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Kevin Mulhall
@kevinmulhall.bsky.social
Writer | Artist | Retiree from a semiconductor company | Tech-Economics-Policy-Culture-Cartooning | No Crypto or Folks selling stuff | No DMs unless I've invited you to it. Michigan, ex-pat CDN
"If you buy a PC nowadays, you will commonly see Ethernet ports labeled 2.5G and/or 10G" Well you're buying top shelf systems if you're getting 2.5G or higher. Pretty sure statistically most new PCs with wired ports are still only 1G. www.tomshardware.com/networking/t...
The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 — DEC, Intel, and Xerox defined the standard several years before the internet existed
Ethernet ports are still desirable on desktop PCs, hanging on alongside the likes of the 3.5mm audio jack and IEC mains connector.
tomshardware.com
Well that can't be true. What makes them think we'd get any sleep if we turn over investing Robinhood AI bots? www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
Robinhood’s Next Big Bet: AI Bots That Trade While You Sleep
The brokerage’s app made it easy to trade stocks on a smartphone. Now Robinhood sees AI agents in individual investors’ future.
wsj.com
Forget esthetics, this would be useful for diagnostic purposes if you could pipe the microled output to a visible panel. www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
Intel patent outlines embedding MicroLEDs directly into CPU package to light up wording or work as an 'extra aesthetic component' — MicroLED is embedded with die in glass substrate
The LEDs are connected directly to the die, which is embedded in a glass substrate.
tomshardware.com
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Canada missed a huge opportunity when they introduced the $2 companion coin to the $1 Looney - Just think, they could have called them DOUBLOONS. Numerically resonant and a great pirate reference. Toonies is boring.
It's beginning. Canada is diversifying It's potash customer base to include customers other than the US. A likely result is US will have to start paying higher Belarus-level prices. All thanks to Trump. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4f3364f...
Potash giant Canpotex investing $500-million in Vancouver port terminal to increase exports
Announcement comes as BHP’s Jansen project in Saskatchewan gears up to produce the commodity in mid-2027
theglobeandmail.com
Interesting observations by Peter Zeihan on coming failure of Chinese real estate market... youtu.be/a2AJvCPcNUE
The Failure of Chinese Real Estate || Peter Zeihan
YouTube video by Zeihan on Geopolitics
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In the Canadian capital, a cluster of Ottawa streets was named with a NYC theme. Trump Avenue is now gone though. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4f3364f...
Politics Insider: Ottawa City Council votes to rename Trump Avenue
Residents of the street no longer want to be associated with the U.S. President
theglobeandmail.com
It will be interesting to see if those red state farmers Trump was trying to placate with announcements about Chinese agricultural sales will figure out Trump's interest was just posturing not actual sales - before the midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
China Promised to Buy More U.S. Farm Goods. It Hasn’t Happened. (Gift Article)
Soybeans are the notable exception, revealing Beijing’s selective approach to fulfilling trade commitments ahead of the summit between President Trump and Xi Jinping.
nytimes.com
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Can somebody please ask that remaining 32% what they actually LIKE about Trump's tariff taxes? (Yes, all tariffs are taxes on American importers) www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump approval rating sinks as Dems lead by double digits
Trump had been gaining ground in the polls. A new survey shows that momentum may have come to an abrupt end.
usatoday.com
Not only doesn't Belrus have any Potash to sell, (and NEVER could have sold enough to replace Canada anyway) but I'm sure their price to US farmers would be much higher, even with the Trump Tariff Tax, than the Canadian Potash thehill.com/policy/inter...
Belarus says no potash left after Trump claims massive deal for fertilizer
Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that there are no available volumes of fertilizer to send to the U.S. This came after President Trump announced that he was working o…
thehill.com
They all knew ahead of time who he is...
If he cared, this would be pretty embarrassing for Putin www.tomshardware.com/software/win...
Putin casts online vote using unlicensed Windows on an American Dell PC — 'Activate Windows' watermark visible in official Kremlin clip, uses foreign Dell PC despite Russian tech mandate
“You can’t go wrong,” says the Russian president squinting at the screen to check that he didn’t go wrong, before thanking the computer.
tomshardware.com
Please think before you buy that candybar with Bitcoin. spacedaily.com/n-a-single-b...
A single Bitcoin transaction carried an average water footprint of about 16,000 litres in 2021 once the electricity and cooling behind it were counted — roughly 6.2 million times the water behind one ...
As Bitcoin's price swings, so does its hidden cost in freshwater—each transaction now demands enough water to fill an Olympic swimming pool.
spacedaily.com
“If we wanted to get rid of deficits, which we could do with the swipe of the pen with every country, we’d make a trillion and a half dollars a year,” Mr. Trump said. “We’d pay off our debt. We’d do all sorts of things. But we haven’t chosen to do that." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
Trump’s Latest Threats Loom Over Fed’s Interest Rate Decision (Gift Article)
This month, the president threatened to halt a broad swath of trade if interest rates were not cut, a possibility he resurfaced on Wednesday.
nytimes.com
Is sobriety part of the appearance profile and if so, is there a plan for replacing Hegseth there is he's drunk again? thehill.com/policy/defen...
Service members must meet weight, grooming standards for Hegseth event: Report
The Pentagon is reportedly requiring troops to meet waist-to-height requirements and exhibit “impeccable” grooming standards in order to attend Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “State of the Force”…
thehill.com
Well Rodgers is throwing some of his staff under the bus by lying about not agreeing to the event. Before it would been announced as scheduled, both sides would have agreed to the format. Abdul should name who in MR's team did the agreement to out him. www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...
Mike Rogers speaks out after skipping Michigan Senate debate: "We never agreed to it"
Republican Mike Rogers is defending his decision not to attend a Sept. 15 televised event in the U.S. Senate race, saying he never agreed to participate and accusing the moderator of favoritism.
cbsnews.com
Carney announcement about Canada getting to lowest debt to GDP ratio in G7 youtu.be/VLfE0DoCYXc?...
Canada to have lowest net debt to GDP ratio in the G7, PM Carney says
YouTube video by CTV News
youtu.be
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So if "nothing" in his homelab runs on bare metal I want to know what he's running his Proxmox on. www.xda-developers.com/nothing-in-m...
Nothing in my home lab runs on bare metal anymore, and rebuilding it has never been less painful
There's a time and a place for bare metal, but most services are just better under a hypervisor
xda-developers.com
I always expected Trump to blame Hegseth for the war at some point and fire him, but letting get impeached is probably a step too far for the Donald. Anyhow, go Massie! www.npr.org/2026/09/15/g...
Republican Rep. Massie moves to impeach Defense Secretary Hegseth over Iran war
Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Tuesday over the war in Iran.
npr.org