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The man who audited Trump's social-media company misspelled his own name 14 different ways

Ben F Borgers, the founder and managing partner of the accounting firm BF Borgers, spelled his name 14 different ways in regulatory filings

Either the title or the body is wrong. If he misspelled his name in 14 different ways he would have spelled it 15 times in total.

Any day a monarch dies is a good day.

Pi-hole is nice for devices that you don't fully control. But it's not enough, due to the fundamental limitations of DNS based blocking. If the ads and the content are hosted on the same domain, it can't do anything.

Netanyahu is one of the focal points of those protests, his opinion on the protests is hardly interesting.

I thought this was standard forgetfulness

AV1 is based on VP9. Google made VP9 and it's open source and royalty free.

Google just joined the Alliance for Open Media and gave their VP9 as a starter for AV1 instead of making some other successor called VP10 or something on their own.

During development of AV1 Google contributed a lot to libaom, the reference implementation in C++, but since this codebase grew together with the codec it is not the most clean design. Also the reference implementation benefits from being clear more than being fast.

Therefore, instead, these days the later projects rav1e (encoder in rust, started by Xiph Foundation) and dav1d (decoder in C, started by the VideoLAN non-profit) are the fastest, because they started from a green field approach when the wire-format for AV1 was mostly fixed and they focused on speed.

I think overall Google's stance on the Alliance for Open Media makes sense. As part of the new media streaming techno bubble they (as well as Amazon, Facebook, even Microsoft) have an interest in getting an interoperable royalty free codec into the market, and spread it as far as possible, to avoid the rent seeking behaviour of the old guard, Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) from Hollywood and similar groups. For every device that wants support for H265 the OEM has to pay a license of around 1 dollar currently.

But system32 contains the NT kernel as well, so that's worse. Uninstalling your init system on a Linux distro still leaves you with single user mode. You could probably reinstall an init system from there.

He uninstalled systemd, now his computer is not doing systemd things anymore by his retelling. Seems like it worked fine. Yet he asks for a solution of a problem. Maybe he needs to state the problem.

Disaggregated compute might be able to leverage this in the data center.

I don't think people would fuck with amplifiers in a DC environment. Just using more fiber would be so much cheaper and easier to maintain. At least I haven't heard of any current Datacenters even using conventional DWDM in the C-band.

At best Google was using Bidir Optics, which I suppose is a minimal form of wavelength division multiplexing.

over 90 channels of 400G each

You mean with 50 GHz channels in the C-band? That would put you at something like 42 Gbaud/s with DP-QAM64 modulation, it probably works but your reach is going to be pretty shitty because your OSNR requirements will be high, so you can't amplify often. I would think that 58 channels at 75 GHz or even 44 channels at 100 GHz are the more likely deployment scenarios.

On the other hand we aren't struggling for spectrum yet, so I haven't really had to make that call yet.

The zero dispersion wavelength of G.652.D fiber is between 1302 nm and 1322 nm, in the O-band.

Dispersion pretty much linearly increases as you move away from its zero dispersion wavelength.

Typical current DWDM systems operate in the range of 1528.38 nm to 1563.86 nm, in the C-band.

Group dispersion in the E-band and S-band is lower than at current DWDM wavelengths, because these bands sit between the O-band and the C-band.

1988 TAT-8 already went into productive use as the first transatlantic fiber optic connection. So the lab work must have happened in the 80's already.