Posts by jonfr 482 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2010
Today, most people do not have a PC. Some have a laptop and that's their only computer. Most people just have a tablet and a phone or just a phone. Only gamers and people that do not want to use their phone for everything buy PC today. That is a ever shrinking part of the population.
Companies buy PC's on the large scale and that's keeping that PC business alive today. For how long is anyone guess.
There have been more X flares in last 48 hours, not quite as big as the first one so far. I think that humanity luck with solar flares have run out for now. Prepare for no internet for a while. Because while fibre does not care, their terminal do and they might be toast of things go really badly.
Disconnect anything from the grid power of things go badly. To avoid fried electronics.
The right has an obsession with going after the poor and people on benefits. While in reality the largest tax dodgers are the rich people that fund and are members of this political parties. This tax dodgers should all be in jail.
Studies also show that just paying people money with no string attached is beneficent to the people and the society. This expensive monitoring system of the people on benefits provides no profits and only costs. Fraud on benefits is almost none existence because the amounts that people get on benefits is so low that its not worth the work and hassle.
I do think that Starlink should not be emitting anything between 10Mhz to 88Mhz (FM band starts at 87,5Mhz in ITU region 1) and 10Mhz is short wave band for various things. That includes radio transmissions and other things. Starlink should be fined for this radio interference.
The problem, best I can see with UK DAB and DAB+ broadcasts is that there are too many small transmitters. Based on this website that monitors transmitters.
Largest transmitters with DAB+ are running at 10kW. Largest FM transmitters can go up to 100kW (I don't think they go any higher for technical reasons in Europe).
Bandwidth in Mhz for DAB+ seems to be limited to 1.5Mhz and that is not a lot of bandwidth for high quality music in digital format. FM has maximum bandwidth of 270kHz with RDS.
https://www.ukwtv.de/cms/grossbritannien-dab.html (DAB information)
https://www.ukwtv.de/cms/sender-tabelle/sender-tabelle-ukw.html (The FM transmitter table for UK has been removed)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting (FM Radio technical stuff)
Time of FM radio broadcast is probably just ending, like analogue phone in homes and other old technology. Its going to take a while to happen in all countries.
It doesn't need to be that long. Here's a live one in Iceland recording the earthquakes as they happen in Svartsengi volcano earthquakes before and after an eruption. I think it is no more than 10 km long. It is buried into the ground, so I don't know how they are going to solve that problem on the Moon. Unless they do this when manned travel starts again to the Moon. Its complicated and I don't think the technical solution for this is ready for the Moon. It is going to need an upgrade.
https://www.youtube.com/live/bLbxEMEDZGw?si=rpsg4zd6pN9XLu8I
That's going to happen again. Cascading failures are fun to watch spreading. Since it stops everything in a network including the hardware. It didn't happen today, but complexity of those network structures means that one day, this is going to happen and then they might have to rebuild the whole thing from ground up.
This is always fault of the company. They didn't keep their security in order. Getting this in front of a court the do a lot of victim blaming is ridicules, but that is what happens when highly incompetent people run the show. I hope this man wins this case on appeal. Because he was working for them and troubleshooting their software systems. That includes security.
I also promptly expect this company to bankrupt because of incompetence being shown there.
Based on what happened in 1889 to 1890 (1889 to 1895), what was possibly a coronavirus outbreak at the time. This is might be one of the last infection waves, before the covid-19 turns into just normal cold. It might however take a while longer compared to 19th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889%E2%80%931890_pandemic
You have to have VoLTE enabled phone. But not all mobile networks have that enabled. It also use VoWiFi that is based on VoLTE that bridges that holes in coverage for 4G. I don't know how many networks have enabled Vo5G, but that is soon to be the standard for voice for 5G.
Elon Musk could have paid the penalty of 1 billion USD to get out of the deal. As a loser, his ego did not allow him to do this. Because he has to win at every turn, in every case, always with no exceptions.This illusion that he has created along with the fake reality he has created around him is one day going to go crashing down, like all of his stocks and he is going to end up $200 billion USD in debt with shares worth total of $0 USD. This is not a matter if this is going to happen, this is a matter of time. Government contracts are going to dry up in the next 10 years for Elon Musk, those are his only and biggest cash inflow and have allowed him to be richest man* on Earth. *This is only stock market value, its all fake-money that can be gone in a day or two if the market allows for it to happen.
Elon Musk has proved that he's all show and no talent. That can only end with big debts and a lot of lost money when the whole lie collapses. Whenever that is going to happen.
Don't buy Tesla cars, one day, they might just stop working for no reason as the Tesla company goes out of business.
If people are interested, this can be tested by using PCem VM. Current version is 17. You'll have to find the roms for the BIOS for the computers your self, but they are out there on a development website free to download. This allows you to run Windows 3.11. I don't know about network access though. Because dial-up is quite dead today.
