#fibre optic internet

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[weaselishmcdiesel]

Why am I the only bitch that made mumbaph art am I so correct on my mountain of correctness that I must be alone all the way up here

[herrshepard]

I got into the faculty in the university I wanted, HELL YEAH

[wrong-directions]

Dear Internet, I hate you.

I am attention deficit and you, Internet, are an attention-eating monster waiting to swallow me whole.

But I have to risk being devoured now because you have my partner and my friends somewhere inside you.

F*ck you, you silicon sh*t-bag.

[fionaroleplays]

My internet must be an Inter Milan supporter because it’s crashed 5 times in the last 20 minutes and i’ve been supporting Man City all evening.

[david-watts]

I just remembered in grade nine geography on like day one the teacher was discussing how different things are affected from country to country and somehow we landed on ‘what factors would affect the size of a country’s military’ and I asked whether wealth would affect it and the teacher went ‘NO because china isn’t a rich country and they’ve got the second largest military in the world’ anyway at the time I thought she was wrong but didn’t think to fact check. she was wrong. good riddance that she quit a fortnight later though lol

[zuckergussprinzessin]

And Germans

Are you old enough to remember having to wait for youtube videos to buffer?

I remember the days when this comic was relevant

[justanothertraveller42]

Hey so who wants to join me in running away to work aboard an internet undersea cable repair ship

[thesiltverses]

Funfact before I began listening to tsv, I was convinced (for some reason) that it was a medieval fantasy? Needless to say I was confused when they in fact had cars and radio.

So anyway I wanted to ask how you imagine the world to develop further technology wise. Would the internet reach the same prevalence it has in our world or would it be too dangerous as a medium for worship? Or would it look completely differently to our version of the internet anyway?

I think that internet / email in particular is a really interesting one, because TSV is after all a dystopia based on propaganda and conversion and the cheapness of human life, and where isolated local communities are often staving off the encroachment of modernity.

So I don't think you'd ever see the internet becoming mass-usage to the same extent as our world, no. Partly because it's riskier and harder and therefore prohibitively expensive laying fibre-optic cable in the TSV universe when the workers are always getting jumped by local religions and sacrificed. Mostly because there'd be no space for organic expression and information-sharing to really grow, and e-comms would instead almost immediately take on the worst traits of the internet circa 2024 with endless brands and faiths astroturfing, advertorialising, promoting themselves via surrogate influencers, establishing alternate realities via algorithmically-delivered pipelines of increasingly extreme misinformation, and then 20 times a day you'll get a phishing email with a suspicious attachment which, if you open it, is a jpeg of a prayer-mark that turns you into a crab-saint. There'd be no chance to enjoy 'I have access to all the world' before it became 'oh no, the world has access to all of me'

So most likely it'd remain an occasional novelty in town hubs, a corporate intranet for businesses like Paige's, and maybe you'd get a kind of scattered ham-radio community of enthusiasts communicating over message boards about this and that.

[seat-safety-switch]

My local thrift store is great. Or at least it used to be, before the seas dried up and the shipping freighters from China stopped coming. Now, we have to pick through our own unwanted debris for every single molecule of natural resource. Competition at the Goodwill is fierce, in other words.

Nobody knows how Europe ended up out of all this, because the fibre-optic cables snapped. All the light fell onto the dry ocean floor and that was it. Broke the whole damn internet, or at least the wine-drinking parts. Value Village ran out of CDs of 1990s Danish pop music within the first month, and then people started freaking the fuck out. Worse than when they ran out of cheese a day later.

Sure, we could re-start industrialization here. We could make in our own backyard the things people need, like buses, bricks, and toilet paper. Our government seems convinced that things will just get better on its own, though. Which is easy for them to say, sitting rich on the country's strategic reserve of old DVD sets of CSI. Doing things is simply a lot of work, and just not how we prefer to conduct ourselves these days.

So, yeah, things are bad. Scavenging things from the thrifts and putting them up on eBay for a massive profit used to be something you'd do as a side gig, so you could afford rent. Now it's the only job. It's not all bad news. The GDP is still doing great, because someone figured out that the banks can just sell each other the same old Super Nintendo cartridge at 17% more per year, back and forth. They just had to lay us off so we'd stop telling them it doesn't work that way. After two winters of fighting folks every time a tattered backpack shows up on Donations Thursday, I don't even remember what a watermelon looks like.

Hold on. Be right back. Someone just dropped a chair at the loading dock. It's missing three legs, but it's made of wood. Real Goddamn wood. I could make another, slightly smaller, chair out of this. Where else would we get that from? Trees?

