@stman @vidak @50htz @theruran @forthy42 I don't think #RONJA's development was actively sabotaged.

• I just assume that #WiFi over longer distances just got better and cheaper, longer range and faster #COTS products that due to lowered regulation and certified conformity didn't require any costly permits and frequency allocations compared to licensed spectrum links.

In fact, @BNetzA did extend frequency allocations for #BFWA useage and dedicaded the 5,8 GHz band to to #WISP|s that want to provide #broadband in rural areas.

• So it's not the fault of RONJA or it's devs, but the fault of WiFi and proprietary solutions to have caught up.

Personally, I do wish for #OpticalLinks more because they are not just less prone to eavesdropping, but also less taxing on the increasingly scarce resource that is #RadioSpectrum and that we should be more mindful of, espechally since the solution to overcrowded #spectrum is rather obnoxious as in "dialing up power consumption to implement ever more complex coding schemes"...

• Not to mention it's easier to secure an optical link and I think that it would be best if said system could universally tunnel any data, from Serial to USB and from 10/100M Ethernet to anything else, as having a "Universal Visible-light Optical Link" (maybe even call it "#UVOL", cuz "VOL" and "UVLOL" or "ULOL" may be too much of a bad take) could really do wounders.

Even if it can only do like 12Mbit/s for USB 2.0 it'll still be practical for many use-cases.

• As you said: You want to focus on the "modem" part first...

At least @frameworkcomputer / @framework / #Framework has some positive #impact on the #ComputerIndustry:

• #Dell's #Alienware brand did change the "#Area51" #prebuild to use more standard #COTS parts and even include #QRcode|s linking people to parts-specific #HowTo guides...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Tcz3mAUuE&t=77

We just sold our first Pride month T-shirt

https://www.ko-fi.com/s/67c8104f51

#Pride #COTS #Cupofteasocial

Why is my Home feed on cupoftea.social empty apart from my last two toots? 😞
#COTS

@nickbearded I will fire up proxy and get vps later today and get basic structures/frameworks going and see what happens #cots

As I was working as part of project planning and a technical exchange this week, I was reminded of a meme I made awhile back on being spatial BFFs
#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #toolbox #ArcGIS #QGIS #COTS #opensource #engagement #meme #gischat #tools #startrek #alldataisspatial

Under the #COTS model, #NASA provides funding and guidance to private companies to develop their own #spacecraft, #rockets, and #services, and then buys those at a "market" rate. #SpaceX, #BlueOrigin, #RocketLab and #ImpulseSpace could ferry cargo to #Mars 🔴 and land there https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/if-congress-actually-cancels-the-sls-rocket-what-happens-next

#SLS #Orion #Artemis #Moon

@RyanParsley

i certainly wouldn't object if someone would port #tek it to #lmn3 or any other standalone #linuxaudio platform 👍

rn i'm trying to add support for some #cots #midi controllers by #novation (#launchpad) and #korg (#nanokey studio/#nanokontrol studio)

Yay I’m in the club! #NowPlaying a nice cup of tea #COTS #CupOfTeaSocial

Beautiful island
Clean and Blue seawater

But...

#scubadiving #diveintotheblue
#reefscars #coralkillers #COTS

Anthropic’s Evaluation of Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness: Investigating Hidden Reasoning, Reward Hacks, and the Limitations of Verbal #AI Transparency in #ReasoningModels

https://www.marktechpost.com/2025/04/05/anthropics-evaluation-of-chain-of-thought-faithfulness-investigating-hidden-reasoning-reward-hacks-and-the-limitations-of-verbal-ai-transparency-in-reasoning-models/

#CoTs #LLMs

@mastodonmigration @GottaLaff Obviously, all #SATCOM is insecure.

• X-Band - based #MILSATCOM use proprietary encryption systems.

• The best in terms of #COTS AFAIK is #IridiumPTT which does #AES256 over the air (if not the entire #IridiumNext system except legacy services) but that is a fully-managed solution with custom, embedded hardware.

• Whereas most commercial satellite Internet is insecure af, tho I'm shure Ukrainians know how to setup their own #VPN!

@mastodonmigration @GottaLaff noone relies solely on #Starlink, espechally given it's big-ass dishes.

• Even the #US #DoD uses #Iridium & #UHFSATCOM.

• #SES & #Eutelsat have various commercial #Cband, #KuBand & #KaBand transponders for bidirectional data from their GSOs.

• #XTAR has a #Xband-Spotbeam.

• #Ukraine has both #Fiber and #Radio links (civilian and military) to link together units and emplacements. Espechally direct-burial/lie-flat fiber is used because #COTS parts are cheap, commonplace and unlike copper, they can do 160km+ without amplifiers with ample of room for splices.

Pretty shure Starlink was a mere "comfort feature" allowing units to send their drone footage from their FOB to HQ for instant #Meme|fication and "scoreboard updates" but I'm shure worst-case the #NAFO friends will just pack in some 2,5" SSDs and USB cases with the next supply trucks or have some #Skyhook-Style delivery system if that was ever needed.

• I'm shure the folks in the trenches will miss YouTubing in their toilet break, but I'm shure they still have enough #Memes and #Entertainment in reserve to compensate for it.

