How to make the internet small again
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How to make the internet small again
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Re: How to make the internet small again
#2The Low-Tech-Magazine proposes a speed limit to the internet: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/can-the-internet-r...
High speed wipes out distances and dramatically increases pressure. Both in real (topology!) and cyber.
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#3The Low-Tech-Magazine proposes a speed limit to the internet: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/can-the-internet-r... High speed wipes out distances and dramatically increases pressure. Both in real (topology!) and cyber.
That's what we have at most places in Germany an it works pretty good. (provided you have access at all) /s
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#4Although he hasn't written up his report yet on his blog, he notes on Twitter: "For now I'll say it was three of the most enjoyable days I've had in a long time, and that I'm never going back to using the internet every day".
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#5By including a time cost to every link on a page that legitimate creators are willing to pay but cripples content farms.
A simple cryptographic signature that takes, say, 1 hour on commodity hardware to calculate. Good bye SEO spam.
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#6I've managed to largely unplug myself from the unrewarding miasma of Facebook by doing this. This has inspired me to go further.
Re: How to make the internet small again
#7The Low-Tech-Magazine proposes a speed limit to the internet: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/can-the-internet-r... High speed wipes out distances and dramatically increases pressure. Both in real (topology!) and cyber.
That's what we have at most places in Germany an it works pretty good. (provided you have access at all) /s
Worse is the unpredictability ... my family in a 150-souls-village in the middle of nowhere got FTTH a few weeks ago. Meanwhile, I am happy to get 6 MBit/s in central Berlin.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's what we have at most places in Germany an it works pretty good. (provided you have access at all) /s
Worse is the unpredictability ... my family in a 150-souls-village in the middle of nowhere got FTTH a few weeks ago. Meanwhile, I am happy to get 6 MBit/s in central Berlin.
That's pretty easy to understand though: that 150 soul village is in the middle of a much less dense area than the heart of Berlin, so a line that would pretty much always be saturated in Berlin will have plenty of capacity left in that small village.
For the best - and cheapest - bandwidth: total deregulation of telcos. Like what happened in Romania, which has the cheapest and best connectivity of any European country. Which really isn't what you'd expect.
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#9By including a time cost to every link on a page that legitimate creators are willing to pay but cripples content farms. A simple cryptographic signature that takes, say, 1 hour on commodity hardware to calculate. Good bye SEO spam.
Hello cryptographic signature computing botnet...
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#10Gemini space has been my most interesting discovery in 2022. It seems
to have the potential to deliver what most people say they want from a
progressive "small internet" ie. not a nostalgic "old internet".