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that one of the biggest deceptions of the information age is the idea of "the cloud" as this ethereal, immaterial thing that's all around us, thus abstracting away all of the materiality of the Internet with its enormous, energy-intensive data centres and endless kilometres of fibre optic cable.

[intothestacks]

Adventures in Librarian-ing

Yesterday we didn't have internet for most of the day (since 10:40 or so in the morning; apparently a fibre optic cable near Calgary got cut or something) so I couldn't check out books to kiddos at library time. We just had storytime.

I had a Grade 1 class today who was really disappointed that they wouldn't get a book, so I promised them that next week they can take two books instead of their usual one since it wasn't their fault they couldn't take books, and they were like "*dramatic gasp* TWO BOOKS!!!" so I think they liked my way of apology.

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

I was wondering if you could explain how the Matrix actually... works? Is it more like a Time Lord artificial afterlife, or just a collection of knowledge? Do you ask your dead housekeeper for her cookie recipe, or do you just access it like Google?

Absolutely!

How does the Matrix work?

Think about Wikipedia.

Now, imagine if Wikipedia had detailed profile pages of every single member of the human race that had lived since its inception in 2001 (around 7.5~ billion individual, heavily detailed profiles).

Then, imagine each profile page had a little downloadable file that was that person's consciousness.

Next, think about how every person's knowledge gained in their life is spread throughout that Wikipedia on every single subject.

Now, think, 'What if Wikipedia had a plugin that could tell you future events based on all the information it has from all these people's experiences?'

Finally, put all this into a cool little weird video game that uses virtual reality.

If you can imagine that, you're pretty close.

💻 Functions of the Matrix

Knowledge Repository: The Matrix acts as an archive, containing the lived histories and profiles of every Time Lord that's lived, and all the knowledge they gained in their life.

Quick Updates: Living Time Lords are biologically connected to the Matrix, able to access the information at will (except if you've been a bad Time Lord, of course). When they die the Matrix automatically creates their profile page when they die, so their entire life goes to the Time Lord Wiki for the benefit of all.

Simulated Reality: If entered, the environment is a simulated reality where the personalities of deceased Time Lords can continue to exist. This can make it seem like a kind of artificial afterlife where you could potentially interact with past or future incarnations of Time Lords.

Predictive Tool: The Matrix generates prophecies and foresees potential futures, guiding Time Lords in making informed decisions about potential timelines.

Physical and Astral Projection: Time Lords can also use the Matrix to project their images across spacetime or within the confines of a TARDIS, communicating across vast distances or even between different temporal phases. Isn't that handy?

🔐 Security and Integrity

Despite its advanced capabilities, the Matrix isn't infallible. It can be tampered with, and its data can be manipulated or stolen, which is considered a helluva crime on Gallifrey. The Matrix also uses various safeguards, like Cloister Wraiths and living fibre optic cables that act like firewalls to protect its most critical data.

🔑 Access and Interaction

Access to the Matrix varies; it can be through physical terminals, via direct neural connections, or by using artefacts. Once inside, users can navigate a realm where physical laws are malleable and where their thoughts can shape reality because anything is possible.

🏫 So ...

In practical terms, if you're deadset on finding that cookie recipe, the Matrix could definitely provide access to that knowledge, either by allowing you to interact with the housekeeper's stored personality or by just retrieving the information like a search engine. Alternatively, you could shirk your holiday in Disneyland and jump right into the Matrix to spend a day being attacked by virtual blancmanges and Victoria sponges until you find what you need.

Related:

What is biodata?: What biodata is and what you can use it for.

Factoid: How do Time Lords biologically stay connected to the Matrix?

Hope that helped! 😃

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[liquidcrystalsky]

i hate i hate i HAAAATE how these cables v

have been given the name "LAN cables"

even nintendo does it

and like, yes they connect things in a Local Area Network, but so does wifi.

the technology for WIRED local internet is "ethernet" so it could be called an ethernet cable <tangent> the name is STUPID because the "Ether" is the theorized (and proven incorrect) medium for light to travel through. it would make so much more sense for WIFI, which travels over LIGHT WAVES, to be called ETHERNET instead. but alas wifi was... 16 years later? wow that feels like it should be longer</tangent>

but even then, "Ethernet" is the name of the technology behind wired internet. Yes that cable can be called an ethernet cable, but it doesnt entirely narrow it down. An ethernet cable could be anything, it was originally, and sometimes still is a coaxial cable (think of the "cable" from cable TV. is that a good example? do people know what a coax cable is?) and also fibre optic cables. one of my friends gets ethernet through the fucking powerlines in her wall and i dont understand that.

The cable you know and love is a twisted pair cable!

The standard for ethernet over twisted pair is called "BASE-T" though thats more of the standards of how much data it can transfer per second, and not anything to do with the cable itself.

