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Jensen Huang delivers the absolute worst keynotes - I wasnt ready for that level of cringe and stupidity.

If you deleted all your social media and AI platform accounts today you would wake up tomorrow and be no worse off.

Dont forget what kicked this age verification in first place. Initially they wanted do age verification for porn, and only year later they moved into social media seeing there's wasn't huge pushback.

So even if this change doesn't affect you right now, but it will affect you later then it'll be too late to fight agaisnt.


It was funny here in Australia, they did it the other way. They banned social media for under 16 but didn't get around to porn until a few months later.

I mean, even if more things on the internet get restriced it wouldnt affect me since Im not a minor.

The "First they came for the Communists" logic still holds. When government able to open the flood gate, the mandatory ID check will be slowly and surely be everywhere.

If you don't use social media and AI platform. Fine. But what about app stores, what about any registries from docker, to npm, to apk and toward the end source code repositories like Github/Codeberg?


First they banned the children from smoking cigarettes, and I did not speak out, for I was not a cigarette. Then they came for the murderers and pedophiles, and I did not speak out, for I was not a murderer or pedophile. Then they came for the carjackers, and I did not speak out, for I was not a carjacker. Then they came for the people who said "Free Gaza!", and there was no one left to speak for me.

This is famously why ID checks at the liquor store led to the government eventually requiring a mandatory ID check anytime you walk the dog or go to the beach... except none of that happened.

I would call github a social media platform. So yes that would be a problem, even if my own projects are somewhere else.

That interior is perfect and suggests Ferrari DNA. Externally with those wheels I'm looking at the proportions of a Pontiac Aztek. Would have loved to see Pininfarina involved instead.

It just shows how degenerate the indoctrination really is, its just out in the open now.


For some weird reason this story reminded me of Johnny Mnemonic.


The feed in tariff you refer to was 52c in the beginning and was limited to a 5kW inverter. I installed 6.25kW worth of panels with a 5kW inverter in 2011 and haven't paid a single power bill since. There's no slap in the face, sure I have to give up the FIT if I want the battery subsidy but I haven't paid a cent for power in 13 years (beyond initial investment).


In NSW it was limited to 5kW. That wasn't the limit in Queensland. Granted, there is was "only" 44c, but 44c at 30kW isn't something to be sniffed at. The 50kW of panels was to ensure you got that full 30kW for most of the day. You also got the 15c the retailer paid you, so for a while you were easily earning $40k/yr on something that cost of the order of $200k to set up.


What nics are you using on the server end? Im looking at moving from 10Gbe copper to 25Gbe/100Gbe between Mikrotik switches and 14/15th gen Dell servers


Broadcom in nearly all cases (default Dell option, I think). Elsewhere, Intel.


You're not using DAC's ?


No we buy our OM4 fiber cables for pennies on FS, so we stock a box of virtually every length in 1ft increments.

DACs would be way more expensive to stock in every length.


Whats the best solution for short runs (rack) between Mikrotik switches and Dell servers. Will a DAC still work between different vendors or is it always best to buy individual transceivers?


DAC is always the best option for short runs in terms of cost and compatibility.


Agreed. I have a 10 Gb DAC connecting my workstation and a small server to a Mikrotik. They are way cheaper, use less electric, and run cooler compared to a UTP SFP. I don't like UTP for 10Gb as its both costly and less efficient though that is going to get better with time.


It won’t get much better because that’s just a limitation of how 10GBASE-T works. There’s never a good reason to use it. Always just use a DAC or fibre.


I am dealing with a similar situation and kinda screwed up as I managed to get Google Ads suspended due to blocking Singapore. I see a mix of traffic from AWS, Tencent and Huawei cloud at the moment. Currently Im just scanning server logs and blocking ip ranges.


> I managed to get Google Ads suspended due to blocking Singapore

How did that happen, why? I feel like a lot of people here would not want to make the same mistake, so details would be very welcome.

As long as pages weren't being served and so there was never any case of requesting ads but never showing them, I don't understand why Ads would care?


Not the parent, but it sounds like they blocked the entire country, including Googlebot's Singaporean IP ranges.

If your server returns different content when Google crawls it compared to when normal users visit, they might suspect that you are trying to game the system. And yes, they do check from multiple locations with non-Googlebot user agents.

I'm not sure if showing an error page also counts as returning different content, but I guess the problem could be exacerbated by any content you include in the error page unless you're careful with the response code. Definitely don't make it too friendly. Whitelist important business partners.


If you run Google Ads for your customers or yourself and you through whatever means block the Google Adsbot it will come up as a "site unreachable" error and Google will suspend all your ads running. If you dig down further it will state some kind of DNS error as the problem. This is why blocking entire countries is problematic.


Any plan to bring 10Gb ethernet modules to market?


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