• GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      1000 years from now the post apocalypse humans will attempt to learn from our time by analyzing ancient data caches only to discover that they need to create The Internet in order to access them. They will give up. Nothing will have been lost.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      might be the only reason some U.S. states are doing “rural broadband initiatives”. i mean we know it’s not because the state wants to do infrastructure for any greater social purpose

      hit some arbitrary percentage of access, fudge it with starlink numbers, declare victory and watch everything move to the cloud.