I fucking hate smart technology bro I’m so fucking sick of it
This shit is why people who work in security refuse to have this shit in their home.
these are the guys who lick your clothes clean when you put them in the dishwasher
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how do i clean my laptop keyboard?
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people shouldn’t have to pimp themselves off to the military to afford college wtf
They don’t…lol
actually almost every teacher i’ve ever had has suggested joining the military because they’ll pay for college and almost half of my class is either doing it or considering it but i hope that rock you live under has air conditioning
Netflix’s new site is a giant “f*ck you” to Comcast and Time Warner
Netflix launched a site late Wednesday night called Fast.com, where — in one click — anyone browsing the internet can see how fast their internet speed is. Although it’s great for consumers, some internet providers might not be happy about the new website.
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Fuck Comcast
Netflix didn’t invent that it’s been around
Netflix didn’t invent speed checks, but this site is Netflix’s.
Okay, so here’s why Netflix speedtest is so brilliant.
Most of us know about Speedtest.net, right? Well Comcast and Time Warner know about it too. They know customers use it to check to see if they’re getting what they are paying for. Comcast techs even tell customers to check their speed with Speedtest.net.
So, to make sure people think they are getting good speeds, Comcast and Time Warner prioritize traffic going to Speedtest.net. When you check your speed there it’s artificially inflated. That is NOT the speed you are getting when you browse tumblr and that is definitely not the speed you get when you watch Netflix.
Comcast and Time Warner can not artificially inflate the results by prioritizing traffic to Fast.net unless they also prioritize traffic to Netflix, and they definitely do not want to do that.
That is so fucking slimy. Good for Netflix
This is what we get in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I’ve been told we have the fastest internet speeds in Canada, because of legislation that forces telecom companies to compete.
srsly? 130 mbps?
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Netflix’s new site is a giant “f*ck you” to Comcast and Time Warner
Netflix launched a site late Wednesday night called Fast.com, where — in one click — anyone browsing the internet can see how fast their internet speed is. Although it’s great for consumers, some internet providers might not be happy about the new website.
Follow @the-future-now
Fuck Comcast
Netflix didn’t invent that it’s been around
Netflix didn’t invent speed checks, but this site is Netflix’s.
Okay, so here’s why Netflix speedtest is so brilliant.
Most of us know about Speedtest.net, right? Well Comcast and Time Warner know about it too. They know customers use it to check to see if they’re getting what they are paying for. Comcast techs even tell customers to check their speed with Speedtest.net.
So, to make sure people think they are getting good speeds, Comcast and Time Warner prioritize traffic going to Speedtest.net. When you check your speed there it’s artificially inflated. That is NOT the speed you are getting when you browse tumblr and that is definitely not the speed you get when you watch Netflix.
Comcast and Time Warner can not artificially inflate the results by prioritizing traffic to Fast.net unless they also prioritize traffic to Netflix, and they definitely do not want to do that.
That is so fucking slimy. Good for Netflix
Been using this for a while and recommending it to people, just for the ease of use alone
They’re about the same for Charter services, I just compared. Comcast is just unnecessarily evil
The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet. It was written by a student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2, 1988 from MIT.
It’s trapped on a floppy tho this is some dark shit it has been denied its purpose forever bound to this obsolete storage
am i glad it’s in there and we’re out here
people reading fantasy novels ask “why did the ancient ones seal the evil away for ten thousand years instead of just killing it” but then we go ahead and do this shit
We have learned nothing from every fantasy novel ever O.O
The best part, from the wiki article: “According to its creator, the Morris worm was not written to cause damage, but to gauge the size of the Internet.”
It was intended to do good, but the programmer made a mistake and it got out of hand, becoming viral.
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the year is 28AW (after worm) and still we suffer
Oh, w o r m
internet politics and real-world politics have gotten so separated, and pretty soon all this internet weirdness is gonna come crashing into real life and politicians are gonna start throwing around words like “SJW” and “anime communist” and “dark enlightenment” and it’s just gonna be the most ridiculous fucking thing
date of origin: 13th of april, 2015.
How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet.
That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks to San Fransisco startup Bridgefy’s Bluetooth-based messaging app. The protesters can communicate with each other — and the public — using no persistent managed network.
The app can connect people via standard Bluetooth across an entire city, thanks to a mesh network. Chatting is speediest with people who are close, of course, within a hundred meters (330 feet), but you can also chat with people who are farther away. Your messages will simply “hop” via other Bridgefy users’ phones until they find your intended target.
That’s incredibly futuristic
Pi Zero W is $10 and has built in Bluetooth connectivity.
You can find Solar USB Power Packs for ~$25.
So for less than $50 and a little time investment to load some programs you can have an autonomous bluetooth repeater.
I think they only run at Class 2 or 2.5mw so 10 meter range… but there are DIY solutions to amplify it to Class 1 for 100 meter range.
But even at 10 meters, given this sort of program uses a packet delivery system, if you are constantly on the move you’re effectively a postman for the system as it will transmit every time it comes in range of another compatible program.
“EVERYTHING A TOOL, ANYTHING A WEAPON”
this is badass
The Red Teamer I once was is pleased.
The worry is you can also be tracked via Bluetooth. The Android covid shit tracks you via Bluetooth. Is there something like this that doesn’t use a tech that the Chinese could use to track individuals?
Bluetooth isn’t quite as trackable as people think. It is and it isn’t. It’s sort of hard to explain. It’s heavily modeled after frequency hopping radios first seen in the second world war. With the right program running it hops enough, as it does in the case of Mesh Messaging, that you cannot really be traced easily.
@bagheadautist Also Bridgefy, the app talked about in the Forbes article, uses encrypted packet delivery. Burst transmission on top of frequency hopping makes it a nightmare to find transmissions from a specific source. But it also means your network is only as large as the number of people currently attached to it.
And since the packets are encrypted, intermediate nodes can’t access the messages not intended for them. There is a ‘global’ chatroom that can pick up all the global messages in an area. But there is no way of telling if someone is in the area unless you know their user name AND they actively chat in the global channel.
Bridgefy has an SDK too. Which means people could build programs based on the same architecture to send other information besides the usual MMS features.
Ironically, a lot of the individual and unit level ‘smart’ tech that was intended to be a part of the Future Soldier system works in a similar way. Soldier bio-metric monitoring, encrypted short range communication, shared HUD information, relative positioning. All of this was going to be done via a similar setup. Just on a frequency range not available for commercial products.
I love everything about this post except ‘Solar USB Power Packs’.
There is such a thing as being impractically solar punk. A protestor in this sort of a setting rarely has time to wait for sunny weather and then rest their power pack in a nice spot.
This is a type of communication that works well in densely packed areas: so cities. Where you are far more likely to find an electric plug somewhere seeking shelter in a building than a well lit sunny place with no cameras. You can still get that solar option if it makes you happy but I guarantee you’ll rarely use it. Be sensible and make sure that Power Pack also has a fast charging system.
Reblogging this once more because my mom and I legitimately laughed to tears.
this is my favorite video on the internet
mental health tip: save this video. watch it when you’re sad. it’s the best goddamn thing on the internet
To be honest this whole Net Neutrality thing is a lose-lose for consumers. Without Net Neutrality you give regulatory power to the internet providers so they can regulate it, like cable. With Net Neutrality you give regulatory power to the government so they can censor it as they please. So, with Net Neutrality, internet providers can’t regulate it, but the government can. Which is worse?