The Level1 Show May 14 2024: Death Of The Fast Lane

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• S'MORES Pop Tarts.

• [Level1News]

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• All crypto is a scam. All. You can't change my mind.

• 31:05 and even at the highest tiers, there are still some truly awful ISPs… verizon, for instance.

• My buddy fr0ek could handle Wendell being missing, Krista being missing but not Ryan. That was just too much for him 🙁

• My favorite piptart flavor is Wildberry

• Nice digs

• Threads is just filled with the LinkedIn crowd trying to act human

• BrownSugarCinnamon ~

• 22:10 Greetings from Huntsville, AL. We're like 46 in education now. I was looking at that the other day and concluded that it must be because everyone else got worse as opposed to us actually getting better.

• 24:13 – that's like… what the case of TikTok kinda already is, don't you guys know? Yeah, I also don't use TikTok myself, but I had read about this previously, so…

  TikTok is the international name for Douyin, which is the original product of ByteDance. Inside China it's only Douyin. There's a lot of confusion around this, but just to reinstate – TikTok doesn't exist in China – it's an international market only thing.

  TikTok is not only the name of the app outside China, but also of the company created specifically to attend the market outside China, with 4 different entities, each taking care of TikTok in different parts of the world. So you have TikTok in US, specifically in Los Angeles, another one in Australia which also takes care of New Zealand market, another one in UK with further subsidiaries in the EU, and one in Singapore that takes care of Southeast Asia and India regions. Well, it did before it was banned I guess.

  That is to say, TikTok is already somewhat like Apple in China. On paper it's supposed to be an even higher degree of separation, since TikTok is a subsidiary of ByteDance, and that's what actually operates outside China. The parent company supposedly does not interfere with the international branch, big stress on supposedly.
  But there has been lots of talks about ByteDance employees going back and forth from TikTok branches around the world – the thing that is supposed to reinforce the suspicion of spying and whatnot, even if ByteDance claims this has more to do with technology transfer, branding and stuff like that. Keeping the app consistent among branches.

  By comparison, if I'm not mistaken (I also dunno much about Apple, so correct me if I'm wrong) cases like Apple needs a Chinese counterpart to operate directly into the Chinese market, right?
  I dunno what it is for Apple, but I know lots of gaming related companies need to go through other Chinese companies like Tencent and whatnot. Or the company needs some explicit sorta deal between the company and government.

  But it also makes absolutely no sense for a government to say the subsidiary needs to sell itself to an American company in order to continue operating. China has never done anything similar to that afaik. They either outright forbid entry, or allow entry with some heavy handed conditions – mostly around censorship compliance.
  TikTok's main and only product is a proprietary system developed by ByteDance, so it just can't transfer it to some other American business. Probably doesn't even have the rights to do so, being only a subsidiary and all. I guess it could transfer assets and whatnot, but of course ByteDance isn't handing control of the platform itself to the competition. That'd be close to something like the Chinese government saying Microsoft needs to hand control of Exchange or Bing to a Chinese company if Microsoft wants to keep operating in China… well, not exactly, since Microsoft is even smaller inside China in comparison to TikTok in international markets, but you know what I mean. 😛

• "Engagement Challenge": Not affected by the career shifting things since working for the State of PA. Baby-boomers are retiring given many of upward mobility.

• 2:00 – Depending on how you see Huawei, if you know Madoka it can kinda be the right choice. xD

• The Maple Syrup ones are my favorite pop tarts.

• coming from big industry (wink & nod). It's all about the money. Kids on the bench looking for work but the good work is pushed overseas for cost reduction and a happier client :/…..

• Show is great, thanks.

• Plain Brown Sugar Pop-tarts for me.

• Except when SCOTUS overturns Chevron Deference, everything the FCC has done that would be considered overstepping its authority (even parts of net neutrality regulations) will be undone.

• Can I get a copy of the list of names like Mike Hunt, Krista mentioned?
  Not 1 comment about that you uncultured boring zombies. Genuine laughter broke out over spirit suffocating sarcasm in response to Rottenchild's Reuters propaganda article in well any publication u can think of, see.

• 22:33 Um, Slick Willy was the Governor of Arkansas, Wendell. 🙄

• It is a sad day for so called humanity when America No 1. can barely get dial-up, let alone VDSL in areas that are considered rural (we call them suburbs, we're more densely packed here in the dictatorial europe) than Croatia where we are getting fiber almost everywhere, I literally have an offer for 1G fiber connection to my camper that is in the corner of a small agricultural plot because they saw I have one solar panel therefore electricity therefore subscriber! WTF is going on there?

