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he didn't say ethernet or wifi, he said internet. as in when the next big solar storm hits earth
by singularity2001 3y ago
he didn't say ethernet or wifi, he said internet. as in when the next big solar storm hits earth
- JCharante 3y agoI mean, if internet "internet" is down then society has collapsed and your job is probably gone anyways
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoI do admit, it'll be hard to sell 10 years experience building CRUD apps to the hunter gatherer commune.
- JCharante 3y agoSame situation here. I'm hoping being quadrilingual can help me serve as a diplomat or at least part of any envoys to distant communities. I also have some experience chopping down one tree in my backyard.
- Kye 3y agoIt happens every so often with BGP tables going haywire due to a faulty announcement. Fortunately, I know how to use hand tools, so I'm secure in the post-internet future economy.
- JCharante 3y agoIt hasn't happened in a while, I think this is the last major incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident
- Kye 3y agoThere have been numerous high profile incidents. I can't find a list, but BGP troubles took Facebook down for a while in 2021: https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/outage-details/ https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/out...
- JCharante 3y agoI remember experiencing that outage, but the entire internet wasn't down. Sometimes some Chinese providers also do weird BGP stuff. BGP failures tend to be isolated to certain networks and not the entirity of the internet.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoNot to this level. If the whole Internet goes down, it's not clear if it could even be cold-started, at least faster than it takes for the world economy to collapse.
- j45 3y agoEthernet, Fibre maybe.