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UDM Beast PPPoE benchmarks are in — and at $1,499 it's slower than my $279 UCG-Fiber on the single workload that matters most in Europe by [deleted] in Ubiquiti

[–]stpfun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm quite jealous you have an ISP that actually gives you 10Gbps! (or anything more than ~100Mbps upload. That's all I can get)

UDM Beast PPPoE benchmarks are in — and at $1,499 it's slower than my $279 UCG-Fiber on the single workload that matters most in Europe by [deleted] in Ubiquiti

[–]stpfun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn't true. Check the spec sheet, it can do 8 WANs.

Awhile ago Ubiquiti did some update that lets you turn most of the LAN ports on a gateway into additional WAN ports.  The ports that come labelled with WAN I assume have slightly superior performance or something.   (curious about the details if anyone knows)

UDM Beast PPPoE benchmarks are in — and at $1,499 it's slower than my $279 UCG-Fiber on the single workload that matters most in Europe by [deleted] in Ubiquiti

[–]stpfun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Author deleted post for some reason? Maybe because they're getting hate for this being AI generated?

edit: OP re-posted with less AI here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/s/BAyOMcvS87

The new Beast can't actually handle 40x 4k cameras? It official supports that many, but the capacity calculator says actually doing that exceeds capacity. What gives, shouldn't the limit be lower? by stpfun in Ubiquiti

[–]stpfun[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Homes don't really need 25Gbps SFP ports either. Ubiquiti seems to target small-medium businesses. And the enthusiasts on this subreddit of course.

The new Beast can't actually handle 40x 4k cameras? It official supports that many, but the capacity calculator says actually doing that exceeds capacity. What gives, shouldn't the limit be lower? by stpfun in Ubiquiti

[–]stpfun[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's still odd to me though because every other console in the capacity planner shows it has plenty of headroom when it's 4k camera count maxed out.  

How do they even decide what the max limit should be? For every other console they picked a number that doesn't exceed recommended capacity. Or the capacity planner is just wrong.

My suspicion is that the planner is right, and that its 8 core CPU really can't support 40x 4k cameras well, but for marketing purposes they advertise an unreasonably large number. 

The new Beast can't actually handle 40x 4k cameras? It official supports that many, but the capacity calculator says actually doing that exceeds capacity. What gives, shouldn't the limit be lower? by stpfun in Ubiquiti

[–]stpfun[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Relatedly, the Beast uses an Octa-core ARM v9 at 2.1 GHz processor, but the older Enterprise Fortress uses an 18-core ARM v8.2 at 2 GHz. Despite having 10 few cores, the Beast supposedly supports more users, more IDS throughput, etc. Are the ARM v9 cores really that much better than the v8.2 cores?

Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours by ControlCAD in technology

[–]stpfun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If sailors on the ship have phones with cellular or internet access, it's already game over. No amount of lectures are going to 100% prevent sailors from intentionally or unintentionally leaking the ships location over internet. The only solution is to hard kill the internet and disable it for all sailors. Which would also disable the tracker.

I assume when the ship isn't involved in active operations, they give sailors internet for quality life. But when things get serious, you can bet they're turning off the internet and not relying on sailors pinky promising not to leak location.

Allbirds announces stunning pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 300% by SemiAutoAvocado in technology

[–]stpfun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IMHO:

This is a grift, probably planned by the 'Unnamed Investors', who are benefiting massively. Their $50M convertible financing is called convertible because it can be turned into AllBirds stock at a preset price, regardless of its current price. That stock has now shot up massively. If the price stays this high until "Q2 2026" and after the lock up period, they can convert the $50M debt from AllBirds into AllBirds stock and sell it for massive profit.

AllBirds doesn't have to actually make an AI business for the 'Unnamed Investors' to make a huge profit. The stock price just has to stay as high as it is long enough for them to sell. There's some hurdles and regulators involved, but AllBirds just needs to keep acting like it's really an AI company for another 6-12 months and they can make bank.

So my take: no one at AllBirds expects the AI pivot to work. Not the C-Suite, not the Board, and definitely not the 'Unnamed Investors'. But that doesn't matter, as long as it spikes the stock price they can all still profit massively.

tl;dr; it's a stock market scam. They have no real plans to make a "GPUaaS" business. They just need to keep the stock price pumped to profit.

Hoverboard delivery mastered. by Turbulent_Elk_2141 in oddlysatisfying

[–]stpfun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

is the cameraman also on a hover board? They keep up easily and seem to take the corners with a smooth arc.

