Why do you think they are going down? My impression is that their prices are actually good. Especially for CM4 compatible alternatives. They fab in China just like everybody else. Although they do some or all assembly (soldering) in UK I think.
My understanding is that Raspberry Pi differentiates itself primarily with software support, which is hard to duplicate trivially like a physical device.
i maintained a system where for .. reasons (like other systems) from early days have users with id: null "null" "" and some i do not even know how to write here
It's funny, i actually worked with this guy (same small startup, not closely), and recognized him from that unique username on this post. It's been so long i wouldn't have had any idea if not for the oddness of the single letter username.
So cool. I've fired up pumas (energy monitor) and it seems to run almost fully on the neural engine and not the GPU so it plays really nicely with CoreML
This is likely being solved with stuff like watermarking which Anthropic just added to Claude... I'd imagine they are testing new data and verifying that training data (or at least the data which do NOT want to be AI generated, i.e actual human text) is not generated, at least with claude.
You could theoretically ask “what is the next appropriate character?” and add the entire ascii charset but i doubt it’d work well and you’d be implementing autoregressive churn across network latency…
Probably a beken chip, should be easy enough to flash OpenBeken using the pins if they're exposed
You can usually take over tuya devices if you sign up for a developer account and go some sort of verification process, it's pretty easy, sometimes it's possible to get a token for local control (tuya-local)
You can already do that: Keyword you want to be looking for is NTN (non terrestrial networks).
The complexity is how you actually deploy this at scale and what you want the actual satellites to do: For example, there is the option of having the satellite be a "flying mirror" with minimal internal logic (transparent NTN: satellite is repeater) or a full gNB which can act as a "really tall cellphone tower" (regenerative NTN: satellite is basestation).
NTN satellites induce some quite significant challenges compared to standard 5G networks. I think most people can already imagine that delay is a considerable challenge, but that is ultimately relatively easy to deal with by adjusting the constants (like HARQ timers) in the 5G standard. A bigger issue are things like extreme doppler shifts induced by the high speed of LEO satellites (27000 km/h), which means that your UE has to continuously pre-compensate for doppler shifts.
Another bit of weirdness is that cell handovers are now "reversed" compared to ground systems: In ground systems the reason you need to switch cells is usually because you moved away into a different cell. In LEO systems the "tower" and therefore cell moves. If you don't want to have constant re-negotiations with the cell, you need to have some sophisticated beamforming on the satellite to keep the cell steered onto the same ground area (i.e. the cell needs to move from the POV of the satellite to stay stationary from the ground side).
All of this is quite expensive, a lot more expensive than just having ground based hardware. From a purely economic POV these systems don't really make sense unless you have externalities like defense as a secondary argument. The catch 22 for NTN is (and arguably will always be) that it is the most worth it for regions far away from the existing network. However, since regions without cell coverage are almost surely not very affluent, they themselves cannot reasonably afford the extra expenses to justify a satellite communication system. There basically has to be governmental support from the defense or just "public good" coffers to make this reasonable.
NTN will be a supplement for existing networks for the foreseeable future.
We're already there, it's just a matter of provisioning LEO constellations and sorting out market-fit, although Starlink Direct-to-Cell (D2C) is probably the least enticing offering.
As it stands both ASTS and Lynk Global use 3GPP standards to allow standard, unmodified mobile phones to connect directly to cell towers in space, bridging terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (NTN) without requiring special user equipment
Sad to see industry pioneers lose to players that copy them and undercut prices using cheap labor.
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