The magic cable typically goes into ISP-owned hardware sitting in a box somewhere down the street. From there, it’s either converted into fiber optic signals or repeated until it reaches an ISP-owned building where the data can be exchanged with the wider internet.

How does so much data go through a single-pin coax cable?

It uses multiple channels (frequency ranges) in parallel, bonding (combining) them to increase throughput.

A surprising amount of bandwidth can be achieved this way. DOCSIS 4.0 can do 10 gigabits per second in download and 6 gigabits per second in upload.

Might be. It is definitely a thing, though.

When I used to work for a large American corporation that sold products to consumers, they took it extremely seriously and breaking it would result in disciplinary action. It probably had something to do with advertisement laws, but it also easily could have just been because it makes the company look very bad.

one place even asked people to write fake reviews on Trustpilot/job sites

That sounds unethical, to say the least. Did they verify if you actually did it, or just “suggest” you do?

Corporations drill it deep into your head that you do not positively promote your own products or negatively review competitor products without both making it clear that you (1) work for $Corp; and (2) are sharing your own, personal opinion.

Giving the benefit of the doubt to Plex, they suck at training employees about social media policies.

I’m totally sure it was an accident. I’m sure we’ve all made the mistake of opening Шет_Рцссу.mp4.exe after receiving it as an email attachment from Elmo. /s

Joke aside, that’s some pretty impressive incompetence. Not once. Not twice. Multiple times. The guy ran infostealer malware multiple times over the course of multiple years.

A real shame the article omits the part about GameStop (the former parent company) being led by an absolute piece of shit.

https://xcancel.com/ryancohen/status/1891884823465103698

Email M&A@gamestop.com if you’re interested in buying GameStop Canada or Micromania France. High taxes, Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, Wokeness and DEI included at no additional cost if you buy today!

Them actually selling it, and to Canadian business no less, is a blessing for y’all.

plus these are benches too it looks like

This part is the most surprising. For something meant to go in urban areas, where’s the hostile architecture? No railings between seats? No spikes?

China might not be the worst option if you had to pick any of the BRICS countries. Lots of people, not landlocked, and huge potential for business. Canada absolutely shouldn’t trust them for anything involving defense or global politics, but they at least have more stability than we do as a trade partner.

As for trusting BRICS as a whole… fuck no. Least of all, Russia.

either a troll or a shill.

A tankie. To her credit, though, sometimes she makes good points about topics related to communism like class warfare and how exploitative capitalism is. This was not one of those times, unfortunately.

Just a really bad shill take of supporting the authoritarian-“communist” countries that conveniently ignore the communist ideals of no hierarchical power structures and being run by the people.

@Sunshine@lemmy.ca said those countries are authoritarian, and your response is to say “so is this one, and you’re racist”?

You’re not even denying Sunshine’s claim, you’re just redirecting to a different topic and attacking the beliefs you prescribed to someone else. Just strawmen and ad hominem attacks. Nice.

“Stupid,” nah. Bigoted, yeah. Conservatives never feel safe when their homogeneous neighborhoods are invader by others.

Why not both? Work them until they die of exhaustion and then the slavers can avoid paying for both food and construction.

He shouldn’t have back tracked. The Democrats here refused to acknowledge it, and a bunch of people refused to vote for them as a result.

Didn’t South Park do an episode about this?

If I were in your shoes and they asked about the travel phone, I would keep it short, simple, and truthful: “I’m following Canada’s travel guidelines and using a separate phone.”

I don’t want to antagonize border agents or imply their (my) country is authoritarian, nor should I voluntarily overshare minor details (which is something liars often do). If they have an issue with me following guidelines like any other ordinary citizen, they more than likely already wanted to search me and are looking for an excuse to do it. At that point, there’s nothing you can do other than know your rights.

Yes officer, I got a brand new phone with nothing on it to take with me. I did this because I want to comply with the laws of the USA and am afraid that if my phone got hacked I may accidentally carry something illegal across the border. I left my phone with all my lifetime photos and other history behind and I look forward to being reunited with it when my trip is over and I return home.

Don’t say this. They will use that as justification to search you and your vehicle for suspicious behavior.

I hate that it’s come to the point where innocent visitors have to worry about being searched or detained, but the best thing to do is simply not travel. If you get the wrong border guard, you’re screwed either way. If you have to cross the border for whatever reason, keep your head down and don’t give them a reason to waste their time on you. Keep it short and simple by saying you’re just following travel advisories.

In what world can one country dictate the laws of another country without there being a war?

We are talking about a country that demands regulatory concessions in foreign countries, beyond those of which are afforded to said countries’ domestic businesses.

I was curious about that whole “Canada doesn’t want US banks” thing that started in the beginning of our deranged trade war, and it’s really stupid. Opening a bank there is oh so hard for our poor widdle conglomerate banks because… stricter regulations and an unwillingness to make 35% of their Canadian subsidiary publicly owned.

That’s it. Their banks have to follow the same rules, and Trump thinks that’s unfair for us.

Best of luck to you, friend. I’m hoping you guys will succeed at not succumbing to their disinformation like we did.

A friendly reminder for my neighbours up north: it’s not just the people down here who are bombarded by misinformation and conservatism. A friend linked me to a video equivalent of this news, and the comments were a complete cesspool:

I wish I could say that I cherry-picked a small sample of the comments, but that was 70% of them at the time screenshot. For the sake of all that is democracy, please keep doing your best to educate fellow voters. Don’t let Trump get the politician he wants.

I actually jumped ship a while back. I agree that Plex is a business and they do deserve to get paid for development and infrastructure costs, but it’s the blatant enshitification that I have a big issue with.

They chose to lock a previously-free feature behind a paywall for everybody and asked for even more money to get it back. The less shitty alternative would have been to ask only the users who needed to use the relays to purchase a Plex Pass. Or, if they wanted to make it seem like a positive thing, they could have made the new subscription into an “enhanced quality” remote streaming experience that enabled higher bitrates over relays.

They gave their users the middle finger by picking the most transparently greedy option that they could get away with justifying.

Fair enough, although that actually has worse optics IMO. It goes from “this costs us money, so pay us” to “we need money, so we’re creating an artificial reason for you to pay us”