"Man, f$ck [redacted] Airlines, their wifi is so goddamn slow I paid [ten minutes' salary] for this sh!t and it takes me 5 seconds to buffer [a video of a cat riding a chicken]."
/sitting in a metal tube going 1000 kmph, 12,000m above the earth's surface, connecting to a vast network of information infrastructure incorporating over half of humanity.
@ct_bergstrom
Way back in the early days of the Internet, I don't recall anyone predicting how much bandwdith would be used by cat videos.
@JohnMashey @ct_bergstrom I bet they're using the streamer trick of caching them at the local head end and then "trending" them so that everybody clicks. That way in that moment nobody's clicking on a million different, more obscure things that actually have to be fetched over the internet on demand.
We really should make it easier on the ISPs and just replace ourselves with simple scripts that watch whatever we're told. Or would that be superfluous?
