links, etc SEA-ME-WE 3 (SMW3) Retired on December 2, 2024 - Submarine Networks this is/was a pretty impressive cable system for its time. all of the new cool stuff here is being done by the hyperscalers. i do wonder if there’s an appetite for massively cooperative cables like this anymore.
links, etc Undersea Surgeons - The New York Times i cannot turn away from anything submarine cable related.
notes bookshop link this was a dense and often redundant read with a lot of the classic, academic need to spend a lot of time on (re)naming things. to summarize … tunnels are the new internet. you might not necessarily realize/recognize what’s going on, but the focus of today’s internet is no longer end-to-end connectivity and addressing, etc. it’s what you can accomplish with tunnels. this is true, pretty much everything that you’re going to do in internet and enterprise engineering for the remainders of our life time is going to be in the service of some form of tunneling....
links, etc these links have been best coverage of the “local network access” permissions that arrived in macos 15 that i’ve seen to date. there’s excellent reading in here. Local Network Privacy FAQ | Apple Developer Forums TN3179: Understanding local network privacy | Apple Developer Documentation sheesh, amazon’s really getting their money’s worth out of this purchase. Amazon ready to use its own AI chips, reduce its dependence on Nvidia - Ars Technica
links, etc Intel Honesty not a bad rundown of the current state of intel. it’s unsparing in the critique. one thing that it doesn’t do is provide any coverage of the situation the balance of the intel portfolio. of note, their horking the network stuff. barefoot tofino was binned. it wasn’t a particularly sexy asic, but it did allow operators to start having some conversations around where it made sense to turn the dial in overlay and packet processing on the host stack vs....