Graphene does zip zero zilch to address a single word of snowdens leaks. That shit was the radio firmware and we all said sure ok guess that stays a black box. Your privacy os protects you from advertising companies, not the government.

My college (while learning computer science) thought a proper social media block was to whip up a hosts file that it pushed to every PC when it rebooted. It would just route certain sites to a black hole.

The freaking librarian would go around showing students how to delete the hosts file. Dude was out of pocket, he would print off whole chapters of text books for you too so you wouldn’t have to spend hundreds on the book. What a legend.

Until some winner made a batch file with a net send to a wildcard that crashed the whole school network

My last job training was blatant Ghibli AI slop through the entire thing. We get that instead

Eh. DSL actually negotiates across a bunch of different encodings, and g.dmt dropped max speeds in favor of reliability and it could be shot for miles. They were only getting 1.5 or 768, but it was still better than dialup. A random google search suggests 89% of the US population was within DSL range on legacy copper lines. If it wasn’t available you were way out there, or you were experiencing the lovely duopoly we have: the cable company beat the telecom to high speed in the area, so the telecom said fuck it for 5 years.

VDSL is when the extremely short distances started. By that time fiber was cheap enough for random backhaul runs but not ftth, so the battery(voltage) for the phone line still came from the CO miles away but the VDSL cabinet was practically in your backyard and data collected onto fiber from there.

Connected at 46666? Would have been way more realistic to try again 3 times and settle for 24k instead. Let us type in init settings in desperation

For some people, this is the video game

What a badass

At least Nathan Fielder will make me laugh

Ed Sheeran has an estimated net worth of around $350 million to $400 million

Won’t somebody think of the millionaires? His whole livelihood is at stake here!

I was working at a UPS sorting facility when a box of live snakes broke open. That was a fun day