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DID YOU KNOW?? ​The Nokia you likely remember for the "indestructible" 3310 phone is essentially a ghost. The modern Nokia Corporation has pulled off one of the most successful "Phoenix" maneuvers in corporate history, but they did it by abandoning the very thing that made them famous; the consumer. ​1. The "Invisible" Giant: ​If you look at your phone in 2026 and see five bars of 5G signal, there is a nearly 30% chance that the signal is being provided by Nokia, even if you're using an iPhone, a Samsung or any other smartphone out there. ​They Pivoted. After the disastrous sale of their mobile phone division to Microsoft in 2014, Nokia didn't die; they bought their way into the "plumbing" of the internet. By acquiring Alcatel-Lucent, they became a global leader in telecommunications infrastructure. They don't make the phones anymore; they make the towers, the fiber optics, and the 5G/6G software that makes the phones work. ​2. The "Nokia" Phones You See Aren't Actually Nokia: ​This is the fact that confuses most people. If you see a new "Nokia" smartphone in a shop today, it is made by a completely separate company called HMD GLOBAL. HMD Global (staffed by many ex-Nokia employees) licenses the brand name and the Logo. The actual Nokia Corporation (based in Espoo, Finland) has almost nothing to do with those phones. They are too busy building private 5G networks for automated factories, mines in Australia, and even NASA. ​3. Nokia is Going to the Moon (literally) ​As of 2026, Nokia is officially an "extraterrestrial" company. NASA awarded Nokia a contract to build the first-ever cellular network on the Moon. ​The Goal was to support the Artemis missions, Nokia is deploying a 4G/LTE system on the lunar surface. This will allow lunar rovers and astronauts to communicate, stream high-definition video, and transmit data back to Earth more reliably than traditional radio. So did they succeed? 🌚 ​4. The Patent "War Chest": ​Nokia owns one of the most valuable libraries of intellectual property in existence. ​Every time a company makes a smartphone with a camera, a battery, or a wireless antenna, they often have to pay a small "royalty fee" to Nokia. ​In 2024 and 2025, Nokia won massive legal battles against Chinese giants like Oppo and Vivo, forcing them to pay hundreds of millions in licensing fees. Nokia is essentially a "tax collector" for the entire mobile industry. 5. The New Logo: ​In 2023, Nokia did something they hadn't done in 60 years: they changed their logo. ​They ditched the famous "Yale Blue" block letters for a sleek, abstract design. ​The Reason? CEO Pekka Lundmark stated the old logo was too associated with "mobile phones." The new logo is meant to signal that they are a B2B (Business-to-Business) technology leader. I don't think us nostalgic folk liked that.. But we're we aware it even happened and did they care? 🌚 Hopefully you've learnt something new today. Cheers 🥂 😅 The Medic Who Writes™🌚

The maximum running speed of domestic cats (Felis catus) is about 47–50 km/h. It’s a short sprint, not sustained running. For comparison: * cheetah - up to 100–120 km/h * lion - around 80 km/h * tiger - up to 60 km/h Why cats are so fast: they have a very flexible spine and powerful hind legs that work like a spring. This allows explosive acceleration - perfect for hunting.

@TechOperator qbasic gorilla.bas

You walk up to your computer and see this screen. Your next move?

@iTheWolfman youtube.com/watch?v=_kdz0L…

😂😂

@H0H0v 13-5 = 8 13-5-5 = 3 8+3 = 11

How can u get 11 kg Sugar ?

@exQUIZitely No Space Invaders ?

Here is a Top 10 of the highest-grossing arcade games of the 80s (meaning from 1980 to 1989). Sales numbers and other data is drawn from VG Sales Wiki. compilations of RePlay (US operator polls), AMOA awards, and Game Machine (Japan charts). Some games had a longer life span than others, with Pac-Man leading the Top 10 by a huge margin, at $10 billion in revenue. Just to add some context, 10 billion is a million multiplied by 10,000. Insane. How many of these classics did you play? 1) Pac-Man (1980, Namco), $10B 2) Donkey Kong (1981, Nintendo), $4.2B 3) Ms. Pac-Man (1982, Namco/Midway), $1.9B 4) Double Dragon (1987, Technos), $1.6B 5) OutRun (1986, Sega), $1.6B 6) Frogger (1981, Konami/Sega), $1.6B 7) Pole Position (1982, Namco), $1.5B 8) Galaxian (1979/80, Namco), $1.5B 9) Defender (1981, Williams), $1.5B 10) Centipede (1981, Atari), $1B

@dmilith @freebsd fetch -q -o - pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:aar… -zxf - -O data|jq '.packages[] | select(.name == "arj") | .path'

So I have to: 1. Download data.pkg, rename it to data.tar.xz, 2. unpack it. get the 60 MiB file 3. call split -b 100000 on that file and grep for package name to find the hash It's not security, it's deliberate obfuscation to make the user's life harder! @freebsd #FreeBSD

Why can't I just see the contents of pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd… #FreeBSD? I'd like to download realtek-re-kmod pkg for my local system, that lacks the internet (because DOH it's the Network driver). Why it's SO HARD to just fetch the latest bin package for my system @freebsd?

