industries, so this won’t happen. The recent ICE shenanigans (which don’t get me wrong - are awful and badly e
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
It’s both interesting to see all the creative ways people find to exploit LLM-based systems, but also disappointing that to this day designers of these systems don’t want to accept that LLMs are inherently vulnerable to prompt injection and
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Absolutely agreed. But there’s a huge “legal” scam industry around it (essentially you are converting universal, fungible currency into scrip with an expiration date and strings attached), on top of which the illegal scam industry builds on
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> if Google receives a lot of "I was scammed into this" from whoever bought the giftcard Google doesn't sell the cards directly - at least not the ones purchased at the supermarket and used for scamming. There's a scu
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> Ads in Maps There goes the only reason to use Apple Maps.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Shared hosting companies are still exposing cPanel/WHMCS to the outside world. You don't need FTP passwords to pwn this kind of crap.

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