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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm sure the message will really hit home at COP28, Dubai.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 30 points 2 years ago

Not a great meme, but not terrible.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Edited my last comment, I don't think that article goes into much detail. It only really covers the objections by GPS device manufacturers against LightSquared, not the technical aspect ie poor filtering by cheap GPS devices.

This article covers LightSquared's claims of poor filtering by GPS devices: https://www.networkworld.com/article/696602/wireless-lightsquared-says-gps-makers-ignored-filtering-rules.html

This article also covers some of it: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/lightsquared-blew-it-and-heres-why/

TL;DR GPS devices cut corners, however because they were established and so endemic across the industry, there was no practical way to fix them all and LightSquared was sent down the toilet.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Pretty sure this is the story, rings true to my memory of the company name starting with "L": https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/04/lightsquared-broadband-a-threat-to-gps/

Although this article doesn't cover how the GPS systems used cheap filtering circuits that didn't adequately filter out adjacent frequencies. This was done purely to save money, because there wasn't anything using the adjacent frequencies. As a result, LightSquared went bankrupt in 2012.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

How is the NSO, which sells weapons grade hacking technology internationally, in any way restricted from selling and using their technology internally in Israel? What urgency does Israel's war with Hamas/Palestine actually create?

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also looks like Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

My nostril generally gets blocked on the side closest to the person who's spreading all the germs.

But I find you can sort it out if you tilt your head back slightly and point your nose up, then tilt to the side away from the blocked nostril. Once the blood starts to even out you can level out your head with both nostrils fairly clear.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 50 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Fucking serves them right, the aviation industry have been buying GPS devices for decades that bleed outside and don't explicitly filter down to their spectrum. There was a satellite internet startup in the US that went through the whole process, bought its spectrum and was ready to launch, then the aviation industry complained and had them shut down because their devices were all shit and "it would be too difficult to change everyone's equipment".

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 52 points 2 years ago

Found the Arch user.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

In real money:

1 US pint = 473ml

1 UK pint = 568ml

Meanwhile the standard metric measure is 500ml. So US would benefit from dropping the pint in favour of metric, while UK drinkers would be understandably reluctant. Unfortunately, most UK bottles are now 500ml, thanks to shrinkflation. Newcastle Brown held out for a while, so did ciders, but these days pint bottles are quite rare.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

It wasn't much of a joke really, just shoehorning in the fact that turkeys sleep in trees lol. So do peacocks. I found out the latter one when I stayed at this hotel that had resident peacocks, in the morning half the cars had peacock poop on them.

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