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 threadapemantus
@ricci @dan …and how much energy was wasted by all these megafactories of worthless information and what was the carbon footprint of this high-tech poop.
Mar 29, 2024 at 9:09amWeb