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Alex Davies

@rethinkalex

Senior Analyst @ Rethink Technololgy Research. Covering Cellular, Wireless, Video, Broadcast, Broadband, Internet Infrastructure. Haver of dog+cat, liker of nasty horrible music, victim of too many blows to the head

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beware geeks bearing grifts

24.02.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bouygues' 5mart Ho5pital private 5g project deserves to fail because of the name. I hate it. doesn't even work in french. where do you even put a 5 in 'hΓ΄pital intelligent'. awful

21.01.2026 16:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Shoutout Lurpak for running ads in a Disembodied Tyrant video; I always knew yous were real ones

30.11.2025 23:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not a Sunday night β€˜till Meshuggah’s soundtracking videos of people having parasitic larvae removed from their shoulder nomsayan

30.11.2025 23:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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From the AV1 community on Reddit: Rethink TV forecast - AV1 surpasses AVC in media and entertainment device usage by 2030 Explore this post and more from the AV1 community

Cheers! There's a reddit post that has a lot of comments and answers too, that might be worth people reading: www.reddit.com/r/AV1/commen...

26.11.2025 09:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a man 's face with the words ho-ah written on it . ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words ho-ah written on it .

all this AI stuff is much more tolerable if you intentionally misread it as Al, and imagine Pacino doing it instead

20.11.2025 09:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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this feels like a bad idea

11.11.2025 15:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bit more involved, this one

21.10.2025 13:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz y’all still into party speakers? Somerset Carnival season ramping up into gear

21.10.2025 13:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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VIDEO STANDARDS ESSENTIAL PATENT HUB WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

08.10.2025 10:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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06.10.2025 15:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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you've had a gNodeB, but what about a gNodeBoat? (courtesy of Neutral Wireless and Cisco, at the Olympics, for the sailing coverage)

29.09.2025 15:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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22.09.2025 13:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

'hey copilot can you turn this word document into a powerpoint?'

yes, absolutely i can, here's how i'd do it

'great'

alright would you like me to start making the images?

'yes'

alright sure here's how i'd do it

'just get on with it!'

now, I never said i could make a powerpoint ...

18.09.2025 13:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Done! …lunch? #business #finance #data
Done! …lunch? #business #finance #data YouTube video by Chris Kohler

www.youtube.com/shorts/TL8qL...

18.09.2025 12:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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some truly disgusting noises in the new Synestia EP. check 'em out: open.spotify.com/album/3AbL2Y...

09.09.2025 15:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i guess there's a distinction between passive and active assets too, i suppose

05.09.2025 09:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

and when the poor (the telcos) have nothing left to eat (sell their tower and network assets) they shall eat the rich (spin themselves out as MVNOs)

05.09.2025 09:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

a very quiet benefit of the 8Bitdo keyboards is that the option to jump between Bluetooth, the 2.4 GHz dongle, and the 'off' position for the USB cable means that with the toggle switch, you can instantly switch between 3 machines with the same keyboard

would be neat if there was a mouse too

27.08.2025 12:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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incredible

27.08.2025 12:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Foxconn and SoftBank to make data centre equipment in Ohio for Stargate project Foxconn said on Monday it plans to manufacture data centre equipment with Japan's SoftBank at the Taiwanese firm's former electric vehicle factory in Ohio, part of the Stargate project to advance U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure.

@reckless.bsky.social what do your sources say about the Madison plant? (hope you are well, btw, i parasocially miss hearing your dulcet tones)

www.reuters.com/business/med...

19.08.2025 08:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone should listen to more Conjurer

14.08.2025 22:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

More*

14.08.2025 22:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Snapping awake at night in the revelation that sistering the joist is the note pragmatic approach than packing it πŸ«₯

14.08.2025 20:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

are you prepared for The Great British Firewall?

no, not that silly 2016 GCHQ project, but the inevitable extension of the Online Safety Act?

i love whitelisting it's just the best can't wait let's go

13.08.2025 08:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I think there are better ways to describe Sequans, but there we are:

23.07.2025 12:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

remember, all the agentic ai stuff that is 'automating' backend operator/telco networks is a sticking plaster - that you need to boil the ocean to bring these systems to bear is the real issue. wipe the slate clean

17.07.2025 08:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0