If you’re a middle-aged oligarch whose feckless offspring show off their extreme wealth in social media (see Rich Kids of Instagram and Fuerdai), they might be leaking your dirty secrets for anyone who knows how to look for them.
Tag: internet
Networks are 100x slower than optimal
In principle, a network can transfer data at nearly the speed of light. Today’s Internet, however, is much slower: our measurements show that latencies are typically more than one, and often more than 2 orders of magnitude larger than the lower bound implied by the speed of light
LinkNYC
looking forward to it. as usual, 1 guy is working, with 10 others standing around.
Today, workers began installing the first LinkNYC access points in New York.
Internet of Shit
As more things from the Internet of Things start trickling into people’s homes, one account called “Internet of Shit” has been trying to shine a light into this bizarre and scary future with a steady stream of funny jokes.
this is in fact very dismal, with every company trying to have their “app” that no one cares about.
In the beginning, there was lol
that explains a lot.
On October 29, 1969, engineers at UCLA sent the first host-to-host message over the new ARPANET to teammates at SRI. The system crashed as it was transmitting the word “login,” only sending “lo.” After a reboot, the full message was transmitted, meaning the first 3 characters ever sent over what would become the Internet were “lol.”
The 419 scam comes to dating
that’s some grade A social engineering:
Internet con artists, known as Yahoo Boys in Nigeria, often masquerade as American military officers who are deployed in war zones, a ruse that gives them plenty of unassailable excuses should a victim wish to meet face-to-face. The scammers are also fond of posing as oil workers who spend weeks at a time on deep-sea rigs, another macho cover story that allows them to fade in and out of victims’ lives at will.
Socality Barbie
Socality Barbie is a fantastic Instagram account satirizing the great millennial adventurer trend in photography. It’s an endless barrage of pensive selfies in exotic locales, arty snapshots of coffee, and just the right filter on everything.
Europe has media?
europe has 0 decent homegrown streaming services, so of course yet another industry would rather make a lot of noise instead of getting off their ass:
US filmmaking was seen mostly as a business activity, while in Europe it was mainly seen as a cultural activity
Emailing Fridges
yet again, companies who don’t get software feeling the urge to add useless functionality that of course is completely insecure. the internet of things is going to be fun.
Distributed HTTP?
There are a number of reasons why various people are interested in a distributed Web protocol.
- The most practical are scaling and reliability — if you don’t have 1 server for your Web traffic, you don’t have to worry about it going down in a flash crowd or when there’s a network problem nearby.
- Having multiple copies of (and paths to) content is 1 way to make it more available despite attempts to censor it.
- Cutting the server out of the equation is seen as an opportunity to reset the Web’s balance of power regarding cookies and other forms of tracking; if you don’t request content from its owner, but instead get it from a third party, the owner can’t track you.
As it is, HTTP is an inherently client/server protocol, in that the authority (the part of the link just after “http://“ or “https://“) tells your browser where to go to get the content. Although HTTP (with the help of related systems like DNS) allow servers to delegate that authority to others to allow them to serve the content (which is how CDNs are made), the server and their delegates still act as a single point of control, exposure and failure.
Improving all of this sounds really interesting, both as a technical person and as a user. Why is this not just a simple matter of programming?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 