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New comment by PaulKeeble in "The Future, Made in China"

PaulKeeble — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:11:44 +0000

China's dominion as the worlds super power is going to be quite different to the US, EU and UK. They have a very different culture towards intellectual property, product versioning and quality control.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD"

PaulKeeble — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:08:43 +0000

And if its sold 5 times in the year its 5x the GDP. Of course the value of the painting hasn't changed and their remains only 1.

Amid AI IP Theft Concerns, Microsoft CEO Floats New AI Patent Concept

PaulKeeble — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:14:33 +0000

Article URL: https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/166133/amid-ip-theft-concerns-microsoft-ceo-floats-new-ai-patent-concept

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897378

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New comment by PaulKeeble in "Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19"

PaulKeeble — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:14:01 +0000

Nothing you can order from your doctor yet but plenty of abnormal findings in almost every aspect of the body. As far as I know none of the findings yet is found in every sufferer, a combination can often get to ~95% but its very heterogenous and that has made it very hard to come up with a single test.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19"

PaulKeeble — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:12:07 +0000

Any Long Covid patient can tell you its damaged their nerves, they can feel it. Nerve pain all over and various weird zaps and shakes etc, the nervous system is clearly damaged/being damaged across the entire body.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19"

PaulKeeble — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:10:19 +0000

So far all the trials attempting to do so have failed. Its not that people aren't trying this, it just doesn't work for most of the symptoms.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19"

PaulKeeble — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:08:36 +0000

Post viral fatigue has a limited time frame, you recover from it. Long Covid is a lot more like ME/CFS, looks similar to PVF early on but you don't recover from it and the symptoms often progress and get worse and some people die from it. Its a lifelong severely disabling condition.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Autopsy Study Finds Replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the Hearts of Long Covid"

PaulKeeble — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:52:24 +0000

I am now pretty certain every virus we have ever caught is just smouldering in our body somewhere constantly held in check by the immune system. We seem to just accumulate ever increasing issues until our body can't cope anymore and become symptomatic with damage and then ultimately die. We have had a huge blindspot for the damage viruses are doing to people, I doubt any infection leaves us.

The research from Covid is just finding so much evidence for tissue resident viral infection and prior work on ME/CFS autopsies showed other viruses doing similar in the brain. Catching anything is bad for our health.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma"

PaulKeeble — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:44:38 +0000

Died of Long Covid. Been seeing a growing number of deaths in the Long Covid communities. There are >400 million people with Long Covid and growing in the world, if its lethal its going to be a lot of dead in the coming years.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma"

PaulKeeble — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:42:27 +0000

The Covid vaccination doesn't stop you getting Covid, it just on average reduces the severity of the infection. Covid is still producing multiple waves a year despite the vaccinations. You can still get Long Covid despite vaccination, and you can still die from Covid even if you are vaccinated, thousands do so every week.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Show HN: 92% of US city websites fail ADA accessibility"

PaulKeeble — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:47:45 +0000

Honestly most of the world is inaccessible by design even the new things. Most people just don't think about the disabled at all and if they do its to talk about what they need and not actually to ask them what they need and include them. Ableism is the most prevalent and accepted bigotry in the world. There is also no movement to really fix this in the modern age, if anything its getting worse in a lot of places.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

PaulKeeble — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:35:55 +0000

Very well, IIRC I have measured its capability to route at about 16gbps IIRC although that isn't PPPoE just the usual iperf test, it handles my 1.2gbps without any drama.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

PaulKeeble — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:41:26 +0000

The other devices based on the same filogic chip do have dual 2.5Gbps at least.

You can get a Wifi 7 device and 2x2.5GBps with Wifi 7 support already with the Asus BT8 and a few other devices. Asus's bootloader firmware flasher will take the initial OpenWRT image so its really quite simple to get going.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

PaulKeeble — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:58:56 +0000

They are working on an OpenWRT Two at the moment which will be Wifi 7.

OpenWRT runs on a lot of hardware and its a great way to extend the life of a router past the manufacturers patches as well as gain a lot of capabilities. I wouldn't buy a commercial router that wasn't supported by OpenWRT now.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

PaulKeeble — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:18:49 +0000

Its not like we can sell or even lend the games from Steam that we have, not without breaking the licence terms and hacking around the DRM. Its precisely the same as what Sony is intending to enforce.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

PaulKeeble — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:04:52 +0000

Even private servers doesn't quite solve the issue. Minecraft is an example where you can run the server but it requires clients to login to the microsoft account. I think you can still bypass the check on the server but clients have to be cracked or previously authorised for offline play which only lasts for a certain timeframe. So Microsoft can take away the ability to play minecraft despite the game server binary being available.

Whereas a game like Arma 3 has its own dedicated servers and has no such login requirement so theoretically you could still play that in 50 years time, but that might still depend on Steam DRM.

We have a lot of client side controls right now on DRM and logins which make the dedicated server only part of the problem.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

PaulKeeble — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:58:58 +0000

People still don't own their games with Steam, the main PC platform. I don't think its going under anytime soon and currently its reasonably customer friendly but as we have seen these big tech companies can turn on their customer base at any moment. GOG is about the only way to actually own the games since no DRM is applied and you can download the entire package and keep it and don't require their launcher.

PC already went digital no ownership for most people unfortunately. His argument that it isn't the same doesn't wash, you still can't sell them or lend them to someone else and you have to hack around Steam's DRM, which is a loophole that can be closed at any point.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles"

PaulKeeble — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:54:08 +0000

No manufacturer is testing the batteries life by just charging and discharging them daily for a decade before releasing them. Instead they are using artificial acceleration techniques like getting the battery hot while charging/discharging continuously to simulate a longer lifetime. They can't realistically do anything else to estimate it. But it turns out heat is the big enemy for li-ion batteries and if you can keep them on the cooler side of their range they will last a lot longer.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video] (2012)"

PaulKeeble — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:27:19 +0000

Surveillance, got to track you all across the internet.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "This blog is written in en-GB"

PaulKeeble — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:04:24 +0000

The amount of times that darn keyboard selector appears for no reason in Windows because its once again added en-US as a language, which it then switches to randomly for seemingly no reason and all of a sudden my symbols are all in the wrong places. One day someone at Microsoft is going to look at that bug and fix it....