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Does it support DPDK for fast packet processing or maybe SR-IOV ?. Given the price tag, I suppose it doesn't, but the documentation is sparse.


I dont think you can install your own OS on this, yet? :) , in order to do 25GBPS on ARM, I am sure they are doing some sort of DPDK ( I mean user space networking.). I would love to learn more on how do they achieve 25GBPS on this little arm64.


Almost guarantee that they aren't doing 25GBPS on the arm chip but on the dedicated ASIC.

I know for most of the Mikrotik platforms what gets offloaded to the ASIC and what gets handled by the CPU is a big deal in performance tuning and selecting the correct product for your use case.


I also think they only achieve about 15GBPS on their backplanes of their routers with SFP28, enough to show a benefit over SFP+ but not really full speed.


Lack of SR-IOV is mentioned in the article.


Well don't donate your body to France [1]. Some witness even alleged the medical team played football with people heads.

[1] https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/french-academic-charged-over-mas...


My sister (a doctor) told us of a few rather unsavory incidents that happened with body parts during her time at medical school.

Its pretty common tbh.


Yikes! I hope that was a corner, nee coroner, case, but it would not surprise me. My mother was a student nurse in the 40's. In the U.S. for context. She told me of corpses floating in a big tub, or vat, at uni, and that they had to take them out and dissect them for class. She didn't mention any peculiar schenanigans as you describe and I am glad she did not.


shenanigans (no "c").


Good catch. Thank you.



It looks to me that Vodafone attach an id to a flow by using the device network id (sim, imsi or maybe the MAIDs). Then the website, when generating the html page, can ask Vodafone this id and include a targeted ad.

Some info here : - https://mobile.twitter.com/Chronotope/status/151390041563242...


Previous: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31557492

^The twitter post is more informative.

It's an alarming trend against users. At least the ISP could propose a reduced subscription fee when TrustPid is used and an alternative "normal" price for users that opt-out when signing the contract, but it wont happen.


I am not sure what is Netavark about: are they deprecating the CNI convention and rolling anew one or is it some-kind of a new layer of abstraction ?.

What if I wanted to: keep using Cilium with Pod in the future, or having a chains of multiple CNIs ?.


I am perplex. Solar energy for example don't take into account the cost of renewal of the panel (every 20-30 year) and the cost of recycling / storing the toxic photovoltaic liquid [1]. The IRENA projects[2] they can fully recycle this toxic waste and recreate value from it, which is bold imo.

[1] https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/12/23/solar-panel-waste-a-d...

[2] https://www.irena.org/publications/2016/Jun/End-of-life-mana...


There is some OS tooling in the SDN realm, like Stratum[1] for example, or a P4 board for the serious. But the hardware behind it isn't cheap.

I wish router for personal use were as "easily" programmable as an OpenFlow compatible equipment with a external controller. Even if you need some extra tooling to reach all the feature of RouterOS, like a compute node for the DNS. I don't know if this kind of evolution will ever reach the consumer space.

[1] https://opennetworking.org/stratum/


I am not sure: did the word doom predate the game or did Id invented it ?. The word origin isn't very clear in wiktionary [1].

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doom


Doom is an extremely old word[1] that was originally neutral in meaning, but has had a negative connotation since the 14th century.

[1]: https://www.etymonline.com/word/doom#etymonline_v_13942


The word doom was around long before the game.

This is ridiculous. Companies don't magically own all the words.


It reminds me how Paris Hilton trademarked the words “that’s hot”. Like she was the first person to say that. What a ridiculous world we have some times.


Just do it. I'm lovin' it. Think different. Eat fresh. It's finger lickin' good.

Slogan trademarks are definitely another monster in the trademark space.


"Be it so, for I submit: his doom is fair, That dust I am, and shall to dust return."

http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Milton/pl10.html

"Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom."

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-...


> The word origin isn't very clear in wiktionary

Huh? Is 'from Old English dōm ("judgement")' not clear enough for you? It's a native word; as far as we know it's infinitely old.


Is this an attempt at sarcasm? The etymology mentions proto-indo-european, which predates Id by a little bit.


> The etymology mentions proto-indo-european

That doesn't mean much. Compare https://www.etymonline.com/word/loot :

> "goods taken from an enemy, etc.,"

> from PIE *roup-tro-, from root *reup- "to snatch"

This would make it a cognate of rape, by the way.

But being traceable to Proto-Indo-European doesn't tell you anything about the age of the English word. That is a loan from Hindi, and only dates back to the British Raj.


Well it's not exact, it's the middle english spelling, but the "Doomsday Book"[1], aka "Domesday Book" comes from 1086, so that might predate Id by a bit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book


If anything Tom Cruise should be the one suing Id Software http://www.factfiend.com/how-tom-cruise-inspired-doom/


It goes all the way back to Middle English, with roots further back. https://www.etymonline.com/word/doom

“Modern adverse sense of "fate, ruin, destruction" begins early 14c. and is general after c. 1600”


Swedish/Nordic. Dom. To judge, judgement. Doomsday is judgement day. Very old word.


I can't believe someone asked this. Seriously?


What is not clear? They have a detailed etymology


I guess no more project will dare to use meta in their name. They will fear either a copyright lawsuit or a fall in SEO.


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