Choose your battles wisely #COTS

"
Kleinsatelliten: Leistungsfähiges Datenmanagement im Orbit
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"Erdbeobachtungssatelliten sammeln große Datenmengen, während die Übertragungskapazitäten zur Erde begrenzt sind. Spezielle Computer, sogenannte Data Processing Units (DPUs), speichern, werten und komprimieren diese Daten direkt im Satelliten – effizient und zuverlässig."

https://www.emi.fraunhofer.de/de/aktuelles/aktuelles-presse/kleinsatelliten--leistungsstarkes-datenmanagement-im-orbit.html

16.1.2025

#Computer #constellr #COTS #Erdbeobachtung #EO #EMI #Fraunhofer #Daten #DPU #Raumfahrt #Satelliten #SkyBee1 #SpaceFlight

@ustralien Granted, @frameworkcomputer makes it super easy to #replace as they use one single #Torx bit and document their stuff and actually sell you the parts unlike #Apple...

• I just think that it's still a #Downgrade compared to my #X230Tablet in that regard in that I can toolfree swap batteries in 5 seconds without preparing for it.

They could've done it like #Lenovo did with some #ThinkPads and include a smaller internal battery so people don't have to shut-down to swap, or like #ToughBooks and even some old #PowerBooks just have more than one slot for a #battery to get chugged in.

• Still I think they could've done better and just build cheaper, abeit thiccer but longer lasting #BatteryPacks with #COTS parts like 18650 or 21700 cells...

Cuz the #DRM on Lenovo's devices prevent 3rd parties from building some once Lenovo decides to not give a shit anymore...

@ustralien Sadly no, and that's my big disappointment!

@frameworkcomputer decided to choose the #Apple-esque "flat cells below #trackpad" design in the unreasonable #THINN-ness race instead of doing what even the #EeePC and #Sony's #Vaio #P11Z did and have a slot at the back to chug in batteries!

• I know why they did it, as a closed aluminium pan aka. "#lunchbox" design is easier to fabricate, but I'd rather some #ToolfreeSwappableBattery which are IMHO of more practicality than having the ability to swap out every port.

Not that I don't like those #modules, but I'd rather wish for a "#THICC-er" device if that gets me essentials like #Ethernet, #USB-A & -C as well as a #TRRS #HeadphoneJack / #HeadsetJack.

• I mean, I understand they won't make space for a underslung #Dock, a #Slimline - #ODD or god forbid #ExpressCard, and in terms of #tech I'd welcome #Thunderbolt over #OCuLink, but there's a reason I've not canceled the #NUCbook and if I didn't have to buy/procure #COTS products I'd likely just buy a #Pi500 with a #Powerbank and screen slapped on...

That being said the #Framework is still by a long margin the "least #enshittified" device on the market, and same goes for the #Fairphone devices...

• I just wished #FrameworkLaptop and Fairphone were just refusing the #Enshittification trend entirely, cuz I'd rather have a #Toughbook-Style device made out of #Thinkpadnium or even better #Nokianite than some fancy Aluminium stuff if that makes it more #repairable, #upradeable and espechally doesn't result in a #Downgrade.

Not to mention they don't have an #UltraNav-Style #Trackpoint and I do use that instead of a Trackpad.

• The only reason I'm not daily driving my #P11Z anymore is because until I got @OS1337 into a useable state it's hardware, which was already #LowEnd at launch, can barely run @bunsenlabs and thus is not an option for #DailyDriving #Linux #Desktop workflows anyways...

"The purchased solution has been tested across thousands of customers. And the cost of building it too has been amortized across thousands of customers. In your case, the entire time + money cost has been 'Divided by One'"
.

#ai #rag #genai #build #vs #buy #cots

https://pub.towardsai.net/dear-it-departments-please-stop-trying-to-build-your-own-rag-4546b4638273

It's wild that a lot of shit now in #Production on the #Front in #Ukraine is a based upon a #Nation s
will and empowerment to use #COTs tech, #Hackery to defeat #Russia s #AirForce. But how many other tactical use cases are being put into #Operation globally. For #Crime, #Surveillance, #Espionage and #Assasinations ?
Now, what about adding these #UAS with #AI weaponized LLMs and #Data ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2yzdcnX39w

#UAS if you can get mach 1 speeds and ground hugging radar. Cheap price point

@alterelefant @Heidi As of now, we can see stuff like the #ExaDrive, a 100TB 3,5" SSD for #online - #archival storage.

• As #Helium-filled #SMR-#HDD|s struggle to meet the demand for storage at an acceptable thermal & power envelope and price, #SSD|s will inevitable take over as not only the more robust media but also cheaper, more dense and easier to use.

As for the #NeoFloppy that thing could be made - I'm just not good enough layouting PCBs with the precision needed for #PCIe signalling...

• Needless to say if constant write speed and lifetime in writes is secondary, then a stack of cheap #SATA-SSDs already beats #LTO-9 tapes unless you need to backup literal #Petabytes and need the fancy features like #WORM media.

That being said, it's inevitable that even WORM as a feature may be copied over.

• In fact #ZFS can already offer many features of #LTFS, including read-only snapshots and thus append-only #archives.

Until there are #COTS solutions tho, LTO #Tape and other options will OFC remain dominant and relevant.

• Still I'd happily see storage vendors take up the NeoFloppy and build something off it.