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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…
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Well, that would have to be either not having a link for them to try to saturate (ie, edge-distribute your stuff as CDNs do), or preventing them from sending packets to you (which means telling other people's routers to run your packet-filtering code, which I'd think might be a bit of a hard sell).
That sounds like a business opportunity for a service provider specializing in packet filtering.
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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.
I don't think the medium (text files) is the real problem for SW. There are ways of creating SW by clicking things on a screen. 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.
Comments, build configuration, platform specific implementations, alternate implementations (e.g. (re)implementations of an interface used by an application), tests, and etc. could all be part of the "program". In many ways we try to do this already by hacking together git repos with everything stored in there as text and then require very particular versions of programs to run everything in there anyways.
I think it's all sufficiently powerful already to build awesome things, but I do not doubt that in the next 10 years something will be built that realizes the ideas which have been kicked around since Smalltalk/Self and raises the bar of productivity.
How can we get the layperson to run a "homeserver" to host all their data locally and have a strong pki infra. 30 years ago, people would've said the same things about routers, so I think it's possible with the right ui/incentives
I'm only half joking. I was just fantasizing about this the other day. I'd love this to become reality but I'm worried reality diverges from this idea further with each passing day. People produce more and more data that's useless outside of a closed platform. Nobody owns media to host.
How can we get the layperson to run a "homeserver" to host all their data locally and have a strong pki infra. 30 years ago, people would've said the same things about routers, so I think it's possible with the right ui/incentives
>I think it's possible with the right ui/incentives I want that, but for the masses of tech-illiterate Average Joes out there, it's tough to compete against the sheer convenience of "tap next to trust big tech with all your private data and sync it all in the cloud" that you get when you unbox your iPhone/Android. And for most people their phone is their primary computing device now so their lives are tied to those e…
Consumer NAS management should be way easier. Why can't I tap my phone to my NAS to pair and then go anywhere in the world with a network connection?
The great firewall is the prototype, but as the world becomes multipolar again, regional powers will want to control what kinds of data is imported/exported
This is a major regression from open source desktop software, and IMO is the reason open source web applications haven’t taken off more.
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.
My gut tells me it's fairly low per person served, and it'll only improve over time as more renewable electric sources come online.