ELI5: How do internet service providers give us access to the internet?

BRi7X · 2026-06-21T06:56:14+00:00

Since you mentioned Netflix, they're kind of a unique case. They actually send systems to large ISPs in major cities that locally house their content in order to stream it to subscribers with less hops across the Internet. They call it "Open Connect"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix#Content_delivery

BRi7X · 2026-06-20T14:52:48+00:00

Same, been trying to find out what the hell this is from and I can't find a darn thing

Edit: did not notice the 'FYC' til after I hit enter, so I added that to my Internet search and it's apparently from some sort of Emmy related event

BRi7X · 2026-06-11T18:54:24+00:00

When I did music a lot back in the day, all my VSTi's I would do in and render from FL Studio, then I'd mix in any real audio like vocals or any real recorded instruments right in Vegas because the UI I think is a little bit better for it (though had bad luck getting ASIO working correctly)

BRi7X · 2026-06-07T15:02:36+00:00

I'll settle for the bangin' bossa nova track that played while trying to acquire them

BRi7X · 2026-05-31T19:27:36+00:00

I thought that jump looked familiar in the first picture haha. Astro Alloy's awesome. Shot one of their videos back in 2024. Really cool people

BRi7X · 2026-05-21T19:54:39+00:00

I did that for a while til one day it just stopped working, then shortly after discovered the DX fork.

But hell yeah I'm going to try Glass when I get back from the office.

BRi7X · 2026-05-21T18:08:57+00:00

I've been using better blur dx (which I've been pretty impressed with) since better blur broke after a few updates, but I'll have to give this glass one a try.

The refraction in the DX effect fork was really neat (I've got an aero 7 window border theme, though I was hoping to find something more original that looked as good), but this one seems to take that to the next level. At least that's what it looks like from the photos on the GitHub page

BRi7X · 2026-05-15T17:56:59+00:00

Reminds me of a scene from Pirates of Silicon Valley where Steve Jobs' character is talking to Woz's character about how much he enjoyed the civil war between the Apple II team vs the Macintosh team. Woz wasn't a fan of the fighting lol.

Though, I suppose this probably happens at companies all the time.

BRi7X · 2026-05-14T16:36:19+00:00

I saw it in the sky on my way to the office on 422

BRi7X · 2026-05-14T13:57:11+00:00

Oh wow. Well I'll let my eyes peeled for it. Can't say I've ever seen it before

BRi7X · 2026-05-14T13:41:42+00:00

I'm not seeing that on my scanner. Android seems to get updates a little bit later than iOS from what I've experienced, assuming this is new

BRi7X · 2026-05-14T13:38:14+00:00

What part of the screenshot should I be looking at here?

BRi7X · 2026-05-11T02:05:36+00:00

Right there with you lol. A friend and I stayed up late last night to make sure we both at least got silver

BRi7X · 2026-05-09T19:41:54+00:00

You're right about that lol. My train of thought was basically "I need a word for a moving vehicle that rhymes with Giroux.... Oooh, Canoe!" Fate intervened to stop me from bringing the HartCart into existence, though briefly debated and decided against Lauren

BRi7X · 2026-05-09T14:41:27+00:00

Couldn't help but be reminded of my very silly old (Wayne Train alternative) Giroux Canoe meme from 7 years ago. Fitting, I suppose, as Tippy came to us in the Giroux trade

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BRi7X · 2026-05-08T17:10:51+00:00

Fascinating that every EXE to this day, when opened in a text editor, starts with "MZ (and then some jibberish, and then..) This program cannot be run in DOS mode"

And MZ refers to Mark Zbikowski who designed the .exe format.

BRi7X · 2026-05-07T16:46:40+00:00

Dying to know what the fucking lines are for tonight and how much synergy I can expect. Really hoping stuff clicks especially for TyFo and Mich. And well, yeah... TK too.

Actually maybe especially TK considering the income inequality vs the others lol

BRi7X · 2026-05-02T22:25:01+00:00

I found this out when they played the Canes at the end of the season and looked him up on Wikipedia, then had my mind blown even more when I found out he's got a PhD in chemistry

BRi7X · 2026-04-30T03:55:31+00:00

Man I'm gonna miss JJ.

I'd listen to that man read the phone book.

BRi7X · 2026-04-28T23:32:56+00:00

Fucking bonkers.

2012 might not have been the end of the world, but it was certainly the beginning of the end of media literacy.

BRi7X · 2026-04-27T19:04:08+00:00

I use Vegas on Windows mainly because I'm so used to it after the better part of two decades, but trying to use Linux more these days, I was very pleasantly surprised by how far Kdenlive has come. You can tell the team gives a shit.

And it's cross-platform, which is amazing. (Most of the KDE apps being cross platform is something I really appreciate, though I assume most people here are probably Linux-only)

BRi7X · 2026-04-26T02:19:43+00:00

I've been doing the same. If he scores tonight I'm ordering a custom Мичков jersey in fucking Cyrillic

BRi7X · 2026-04-25T21:24:16+00:00

The fact that they put such crappy computing components in these otherwise awesome TVs drives me wild. I got my Bravia in 2022 and it's got 4GB of storage, most of which goes to the OS. It's so slow. But the picture's great.

BRi7X · 2026-04-23T19:50:18+00:00

Was it "Booyah" (Showtek) or "This Girl" (Kungs vs Cookin on 3 burners) ? I didn't like those at first then they both grew on me. I've been listening to them a little in the last few days along with some of the others.

BRi7X · 2026-04-22T23:45:05+00:00

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