Microsoft is moving towards subscriptions only model. From buy once license model that current Windows 10 and Windows 11 have. That's why there's now a requirement for Microsoft account. I do have an Microsoft account for my Windows 10 computer and when I buy new laptop I'll be forced to use Windows 11 (with the same Microsoft account that holds the licenses for Windows that I have). Here's the thing though, I am moving everything important to OpenSuse Linux (rather than Gentoo Linux, since that's a lot of manual set-up I am not going to bother with) and only use Windows 10 Pro for games. I only play old games (while Windows works).
It is clear that in few years time. United States is going to have to invade Afghanistan again because of the Taliban. This crazy religious people are going to increase their harm until they result in wave of new dangerous terrorism around the world. It can only ever end that way. I do hope that there's an internal rebellion against the Taliban, but for now that's not going to happen.
I also hope that the Taliban get blocked for all social media while that format of communication exists (because its going to go extinct in few years time, because the world just does that sometimes).
This is just the far right turning on Elon Musk (a group of people that he loves it seems). This people operate in groups and they often do a lot of ugly infighting because some conspiracy theory goes to the top of the sewage flow in the far right. The people that Elon Musk loves have in part turned against him and that might not be for any particular reason (or he just did something wrong at random and this people go crazy, there's no way to know for sure).
Elon Musk is also entering into SLAPP lawsuits laws if he tries to sue people to stop covering him and his public registered movements on his private jet.
Elon Musk is also using public own ADS-B protocol and there are a lot of trackers out there. I plan on getting my own (or two) in the future.
https://thepointsguy.com/news/how-flight-tracking-works/ (more details on the ADS-B tracking.)
Best I can see Síminn shut off its last PSTN stations in Iceland on 1st November 2022 (it takes them about 1 month to turn off all the stations). I don't think many are going to notice since most people in Iceland have moved to mobile only communication and most people don't have landline phone of any type. There are exceptions in Iceland because of lack of mobile signal but that is changing as VoWiFi is starting to get used in Iceland with the mobile phone companies. Allowing mobile calls in areas without any mobile signal.
That also get people fired according to latest reports. Elon Musk is a person that can't take any criticism and everything he touches goes bad in the end (when all the people that can do stuff leave him). He's just a different version of Donald Trump. Both are equally awful and bad in their nature. Elon Musk just has a better image creation department (for now).
https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1592539948745650176
It is far worse than just being thick. Elon Musk is on the level of incompetence that result in whole countries suffering economic damage and recession in that same process.The question is always when the collapse happen in this type of incompetence. I am sure that at this point, all of Elon Musk companies and wealth start to unravel. It starts slowly and then gains speed until everything is bankrupt that Elon Musk has touched in last few years (when it comes to companies. All of his ex-girlfriends don't want to talk to him, best of my understanding of that situation).
Because technology is all about what is fashionable today. Actual stuff, that actually works is not as this company just proved. For development like this, I don't think that ten years is that long. But they clearly needed some other revenue source then just investment into their development.
Developing new technologies is also really hard and expensive. I am sure this basic for androids (think star trek) is going to get used sometimes in the future.
White dwarfs are around 10 million degrees C hot. They cool slowly. When it turns into a dark dwarf star takes around 100.000 trillion years. That sphere is going to turn into iron sphere in another 100.000.000.000 trillion years. Then it is going to quantum it self out if existence in 100.000.000.000.000 x 100.000.000.000.000 trillion years (this is not a typo, this takes ridiculous amount of time).
No. Thorium is not usable as nuclear fuel. It is possible to change Thorium into uranium-235 and plutonium-239. But that is an expensive energy process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jun/23/thorium-nuclear-uranium (from 2011, but remains valid today.)
No. This is wrong. Nuclear waste is safe and not a problem if handled correctly. Accidents do happen, but they are rare. What you are repeating is propaganda from Greenpeace and other anti-nuclear liars. You are more likely to die fossil fuel pollution from their ash (that is slightly radioactive) and other related pollution from fossil fuel.
You can find all the technical details here.
https://youtu.be/4aUODXeAM-k
It is my guess that from today and for the next few weeks that Twitter is going to get ghosted by a lot of people. This is going to be MySpace type of collapse, with the difference it is not going to be replaced with a new social media. I for sure not going to sign up to anything new. That time has passed.
Anything below Pentium D (2005) should be removed from the Linux kernel. Only takes up space and is not used today best to my knowledge (but the world is a large place and all that, so I might be wrong and not wrong at the same time). Same goes for AMD, anything older than 2005 to 2010 should be removed from the kernel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_processors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_processors
In Iceland there's fibre connection almost everywhere or in the works. What people buy depends. The areas that don't have fibre connection have VDSL connection. Same goes for Denmark, with the addition in areas that don't have fibre connection, there's either cable or VDSL options. Speed on VDSL depends on many factors (phones lines are often bad in Denmark). Then United States doesn't have good internet in most areas as I understand.
