#downloading — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #downloading, aggregated by home.social.
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PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading
https://stuartbreckenridge.net/2026-03-19-pc-gamer-recommends-rss-readers-in-a-37mb-article/
#HackerNews #PCGamer #RSSReaders #Downloading #Article #TechNews
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PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading
https://stuartbreckenridge.net/2026-03-19-pc-gamer-recommends-rss-readers-in-a-37mb-article/
#HackerNews #PCGamer #RSSReaders #Downloading #Article #TechNews
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PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading
https://stuartbreckenridge.net/2026-03-19-pc-gamer-recommends-rss-readers-in-a-37mb-article/
#HackerNews #PCGamer #RSSReaders #Downloading #Article #TechNews
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PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading
https://stuartbreckenridge.net/2026-03-19-pc-gamer-recommends-rss-readers-in-a-37mb-article/
#HackerNews #PCGamer #RSSReaders #Downloading #Article #TechNews
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PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading
https://stuartbreckenridge.net/2026-03-19-pc-gamer-recommends-rss-readers-in-a-37mb-article/
#HackerNews #PCGamer #RSSReaders #Downloading #Article #TechNews
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#Apple #Blocks #US Users From #Downloading ByteDance’s
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-government.html#32 #Tesla Cybertrucks catch fire in Santa Monica
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#19Bridge of Spirits is coming to #Nintendo Switch 2 this
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc-varied.html#10#UAE President receives phone call from President of
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#AbuDhabi#Iowa father, son make reffing the state tournament
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-capitals.html#DesMoines#National Council for Special #Education apologises for
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/ireland.html#IrishMirror -
#Apple #Blocks #US Users From #Downloading ByteDance’s
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-government.html#32 #Tesla Cybertrucks catch fire in Santa Monica
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#19Bridge of Spirits is coming to #Nintendo Switch 2 this
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc-varied.html#10#UAE President receives phone call from President of
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#AbuDhabi#Iowa father, son make reffing the state tournament
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-capitals.html#DesMoines#National Council for Special #Education apologises for
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/ireland.html#IrishMirror -
#Apple #Blocks #US Users From #Downloading ByteDance’s
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-government.html#32 #Tesla Cybertrucks catch fire in Santa Monica
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#19Bridge of Spirits is coming to #Nintendo Switch 2 this
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc-varied.html#10#UAE President receives phone call from President of
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#AbuDhabi#Iowa father, son make reffing the state tournament
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-capitals.html#DesMoines#National Council for Special #Education apologises for
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/ireland.html#IrishMirror -
#Apple #Blocks #US Users From #Downloading ByteDance’s
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-government.html#32 #Tesla Cybertrucks catch fire in Santa Monica
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#19Bridge of Spirits is coming to #Nintendo Switch 2 this
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc-varied.html#10#UAE President receives phone call from President of
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#AbuDhabi#Iowa father, son make reffing the state tournament
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-capitals.html#DesMoines#National Council for Special #Education apologises for
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/ireland.html#IrishMirror -
Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance’s Chinese Apps
https://misryoum.com/us/economy/apple-blocks-us-users-from-downloading-bytedances-chinese/
“Pursuant to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, apps developed by ByteDance Ltd. and its subsidiaries — including TikTok, CapCut, Lemon8, and others — will no longer be available for download or updates on the App Store...
#Apple #Blocks #Users #From #Downloading #ByteDances #Chinese #Apps #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com
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Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance’s Chinese Apps
https://misryoum.com/us/economy/apple-blocks-us-users-from-downloading-bytedances-chinese/
“Pursuant to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, apps developed by ByteDance Ltd. and its subsidiaries — including TikTok, CapCut, Lemon8, and others — will no longer be available for download or updates on the App Store...
#Apple #Blocks #Users #From #Downloading #ByteDances #Chinese #Apps #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com
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Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance’s Chinese Apps
https://misryoum.com/us/economy/apple-blocks-us-users-from-downloading-bytedances-chinese/
“Pursuant to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, apps developed by ByteDance Ltd. and its subsidiaries — including TikTok, CapCut, Lemon8, and others — will no longer be available for download or updates on the App Store...
