I just want to comment on the funny term Broligarchs.
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In my last year of university (5 years ago) I took a networking seminar. Each student took a look at a different technology to utilize multiple links for internet data transfers.
Initially I was amazed by MPTCP and wondered why it had so little adoption. As I looked into the papers I slowly figured out why. With different links (WLAN, LAN, LTE) their real world characteristics are too different for efficient aggregation. It is the head of line blocking problem times ten.
It might be fine as a back up link, but there are other problems like the limit to TCP and middelboxes dropping unknowns packets. The challenges outnumber the benefits for consumers and in data centers there are other technologies to aggregate links that operate on a level below TCP.
Instead of trying to aggregate by packet, wouldn't it be more effective by managing sessions?
Once a session establishes a route, maintain it. Add logic to prioritize routes by session importance.
N8works commented on Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday arthur-johnston.com/tuesd... · Posted by u/RyeCombinator
I never understood why companies didn't simply leverage 24x7 internet MSPs.
They are able to staff 24x7 by spreading the cost over multiple customers and working through the process of making your application manageable by a 3rd party is super beneficial.
Most of these companies will also do performance monitoring and analysis as well.
They see issues and optimization opportunities across multiple applications and know more than a single team who's only built one.
This is interesting.
In CA you can lose custody of your children simply by having an argument with your spouse and "disturbing their peace of mind"
That is one of the legal definitions of "Domestic Violence"
Once they have you for "Domestic Violence" you automatically lose the right to have custody of your kids.
This seems very concerning...
One of the sad things about tech is that nobody really looks at history.
The same kinds of essays were written about trains, planes and nuclear power.
Before lindbergh went off the deepend, he was convinced that "airmen" were gentlemen and could sort out the world's ills.
The essay contains a lot of coulds, but doesn't touch on the base problem: human nature.
AI will be used to make things cheaper. That is, lots of job losses. must of us are up for the chop if/when competent AI agents become possible.
Loads of service jobs too, along with a load of manual jobs when suitable large models are successfully applied to robotics (see ECCV for some idea of the progress for machine perception.)
But those profits will not be shared. Human productivity has exploded in the last 120 years, yet we are working longer hours for less pay.
Well AI is going to make that worse. It'll cause huge unrest (see luddite riots, peterloo, the birth of unionism in the USA, plus many more)
This brings us to the next thing that AI will be applied to: Murdering people.
Andril is already marrying basic machine perception with cheap drones and explosives. its not going to take long to get to personalised explosive drones.
AI isn't the problem, we are.
The sooner we realise that its not a technical problem to be solved, but a human one, we might stand a chance.
But looking at the emotionally stunted, empathy vacuums that control either policy or purse strings, I think it'll take a catastrophe to change course.
Yes. I used to share your viewpoint.
However, recently, I've come to understand that is AI is about the inherently unreal and that authentic human connection is really going to be where it's at.
We build because we need it after all, no?
Don't give up. We have already won.
N8works commented on College students used Meta's smart glasses to dox people in real time theverge.com/2024/10/2/24... · Posted by u/gond
We will all be wearing Venice style masks in public within 3 years.
N8works commented on Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021) howtomarketagame.com/2021... · Posted by u/lopespm
....as everyone builds their core digital infrastructure in the cloud... :/
N8works commented on Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021) howtomarketagame.com/2021... · Posted by u/lopespm
The elephant in the room is the size distribution of "other people's kingdoms". Having oversized kingdoms and overbearing kings is not a god-given parameter, its down to regulation, political and economic choices. Its not for nothing that the current digital world has been called neo-feudal.
The real solution is to force these kingdoms to build permanently open gates and roadways that connect the land, increase all around traffic and opportunity.
Only when people turn from digital vassals to digital citizens will we emerge from the middle ages we are currently in. In this sense the most important development in the online world is still ahead if us.
Make all
Algos for content recommendations open for scrutiny and watch the walls come down.