I don't work for T-Mobile but I do work in the Core Network design team of another mobile carrier in another country. Amongst those applications were undoubtedly a bunch of systems that are literally the mobile network itself, Virtual Network Functions (VNF) - things like HSS, MME, PGW etc. You can't just pick those up and flick them somewhere else on a whim. With the complexity of a modern mobile network 4 years would be on the short side for a program of work to move them. Especially since the move would realistically mean a shift to containerised versions instead of virtualised, which are an order of magnitude more complex to deploy.

Source: our company is in the throes of replacing large chunks of the core network with containerised functions (on RedHat OpenShift, which is the big telco vendors standard platform these days), currently in year three and have only completed HSS, with IMS ready to go live soon, OCS in the early stages, PCRF, messaging and the entire EPC yet to kick off in 2027-2028.

So...exactly why would we choose Meta over all the more experienced and established players?...champions of the slogan "move fast and break things." (which sounds like a shitty Limp Bizkit song) Is it that halo effect from Facebook?....it's such a beloved and well run site afterall?

Isn't this akin to Bill Cosby launching a line of coffee makers? Woody Allen and Roman Polansky launching a daycare?

OK...ask for your money back! Moderators are unpaid and if someone told me that, I would think they are a huge asshole. You're not guaranteed a full trial and due process. However, you did more than "disagree" with someone...you told them to go die. I wouldn't call that "inciting violence"...but frankly, the subreddit is a lot better off without you if you behave that way. No one will miss you if you behave like that.

So think of it from their perspective...they're unpaid and doing it for love. They get shit all the time. I know a few moderators for some of my favorite porn subreddits. You go tell someone to jump into their ass and die....are you making the subreddit a better place? The moderator got 100 reports that day...are they going to carefully consider every fucking thing you say and give you a jury trial? No...you're being an asshole...and they agreed....and you got banned.

Cry me a fucking river...your ego was hurt because you were a huge prick. Go create a new account and learn from your behavior and act like a nice human being for a change. You lost no money. You're owed nothing.

View it this way...can I go into your home and tell you to "jump up their own ass and die" and expect you to politely put up with it while you serve me dinner?

What about your office? Would you put up with that?

What about your favorite bar? Would you just say nothing and let me insult you that way? Would the bartender keep serving me drinks?

You did something that is shitty and would get you punched in the face in many circumstances as well as evicted from the premises. But hey...reddit is the bad guy, right?

Reddit offers a service for free. In exchange, you get targeted ads. That's how the world works. LLMs ensure their content and communities than many worked so hard to build deliver content to other services without paying reddit a cent. It's a legit and reasonable step to ensure you're correctly compensated for your content. Also, I consented for reddit to host my posts as I am consenting for /. to have my comment. I didn't consent for Grok to serve it and monetize it.

If you're talking about reddit monetizing content...it's posted by a redditor....if it's illegal or against copyright, moderators will take it down. You can also request content be removed if you're a copyright holder. Inappropriate monetization is a bug, not a feature and reddit makes attempts to correct it.

The 3rd party reddit aggregator search engines? They don't care one bit what they post or if it should be removed.

A redditor posts child porn? death threats? suicide notes? It's deleted as soon as the moderators find it. These 3rd party aggregators hold on to it and serve it. They have no procedure for removal.

Also, I consented to post content on reddit and allow them to monetize what I posted. 3rd party sites?...I didn't consent to that. So what you're asking is basically...."why is it OK for a woman to fuck her husband?...but not a stranger to fuck the same woman without her consent?"

The scraping abuse on reddit used to be quite terrible. Every subreddit I enjoy (hobbies + porn) was well moderated, so not a ton of bot bullshit on the actual site, but I saw a lot of my old posts content farmed on shitty websites...as well as people grabbing content from adult performers and re-monetizing it as their own.

Now...we're all adults...you post shit online and you run that risk...but at least reddit is making steps to make it difficult to steal. I was really upset when I found there were sites serving my deleted posts in an easy to search format. Again...I guess I should have thought about that...but they are stealing from me and from reddit in my view.

It's like if a musician gives a performance in a park for free. You have the right to watch. You have the right to record on your phone. You don't have the right to make money off their performance....that's both illegal and very unethical.

Kewl story AC...but I call bullshit. You can disagree with people all you want. They can't ban you from the site unless you did a LOT MORE than "disagree" with someone....threatening to find someone and kill them is not disagreeing!

I haven't had that experience at all, but I don't do political or racist rants. Reddit is a treasure trove of information for my various hobbies and I learned a lot of extremely specialized knowledge for very specialized interests....plus free porn! I just feel bad for you...a website let's you follow your interests to an intensely specialized and niche degree...AND offers unlimited free boobies and you get upset about their politics? You must be one miserable prick!

As they say "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."

... sadly for the Americans, the rest of the world now knows they can't count on a US based provider for this kind of thing any more.

It was uncomfortable enough relying so heavily on American software back when it couldn't be switched off remotely on the say so of an idiot. Today it's an intolerable risk.

I thought the whole point was that it was so smart it wouldn't matter which way I held it. Why, a goldfish could design a new car with magical AI!

So...your theory is WEALTHY studio execs addicted to money and power with immense levels of privilege are willing to throw away their mansions in Beverly Hills and their power over adorning sycophants...endless hot assistants and interns....as well as aspiring actresses wiling to suck and fuck their way to the top....they're willing to risk this for woke ideology?

I like social justice and feeling like a good person. I like unfathomable wealth, power, and blowjobs more. So.....these folks.....they don't care about their egos, their careers, or their wealth?...just pushing "the message?"

So...you really believe that?....or you just want to believe it to fit your pre-assigned narrative? Do you even think about the things you say?

A transistor is still the fundamental basic unit of all logic for chips. You can put transistors together to make different things like high-speed cache memory with flip-flops as well as all types of logic gates.

DRAM memory is a bit different, only the high-speed cache(SRAM) is built from transistors. DRAM uses a capacitor to store a bit and is WAY WAY slower than SRAM which just keeps passing a bit back/forth between multiple transistors to store it.

The toilet seat is still freezing in the morning even after Uranus has been...

Handed directly to recipient institutions or individuals they serve as a firewall against online account compromise.

Checks have use when internet is interrupted during natural disasters and I have so used them. I've never had a check problem in my many decades on the planet because I think before writing. I bank locally and those I pay are protected thereby.

Redundant payment methods including cash come in handy. I keep a couple thousand (small enough to lose, large enough to be useful) bucks handy because buying for cash is preferred at yard sales, estate sales, flea markets, Fecesbook Marketplace etc. It's nice to have an electronic fetish, but that does not address every use case.

I also have two bank accounts, one in each state where I own land. I don't believe in being one-deep where backup is an option.