i can't deny it, i miss the gigabit

of course, yes. i miss that connection, sub 10ms pings to game servers and downloading music and videos like a sideways graphic equalizer, running at the speed that i'm able to process and jump in and out of tabs, it was glorious and yes, it was having a slow upload day that day, most days it was a the full 1 gig speed up AND down.

let's be honest for a moment, our connection to this 'thing' called the internet is super important to us, for gamers and people that like to 'get sh*t done' here on the internet we need that super fast solid connection -- it's a scary world when you consider bills like net neutrality get adapted and pulled back, these wires in the ocean and satellites in the sky have become more important to us than ever.

news reports of russian subs wanting to 'snip' our underseas cables sounds like a story invented for when a cyber attack that we can't handle happens, use the old 'russian' excuse and that way we can head that story off with a little bit of fake news, i'm pretty sure they could have snipped them a long time ago, you only have to google a bit to see the cruise ship that sliced through a pretty important one in a dock in australia that one time.

i'm pretty interested in substratum.net (hat tip: @kevinwong) because of that and holding onto my internet connection with a firm grip, after all without it, what do you have, the damn dark ages that's what! we end up actually GOING OUTSIDE and taking part in NATURE (seriously guys, you should do that anyway) but yeah, our connection to the internet is important.

how you get it, what's filtered, what's throttled, what's traffic shaped, what's made up from neural networks and fake news we are about to see an all out attack on the DELIVERY of the content we have gotten used too, the way we consider ourselves to be FREE and able to connect to sites on the web potentially is going to change, the experience of the internet is going to change and we will need to be WISER to actually use it without threat to us, those around us and the funds we keep in digital places.

i'm going to be doing a lot more discovery into mesh networks next year, aerials, vhf rather than cellular, considerations for solar powered battery setups and outdoor waterproof relay stations and the most important aspect of redudancy as i think it's going to impact all of us digital workers.

i suggest find as many redudant ways to connect to the internet as possible from low costs sims to co-working locations you can get into 24/7 have some level of fail over, learn how to use a vpn, setup your own in the cloud, bond together multiple cellular providers, keep your security updates up to date and consider having a sandboxed computer or laptop ready to go at a moments notice!

AYI AYI CAPTAIN

'to protect and serve ya updates'