The standards for BASE-T cables are usually called "Category" and a number, however the shortened form of it is (get ready) CAT!!!

you likely are using Cat5e or Cat6 cables! there's cats in your walls (cables, not felines)

but even then thats just the cable and NOT the connector or the port. That's called RJ45. except it's NOT that's the name of the wiring configuration! it's actually an 8P8C connector. EXCEPT THATS NOT EVEN THE CORRECT WIRING! the standard for the wiring configuration of a Cat cable is ANSI/TIA-568!

but then how are the cables terminated? well in the T568A or T568B scheme of course. fucker

so dont call them LAN cables! they're Ethernet over Twisted Pair Category cables with 8P8C connector terminated in the T568A or T568B configuration defined by ANSI/TIA-568! fucker!

"ethernet" or just "cat" cable is fine. hell even LAN cable is fine, the important word there is "cable" tbh.

[ask-shane]

Internet...

Mmmm fibre optic cables

Fibre is the stuff in food that helps you digest stuff right? So i can eat the cables no problemo

don’t even start.

terrible idea, unless your goal is to end up in harvey’s office for an emergency health scare.

[offworldlamb-writes]

Day 9 of #fictober24!

Today's prompt: Don't listen to me, listen to them

Fanfiction today! Have some Stardew Valley Sebastian/Farmer, from my WIP The View From the Farm. This is unedited so it might get a bit off sometimes.

xxx

It'd been a long while since they'd done a show. Maybe nearly a year...? Wow, he didn't think it'd been so long. Or maybe it was more that he didn't realise how quickly it passed. A lot had happened since then.

But it didn't make him any less nervous to be up on the stage. They were indoors this time, in a little club a few streets away from their first show, and either the crowd looked bigger packed into a smaller area or they'd gained a few fans since last time. Sam was good at getting the word out now that he had proper social media and a working Internet connection (thank fuck for fibre optic finally coming to the valley), and plenty of people were cheering them on as they got on stage with enthusiasm he'd never witnessed before, not even back home. He even heard his name being shouted a couple of times, and cast Sam an impressed look. He joined the band because Sam asked him to and no other reason, but realising he had a couple of fans out there in the crowd tonight? That was a weird high.

He looked off to stage left next, at Shepherd stood waiting in the wing with Abby's girlfriend, and she flashed him a grin and an encouraging thumbs up. That was the only thing that surprised him more than being in another show: that Shep was still with him, still supported their performances, still supported him with whatever he did. His confidence still wasn't great but it was definitely better than before thanks to the combined efforts of Shep, Sam and Abby, and once he'd returned the gesture with a small smile of his own he faced the crowd with determination. His hands trembled with nerves but that was easy to push past once his headphones were on, and the first part of the set passed in a blur of deafening cheers and solid concentration.

With the last show being outside he never noticed how hot the lights got, and when Sam called for a break he gladly ducked off the edge of the stage and into the enormous glass of water Shep had waiting for him, chugging half in a heartbeat before pulling off his jacket with a relieved sigh. Hel, Abigail's girlfriend and date for the evening, gave him a hearty pat to the shoulder before jumping up on stage to check on Abby herself, and Shepherd absolutely beamed at him with a hearty round of her own encouragement. "This is fucking amazing! Sam did an amazing job last year but this? Holy shit-- and you? Did you hear them calling for you? You've got fans now!"

Yeah he still couldn't believe that. Peering back over his shoulder at the crowd still buzzing he saw a few people watching him and waving eagerly when they made eye contact, and leant in to mutter his reply. "They know my name. I don't know if I like that."

But he couldn't keep from smiling, still buzzing himself, and Shepherd gave his arm a reassuring pat before nodding back towards the stage. "It's because they like you! They like the band! Don't think about it too much."

"What about you? Do you like it?" he asked after another hefty gulp of water, and Shepherd scoffed and wafted a dismissive hand. "What kind of question is that? Of course I do! I wouldn't be here if I didn't!" she assured him, before nudging him back towards the steps. "Look-- stop listening to me waffle on! Listen to them! They want more, so go give it to 'em!"

Hel gave his arm another affectionate punch as they passed by each other again and Shep helped her jump back down. They were stood with their arms over each other's shoulders, a united fan club hidden in the shadows shouting their support over the crowd, and as they cheered Sebastian couldn't help a little chuckle. Never mind the people out in the crowd: knowing he had Sam and Shep and Abby-- and Hel now, apparently-- supporting him, doing what they enjoyed along with him, helped quiet the louder parts of his anxieties. They weren't gone and he knew they never would be, but if their support got him up on stage without a second thought then that was one less thing to worry about.