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New comment by vlan0 in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

vlan0 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:32:51 +0000

Likely not a bad way to clean money.

New comment by vlan0 in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

vlan0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:04:01 +0000

True for devices under your control. But think venues with large BYOD counts. Add in that all client devices generally transmit at full power. End result is an environment with not a lot of headroom in the 2.4 space.

New comment by vlan0 in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

vlan0 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:33:10 +0000

Yes and in some uses cases it works against you. 2.4 is incredibly crowded without adding 802.11 to the mix. My IoT admins would have less complaints if they could take advantage of my small cell 5Ghz spectrum. This isn't 2005 with widely deployed asymmetrical wireless networks.

New comment by vlan0 in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

vlan0 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:13:40 +0000

>My 2.4ghz is basically all IOT these days.

Yup. And it's exactly why some of my IoT admins are struggling. There is only so much spectrum to go around.

New comment by vlan0 in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

vlan0 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:12:10 +0000

Yes. And 2.4 lives and dies by that sword. What downsides might there be in areas where dozens of APs hear each other and 100s of clients hear each other?

New comment by vlan0 in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

vlan0 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:10:32 +0000

Is what you described a truth for all IoT devices? If I have los of my AP, why do I need 2.4Ghz? Even so, what SNR do you truly need for this low bandwidth application? Where is the engineering here?

I have a unique position of having a data set over 8000 APs with 40k unique devices. If you design properly, there is no need for 2.4 ever. 2.4Ghz congestion (with nearly no actual 802.11 traffic) is very high. To the point where the IoT folks are struggling.

New comment by vlan0 in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

vlan0 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:16:07 +0000

I don't understand what possesses these folks to continue making 2.4ghz devices. I understand there are use cases for low bandwidth, high range. But surely we've passed the point where that is more desirable to most than lower latency and high throughput, right?

New comment by vlan0 in "IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT"

vlan0 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:01:49 +0000

And if I think back to my 30 years of IT, environments with NAT end up with lazy engineering from systems and application folks. It doesn't provide an environment that forces folks to understand their problems holistically. Thus, relying on perimeter firewalling and NAT as a large catch all. It's a bad security practice imo

New comment by vlan0 in "Raising money fucked me up"

vlan0 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:47:30 +0000

It's always important to remind one's self that "who you are" is simply the story one is attached to. Things like meditation or psilocybin can help bring that to light.

New comment by vlan0 in "Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Sex Scandals"

vlan0 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:05:43 +0000

Can be said about so many things in life. It's almost like we don't learn and just repeat in loops.

New comment by vlan0 in "From 400 Mbps to 1.7 Gbps: A WiFi 7 Debugging Journey"

vlan0 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 12:03:00 +0000

That’s interesting. My testing for EAP-TLS and OWE networks has shown modern clients will simply create another profile when it detects the change in the AKM suite. Hard roam between wpa2/wpa3, but still seem less for the client.

New comment by vlan0 in "Active listening: the Swiss Army Knife of communication"

vlan0 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 03:30:45 +0000

Listening and responding is just like singing. If you are "thinking about it while doing it" it feel off to everyone. Like how singing is best when you embody the lessons and move your focus away from "getting it right". It has to feel like you and not you playing a character.

New comment by vlan0 in "Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”"

vlan0 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:52:53 +0000

I can see why someone might have that opinion. I think the author hasn't met himself yet. As one can only meet and understand another as deeply as they have met themselves. I do wonder if he would gain more awareness of his self after a couple 7g mushroom runs.

New comment by vlan0 in "US Dept of Interior denies canceling largest solar project after axing review"

vlan0 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:48:56 +0000

I hope we see this more at the municipal level. Just thinking about dense neighborhoods with sizable lithium storage solutions raises eyebrows. One house fire could spread so quickly.

New comment by vlan0 in "The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain"

vlan0 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:25:22 +0000

The problem is, and always has been, land owners and their ego.

New comment by vlan0 in "Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?"

vlan0 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:24:12 +0000

Honestly, none of the comments here coming from a place with enough protocol knowledge to talk about the "whys"

I operate a large enterprise wireless network with 80mhz 5Ghz channels and 160Mhz 6Ghz channels. It is possible if your environment allows.

New comment by vlan0 in "Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?"

vlan0 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:22:01 +0000

How do you think speeds effect airtime utilization/optimization? And how does this change with lower PHY rates?

New comment by vlan0 in "Piracy Operator Goes from Jail to Getting Hired by a Tech Unicorn in a Month"

vlan0 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:41:36 +0000

"tech unicorn" why use those words?

New comment by vlan0 in "A career is a pie-eating contest and the prize for winning is more pie"

vlan0 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 12:09:08 +0000

"The reward for good work is more work."

- timm chiusano

New comment by vlan0 in "Claude Code is all you need"

vlan0 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:17:45 +0000

What is described in that post is a skill issue. The attention issues spoke about can be worked through. Because attention is a skill like anything else. And if one does not learn to practice. One becomes victim to it