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deranger , to Privacy in I'm connected to my new hotspot. What does this number 6 mean? This is the first time I've ever seen a number associated with any Wi-Fi notification.

Regular people sure, but this is Lemmy. The nerd concentration here is significantly higher than average. I dunno, just thought it was fairly common knowledge in tech literate people that wireless G is outdated, AX is current, things like that. I can’t imagine spending money on a router without knowing the basics, which I’d consider the G/N/AC etc standard to be the minimum you need to know for making a decent purchase.

deranger , (edited ) to Privacy in I'm connected to my new hotspot. What does this number 6 mean? This is the first time I've ever seen a number associated with any Wi-Fi notification.

Fair enough. I thought it was just as common knowledge as wireless cellphone standards. Kinda surprised to see most people on Lemmy don’t pay attention to these, lots of the kinds of people who wouldn’t use the ISP supplied router / AP are here. Or so I thought.

I don’t know the 802.11 specs at all, but I know enough to purchase a router that won’t be outdated quickly.

deranger , (edited ) to Privacy in I'm connected to my new hotspot. What does this number 6 mean? This is the first time I've ever seen a number associated with any Wi-Fi notification.

You’re kidding, right? Wireless G, N, AC, AX etc are commonly printed all over the boxes of routers and is the main way to talk about their speed and how new they are. Do you not buy your own router? It seems as common to me as 3G/4G/5G but for a different kind of wireless.

I wouldn’t expect my mom to know it, I would expect most people on Lemmy to know and most somewhat tech familiar people to know. Not deep into the specs, but knowing AC is faster than N.

deranger , to Technology in T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents

Those are 95 GHz but very high power and focused as well.

It's not that high frequency can't hurt you, what I'm trying to say is for a given power level, 30-300 MHz is the most risky to humans. That's why the FCC regulates this band the most stringently.

deranger , to Technology in T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents

There’s nothing high power about that, It’s the same as everything else. Maximum 30dBm, about a watt.

deranger , to Technology in T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents

Humans are most sensitive to EM radiation between 30-300 MHz. It tapers off after that, it’s not linear where higher = worse for you across the entire spectrum.

https://www.fcc.gov/engineering-technology/electromagnetic-compatibility-division/radio-frequency-safety/faq/rf-safety

In the case of exposure of the whole body, a standing ungrounded human adult absorbs RF energy at a maximum rate when the frequency of the RF radiation is in the range of about 70 MHz.  This means that the "whole-body" SAR is at a maximum under these conditions.  Because of this "resonance" phenomenon and consideration of children and grounded adults, RF safety standards are generally most restrictive in the frequency range of about 30 to 300 MHz.

deranger , to Technology in T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents

WiFi emissions are tightly regulated and there are no “high power” WiFi equipment unless you flash custom firmware and break the law. The link you posted below is the same power as anything else, up to the maximum allows by law. This is not uncommon, every router / AP does this unless it’s some special low power model.

deranger , to Technology in Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

What? No. If I write data to a Blu-ray it’s not encrypted. This comment makes little sense. Sony does not control “the encryption keys”, whatever that means.

deranger , (edited ) to Technology in Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

They do not own it, they did co-develop it. They’ve never owned it outright.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association

deranger , to Technology in Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

It’s just one company, it’s not all the Blu-ray production stopping. I think the last time I bought any Sony recordable media was CD-Rs for my MP3 CD player in the mid 00s.

deranger , to Technology in Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more

This sucks ass. It’s hard to not become blackpilled from Friday’s rulings.

deranger , to Technology in Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA

Yeah, you’re right. I was playing Tribes 2 around that time and it came out in 2001.

deranger , (edited ) to Technology in Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA

RIP 53215700, the oldest account I’m still aware of that I’ve forgotten the password to. Must have made it in 98 or 99.

Edit: it was actually 2001 because I was in a Tribes 2 clan and we used ICQ to chat.

deranger , to Technology in Automated cooling tower detection through deep learning for Legionnaires’ disease outbreak investigations: a model development and validation study

It’s straight from the paper, seems typical for a peer reviewed scientific paper title

deranger , to Privacy in To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules.

Where did they say opinion, I don’t see an edit on their comment.

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