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Low carbon footprint datacenters, but it requires better software performance. Law of Wirth explains that. Ability to do SDR for wireless networks with smarphones. 5G is not a good solution. Better security for routers, and generally better software security regulations, which are almost non existent right now. If cars have security regulations, software should, too.
Interesting viewpoint. Care to expand on your thoughts? To me, 5G seems like a stepping stone to UWB communication
Provable identity. Yes, you can do Oauth via the google or the facebook but sooner or later we need something that isn't tied to getting all your user interaction data ... Digital notary. So a third person (digitally) signing a transaction or other document exchange.
Could you expand on both of those? They sound really interesting but I'm not sure I understand the issues or use cases.
It should be possible for you, the receiver of the email, to check if the email originated at company X.
Digital Notary: this came up in several data privacy discussions. You (A) are in contact with B, but you don't want to send B something like a scan of your passport (e.g. for age restricted services). So you disclose the passport scan to Notary and he sends B the message, the passport was disclosed to me and the person is >21.
I think solving the "last mile" problem in the US is our greatest problem, especially in rural areas. Too many state and local governments have been paid off by lobbyists to pass laws to block any competition from offering cheaper and better options. Too many people are stuck with slow, expensive, and unreliable cable and/or DSL ISPs. Some have no choice whatsoever. Some others get to choose only from two equally awf…
Unfortunately that problem space is so large (every new line of fibre has how many stakeholders?) that a single individual or organisation might not be able to have any impact here. Which I think is the root of this question.
Interesting question. Do we still have Internet infrastructural problems left? Akamai solved POPs (point of presence). Equinix solved DC. Both are matching towards table stakes in the context of internet infrastructural. (Not business models). We have lots of under-sea cables / international expansions on-going and planned. And it is now more of a cost efficiency problem, not an infrastructural problem . We have a de…
Dealing with denial of service attacks in a way that doesn't involve needing to own more bandwidth then the attacker can saturate would be something to look into.
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What programming language is "short"?
None so far, they're all steaming piles of garbage. We're still typing single characters in text files as if we're on a terminal in 1960s.
We're in the middle of a SW quality crisis, because a lot of people have not the slightest idea what they are doing, but they are encouraged by their managers to ship immediately.
De-ossifying the Internet is necessary for solving many other problems like the IPv6 and RPKI transitions. There's a lot of room to optimize latency whether it's removing bufferbloat, L4S, or cISP.
The biggest challenges are people problems. Why the hell don’t we have fiber to the home in most of America? Regulatory capture and market failures.
The cost of running new lines on poles is also insane, our infrastructure is racking up so much debt.
Low carbon footprint datacenters, but it requires better software performance. Law of Wirth explains that. Ability to do SDR for wireless networks with smarphones. 5G is not a good solution. Better security for routers, and generally better software security regulations, which are almost non existent right now. If cars have security regulations, software should, too.
Those companies were not created to solve those problems, but to profit by them. Do you think that, say, Cloudflare would like a better web protocol which would be impossible to DDoS?
Even if you properly implement this system, network operators will expose themselves to firewall DDoS attacks by malicious actors that are trying to fill the firewall blacklists with garbage.
We've reached counter counter DDoS warfare. What do you do now?