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  • FCC will probably restore Net Neutrality on April 25

    clexman said:
    Can someone tell me who's been harmed over the last 6+ years without net neutrality?

    Interesting that they would use the pandemic as an example of why we need net neutrality. It was a time without the law and everyone's internet was just fine.
    Service providers throttling services like Netflix or P2P not something you ran into?
    Many VPNs advertise this exact thing as a workaround - if the traffic is encrypted, then the ISP can't detect it to throttle/block.
    Many states (around 18) also passed their own laws after the federal ones were removed.

    Just because you are ignorant of actual issues, doesn't mean it isn't happening.

    williamlondonVictorMortimer
  • Apple & ARM's iPhone & Mac chip partnership will continue for decades

    dk49 said:
    Apple will have to switch to RISC before it becomes mainstream if it has to retain it's leadership in CPUs. And that's likely to happen before "decades". 
    ARM is RISC - Apple Silicon (A series and the M series) are licensed ARM based designs... so they are RISC.
    spock1234chiawilliamlondonwatto_cobrajony0
  • Infiray P2 Pro thermal camera review: See infrared with your iPhone

    HBCan said:
    Quality products like these have been around for years for iOS (Lightning) and Android devices.  Made in the USA and good, easy to use apps.
    https://www.thermal.com/compact-series.html
    It was only a matter of time before they were copied...

    I've used the Seek before with iPhones, works well. (This was several years ago - they were a fair bit cheaper than the FLIR models at the time)
    watto_cobra
  • Reddit got hacked, and that's not even the most ludicrous news about it today

    badmonk said:
    Does anyone know if this change at Reddit has occurred because AI LLMs have mined Reddit for conversational language free of charge?  I am assuming they use the APIs to do this and Reddit wants a piece of the action?

    Just asking.
    Some have claimed that - but most of the LLM's just used HTML scraping to pull data from everywhere - much more general grabbing of data from much of the internet than having to figure out APIs for many different sites.  The API's are more for Reddit specific Apps or Bots.
    williamlondon
  • iOS 17 is getting some giant new accessibility features

    These are some nice additions - I know several people with low-vision that will like the larger icons and larger text for sure.
    lolliverwatto_cobra