#Apple #Blocks #Users #From #Downloading #ByteDances #Chinese #Apps #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com
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Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance’s Chinese Apps
https://misryoum.com/us/economy/apple-blocks-us-users-from-downloading-bytedances-chinese/
“Pursuant to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, apps developed by ByteDance Ltd. and its subsidiaries — including TikTok, CapCut, Lemon8, and others — will no longer be available for download or updates on the App Store...
#Apple #Blocks #Users #From #Downloading #ByteDances #Chinese #Apps #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com
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freemediaheckyeah
The largest collection of free stuff on the internet! #freeware #ai #video #audio #gaming #reading #listening #downloading #torrenting #educational #miscellanious
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It was difficult to get an up to date list on what sites the #Debrid service #PremiumizeMe worked with.
Here are the sites it gives you access to as well as #Usenet. Hopefully this will help others.
While it allows access to many popular #FileSharing sites like RapidGator and 1fichier, it unfortunately does not work with Keep2Share.
Hopefully I can find a reputable service that works with all 3.
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It was difficult to get an up to date list on what sites the #Debrid service #PremiumizeMe worked with.
Here are the sites it gives you access to as well as #Usenet. Hopefully this will help others.
While it allows access to many popular #FileSharing sites like RapidGator and 1fichier, it unfortunately does not work with Keep2Share.
Hopefully I can find a reputable service that works with all 3.
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It was difficult to get an up to date list on what sites the #Debrid service #PremiumizeMe worked with.
Here are the sites it gives you access to as well as #Usenet. Hopefully this will help others.
While it allows access to many popular #FileSharing sites like RapidGator and 1fichier, it unfortunately does not work with Keep2Share.
Hopefully I can find a reputable service that works with all 3.
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It was difficult to get an up to date list on what sites the #Debrid service #PremiumizeMe worked with.
Here are the sites it gives you access to as well as #Usenet. Hopefully this will help others.
While it allows access to many popular #FileSharing sites like RapidGator and 1fichier, it unfortunately does not work with Keep2Share.
Hopefully I can find a reputable service that works with all 3.
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It was difficult to get an up to date list on what sites the #Debrid service #PremiumizeMe worked with.
Here are the sites it gives you access to as well as #Usenet. Hopefully this will help others.
While it allows access to many popular #FileSharing sites like RapidGator and 1fichier, it unfortunately does not work with Keep2Share.
Hopefully I can find a reputable service that works with all 3.
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🚨 Breaking news: #Yt-dlp now needs a #JavaScript runtime for #YouTube support! Because, obviously, we all needed yet another reason to love JavaScript. 🎉 Who knew #downloading videos could be this thrilling? 💾💔
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012 #support #video #news #excitement #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Breaking news: #Yt-dlp now needs a #JavaScript runtime for #YouTube support! Because, obviously, we all needed yet another reason to love JavaScript. 🎉 Who knew #downloading videos could be this thrilling? 💾💔
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012 #support #video #news #excitement #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Breaking news: #Yt-dlp now needs a #JavaScript runtime for #YouTube support! Because, obviously, we all needed yet another reason to love JavaScript. 🎉 Who knew #downloading videos could be this thrilling? 💾💔
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012 #support #video #news #excitement #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Breaking news: #Yt-dlp now needs a #JavaScript runtime for #YouTube support! Because, obviously, we all needed yet another reason to love JavaScript. 🎉 Who knew #downloading videos could be this thrilling? 💾💔
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012 #support #video #news #excitement #HackerNews #ngated -
#YTPTube is a web-based GUI for yt-dlp, designed to make #downloading videos from #video platforms easier and user-friendly. It supports downloading playlists, channels, live streams and includes features like scheduling downloads, sending notifications, and built-in video #player.
https://github.com/ArabCoders/ytptube
#YouTube #Linux #Windows #macOS -
#YTPTube is a web-based GUI for yt-dlp, designed to make #downloading videos from #video platforms easier and user-friendly. It supports downloading playlists, channels, live streams and includes features like scheduling downloads, sending notifications, and built-in video #player.
https://github.com/ArabCoders/ytptube
#YouTube #Linux #Windows #macOS -
#YTPTube is a web-based GUI for yt-dlp, designed to make #downloading videos from #video platforms easier and user-friendly. It supports downloading playlists, channels, live streams and includes features like scheduling downloads, sending notifications, and built-in video #player.
