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| cdev:
"Blue" brand cell phones, for example. Of course governments cannot regulate oil prices, which they equate with quartering troops in houses in the US. Poor people can pay up or clear out. There are lots of warm countries. --- Quote from: madires on April 29, 2022, 01:11:59 pm ---Not really IoT, but a lot of bloatware apps preinstalled on Android phones from Chinese brands send data/telemetry back home to servers in China. And the major cloud hosters have datacenters in China too. A small IoT service might run its platform only at a specifc datacenter/location. Larger platforms are usually distributed across multiple locations for lower network latency and resiliency. If you live in Europe your IoT device would most likely talk to a server in Europe (nearest datacenter = lowest latency). When you're in China it would be a server in China. Same for US east coast, west coast and so on. --- End quote --- How much latency is "too much"? In ms. ? What is the effect of NUMA configuration on server latency ? |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: MrMobodies on April 21, 2022, 01:13:04 pm --- --- Quote from: rsjsouza on April 21, 2022, 12:34:33 pm ---Gotta love how even the clocks are starting to be moved back to blame everything on the virus and erase history. --- End quote --- I am hearing this talk quite recently: Local GP surgery - no GP's available due to COVID as they were told. Lost parcel and refusing to refund due to COVID Then I see this a couple of days ago: https://www.btwholesale.com/contact-us.html --- Quote ---COVID-19 and Openreach All solutions that rely on new installations, modifications or repairs of key access products will be affected. As the situation develops, we’re updating our websites with as much information as we possibly can. --- End quote --- Joke: Then they start talking about self driving cars where the drivers can lounge about in them and watch television whilst it self drives. - No COVID in the way for that one. --- Quote ---Some users who already reset their hubs while troubleshooting report being able to access the hub with the default username and password that is printed on it; however, changing login info or network settings is no longer possible. --- End quote --- I wonder if that is just due to just the site it depends on no longer being contactable or is it that they put these restrictions in place in an update before they shut down but didn't reach every hub? --- End quote --- Which is all a load of bollocks. COVID-19 didn't do any of that. At first is was the panic policies put in place and now it's just an excuse, as they've been revoked for some weeks at this point. |
| madires:
--- Quote from: cdev on April 29, 2022, 01:36:57 pm ---How much latency is "too much"? In ms. ? What is the effect of NUMA configuration on server latency ? --- End quote --- There's no simple answer, it depends on the requirements of each service. A local datacenter is roughly 30-50 ms, US-EU 100 ms and EU-Asia about 250/300 ms. The difference can be an order of magnitude. Server latency doesn't play an important role in this context as long as it's within reasonable limits. So I don't see any point in discussing memory access methods. |
| cdev:
The former Clinton Administration signed the papers approving the Act enabling the WTO on December 8, 1994 So governments already agreed to this long ago. We traded our jobs for intellectual property laws. " “War is too important a matter to be left to the military.” it was once said. This is to give corporations the final say, the real power. Now its a crime to violate "patents". The owners make lots of money. |
| ve7xen:
This kind of thing highlights why what we really need is more (open) standards and federation, and fewer silos. Back in the day, the Internet operated on agreed protocols like SMTP, where anyone can stand up a server that can interoperate with everyone else's to deliver mail, and any device that wants to originate mail can connect as a user agent. All you need is an IP address and the RFC in hand to guide your implementation. Everything works together. New developments are encouraged. The best products succeed. For a while we even had this for instant messaging with most of the major providers implementing federated XMPP. Then the corporations decided it was better to hold users hostage, and federation basically died for everything that was not already entrenched. I am not sure how to push back, but federation & standards is the way things should be. But then you could mix and match IoT vendors in the same ecosystem, and that would be good for you as a user and I guess bad for the company that didn't get all your business. It's the Apple model - lock people in to your ecosystem so they are forced by your lack of interoperability to buy your stuff next time too. Problem for us is that 'users' seem to love it this way, as long as the corporation uses enough fancy product design and flashy marketing as lube. Defenders come out of the woodwork to crow about how awesome these companies are whenever any talk of regulating them or trying to force them to interoperate or reduce lock-in comes up. A pro-consumer solution seems untenable. |
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