@Raph_dOrnano @OpenAI mussetti

The CFO of @OpenAI outlined a new metric to benchmark the company's growth: megawatts to revenue. The idea is seductively simple: add more compute, get more money. Roughly speaking, one gigawatt of power equals about $10 billion in ARR. It’s AI as an industrial system, complete with its own version of barrels-per-day or ARPU. Clean, legible, and very reassuring if you’re staring at tens (or hundreds) of billions in infrastructure commitments ahead of a possible IPO. The problem is that once you take the equation seriously, it starts to unravel. First, if revenue really scales linearly with power, then @elonmusk's @xai should be winning outright. (It's not) It already operates the first gigawatt-scale AI training cluster and is sprinting toward two. Second, the metric quietly assumes that algorithmic progress stays secondary to brute-force scaling. More power, more intelligence, more revenue. But that’s a dangerous assumption in a field where smarter architectures can suddenly deliver the same capabilities at a fraction of the compute. If efficiency jumps, gigawatt-scale data centers don’t look like moats. They look like stranded assets. Finally, there’s the small matter of the physical world. Power grids are strained, permits are slow, transformers are scarce, and community pushback is real. Data centers aren’t just racks of GPUs with an extension cord. They’re massive industrial projects with long lead times and plenty of failure points. Announcing capacity is easy. Actually bringing it online is harder. But my deeper takeaway isn’t really about who has more megawatts. It’s about how fragile simple valuation heuristics become during real technological discontinuities. Treating intelligence like aluminum, where more electricity reliably yields more output, feels comforting, especially ahead of public markets. But history suggests that when a sector is changing this fast, any equation that looks too neat is probably a trap. I break this down in the latest Decoding Discontinuity newsletter: decodingdiscontinuity.com/p/when-megawat…

@brankopetric00 use flat files and grep

Your PostgreSQL database is hitting the wall. Current state: - RDS db.r5.4xlarge (16 vCPU, 128GB RAM) - 4TB storage, 12,000 IOPS provisioned - 3,000 connections at peak (using PgBouncer) - Write-heavy: 70% writes, 30% reads - Replication lag to read replica: 500ms average - Largest table: 800GB, 2 billion rows Symptoms: - Query latency spiking during batch jobs - Vacuum taking 6+ hours - Storage growing 100GB/month Constraints: - Zero downtime requirement - Budget for one major change What's your scaling strategy?

@pitdesi where is the production tent ? :)

Wild: When the BYD Zhengzhou factory is fully complete it will be larger than San Francisco (but smaller than the Denver airport!) ~10x larger than the Gigafactory Nevada. Not apples to apples because it's effectively a city - employees live there in dorms.

@20th_Centurygal alvin lee

Post your favorite guitar face from any musician. 🎸 Gary Moore is my choice...So expressive and full of emotion. 🎸 Let's see who can come up with the most iconic guitar face...⭐🎸

@ImShahinyan change pawn to bishop; black has to move his bishop. then check mate at E5

White mates in 2

@OneWayMusicX carl palmer, ginger baker. rock drummers = all show and no go. jazz drummers are the real thing. there are exceptions as always joe morello > * youtube.com/watch?v=dksFL9…

I understand nothing about drummers, but I love watching Phil Collins playing "The End"... Who do you consider to be the greatest DRUMMER of all time? 🥁🎶🎧

@SVG__Collection deep purple - fireball

What’s your all-time favorite drum intro? I’ll start: Stevie Wonder - Superstition

@punt_rd lunachicks

What’s your favourite female led band!? I’ll go first: Garbage What’s yours!? (‘Only Happy When It Rains’, Glastonbury, 2005)

@derapaje cred ca sri a facut documentele alea cu chatgpt din ce au zis astia la stiri in ultimele zile

SRI spune ca niste conturi din 2017 cand nici nu exista TikTok, s-au activat in 2024. Ba, daca astia ne apara de rusi, am pus-o.

@MillennialMimi apple had some. so they put this icon for windows pcs

Have you ever used a computer like this? 🤓

@krassenstein its rather easy. they hoped kamala would erase their student debt :)

Serious question: What do you make of this and why would anyone think that this reflects well on MAGA? Most educated states in America: 1. Massachusetts: 🔵 2. Vermont: 🔵 3. Maryland: 🔵 4. Connecticut:🔵 5. Colorado: 🔵 Least educated states in America: 1. West Virginia:🔴 2. Mississippi:🔴 3. Louisiana: 🔴 4. Arkansas:🔴 5. Oklahoma: 🔴 🔵 Voted Harris 🔴 Voted Trump

@TheExtremeMusi1 theo kogan - lunachicks

Who’s your favourite female singer???

@stats_feed if you have to ask you have the wrong account name

Who is the best tennis player (male) of all time? 1. Rafael Nadal 2. Roger Federer 3. Novak Djokovic 4. Pete Sampras