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New comment by madwolf in "A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination"

madwolf — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:27:47 +0000

yeah, it's probably turtles all the way.

New comment by madwolf in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

madwolf — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:48:53 +0000

Living through all mobile phone history, from non-existant when I was a child to today's smartphones, I would hesitate to use such absolute phrases like "X on the phone is never going to make sense". How many things we're doing on a phone today that we wouldn't dream of 20 years ago? Local models on phones don't make sense today but in 5 years? who knows...

New comment by madwolf in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

madwolf — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:24:53 +0000

If the isp doesn’t go down with the power outage you could probably get a big enough ups to keep the router and voip phone going for at least a couple of hours. Those things don’t use much power

New comment by madwolf in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

madwolf — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:22:04 +0000

Bad comparison. Lambos are regularly plowing fields and they're quite good at it. https://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/en-eu/

New comment by madwolf in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

madwolf — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 07:47:26 +0000

Did the new Leaf get dumber? I have an old 2019 model and it’s connected. In the mobile app I see its location, turn on AC etc.

New comment by madwolf in "European Alternatives"

madwolf — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:23:23 +0000

What are global alternatives? Every company is connected to some country, there are no global alternatives. I live in EU and want to use EU services mainly because I want this part of the world to prosper. I want to leave my money and incentivise innovation in this part of the world because this is where I live and I want a better life here for me and my kids. And alternatives are always good, especially that they’re not closed. People in the US can use services from EU companies as well :) why not?

New comment by madwolf in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

madwolf — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:37:52 +0000

Not calling other software engineers 'losers' is not about political correctness. They're "losers" because they take their product on a path you don't like? Come on. Linus can be emotional in his posts because Linux is his "child".

New comment by madwolf in "Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip"

madwolf — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:38:41 +0000

The same way they're at version 26 of iOS and MacOS

New comment by madwolf in "IBM Intellistation 185 AIX workstation (2016)"

madwolf — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 08:53:15 +0000

Yes and no. Performancewise, the iconic Ferrari Testarossa from 80s/90s does 0-62mph in 5.8sec. That's in the ballpark of today's family SUV EV, like the Tesla Model Y (standard version, 'Performance' does 3.3sec) or Hyundai Ioniq 5 (again standard version, performance 'N' does 3.4sec).

But I'm sure the "fun factor" in a Ferrari is much greater and of course there's a nostalgia factor as well... it was "THE" supercar when I was a kid. I would love to drive one today and it would be much cooler than a Tesla Y or Ioniq 5 :-)

New comment by madwolf in "Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?"

madwolf — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:42:37 +0000

and perhaps you've never used a good motorized screwdriver with torque control.

New comment by madwolf in "IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes"

madwolf — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:39:20 +0000

Yes, that's true. I think Matter doesn't support yet many of additional configuration stuff. Hopefully that will change as the technology matures. As I use it with HomeKit as well I can do some user management through Apple Home. However, full config with all options only through BT and Aqara app, as you say. At least for now.

New comment by madwolf in "IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes"

madwolf — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:36:12 +0000

You just need a Thread border router and Matter devices connect to your HA without problems. I use Apple TV as a border router.

New comment by madwolf in "IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes"

madwolf — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:34:48 +0000

What stops you from adding a Thread border router and adding new Matter devices to Home Assistant? It works.

New comment by madwolf in "IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes"

madwolf — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:32:29 +0000

I mean... I have an Aqara Matter over Thread smart lock that connects via AppleTV (which is a Thread border router) to Home Assistant. And I can control the lock both with HA and Apple HomeKit. And this whole thing works flawlessly. Aqara, Apple, open source HA. Never thought this would be so smooth.

I think the whole point of Matter is that the devices are manufacturer independent and you can use any device with any hub.

New comment by madwolf in "IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes"

madwolf — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:41:20 +0000

What? You can buy a very cheap ESP32 with Thread and easily build your own device with Matter/Thread and it will work. Doesn't seem that closed. There is OpenThread that is an open source implementation of Thread. Home Assistant is compatible with Matter over Thread devices... What's closed about this?

New comment by madwolf in "56k modems relied on digital trunk lines"

madwolf — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:59:49 +0000

Probably depends on the radio station and area but I work in one and we're actually using something much higher quality for remote radio, for example: https://www.prodys.net/portable-codecs-audio/quantum-lite-2/

If course it has to be pre-planned, someone needs to have the hardware with them. So sometimes there's a spontaneous connection over normal mobile phone. That's something that everyone has with them at all times.

New comment by madwolf in "5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows"

madwolf — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:34:09 +0000

A decent quality stream is not 256 kilobytes per second (1/4 megabyte), as you write. You probably meant 256kilobits, which is only 32 kilobytes. For speech that’s VERY high quality. Teams actually uses either G.722 or SILK codec, which is just 40kbit/s. That’s 5 kilobytes per second.

New comment by madwolf in "Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'"

madwolf — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 07:46:13 +0000

I think he implied AI generated porn. Perhaps also other kind of images that are at odds with morality and/or the law. I'm not sure but probably Samsung phones don't let you do that.

New comment by madwolf in "Fun facts about SQLite"

madwolf — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 07:03:50 +0000

The fact that it’s a different word makes it very different situation. It’s not the capital letter that signals this. It’s the context. Polish as a verb and Polish as a noun won’t be mistaken in a sentence. In “Polish my boots, please” we know it’s a verb, even though it starts with a capital letter. The capital letter does not ever signal meaning. That’s because a language is primarily spoken and there are no capital letters there.