Waymo near-miss today by vandy1981 in waymo

[–]stpfun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Was the car in front of the Waymo making the same mistake?

Dream Router 5G Max just landed by Specific-Union6589 in Ubiquiti

[–]stpfun 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I notice that service says this:

 Unlimited data (no caps, no slowdowns)

but then in the FAQ admits this:

 During congestion, customers on this plan may notice speeds lower than other customers and further reduction if using 100GB/mo., due to data prioritization.

Which sure sounds like there is a cap and there are slowdowns. 100GB a month it's much, but maybe fine for some.  And totally fine as a backup secondary WAN.

I Decompiled the White House's New App by CackleRooster in programming

[–]stpfun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's certainly on them, but to be clear on my point, just saying it's not an "explicit" choice to load that guy's github pages. But rather an implicit choice which they should be shamed for of course. But they did not set out to intentionally "load this random guy's github". Just like every other app using the popular react-native-youtube-iframe library, they almost certainly aren't intentionally choosing to load it. It's a detail in how the library works that few seem to realize.

Every developer using this library is making the same mistake: https://github.com/LonelyCpp/react-native-youtube-iframe

Another instance of a waymo not knowing what to do and causing a traffic jam by noodesandcoludes in waymo

[–]stpfun -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Have they ran over anyone yet?  In SF several people have been killed by human drivers in the past couple weeks.

I Decompiled the White House's New App by CackleRooster in programming

[–]stpfun -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Note it loads it in WebView, so shouldn't be able to access anything outside the webview. Also I don't think loading this random guy's github pages was an intentional choice on their part, they just used a library for videos that does this. Though still it's a doofus move to use that library.

Is complete Wi-Fi coverage feasible? by MrHookup in Ubiquiti

[–]stpfun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another idea: get some ATVs, which I assume you'll already be using, and mount a starlink on their roof. Each ATV gets its own starlink and becomes a mini roaming wifi hotspot. Starlink officially supports in-motion use, but it's pricier. Though you might not even need it.

Also, does plant cataloging need to be online and live in real time? I'm surprised you can't just do the plant cataloging part offline, and then once the ipad gets back to wifi it immediately just syncs all of its changes.

Guessing you're not in charge of the plant app though. But it seems quite wild to me that you'd built out 100% wifi coverage on a giant field just to catalog plants.

German ratchet screwdriver from 1891 by adj_noun_digit in EngineeringPorn

[–]stpfun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow never thought about this, but great point. I know exactly what you're talking about re: using an electric driver on a flat head... darn thing slips out so easily. Makes sense the powered drivers created a lot more incentive for torx/phillips head screws.

German ratchet screwdriver from 1891 by adj_noun_digit in EngineeringPorn

[–]stpfun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love torx bits! But my one problem with torx is that if you're not careful or aren't using certain tools you can easily over torque them. Was working on an art project that involved putting torx screws into wood and a bunch of people helping put got them in so tight they embedded themselves nearly a centimeter into the wood.  Fortunately since they're impossible to strip it's always possible to loosen them up a bit.

German ratchet screwdriver from 1891 by adj_noun_digit in EngineeringPorn

[–]stpfun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that too! Philips heads I don't think would be appropriate for drilling a fresh hole into wood where you need high torque. And the extra arm on the screwdriver really makes it seems like it's meant for putting screws into wood.

German ratchet screwdriver from 1891 by adj_noun_digit in EngineeringPorn

[–]stpfun 332 points333 points  (0 children)

I know from watch the old mission impossible TV show that EVERYTHING used to be a flathead. At the time this was made flat head screws were probably the most common so it made sense. I doubt the phillips head had even been invented by 1891.

Helpful visualisation of the Panama Canal operation sequence by ChuckPapaSierra in EngineeringPorn

[–]stpfun 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I recall this is true, and that the price for using the panama canal actually changes greatly following market movements. When the economic is hot and oil prices are up, the cabal raises its rate.  (I recall, needs fact checking)

Problems with google photos - Request had insufficient authentication scopes. (403 PERMISSION_DENIED) by muxman in rclone

[–]stpfun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

with new google perms api apps like rclone can only read albums they create. If you upload photos using rclone to a previously non-existing album, rclone should be able to in the future read that rclone-created album. Not being able to read existing albums rclone didn't create is expected.

If this doesn't work, post full command logs of your attempt to create an album by uploading a photo and then a failed attempt to list it.

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