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> Judging by this map: https://www.fiberatlantic.com/ https://www.fiberatlantic.com/ Those maps are shit. They are London tube style and don't display anything

> Judging by this map: https://www.fiberatlantic.com/ https://www.fiberatlantic.com/ Those maps are shit. They are London tube style and don't display anything useful, not even bandwidth let alone locations. They are worse than London tube. Only one cable was cut recently (IA) - mid last week. (APG) - March 10, (AAE-1) - May 23

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aaron695 2y ago
> Those maps are shit. I know of nothing better. It's just important to actually think about what graphs are showing you. In this case it's just pretty lines for a picture on the wall. Without bandwidth there's nothing you can tell. The physical locations will be kept secret, they would be found with OSINT but it's of limited use outside of terrorism. The bandwidth and lag is something of interest. I would be great to know how the data flows throughout the world. I wish some researcher at a university did this. What's data flow like between Lagos and Mexico City? Clifford Stoll napkin mathed where the hackers came from in The Cookoo Egg using lag. I always thought that was cool. “The hacker’s signals might be traveling through a satellite link. It takes a quarter second for microwaves to travel from earth to the satellite and back.” Communications satellites orbit twenty-three thousand miles over the equator. “Yeah, that’s one reason,” Lloyd said. “But you’d need twelve satellite hops to account for that three-second delay. What’s the real reason for the delay?” “Maybe the hacker has a slow computer.” “Not that slow. Though maybe the hacker has programmed his Kermit to respond slowly. That’s reason two.” “Aah! I know the third delay. The hacker’s using networks that move his data inside of packets. His packets are constantly being rerouted, assembled, and disassembled. Every time they pass through another node, it slows him down.” “Exactly. Unless you can count the number of nodes, you can’t tell how far away he is. In other words, ‘You lose.’ ” Lloyd yawned and returned to repairing a terminal.
- maxbond 2y ago
  My dad was a programmer, so there was a certain expectation I would be one as well. As a child I chaffed at that like I did with all expectations. I insisted I wanted to be a scientist. One day I walked into Borders and bought The Cuckoo's Egg. I devoured it. I knew immediately that I wanted to be a programmer. So I went back to Borders and bought a book on Python.
squigz 2y ago
Why don't you build something better then?

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aaron695 2y ago

> Those maps are shit. I know of nothing better. It's just important to actually think about what graphs are showing you. In this case it's just pretty lines for a picture on the wall. Without bandwidth there's nothing you can tell. The physical locations will be kept secret, they would be found with OSINT but it's of limited use outside of terrorism. The bandwidth and lag is something of interest. I would be great to know how the data flows throughout the world. I wish some researcher at a university did this. What's data flow like between Lagos and Mexico City? Clifford Stoll napkin mathed where the hackers came from in The Cookoo Egg using lag. I always thought that was cool. “The hacker’s signals might be traveling through a satellite link. It takes a quarter second for microwaves to travel from earth to the satellite and back.” Communications satellites orbit twenty-three thousand miles over the equator. “Yeah, that’s one reason,” Lloyd said. “But you’d need twelve satellite hops to account for that three-second delay. What’s the real reason for the delay?” “Maybe the hacker has a slow computer.” “Not that slow. Though maybe the hacker has programmed his Kermit to respond slowly. That’s reason two.” “Aah! I know the third delay. The hacker’s using networks that move his data inside of packets. His packets are constantly being rerouted, assembled, and disassembled. Every time they pass through another node, it slows him down.” “Exactly. Unless you can count the number of nodes, you can’t tell how far away he is. In other words, ‘You lose.’ ” Lloyd yawned and returned to repairing a terminal.

maxbond 2y ago
My dad was a programmer, so there was a certain expectation I would be one as well. As a child I chaffed at that like I did with all expectations. I insisted I wanted to be a scientist. One day I walked into Borders and bought The Cuckoo's Egg. I devoured it. I knew immediately that I wanted to be a programmer. So I went back to Borders and bought a book on Python.

squigz 2y ago

Why don't you build something better then?