It's not a contradiction, but it's an error. Perhaps the author did not properly understand the distinction between bits/sec and Transfer/sec.
Up to gen 5, gen N meant roughly 2^N transfer per second.* It was regular NRZ encoding so GT/s ~= Gb/s.
In Gen6, they went to PAM4, so 2 bits per transfer. Gen6 is still 32GT/s, but 64Gb/s per lane.
16 lanes of Gen6 is128GB/s (B = Byte).
In Gen7, they went back to increasing the transfer rate, and of course kept the PAM4 encoding. 64GT/s @2b/T = 128Gb/s, x16 lanes is 256GB/s.

*Up to Gen2, it was 8b/10b encoding so they were 2.5GT/s (for effective 2Gb/s) and 5GT/s (for effective 4Gb/s) for the first 2 generations.
After that, encoding changed to 64b/65b so the GT/s ~= Gb/s.
FLIT encoding is now required (or maybe it was required in Gen6. Too lazy to look up) I think this increases efficiency by further reducing encoding overhead.

Heck, I don't think it'll cost them even that much. Just tell Trump the lawsuit started under Biden. It'll be gone in no time.

Unfortunately it's not that cheap in many other countries and YT has been actively blocking VPNs so some of us would end up paying more just for YT than for Netflix and PrimeVideo combined. There's a lot on YT but most of it is crap and not worth paying for.

Undeniably, SOME illegal residents don't pay taxes. (Same goes for many citizens). However, many do. The ones that don't are probably counter-balanced by the fact that the ones that do don't get anything back because they can't file returns or collect benefits. Undocumented workers are net benefit to the US Treasury.

Just one of many references:
https://taxpolicycenter.org/fi...
Interesting quote form that article:
"Compared with native-born Americans, documented and undocumented immigrants combined pay more in taxes than they use in government benefits. Over her lifetime, an immigrant who arrived in the US at age 25 and did not graduate high school will pay net $200,000 more in taxes than what she will receive in government benefits."

Agreed on the part of the blame going to the illegal employer. The fact that I don't see strong enforcement action against employers (who are obviously going to be easier to catch/prosecute, as well as having a much larger impact per unit cost of enforcement) compared to the employees tells me that most politicians who harp on "illegals taking jobs" don't really care about the problem other than giving a ready excuse to rile up their base and be mean to brown people.
If you took the funds currently being used on masked ICE goons and detaining European tourists, and instead spent it on enforcing the law against employers, that would actually start putting a dent in the problem. (assuming you do believe that it's a problem) The immigrants will stop coming if there are no jobs.

The irresistible force (movie/recording studios) versus the immovable object (the US government's support for AI).

Finally, the studios seem to have met their match.

This can't end well for anyone.

I asked Gemini and it said, with authority that it was never wrong. </satire>

When it's wearing its YouTube hat, Google says

so they always side with those who claim copyright infringement in any uploaded content. As a result, videos and even entire channels get unfairly removed.

However, when Google is wearing its AI hat *it* claims that is is exempted from copyright because of "fair use" -- *without* waiting for the courts to decide.

Come on Google... you can't have it both ways -- either you need the court's consent for "fair use" or you don't. Which is it?

Not just trashy but scammy!

I've been reporting YT ads for their "scams and deceptive practices" and all I get is... nothing.

Even on X @teamyoutube simply says "Thanks for bringing this to our attention — we'll pass this along & handle all the next steps from here" yet, weeks later, the same scam ads continue to run.

Nothing buys immunity from the TOS more than an advertiser's wallet.

For those that also didn't know what skeumorphism is, via wikipedia:

a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original.[3] Skeuomorphs are typically used to make something new feel familiar in an effort to speed understanding and acclimation. They employ elements that, while essential to the original object, serve no pragmatic purpose in the new system, except for identification. Examples include pottery embellished with imitation rivets reminiscent of similar pots made of metal and a software calendar that imitates the appearance of binding on a paper desk calendar.

So, you know, familiarity.

Does this also say something more about the "coffee nap"?

AI scrapers use these residential proxies. It's not (just) VPNs and Tor routing. Several bottom-feeding companies openly advertise such scraping services, for pretty much any country you may want. I administer a wiki that's been on the receiving end of such scraping, and the majority of these scraping requests are in fact coming from residential IP-addresses rather than data centers.

I don't know whether these are hacked accounts, people getting tricked or paid to run these scraping apps on their devices, but it's impossible to block them all. Even if you let fail2ban block entire /24s for every detected hit (even disregarding the collateral damage and the fact that these blocks don't solve the issue, the fail2ban and iptables overhead starts to outweigh the apache load at some point).

Anubis seems to be taking care of it for now, but it's obviously only a matter of time before they can deal with that one too. Although its delay does enable fail2ban rules to block the IP-addresses before they get to stress the mediawiki php scripts, attempting to diff 2 revisions of a random page from 10 years ago.

While I agree that touch-typing isn't the primary skill of a competent, fast programmer -- it is still an amazing skill to have.

Although I've been touch-typing for almost half a century, it still fascinates me that the words appear on my screen simply as I think them. I don't even have to speak those thoughts -- my fingers automatically race around the keys and the words appear. It's almost like a direct interface between my mind and the computer.

Yes, I'm pretty fast -- about 140wpm which makes the whole experience even more fascinating since the words appear almost as fast as I think them.

Would I recommend that people learn touch-typing. Hell yes... I think people should learn *everything* they can, while they can. When you're young it's so much easier to learn than when you get old (like me). There are so many things I wish I'd learned when it would have been easier to do so -- foreign languages, playing a musical instrument, etc,etc.

However, here I am, a relic of the past. I can program in assembler for lots of 8-bit micros from the Signetics 2650 through the 8080, Z80, 6502, 6800 etc; BASIC, Pascal, C, Modula2, Java but now I'm faced with learning the intricacies of Python, Kotlin, Rust and crafting AI queries. It's getting harder every day because my brain seems to have simultaneously run out of RAM, CPU cycles and backup storage all at the same time :-)

I considered uploading to X but discovered that unless you pay them a monthly stipend, you can only upload very short vids (90 seconds I think).

So, if you do start paying them and upload longer vids, what happens if you stop your payment either voluntarily or perhaps because you die? Will your longer vids suddenly disappear?

None of the alternative platforms offer any kind of guarantee of continued service... hence people are far better off to self-host and federate if they are in a position to do so.

I agree. I spend about 12 hours a day working behind a computer keyboard/screen so when I'm not working I simply have no desire to carry a smartphone. I have an old-fashioned phone that only does SMS and voice -- I don't want to be connected to the internet 24/7.

What about *my* freedoms and rights?