Dan PortsMar 28, 2024

Yesterday I found myself sitting at 40,000 feet over the middle of the Pacific, miles from any civilization, when my phone popped up a notification that one of my cats had used the litter box.

This is a level of technology I could never have dreamed of. Or necessarily wanted to.

Show threadRob RicciMar 29, 2024
@dan I strongly recommend using this experience to explain networking. What networks, datacenters, clouds (literal and figurative), satellites, etc did that poop notification traverse?
Show threadDan Ports
@ricci It would have been even better back in the days of Boeing’s first satellite WiFi system when each plane was its own AS and advertised routes via BGP, meaning that every router in the internet would know where it was at any given moment.
Mar 29, 2024 at 5:32amWeb
Show threadRob RicciMar 29, 2024
@dan In related (?) news the status bar in my laptop window manager displays the AS number of the network my public IP address belongs to