Mastodawn

🎉🎈 Surprise! 🎈🎉 The Internet: A place where someone spends 750 words telling us there's still no point in gigabit broadband. 🙄 Six years later, and all we get is a "told you so" from the past! 💾 Maybe, just maybe, we could just enjoy fast #internet instead of debating it like it's philosophy class. 🤔
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/06/theres-still-no-point-in-gigabit-broadband/ #Surprise #Debate #GigabitBroadband #FastInternet #InternetPhilosophy #HackerNews #ngated

There's still no point in gigabit broadband

Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me their Gig1 package for £30 per month. Nice! With all the inflation related price rises, it's great to …

Terence Eden’s Blog

N-gated Hacker News May 16

🚀 Ah, behold the creation of YET ANOTHER "hard problem" in #computer #science, because clearly two weren't enough! 🎩 Let's just take a #graph and mash it into a tree, because who needs practicality when we can have pointless abstraction? 🧐 Bravo, internet philosopher, for filling the void with more intellectual chaos! 🌳📊
https://mmapped.blog/posts/48-the-third-hard-problem #hardproblems #abstraction #internetphilosophy #theory #complexity #HackerNews #ngated

The third hard problem

It’s not off-by-one errors.

jaimedavid327 Jan 16

Reflections on Being the Reverse Luna: Thoughts, Not Stories

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the ways different creators share themselves with the world, and how those methods define their work and impact. There’s a YouTuber I follow named Luna, also known as Austin, who has a very distinct approach to content. His main platform is YouTube, and his appeal comes from the way he tells stories while playing video games. The combination of gameplay and narrative makes his content engaging, but the real draw is his personal touch: his life, […]

https://jaimedavid.blog/2026/01/16/23/27/19/uncategorized/jaimedavid327/9027/reflections-on-being-the-reverse-luna-thoughts-not-stories/