Hacker News: gormandizer

New comment by gormandizer in "Starlink to take over $2.4B contract to overhaul air traffic control comms"

gormandizer — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:03:32 +0000

Yeah, unfortunately the list of federal judges skews heavily towards team Trump.

New comment by gormandizer in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

gormandizer — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:58:12 +0000

But Apple is not giving the UK Government anything they didn't already have. Now iCloud encryption will function in the UK just as it has for years (decades?) before the inception of ADP.

New comment by gormandizer in "US Government makes $42M bet on open cell networks: Open RAN dream stays alive"

gormandizer — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 02:29:48 +0000

Verizon shutdown CDMA on December 31 2022.

New comment by gormandizer in "Beeper Mini is back"

gormandizer — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:54:10 +0000

Beeper on main(ish)stream media.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2023/12/11/apple-shutters-new-app...

New comment by gormandizer in "One Year into Musk, X Monthly Users Are Down 15% and Ad Revenue Has Slumped 54%"

gormandizer — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 17:48:42 +0000

Would be nice if an unofficial, unambiguous term caught on, 'twitteX' or 'twiXer' or ???.

New comment by gormandizer in "Building a Personal VoIP System"

gormandizer — Sat, 27 May 2023 18:12:39 +0000

TRIP/ITAD is/was a framework that I believe was designed to facilitate this. Unfortunately it never took off. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2871

New comment by gormandizer in "Thinking about our passive exposure to IPv6 issues"

gormandizer — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 21:13:01 +0000

> T-Mobile and Verizon both use CGNAT

FWIW Verizon FWA does NOT use CGNAT for IPv4.

New comment by gormandizer in "iMessage on Android Wait List"

gormandizer — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 20:08:14 +0000

I was hoping to see some discussion from the HN community too. After reading [0] I'm not in any hurry to be an early adopter. Sunbird does seem encouraging however and will be following their progress.

[0] https://www.droid-life.com/2022/12/02/sunbird-imessage-andro...

New comment by gormandizer in "IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system"

gormandizer — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:53:02 +0000

"Congress should wear jackets like NASCAR drivers so we can know who bought them."

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/north_...

New comment by gormandizer in "Still-active phreak numbers, all safe and free"

gormandizer — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 21:35:00 +0000

In addition to the USNO master clock there are also

  WWV Colorado: 303-499-7111
  WWV Hawaii:   808-335-4363

New comment by gormandizer in "U.S. FAA clears 45% of commercial plane fleet after 5G deployed"

gormandizer — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 04:54:50 +0000

C-Band in the US is rolling out in 2 phases, the first uses spectrum from 3.7 to 3.8 GHz. The second - in roughly two years - adds the remaining 3.8 to 3.98 GHz. So for the first two years the spectrum used by C-Band 5G in the US is essentially the same as in most of the rest of the world.

https://www.commscope.com/blog/2021/maximizing-c-band-deploy...

New comment by gormandizer in "FAA Shows ‘Sample NOTAMs’ for Possible 5G Restrictions"

gormandizer — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 18:14:34 +0000

In my opinion this is required reading: https://wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/what-the...

New comment by gormandizer in "What the EFF, FAA? My Insanely Long Field Guide to the FAA/FCC 5G C-Band Fight"

gormandizer — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 17:31:38 +0000

This, in my opinion is an excellent text detailing how we arrived at the FAA/FCC C-Band face off. I believe it also answers many of the questions raised in this thread: "Boeing, Airbus executives urge delay in U.S. 5G wireless deployment" [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29642222

What the EFF, FAA? My Insanely Long Field Guide to the FAA/FCC 5G C-Band Fight

gormandizer — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 17:31:37 +0000

Article URL: https://wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/what-the-eff-faa-my-insanely-long-field-guide-to-the-faa-fcc-5g-c-band-fight/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29652421

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by gormandizer in "Boeing, Airbus executives urge delay in U.S. 5G wireless deployment"

gormandizer — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:32:03 +0000

The initial deployment of C-Band in the US is from 3.7 to 3.8 GHz leaving a nearly 400 MHz guard band. Anything above 3.8 GHz won't be deployed for nearly two years, after the incumbent satellite operators clear the spectrum.

New comment by gormandizer in "Boeing, Airbus executives urge delay in U.S. 5G wireless deployment"

gormandizer — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:09:43 +0000

Absolutely zero weasel wording. The initial deployment of C-Band in the US is 100 MHz of spectrum from 3.7 to 3.8 GHz. The remainder of the auctioned C-Band from 3.8 to 3.98 cannot be deployed until the incumbent satellite operators clear the band on or before December 2023. For 2 years there will be a 400MHz guard band.

New comment by gormandizer in "Boeing, Airbus executives urge delay in U.S. 5G wireless deployment"

gormandizer — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 01:02:17 +0000

Nearly 40 countries have already adopted rules and deployed hundreds of thousands of 5G base stations in the C-Band at similar frequencies and similar power levels—and in some instances, at closer proximity to aviation operations—than 5G will be in the U.S. None of these countries has reported any harmful interference with aviation equipment from these commercial deployments, as the Federal Aviation Administration recently confirmed.[0]

[0] https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1103192305940/211103%20CTIA%20E...

Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS

gormandizer — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:32:45 +0000

Article URL: https://therecord.media/google-collects-20-times-more-telemetry-from-android-devices-than-apple-from-ios/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261

Points: 816

# Comments: 442

New comment by gormandizer in "Living without a SIM card"

gormandizer — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 16:16:37 +0000

I'm inclined to argue that ditching a SIM card in favor of Google voice is simply trading one form of "Surveillance Capitalism" for another.

New comment by gormandizer in "FCC approves T-Mobile and Sprint merger"

gormandizer — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:29:37 +0000

Personally I typically don't buy anything based solely on price. For me I could save ~$3/mo on tmo, however after a month with tmo I found VZ coverage is well worth $3 more.