• No threads use here.

• o/

• Frosted, Raspberry or Blueberry!

• KOSA Have you looked into Canada/s Bill C-63. The online harms act. With precrime thought crimes and life time jail terms for wrong think?

• The funny thing is, so many people cheered when Elon bought Twitter (I refuse to call it "X"). Some folks even cheered when he started charging for the "verified" status. The rising cost of API access definitely impacts companies that use it. So it comes as no surprise that Nintendo has put their foot down and severed ties with the API. I imagine that, sooner or later, we're going to see companies start severing their gold checkmarks as well, because those cost far more than the blue checkmarks, which has been rendered worthless, thanks to the number of bots and disinformation peddlers who use them.

• 10:16 The price of the stock has changed. As long as money is being created, nobody cares. But if money is being erased you better watch out

• 10:28 "What changed?"……"What's different"?
  One of our employees in DC finally realized that we can fill the U.S. Coffers with just the fines levied to corps. that can afford it and keep doing business.
  Kind of joking but in all truth we could really curb a lot of our national debt with fines from all of these large tech corps. that continue to break the law, In Broad Daylight.
  This would not cure all of our problems but it would make the large companies decide if the illegal as well unethical business practices were worth it.
  Even if they decided that it is worth it, we as a country would, at the very least, be able to see govt. doing something truly positive for our economy.

  Fingers Crossed………not holding breath.

• I use threads and it does have private messages

• Cherry, but poptarts should be eaten sparingly, as they are high in sugar.

• 30:00 – Biggest thing you're paying for with a commercial ISP account is the support SLA to get a truck rolled onsite or an engineer to look at your link when there's an issue. Like you said, the upstream peers for both of them is often identical at this point.

• My granny cut the Internet off for a summer, so I would get out more so I downloaded a "free" dial-up program (this was in like 2000) and we got 6k phone bill cuz I had to dial up to nearest city costing long distance charges. Lmao kids will always find a way

• DailyKos I think is pronounced Daily Cause.

• 5:01 it’s pronounced chaos!!!

• I had Comcast business for many years, because it was the only way to get around the limits (300 MB was useless for me even 10 years ago). Eventually, as all my friends and neighbors got speeds that were 10x faster, I decided to inquire about upgrading. They wanted $450/mo. for 150Mb. I had 30Mb. I called the non-business Comcast, and got 800Mb for $80/mo., which was less than I was paying for the business internet. While that was stupid, what was even worse was when I called to cancel the business internet after the non-business internet was up and running (off the same coax line…), they offered to upgrade me to the 150Mb for $75/mo. more than I was paying. If they'd done that to begin with, I wouldn't have changed (I wouldn't have known different). As it is, I am way happier with my 800Mb – getting 100MB downloads for steam games and being able to have all of the household members be able to stream video at the same time is very nice, and should be the minimum required. I can't technically host my web sites locally anymore, but that's a different issue that I've already dealt with that ended up better as well. This was about 18 months ago that this all happened.

• The way to fix the internet is to make it negligence of a minor to allow 13 and younger online. I'm still not sure how to handle 14, 15, 16 and 17 though. Perhaps 14 and 15 should be exclusively thru their schools network like learners driver license requires an adult in the car.

• Encarta was the shit. It even had a trivia game.

• Elon IS still making egregious claims about self driving. He just said that Tesla robo-taxies will be here later this year.

• Noooo Ryan. I'll miss his cynical remarks this week.

• Cherry 🍒

• Cinnamon/Brown sugar.

• My favorite flavor of pop tart? The flopping kind…

• The characters being cosplayed at 1:43 in front of the huawei building are Madoka Kaname and Homura Akemi from the show Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
  As far as I know, there's no joke or reference going on here, unless magical lesbians are relevant to the story somehow.

• If the Chinese invade Taiwan and it looks like they are going to succeed, do you think the Taiwanese government intentionally destroys the chip fabs?

• Praising Saudi Arabia is not a good look. The royal family is rich. The common populace is not. And then there’s the massive amounts of human rights issues.

• No pop tarts for me. Hate them

• All crypto is a scam. That is 100% fact. It is just a pump and dump scheme.

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