Again this is location specific. I have a mini ups on my router/ont. And I assume that my provider also has a UPS, because even when power is out my landline connection just works.
Cable and fiber providers typically have 24 hours of battery backup in their repeaters/concentrators but no more. Most 4g/5g stations have similar backup capacity, with only a few (that will be overwhelmed) located on big enough buildings to have standby generators.
So starlink backup is still interesting if your region occasionally has outages that last more than 24 hours.
There was a major storm that disrupted infrastructure across the west coast of Ireland last year. Turned out a lot of infrastructure couldn't survive multi-day grid power loss (water plants, cell tower repeaters, etc).
Starlink is a solid backup for mitigating the risk of such disruption by having no local dependencies other than ability to power the CPE.
No. EU laws are of two kinds: directives and regulations. Directives work roughly as you describe, while regulations have direct effect like regular laws.
> Wouldn't it work better to just write the thing in whatever language they can actually write in and then do a straightforward translation in a single pass?
Nontrivial translation tools are AI(neural net)-based tools (although not necessary LLM). Whole transformer neural net architecture was originally designed for translation.
I don't have a problem with people using these tools to translate their writing into languages they aren't fluent/literate in. It's a completely different dynamic vs. having them write for you.
Maybe that is because i am non-native speaker, but 'garage' i understand primarily as a place where car is parked, not a car repair shop. So it makes perfect sense to walk there in order to repair the car (that is already there).
XMPP had rather bad name. Well-known design issues causing message losses, fractioned ecosystem due to varying implementation of extensions, unsuitability for mobile clients, absence of synchronization between clients, absence of end-to-end encryption. Most of these issues were (much) later fixed by extensions, but Matrix (or Signal for those who do not require federated one) was already there, offering E2EE by default.
Even today, E2EE in XMPP is rather inconvenient compared to Matrix due to absence of chain-of-trust in key management.
Sometimes I wonder if the endgame is each person having their own XMPP server for their set of devices. S2S is your E2EE then. Your chain of trust is your existing CA, unlike Matrix which starts from scratch. Cause XMPP wasn't designed from the start for clients not to trust servers, plus the fragmentation of C2S extensions was always a pain.
It's not a bad solution if someone can make it easy, even if it's a managed service that just lets tech-savvy users export it to self-hosting if they want.
One could argue that answers given by LLMs make sense. By assuming reasonability of the asking side, the answering side could assume that both options are possible and use abductive reasoning to conclude that the car to wash is already at the car wash station (and the question is about using another car to drive there).
600K request per day is ~ 400/minute. That is very low number. But seems to me that many webapps are so bad that even that small number causes significant load for them.
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