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It's a padlock with a code. The manufacturer makes the padlock with a specially made pin, so you can lock your front gate, and feel secure.

eMudhra sent you a padlock that had the code "4815" promising no one has ever used it or would be able to guess it, but all anyone really needed to try to get in is set the first number to "4" and ignore the rest.

It's not entirely accurate, but its accurate enough for them to get.


Oh this is incredible.. HaLow has been one of my favorite new wireless tech implementations, and I feel almost like a preacher with how much I have been pushing the gospel to the people around me for the last ~2 years. being introduced into the kernel should really help integration and usage. I am just hoping chips start being produced by more than one (?) company eventually for more market capture. Any thoughts on that front?

I'm not the expert in this area, but the current state of play AFAIK in terms of working chips is:

- Morse Micro - Newracom - Taixin are mostly not compliant (but cheap) - Amazon have a proprietary not quite compatible HaLow in their Blink cameras

There's varying levels of interest in WFA compliance/interop. Morse and Newracom are the most interoperable, but even then there are gotchas.

The Morse ones, are, of course, the best ;)

Aside from upstreaming, one of the other things we're chasing is a better regulatory environment. In particular, the EU S1G bands are very tightly constrained.


Can you elaborate a bit on the use cases of HaLow?

It's low-energy like Bluetooth/Zwave/Zigbee, long range like any other 900Mhz Band protocol (LoRA does 10km or so in normal conditions, can go even further), but for when you need higher datarates. According to the Wikipedia chart it can max out at ~300 Mbps depending on modulation, though I don't know enough to speak to range/bandwidth tradeoffs, though I imagine there are.

Honestly seems pretty interesting. I had a lot of fun setting up a 4G carrier for my home so I can get decent speeds out on my back porch (5GHz can't cut through my ancient balloon frame walls/door, and 2.4GHz is a congested soup around me, useless), I wonder if I can wrangle some hardware together and start experimenting with this. Could be nice to get some remote SDR workloads off of 2.4GHz while still getting WPA3 encryption.


Using a competitors hammer to make your own hammer is a very valid approach. That's just "free-market" capitalism for you.


Screen size would have always been big, absent production costs and marketing price. Over time display tech just got better and cheaper to finally do it.


Echo chamber strikes again, because I see none of that, just love for knowledge, history, and science.


Try posting anything even mildly positive about AI on Bluesky and you’ll experience instant hate.


Well that's just what getting out of the AI echo chamber feels like.


Try saying anything positive about AI at the grocery store and you'll have the same experience.


Kind of shocked there's not any mention about tumblr in the article, there is an entire community of people who adore powerlines, get tattoos, talk about their aesthetic values, it's an entire subculture that I love following.


To be fair, Alibaba IS a tech giant, one of the biggest in fact.

They are just giving sleepless nights to the western tech giants.


I'm hearing Tencent, Zhipu and Baidu shaking from here. It's fair to assume BATX / 6 Tigers don't sleep very well either.


Interesting, I found the Rust code _far_ more readable.


I don't really get an AI smell on this, in fact I see multiple parts that an AI would have corrected - grammatical issues, personal writing quirks, etc.

Writing similar to this: is quite a normal way of writing for technical articles - especially when you are trying to make the point clear and well organized.


"A major version bump is not something we do lightly, and it is not just ceremony"

For me, this sentence pops out like a sore thumb


Really looking forward to that new Async system, especially when reading/querying against thousands of parquet files. This is going to monumentally affect me and my work - I have to query against millions of massive parquet files and the speed has already been rather wonderful, but if those metrics are to be even 100% in range, this is going to make life so much better.

DuckDB is seriously an incredible utility.


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