Cory absolutely cooks every single time without fail. I'm also a huge fan of how he really doesn't budge on the point that corps are at fault for the enshitternet - I've followed him for years and that has always been his central point, or at least one of them. 10/10 writer and speaker too
doesn't protect private property though because that money might give poor people strength and power and we can't have the rubes having that now, can we? :(
perfect desk kitteh form <3
Good. do it. please. AI cannot exist without exploitation and theft, fuck 'em
yep, can confirm. I've even had cis and trans women/femmes tell me I look great and even hit on my oblivious ass but I still look away, hide my face/body (hoodies yay) from their view and stuff because I'm worried about this exact thing :') you're not alone!!
my tiny rural hometown in the middle of fucking nowhere southwest United States got 10Gbps fiber to every home in the town last year, and 1G fiber in 2021 as a result of Biden's infrastructure bill. that fiber cost $45/month for 1Gbit with no data caps - before that, the best we could get was 50Mbit on rickety wireless service. Genuinely changed my life - being able to homelab (more) reliably got me into networking and pays my bills now. I hate how this new admin is so fucking myopic, or worse, malicious
I'm not going to nitpick you on your politics since that's not my strong suit. However, as someone who's worked 4 years in rural networking and infrastructure as everything from tech support and customer service to engineering and field repair:
ISPs will never install 100G+ fiber circuits to cities 100+ miles from their nearest drop on a whim. They absolutely need a market that (1 needs internet and (2 can afford it. otherwise they're gonna waste money if they can't recoup the costs. the thing Trump is rolling back is the thing that helps to guarantee* that ISPs won't kill themselves trying to make infrastructure work.
and yes, of course Spectrum and Comcast could do it and be fine, but because of our dear sweet "free market", they don't give a fuck about these small rural places because at their scale (read: monopoly) there's no reason for them to. This means it's the little guys - actual small business ISPs, that are gonna be pulling conduit and standing up switching and line cards and distribution backbones and applying for construction permits and FCC licenses for spectrum with the money that comes from programs like these
The little guys can't do rural builds otherwise because it's too cost prohibitive without a way for people to pay for the service - too risky.
The big guys won't because they don't give a fuck. And if they do complete a build, the service is fucking garbage because they literally leave the infrastructure to rot while saying they'll be sure to send a tech to look at it, while paying that tech 5 pence and an "atta boy" to fix a rotting mess of cable that should have been decommissioned 20 years ago. edit: semantics
mrrrp :3
I'm actually double straight because I was straight when I was supposedly a guy and now I'm a woman and still straight. checkmate, low T beta cucks bad to the bone guitar riff
very distinguished!!
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