I've tried to use RCS. To use RCS I had to register my phone number with Google server and if I did that too many times the registration failed. I had to re-register every time I rebooted my mobile phone and there's a limit on that on the Google servers. This should not how you design a message protocol. Both SMS and MMS have their failure, because of when they where designed but they at least work as expected and do not require me to register my phone number every time I reboot my phone.
New message system is needed, one that works over 4G and 5G and WiFi. RCS is not that message system. I've turned RCS off on my phone.
After having dealing with social media for my website (about earthquakes and volcano activity in Iceland). I've come to conclusion that social media platform of any type is not effective in advertising anything of any type for any reason. Its easier just to get an advertisement in the local paper and use that. Its also more effective anyway for any business to do that then to use internet advertisement on social media.
Social media is the most over-hyped and good stuff turned bad that has existed in modern world so far. The idea is good in theory but it doesn't properly account for human nature and that is going to remain its failure. Time of social media is going to end, because of nature of the human race and how things are possibly going to develop in the future.
Both 4G and 5G* can work on 700Mhz and that is good for rural coverage. Both 2G and 3G are limited to 900Mhz/2100Mhz frequencies and 2G is limited to 900Mhz/1800Mhz.This are the frequencies allowed in Europe.
Both standards are today insecure and easily hacked. That just invites problems.
*4G can also work on 450Mhz and 5G is soon going to be adjusted for that frequency but its not in the standard yet. The problem is that there are no phones on the market that work on 450Mhz frequency. There is some special hardware that can use 4G on 450Mhz.
**4G on 450Mhz is used in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany. There might be more countries that use this standard without me knowing about it.
The main problem with Linux distros is the problem with user space. Its not in any standard and that is a problem across distros. I hope that Linux distros create a standard for use space, but I don't expect that to happen soon. In house standards in a single distro exist but it doesn't work everywhere and that creates problem for the program creators.
There are Enterprise solutions that Schleswig-Holstein can use today, that might not have existed in today's form 10 years ago. I only know of Red Hat Enterprise Linux but others that take care of the user space issue and other problems in normal Linux distros. I think Red Hat also solves the problem with user space problems in common Linux distros.
https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux
What happened in Munich was that Microsoft made a deal offering a 90% discount of their licence and moved their headquarters into the city. Best I can read is that when this happen, the Linux solution that Munich was using was working close to perfectly. I don't think Munich was using an Enterprise Linux solution though.
It is clear that Microsoft is slowly pushing Windows users to subscription model (more locked down operating system). I guess Windows 12 is going to be subscription only. This is also against EU laws. I don't think Microsoft is going to get away with this for a long time. Just few years or 10 to 20 years at most (because slow process of justice in this).
I wonder if I can run the only few games I play on Debian Linux with Wine (32 bit since I am playing mostly old games).
NSA built few for them self. That one in orbit is pointed at Earth and has a resolution about 30cm to 1 meter. How good it is remains a guess work because its classified on the technical specifications.
NSA donated the two remaining to NASA in 2012.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_Office_space_telescope_donation_to_NASA
I have a Samsung television and I had to avoid allowing the Samsung to display ads on my television when I did set it up. I didn't agree to the EULA that would have allowed advertisement. At least I think that is the case, I am located in a market that has few advertisers for most things (Iceland as a country is ignored by most international companies).
On Samsung television the advertisement enabled "feature" can be found under "Terms and Privacy -> Interest-Based Advertisement Service Privacy Notice". It has to be enabled to allow for advertisement to happen. I have it disabled. I also don't allow Samsung to collect information from my television.
I hope from next year that I can go away from streaming and just go back to normal dvd, blu-ray and blu-ray 4K. Since there is no possible way that I can watch everything on streaming services anyway. I just want to finish Star Trek and the Expanse before I make that step. Once that is done there is no reason for my television to be connected to the internet. Software updates can be done with a USB stick.
The river is the border (unless the river changes it self, then the border is on land where the river used to be). Since Russia is a non-EU/EEA/EFTA country the border is as strict as it can be. This is no better in Finland with its border with Russia. The border appears clearly on Google Earth in both countries (Norway and Finland). Getting a good street view of the border with Russia is difficult for that same security reason.
It is clear that everything is a risk to national security in China. But this micro-management of a nation can only end one way. Its rather bloody and ends up in a civil war style war. This purity policy brought in by the current totalitarian dictator and whining loser in China is not going to result in anything good for people of China that currently have to live in this jail that has been constructed around them.
That is called 5GVoice (Vo5G/VoNR) and that standard is not yet ready for use. That means all 5G networks are going to be data only for a while. Currently there is also no support for 5GVoice in any mobile phones on the market that I know of (it might be built in but not enabled).
VoLTE and Vo5G are both build on IPv6 network connections.
Source
https://www.nokia.com/networks/solutions/voice-over-5g-vo5g-core/
https://www.ericsson.com/en/5g-voice
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