https://github.com/ArabCoders/ytptube
#YouTube #Linux #Windows #macOS -
Next up getting the music sorted for our Corsican holiday in a little over three weeks ❤️
#holidaytunes #musicplayer #ripping #downloading #clothesfreeliving #naturist #naturalmale #naturism #nude #naked #naturalhumanbeing #absolutelynormal #bodypositivity #nonsexualnudity #itsonlynatural #naturalhumanbodies
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Next up getting the music sorted for our Corsican holiday in a little over three weeks ❤️
#holidaytunes #musicplayer #ripping #downloading #clothesfreeliving #naturist #naturalmale #naturism #nude #naked #naturalhumanbeing #absolutelynormal #bodypositivity #nonsexualnudity #itsonlynatural #naturalhumanbodies
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The Difference Between Downloading and Streaming
https://danq.me/2025/05/26/downloading-vs-streaming/
#HackerNews #Downloading #Streaming #Difference #Media #Consumption #Tech #Insights
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The Difference Between Downloading and Streaming
https://danq.me/2025/05/26/downloading-vs-streaming/
#HackerNews #Downloading #Streaming #Difference #Media #Consumption #Tech #Insights
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The Difference Between Downloading and Streaming
https://danq.me/2025/05/26/downloading-vs-streaming/
#HackerNews #Downloading #Streaming #Difference #Media #Consumption #Tech #Insights
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The Difference Between Downloading and Streaming
https://danq.me/2025/05/26/downloading-vs-streaming/
#HackerNews #Downloading #Streaming #Difference #Media #Consumption #Tech #Insights
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So, I spent a couple of hours #downloading all 170+ of my #Amazon #Kindle #eBooks last night. For those of you that are unaware, Amazon is removing the ability to download eBooks on February 26th.
Even if you don't plan / want to strip your books of the #DRM for your personal use, making a backup is a good idea. Hopefully most of you will remember when Amazon removed copies of George Orwell's 1984 (quite ironically, as everyone always points out) from all Kindles a few years back without any warning, or offering a replacement or refund.
I tried to get bun working to automate the download process, but wasn't successful (I don't think it was the tool -- I think the issue was with my crappy internet connection.) I'll link the Hackaday article about it below.
Again, I'd highly recommend downloading all of your Kindle eBooks, unless you are comfortable (a) relying on Amazon's cloud storage for maintaing your library, and (b) comfortable with Amazon's willingness to mess with your books on their own whims.
Personally, I'm not comfortable with that, and believe that having a backup of the items I've legally purchased is a legitimate reason for me to download them. Also this is part of a bigger project for me: adding my complete book collection to Zotero so it is available for reference in any of my writing tools, and linking my notes and highlights to proper references.
Here's the Hackaday article: https://hackaday.com/2025/02/18/auto-download-your-kindle-books-before-february-26th-deadline/
#reading #tablet #eReader #eReaders #eReadersForum #BooksFed
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So, I spent a couple of hours #downloading all 170+ of my #Amazon #Kindle #eBooks last night. For those of you that are unaware, Amazon is removing the ability to download eBooks on February 26th.
Even if you don't plan / want to strip your books of the #DRM for your personal use, making a backup is a good idea. Hopefully most of you will remember when Amazon removed copies of George Orwell's 1984 (quite ironically, as everyone always points out) from all Kindles a few years back without any warning, or offering a replacement or refund.
I tried to get bun working to automate the download process, but wasn't successful (I don't think it was the tool -- I think the issue was with my crappy internet connection.) I'll link the Hackaday article about it below.
Again, I'd highly recommend downloading all of your Kindle eBooks, unless you are comfortable (a) relying on Amazon's cloud storage for maintaing your library, and (b) comfortable with Amazon's willingness to mess with your books on their own whims.
Personally, I'm not comfortable with that, and believe that having a backup of the items I've legally purchased is a legitimate reason for me to download them. Also this is part of a bigger project for me: adding my complete book collection to Zotero so it is available for reference in any of my writing tools, and linking my notes and highlights to proper references.
