#fibre optic internet

[hsmagazine254]

Transform Your Home Technology Innovations For Effortless Living

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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

[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.

[vipschoolbaddi]

The Man Who Bent Light: Narinder Singh Kapany

This was all about legendary physicist Narinder Singh Kapany. While it is impossible to cover every aspect of his work as it extends to various fields, we have tried to give you an insight into his remarkable contribution to fibre optics. Next time, whenever you use the internet, don’t forget to appreciate the man behind this- Narinder Singh Kapany, who laid the foundation of high-speed communication.

[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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[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.

[itsyveinthesky]

The Ukraine missile crisis: Putin’s shadow war against the west finally breaks cover

The unprecedented firing by Ukrainian forces of British-made long-range Storm Shadow missiles at military targets inside Russia last week means the UK, along with the US, is now viewed by Moscow as a legitimate target for punitive, possibly violent retaliation.

In a significant escalation in response to the missile launches, Vladimir Putin confirmed that, for the first time in the war, Russia had fired an intermediate-range ­ballistic missile, targeting the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Putin also said Russia now believed it had the “right” to attack ��military facilities” in countries that supply Kyiv with long-range weapons. Though he did not say so specifically, he clearly meant attacks on the UK and US.

Yet in truth, Britain and its allies have been under constant Russian attack since the war began. Using sabotage, arson, deniable cyber-attacks and aggressive and passive forms of covert “hybrid” and “­cognitive” warfare, Putin has tried to impose a high cost for western support of Ukraine.

This largely silent struggle does not yet amount to a conventional military conflict between Nato and its former Soviet adversary. But in an echo of Cuba in 1962, the “Ukraine missile crisis” – fought on land, air and in the dark-web alleyways and byways of a digitised world – points ominously in that direction.

Concern that Russia’s illegal, full-scale 2022 invasion of Ukraine would trigger a wider war has preoccupied western politicians and military planners from the start. The US, UK and EU armed and bankrolled Kyiv and placed unprecedented, punitive sanctions on Moscow.

But US president Joe Biden remained cautious. His primary aim was to contain the conflict. So the convenient fiction developed that the west was not fighting Russia but, rather, helping a sovereign Ukraine defend itself. That illusion was never shared by Moscow.

Biden can do nothing now to halt the war. He had his chance in 2021-2022 and blew it

From the outset, Putin portrayed the war as an existential battle against a hostile, expansionist Nato. Russia was already big on ­subversion. But as the conflict unfolded, it initiated and now appears to be accelerating a wide array of covert operations targeting western countries.

Biden’s decision on long-range missiles, and Moscow’s furious vow to hit back, has placed this secret campaign under a public spotlight. Russian retaliation may reach new heights. But in truth, Putin’s shadow war was already well under way.

Last week’s severing of Baltic Sea fibre-optic cables linking Finland to Germany and Sweden to Lithuania – all Nato members – is widely regarded as the latest manifestation of Russian hybrid warfare, and a sign of more to come.

Some suggest the damage was accidental. “Nobody believes that,” snarled Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defence minister.

The Yantar, a Russian reconnaissance ship, seen in UK waters this month. Photograph: Dan Rosenbaum/MOD

Earlier this month, a Russian ship, the Yantar – supposedly an “oceano­graphic research vessel” – had to be militarily escorted out of the Irish Sea. Its unexplained presence there, and previously off North Sea coasts and in the English Channel, where it was accompanied by the Russian navy, has been linked to the proxi­mity of unprotected seabed inter-connector cables carrying global internet traffic between Ireland, the UK, Europe and North America.

Suspected Russian hybrid warfare actions on land, in Europe and the UK, are multiplying in scope and seriousness. They range from large-scale cyber-attacks, as in Estonia, to the concealing of incendiary devices in parcels aboard aircraft in Germany, Poland and the UK.

Western spy agencies point the finger at the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency (which was responsible for the 2018 Salisbury poisonings). Naturally, all this is denied by the Kremlin.

It gets even more alarming. In the summer, US and German intelligence agencies reportedly foiled a plot to assassinate top European defence industry executives, in an apparent effort to obstruct arms supplies to Kyiv.

Putin’s agents have been blamed for a wide variety of crimes, from assassinations of regime critics on European soil, such as the 2019 murder in Berlin of a Chechen dissident, to arson – for instance, at a warehouse in east London this year – to the intimidation of journalists and civil rights groups, and the frequent harassment and beating of exiled opponents.

Last month, MI5 head Ken McCallum said the GRU has ‘a sustained mission to generate mayhem on British and European streets’

National infrastructure, elections, institutions and transport systems are all potential targets of hostile online malefactors, information warfare and fake news, as Britain’s NHS discovered in 2017 and the US in 2016 and 2020 during two presidential elections.

Some operations are random; others are carried out for profit by criminal gangs. But many appear to be Russian state-organised. Such provocations are intended to sow chaos, spread fear and division, exacerbate social tensions among Ukraine’s allies and disrupt military supplies.

