i didn't realize fiber could be overbooked similar to cable. I had a 3gbit plan but downgraded to 500mbit because barely any transfers would go over 300mbit during the day. I kept thinking the servers I download from are overloaded, but it makes more sense my provider overbooks than the entirety of the internet being slow... time to put in some complaint calls during peak hours!
Many residential fiber deployments are PON with some amount of overbooking on the last mile. If the fiber is 2.5g down/1.25g up and split 4 ways, not everyone can have the full 1g/1g service.
But even if you have point to point fiber, that probably has an upstream connection that's less than the aggregate bandwidth of the end user connections it manages. And so on until you get through your providers network to internet transit/peering. And once you get through to the hosting network too.
I ran hundreds of 1g/10g boxes at a facility with 80g aggregated to the world.
Those boxes would be 40 or so to a rack, with 2x10g to the switch (800gbps aggregate) and probably 4x10g to the upstream switch. Maybe 4x40g to the upstream.
You're right about it existing, but FB could definitely fight it, removing 90% or more. But sadly it generatesa LOT of extra revenue for them (stolen account with stolen CC = thousands spent on ads) so they have monetary incentive to turn a blind eye and let people get scammed.
All it takes to ditch the news is being on the inside of a breaking story, and realizing how much information being spewed out is just plain incorrect... then the next few articles you read, you realize it's not just your article they warped for clicks, but all of them.
When newspapers were the primary news consumption, it was a bit better - journalists had a few hours to collect facts before publishing. Now there's zero time so they will publish anything. Empty calories.
My experience of being quoted by respected news organisations (Reuters and the BBC) is that quotes will be random and out of context, or just made up (I did get an apology from the BBC for the latter and they removed it from their website).
It does not even need to be a particular story. Experts in almost every field complain about how bad coverage of their field is, and you can extrapolate to coverage being bad in general. What Michael Crichton dubbed Gell_Mann amnesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amn...
I would also add knowing a country that gets covered in the news but which is not important enough to be prominent (Sri Lanka in my case) also soon shows you the media are sloppy and make huge mistakes and write with little understanding.
Same age, same strategy, same results. The "searching and applying" time cost every morning is usually 1-2 hours the first few days, but ends up taking 20-30 minutes after you've tweaked the signal-to-noise ratio effectively with adjustments to your bookmarked "newest" job postings with filters applied.
You'll also have at the ready your "copy paste" document for those fields the application portals tend to screw up at scraping from your resume after upload. You will undoubtedly run across postings mentioning products or technology that you have not personally used. I take those opportunities to watch a quick YT video in my second monitor on the topic to gain a nugget of understanding while I continue my search.
I often walk away each morning having learned a little something new, and it doesn't feel like such a grind.
This YT video thing sounds very familiar. I do the same thing whenever I run into a job application in an industry/niche market I never heard of. It does makes the whole process less of a grind for me.