Here's the Hackaday article: https://hackaday.com/2025/02/18/auto-download-your-kindle-books-before-february-26th-deadline/
#reading #tablet #eReader #eReaders #eReadersForum #BooksFed
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https://www.evshift.com/319309/how-to-downloading-and-installing-bmw-remote-software-upgrades/ How-To: Downloading and Installing BMW Remote Software Upgrades. #bmw #Downloading #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #EV #HowTo #Installing #remote #software #upgrades
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HakuNeko manga sources that return results for the following tag selections:
English High-Quality Manga:
DeathTollScans, 74 results, not tested
LHTranslation, 95 results, not tested
MyAnimeList (Manga), 1366 results, some results broken
One-Punch Man, 1 result, broken
RavensScans (English), 22 results, not tested
SeinagiFansub (EN), 10 results, not tested
ZeroScans, 100 results, not tested
ZinManga, 5176 results, not tested
8 out of 64 connectors showed a list. 1/8th. Bad.
#HakuNeko #manga #downloading -
HakuNeko manga sources that return results for the following tag selections:
English High-Quality Manga:
DeathTollScans, 74 results, not tested
LHTranslation, 95 results, not tested
MyAnimeList (Manga), 1366 results, some results broken
One-Punch Man, 1 result, broken
RavensScans (English), 22 results, not tested
SeinagiFansub (EN), 10 results, not tested
ZeroScans, 100 results, not tested
ZinManga, 5176 results, not tested
8 out of 64 connectors showed a list. 1/8th. Bad.
#HakuNeko #manga #downloading -
HakuNeko manga sources that return results for the following tag selections:
English High-Quality Manga:
DeathTollScans, 74 results, not tested
LHTranslation, 95 results, not tested
MyAnimeList (Manga), 1366 results, some results broken
One-Punch Man, 1 result, broken
RavensScans (English), 22 results, not tested
SeinagiFansub (EN), 10 results, not tested
ZeroScans, 100 results, not tested
ZinManga, 5176 results, not tested
8 out of 64 connectors showed a list. 1/8th. Bad.
#HakuNeko #manga #downloading -
HakuNeko manga sources that return results for the following tag selections:
English High-Quality Manga:
DeathTollScans, 74 results, not tested
LHTranslation, 95 results, not tested
MyAnimeList (Manga), 1366 results, some results broken
One-Punch Man, 1 result, broken
RavensScans (English), 22 results, not tested
SeinagiFansub (EN), 10 results, not tested
ZeroScans, 100 results, not tested
ZinManga, 5176 results, not tested
8 out of 64 connectors showed a list. 1/8th. Bad.
#HakuNeko #manga #downloading -
I hate it when I lose data that I stole. I feel like I lost something, even though I know I can just go and torrent it again, but I can't legitimately complain about it.
#piracy #dataHoarder #downloading #pirate #torrent #bittorrent
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I hate it when I lose data that I stole. I feel like I lost something, even though I know I can just go and torrent it again, but I can't legitimately complain about it.
#piracy #dataHoarder #downloading #pirate #torrent #bittorrent
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I hate it when I lose data that I stole. I feel like I lost something, even though I know I can just go and torrent it again, but I can't legitimately complain about it.
#piracy #dataHoarder #downloading #pirate #torrent #bittorrent
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I hate it when I lose data that I stole. I feel like I lost something, even though I know I can just go and torrent it again, but I can't legitimately complain about it.
#piracy #dataHoarder #downloading #pirate #torrent #bittorrent
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I hate it when I lose data that I stole. I feel like I lost something, even though I know I can just go and torrent it again, but I can't legitimately complain about it.
#piracy #dataHoarder #downloading #pirate #torrent #bittorrent
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One advantage Huawei had was the backing of its government.
US and European observers say China packs standards meetings with engineers who can be eyes and ears on the ground.
Rivals also complain that Chinese companies work together in lockstep; even ostensible competitors will set aside differences to support a compatriot business.
For a brief moment in the middle of 2016, it looked as if that national wall of support wouldn't hold.
In a preliminary round of the 5G New Radio standards process, the Chinese company #Lenovo expressed its preference for LDPC, because it was a more familiar technology.
That didn't last long.
Lenovo changed its opinion later that year.Lenovo's founder, Liu Chuanzhi, called Ren Zhengfei to make sure that no offense was taken by the original stance.
Liu and other executives even drafted an open letter that read like a forced confession.“We all agree that Chinese enterprises should be united and not be provoked by outsiders,” Liu and his colleagues wrote. “Stick to it … raise the banner of national industry, and finally defeat the international giants.”
Thus united behind polar codes, Chinese industry prepared to do battle at the final, critical stage
—the November 2016 engineering standards meetings held in Reno, Nevada.The venue was the Peppermill resort and casino. Engineers, hunkered in hotel conference rooms arguing about block codes and channel capacity, had little time to enjoy the craps tables or eucalyptus steam rooms.