In January, for example, a group called the Cyber Army of Russia Reborn caused significant damage to water utilities in Texas. Biden administration officials warned at the time that disabling cyber-attacks posed a threat to water supplies throughout the US. “These attacks have the potential to disrupt the critical lifeline of clean and safe drinking water,” state governors were told.

Alerts about Russia’s escalating activities have come thick and fast in recent months. Kaja Kallas, the former Estonian prime minister and newly nominated EU foreign policy chief, spoke earlier this year about what she called Putin’s “shadow war” waged on Europe. “How far do we let them go on our soil?” Kallas asked.

In May, Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, accused Moscow of repeated acts of sabotage. In October, Ken McCallum, head of MI5, said the GRU was engaged in “a sustained mission to generate mayhem on British and European streets”.

Nato’s new secretary-general, Mark Rutte, a former Dutch prime minister, added his voice this month. Moscow, he said, was conducting “an intensifying campaign of hybrid attacks across our allied territories, interfering directly in our democracies, sabotaging industry and committing violence … the frontline in this war is no longer solely in Ukraine.”

People hold portraits of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Chechen dissident, murdered in Berlin in 2019. Photograph: Zurab Kurtsikidze/EPA

When the foreign ministers of Poland, Germany and France – the so-called Weimar Triangle – plus the UK, Italy and Spain met in Warsaw last week, they tried to provide answers. “Moscow’s escalating hybrid activi­ties against Nato and EU countries are unprecedented in their variety and scale, creating significant security risks,” they declared.

But their proposed solution – increased commitment to Europe’s shared security, higher defence spending, more joint capabilities, intelligence pooling, a stronger Nato, a “just and lasting peace” in Ukraine and a reinforced transatlantic alliance – was more familiar wishlist than convincing plan of action. Putin is unlikely to be deterred.

Far from it, in fact. Last week’s missiles-related escalation in verbal hostilities has highlighted the Russian leader’s flat refusal to rule out any type of retaliation, however extreme.

His mafioso-like menaces again included a threat to resort to nuclear weapons.

Putin’s very public loosening of Russia’s nuclear doctrine, which now hypothetically allows Moscow to nuke a non-nuclear-armed state such as Ukraine, was a tired propa­ganda ploy designed to intimidate the west. Putin is evil but he’s not wholly mad. Mutual assured destruction remains a powerful counter-argument to such recklessness.

Putin has other weapons in his box of dirty tricks, including, for example, the seizing of blameless foreign citizens as hostages. This kind of blackmail worked recently when various Russian spies and thugs were released from jail in the west in return for the freeing of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and others.

Putin also has another nuclear card up his sleeve. Greenpeace warned last week that Ukraine’s power network is at “heightened risk of catastrophic failure”. Russian airstrikes aimed at electricity sub-stations were imperilling the safety of the country’s three operational nuclear power plants, the group said. If the reactors lost power, they could quickly become unstable.

And then there is the possibility, floated by analysts, that Russia, by way of retaliation for Biden’s missile green light, could increase support for anti-western, non-state actors, such as the Houthis in Yemen. In a way, this would merely be an extension of Putin’s current policy of befriending “outlaw” states such as Iran and North Korea, both of which are actively assisting his Ukraine war effort.

All of which, taken together, begs a huge question, so far unanswered by Britain and its allies – possibly because it has never arisen before. What is to be done when a major world power, a nuclear-armed state, a permanent member of the UN security council, a country sworn to uphold the UN charter, international human rights treaties and the laws of war, goes rogue?

Putin’s violently confrontational, lawless and dangerous behaviour – not only towards Ukraine but to the west and the international order in general – is unprecedented in modern times. How very ironic, how very chastening, therefore, is the thought that only another rogue – Trump – may have a chance of bringing him to heel.

Biden can do nothing now to halt the war. He had his chance in 2021-2022 and blew it. His missiles, landmines and extra cash have probably come too late. And in two months’ time, he will be gone.

On the other hand, Trump’s warped idea of peace – surrendering one quarter of Ukraine’s territory and barring it from Nato and the EU – may look increasingly attractive to European leaders with little idea how to curb both overt and covert Russian aggression or how to win an unwinnable war on their own.

Putin calculates that Europe, ­prospectively abandoned by the US, fears a no-longer-hybrid, only too real, all-out war with Russia more than it does the consequences of betraying Ukraine.

Cynical brute that he is, he will keep on clandestinely pushing, probing, provoking and punishing until someone or something breaks – or Trump bails him out.

[eggtargaryenii]

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u take care too!!! 🫶

[ashtonsunshine]

Today I learnt that the optic fibre cables that carry the internet under the ocean are encased in a layer of vaseline.

[fllagellant]

Getting internet set up tomorrow I love being an adult and getting to chew on fibre optic cables