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FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies

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1: Starlink

2: All providers don’t have to upgrade all of their infrastructure and can sell a 50Mbps link as fast. Backhaul can be much smaller and they can over-sell 50Mbps to a lot more people in a neighborhood than 1000Mbps.

3: All that core backhaul can be reserved for flock camera cellular feeds and AI datacenter traffic without having to spend on further upgrades.

A general regression, brought to you by the Regressive party.

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Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US

That phone claiming US/western hemisphere support is laughable.

It supports T-Mobile native bands, but without more extensive band support, domestic roaming will not be the best. (Some LTEiRA markets T-Mobile can currently roam on Verizon thanks to the USCC acquisition, for example. No band 13, no go.)

I'd not really claim it supports AT&T either. It's missing band 14, 29, 30, 46, 48, n260, n261. It's also not on AT&T's list of supported phones: https://www.att.com/scmsassets/images/support/pdf/Devices-Working-on-ATT-Network.pdf

14 is basically the only way to get signal in markets where AT&T doesn't have 5 or 12 licenses, like 2/3 of Nebraska.

n260/n261 are big at venues, airports, etc. The lack of those mmWave bands will affect coverage in high-density locations on all three carriers.

Even if it did support Verizon, without band 13 in the modem, Verizon's low-band nationwide band, it'd be a mostly-brick.

All three carriers require some kind of certification to be allowed on carrier networks (which alone should be illegal as they do it as a tactic to control the phone market.) Not just Verizon. (Verizon, at least, has a web site of certified devices: https://opendevelopment.verizonwireless.com/device-showcase and it's quite broad.)

Ironically, it will probably work with Verizon, even the BlackBerry Key2 does without certification. It just falls back to a very basic profile for flip phones. They don't tend to actively block phones like AT&T does.

Basically, it's a T-Mobile-on-network-only phone. Things are going greeeeeat over at that carrier right now with the tens of thousands of layoffs and forcing customer plan changes even on grandfathered plans.

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The slopification of recruitment

Interviews right now in software:

  • Apply to job
  • 1.5 months later receive email to take an AI-"proctored" code interview where you have to show your ID, share screen, cam, mic like some Orwellian njghtmare
  • Maybe get a soft-interview with employees where they are just asking you about local weather while seemingly personable, but actually just trying to find out if you live where you say you live
  • Possible technical interview with humans where it's "pair programming" but actually just a human-proctored coding puzzle irrelevant to the job description and the "interviewer" is looking at another monitor surfing reddit
  • Contemplate if homelessness isn't that bad versus all this bullshit
  • Maybe retail? Construction? Farming?
  • Work at CostCo?

All to get a job to be a condom between Claude and source control as that other recent lemmy post shared.

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No real output. Lots of layoffs though

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Tokens are an AI context of units of text. Could be a character or a word. Why use the term tokens instead of words? Who knows. Maybe because some units aren’t words? The tech industry delights in creating stupid terms for things that already had terms.