Simultaneous meetings to determine a number of standards kept engineers hopping from one conference room to the next, says Michael Thelander, a consultant specializing in wireless telecommunications.
“But polar coding versus LDPC, that was the hot topic,” he says.
On the night of Friday, November 18, the conference room was packed, and the meeting, which began in the evening, turned into a standoff.
Each company presented its work, including its testing results.
“The battle was pretty well drawn, with most of the Western vendors lining up behind LDPC,” says Kevin Krewell, a principal analyst at Tirias Research, who follows 5G.
Some Western companies backed polar codes too, but, significantly, all the Chinese companies did.
“There was no obvious winner in the whole game, but it was very clear that Huawei was not going to back down,” says Thelander, who was on the scene as an observer.
Neither would the LDPC side. “So we can sit there and spend six months fighting over this thing and delay 5G, or we compromise.”
So they did.
The standards committee split the signal-processing standard into two parts.One technology could be used to send the #user #data.
The other would be applied to what was known as the #control #channel, which manages how that data moves.
The first function was assigned to LDPC, and the second to polar codes.
It was well into the wee hours when the agreement was finalized.
Huawei was ecstatic.
But it was not just Huawei's win; it was China's too.
Finally, a Chinese company was getting respect commensurate with its increasingly dominant power in the marketplace.“Huawei-backed polar code entering the 5G standard has a symbolic meaning,” one observer told a reporter at the time.
“This is the first time a Chinese company has entered a telecommunications framework agreement, winning the right to be heard.”
Qualcomm professes to be fine with the result.
“It was very important for Huawei to get something,” says its CEO, Steve Mollenkopf.“Huawei is actually quite good. They are a formidable company. And I think that's one thing that people need to acknowledge.”
#standard #Reed #Hundt #3GPP #5G #New #Radio #standards #Qualcomm #LDPC #Wen #Tong #5G #patents #Arıkan #polar #codes #Alexander #Vardy #Ido #Tal #Technion #Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
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One advantage Huawei had was the backing of its government.
US and European observers say China packs standards meetings with engineers who can be eyes and ears on the ground.
Rivals also complain that Chinese companies work together in lockstep; even ostensible competitors will set aside differences to support a compatriot business.
For a brief moment in the middle of 2016, it looked as if that national wall of support wouldn't hold.
In a preliminary round of the 5G New Radio standards process, the Chinese company #Lenovo expressed its preference for LDPC, because it was a more familiar technology.
That didn't last long.
Lenovo changed its opinion later that year.Lenovo's founder, Liu Chuanzhi, called Ren Zhengfei to make sure that no offense was taken by the original stance.
Liu and other executives even drafted an open letter that read like a forced confession.“We all agree that Chinese enterprises should be united and not be provoked by outsiders,” Liu and his colleagues wrote. “Stick to it … raise the banner of national industry, and finally defeat the international giants.”
Thus united behind polar codes, Chinese industry prepared to do battle at the final, critical stage
—the November 2016 engineering standards meetings held in Reno, Nevada.The venue was the Peppermill resort and casino. Engineers, hunkered in hotel conference rooms arguing about block codes and channel capacity, had little time to enjoy the craps tables or eucalyptus steam rooms.
Simultaneous meetings to determine a number of standards kept engineers hopping from one conference room to the next, says Michael Thelander, a consultant specializing in wireless telecommunications.
“But polar coding versus LDPC, that was the hot topic,” he says.
On the night of Friday, November 18, the conference room was packed, and the meeting, which began in the evening, turned into a standoff.
Each company presented its work, including its testing results.
“The battle was pretty well drawn, with most of the Western vendors lining up behind LDPC,” says Kevin Krewell, a principal analyst at Tirias Research, who follows 5G.
Some Western companies backed polar codes too, but, significantly, all the Chinese companies did.
“There was no obvious winner in the whole game, but it was very clear that Huawei was not going to back down,” says Thelander, who was on the scene as an observer.
Neither would the LDPC side. “So we can sit there and spend six months fighting over this thing and delay 5G, or we compromise.”
So they did.
The standards committee split the signal-processing standard into two parts.One technology could be used to send the #user #data.
The other would be applied to what was known as the #control #channel, which manages how that data moves.
