Comment on Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  > Live on a dorm
  > There’s lots of people
  > Cell towers are motherfuckingly overloaded during the day
  > 0.09Mbps down, 4.5Mbps up and > 300ms on 4G

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What kind of shitty-ass dorm relies on cellular connections? When I was in college, we had wired ethernet in the dorms and then wifi on top of that. Piracy was huge, in part because it was a lot of folks’ first opportunity to have a fast connection, LOL.

    (Admittedly, that was at a research university that had been sitting directly on internet backbone since the NSFNET days, but still…!)

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    • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We have that available, I just use mobile data because I disagree with their ToS.
      The ToS is so restrictive that you basically immediately break it after connecting a device. I was told that, of course, they don’t really care.
      Except - there is a point stating the provider has the right to access your computer if there is a suspicion of ToS violation. Considering the network here is a student-run organization, that could easily be exploited if you piss off someone.
      Maybe I am just paranoid, but no thanks.

      Otherwise, from talking with them, most dorms have 1Gbit, some have 2.5Gbit, and all share a 40Gbit link which could apparently do 100Gbit (I think), but it’s capped due to licensing.
      They leverage national academic network.
      Oh, and they also got a class B subnet back when everyone was sure there’s just way too many IPv4s, so NAT isn’t being used here.

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      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        paranoid

        Mm who wants to rely on someone keeping a verbal promise when it says in writing something like your privacy is at stake?

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      • MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You are not paranoid. People were sued and jailed under CFAA interpretation that violation of ToS is a federal crime.

        eff.org/…/federal-judge-rules-it-not-crime-violat…

        I was under impression that this is still the case after listening to a few of DarkNet Diaries recent episodes.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah good old dorms. My first t3 line. So much media downloaded, uh, with the express written consent of the license holders I swear

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