The first function was assigned to LDPC, and the second to polar codes.
It was well into the wee hours when the agreement was finalized.
Huawei was ecstatic.
But it was not just Huawei's win; it was China's too.
Finally, a Chinese company was getting respect commensurate with its increasingly dominant power in the marketplace.“Huawei-backed polar code entering the 5G standard has a symbolic meaning,” one observer told a reporter at the time.
“This is the first time a Chinese company has entered a telecommunications framework agreement, winning the right to be heard.”
Qualcomm professes to be fine with the result.
“It was very important for Huawei to get something,” says its CEO, Steve Mollenkopf.“Huawei is actually quite good. They are a formidable company. And I think that's one thing that people need to acknowledge.”
#standard #Reed #Hundt #3GPP #5G #New #Radio #standards #Qualcomm #LDPC #Wen #Tong #5G #patents #Arıkan #polar #codes #Alexander #Vardy #Ido #Tal #Technion #Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
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One advantage Huawei had was the backing of its government.
US and European observers say China packs standards meetings with engineers who can be eyes and ears on the ground.
Rivals also complain that Chinese companies work together in lockstep; even ostensible competitors will set aside differences to support a compatriot business.
For a brief moment in the middle of 2016, it looked as if that national wall of support wouldn't hold.
In a preliminary round of the 5G New Radio standards process, the Chinese company #Lenovo expressed its preference for LDPC, because it was a more familiar technology.
That didn't last long.
Lenovo changed its opinion later that year.Lenovo's founder, Liu Chuanzhi, called Ren Zhengfei to make sure that no offense was taken by the original stance.
Liu and other executives even drafted an open letter that read like a forced confession.“We all agree that Chinese enterprises should be united and not be provoked by outsiders,” Liu and his colleagues wrote. “Stick to it … raise the banner of national industry, and finally defeat the international giants.”
Thus united behind polar codes, Chinese industry prepared to do battle at the final, critical stage
—the November 2016 engineering standards meetings held in Reno, Nevada.The venue was the Peppermill resort and casino. Engineers, hunkered in hotel conference rooms arguing about block codes and channel capacity, had little time to enjoy the craps tables or eucalyptus steam rooms.
Simultaneous meetings to determine a number of standards kept engineers hopping from one conference room to the next, says Michael Thelander, a consultant specializing in wireless telecommunications.
“But polar coding versus LDPC, that was the hot topic,” he says.
On the night of Friday, November 18, the conference room was packed, and the meeting, which began in the evening, turned into a standoff.
Each company presented its work, including its testing results.
“The battle was pretty well drawn, with most of the Western vendors lining up behind LDPC,” says Kevin Krewell, a principal analyst at Tirias Research, who follows 5G.
Some Western companies backed polar codes too, but, significantly, all the Chinese companies did.
“There was no obvious winner in the whole game, but it was very clear that Huawei was not going to back down,” says Thelander, who was on the scene as an observer.
Neither would the LDPC side. “So we can sit there and spend six months fighting over this thing and delay 5G, or we compromise.”
So they did.
The standards committee split the signal-processing standard into two parts.One technology could be used to send the #user #data.
The other would be applied to what was known as the #control #channel, which manages how that data moves.
The first function was assigned to LDPC, and the second to polar codes.
It was well into the wee hours when the agreement was finalized.
Huawei was ecstatic.
But it was not just Huawei's win; it was China's too.
Finally, a Chinese company was getting respect commensurate with its increasingly dominant power in the marketplace.“Huawei-backed polar code entering the 5G standard has a symbolic meaning,” one observer told a reporter at the time.
“This is the first time a Chinese company has entered a telecommunications framework agreement, winning the right to be heard.”
Qualcomm professes to be fine with the result.
“It was very important for Huawei to get something,” says its CEO, Steve Mollenkopf.“Huawei is actually quite good. They are a formidable company. And I think that's one thing that people need to acknowledge.”
#standard #Reed #Hundt #3GPP #5G #New #Radio #standards #Qualcomm #LDPC #Wen #Tong #5G #patents #Arıkan #polar #codes #Alexander #Vardy #Ido #Tal #Technion #Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
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One advantage Huawei had was the backing of its government.
US and European observers say China packs standards meetings with engineers who can be eyes and ears on the ground.
Rivals also complain that Chinese companies work together in lockstep; even ostensible competitors will set aside differences to support a compatriot business.
For a brief moment in the middle of 2016, it looked as if that national wall of support wouldn't hold.
In a preliminary round of the 5G New Radio standards process, the Chinese company #Lenovo expressed its preference for LDPC, because it was a more familiar technology.
That didn't last long.
Lenovo changed its opinion later that year.Lenovo's founder, Liu Chuanzhi, called Ren Zhengfei to make sure that no offense was taken by the original stance.
Liu and other executives even drafted an open letter that read like a forced confession.“We all agree that Chinese enterprises should be united and not be provoked by outsiders,” Liu and his colleagues wrote. “Stick to it … raise the banner of national industry, and finally defeat the international giants.”
Thus united behind polar codes, Chinese industry prepared to do battle at the final, critical stage
—the November 2016 engineering standards meetings held in Reno, Nevada.The venue was the Peppermill resort and casino. Engineers, hunkered in hotel conference rooms arguing about block codes and channel capacity, had little time to enjoy the craps tables or eucalyptus steam rooms.
Simultaneous meetings to determine a number of standards kept engineers hopping from one conference room to the next, says Michael Thelander, a consultant specializing in wireless telecommunications.
“But polar coding versus LDPC, that was the hot topic,” he says.
On the night of Friday, November 18, the conference room was packed, and the meeting, which began in the evening, turned into a standoff.
Each company presented its work, including its testing results.
“The battle was pretty well drawn, with most of the Western vendors lining up behind LDPC,” says Kevin Krewell, a principal analyst at Tirias Research, who follows 5G.
Some Western companies backed polar codes too, but, significantly, all the Chinese companies did.
“There was no obvious winner in the whole game, but it was very clear that Huawei was not going to back down,” says Thelander, who was on the scene as an observer.
Neither would the LDPC side. “So we can sit there and spend six months fighting over this thing and delay 5G, or we compromise.”
So they did.
The standards committee split the signal-processing standard into two parts.One technology could be used to send the #user #data.
The other would be applied to what was known as the #control #channel, which manages how that data moves.
The first function was assigned to LDPC, and the second to polar codes.
It was well into the wee hours when the agreement was finalized.
Huawei was ecstatic.
But it was not just Huawei's win; it was China's too.
Finally, a Chinese company was getting respect commensurate with its increasingly dominant power in the marketplace.“Huawei-backed polar code entering the 5G standard has a symbolic meaning,” one observer told a reporter at the time.
“This is the first time a Chinese company has entered a telecommunications framework agreement, winning the right to be heard.”
Qualcomm professes to be fine with the result.
“It was very important for Huawei to get something,” says its CEO, Steve Mollenkopf.“Huawei is actually quite good. They are a formidable company. And I think that's one thing that people need to acknowledge.”
#standard #Reed #Hundt #3GPP #5G #New #Radio #standards #Qualcomm #LDPC #Wen #Tong #5G #patents #Arıkan #polar #codes #Alexander #Vardy #Ido #Tal #Technion #Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
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One advantage Huawei had was the backing of its government.
US and European observers say China packs standards meetings with engineers who can be eyes and ears on the ground.
Rivals also complain that Chinese companies work together in lockstep; even ostensible competitors will set aside differences to support a compatriot business.
For a brief moment in the middle of 2016, it looked as if that national wall of support wouldn't hold.
In a preliminary round of the 5G New Radio standards process, the Chinese company #Lenovo expressed its preference for LDPC, because it was a more familiar technology.
That didn't last long.
Lenovo changed its opinion later that year.Lenovo's founder, Liu Chuanzhi, called Ren Zhengfei to make sure that no offense was taken by the original stance.
Liu and other executives even drafted an open letter that read like a forced confession.“We all agree that Chinese enterprises should be united and not be provoked by outsiders,” Liu and his colleagues wrote. “Stick to it … raise the banner of national industry, and finally defeat the international giants.”
Thus united behind polar codes, Chinese industry prepared to do battle at the final, critical stage
—the November 2016 engineering standards meetings held in Reno, Nevada.The venue was the Peppermill resort and casino. Engineers, hunkered in hotel conference rooms arguing about block codes and channel capacity, had little time to enjoy the craps tables or eucalyptus steam rooms.
Simultaneous meetings to determine a number of standards kept engineers hopping from one conference room to the next, says Michael Thelander, a consultant specializing in wireless telecommunications.
“But polar coding versus LDPC, that was the hot topic,” he says.
On the night of Friday, November 18, the conference room was packed, and the meeting, which began in the evening, turned into a standoff.
Each company presented its work, including its testing results.
“The battle was pretty well drawn, with most of the Western vendors lining up behind LDPC,” says Kevin Krewell, a principal analyst at Tirias Research, who follows 5G.
Some Western companies backed polar codes too, but, significantly, all the Chinese companies did.
“There was no obvious winner in the whole game, but it was very clear that Huawei was not going to back down,” says Thelander, who was on the scene as an observer.
Neither would the LDPC side. “So we can sit there and spend six months fighting over this thing and delay 5G, or we compromise.”
So they did.
The standards committee split the signal-processing standard into two parts.One technology could be used to send the #user #data.
The other would be applied to what was known as the #control #channel, which manages how that data moves.
The first function was assigned to LDPC, and the second to polar codes.
It was well into the wee hours when the agreement was finalized.
Huawei was ecstatic.
But it was not just Huawei's win; it was China's too.
Finally, a Chinese company was getting respect commensurate with its increasingly dominant power in the marketplace.“Huawei-backed polar code entering the 5G standard has a symbolic meaning,” one observer told a reporter at the time.
“This is the first time a Chinese company has entered a telecommunications framework agreement, winning the right to be heard.”
Qualcomm professes to be fine with the result.
“It was very important for Huawei to get something,” says its CEO, Steve Mollenkopf.“Huawei is actually quite good. They are a formidable company. And I think that's one thing that people need to acknowledge.”
#standard #Reed #Hundt #3GPP #5G #New #Radio #standards #Qualcomm #LDPC #Wen #Tong #5G #patents #Arıkan #polar #codes #Alexander #Vardy #Ido #Tal #Technion #Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
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Reaching consensus on the parts of a mobile platform is complicated. Decisions have to be made about dozens of specifications for transmission speeds, radio frequencies, security architecture, and the like.
To make that happen, engineers gather in a series of meetings every year to choose which new technologies will be deemed #standard in the next generation.
The stakes are high: The companies that provide the fundamental technology for 5G will be embedded in a global communications system for years to come.
So in the background are financial, nationalistic, and even geopolitical considerations.
“From the year 2001 to the present—three administrations—not enough attention has been paid to this,” says #Reed #Hundt, a former Federal Communications Commission chair during the Clinton administration.
Hundt is one of a number of current and former officials alarmed that the United States has no equivalent to Huawei
—that is, a major telecommunications company that both develops next-generation technology and builds it into equipment.“In Europe, they have an Ericsson.
In Japan, they have companies.And in China, they have not just Huawei but also ZTE.
But Huawei is the one that covers the whole range of products.”
All of this made Huawei's 5G standards bid an alarming prospect.
“Huawei's IP and standards are the wedge they intend to use to pry open the Western computing world,” Hundt says.
The body that develops 5G standards, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project ( #3GPP ), is an international umbrella organization of various telecommunications groups.
In 2016, it made a key decision on what was called #5G #New #Radio #standards
—the part that helped determine how data would be sent over 5G and how it would be checked for accuracy.After spending millions, undergoing years of testing, and filing for multiple patents, Huawei was not going to pull punches at the critical juncture. It needed the certification of an official standard to cement its claim.
The problem was that reasonable people argued that other techniques would work just as well as polar codes to achieve error correction in the new framework.
Some suggested that a revamp of the current 4G protocol, turbo codes, would be sufficient.
Others, notably San Diego-based #Qualcomm, which makes chipsets for mobile technology, liked a third option:
Robert Gallager's old #LDPC idea, the one that had nearly reached the Shannon limit and had inspired Arıkan on his own intellectual journey.Since the early 1960s, when Gallager proposed LDPC, technology had improved and the cost of commercial production was no longer prohibitive.
Qualcomm's R&D team developed it for 5G.
Though Erdal Arıkan did not know it at the time, his work would be squared off against that of his mentor in a competition that involved billions of dollars and an international clash of reputations.
#Wen #Tong #5G #patents #Arıkan #polar #codes #Alexander #Vardy #Ido #Tal #Technion #Ren #Zhengfei #Huawei #Chinese #government #ZTE #stolen #intellectual #property #Cisco #Department #Justice #Nortel #downloading #documents
