fiber, footpaths, and irc: infrastructure for digital and physical worlds

links, etc

• The Case for Fiber to the Home, Today: Why Fiber is a Superior Medium for 21st Century Broadband | Electronic Frontier Foundation

  somehow this landed in my reading queue this AM. it’s held up much better than some of the other things that the EFF has tilted at over the years.

  i’ll say it again, fiber is the only thing that makes sense if you want to future-proof your broadband deployment. spare me the comsat biz. spectrum is a finite resource.

• If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity - Streets.mn

  i love it when the rest of the world discovers the brilliant stuff lurking on streets.mn (in this case via the orange site.) this piece was spot on.

  the hacker news thread was, predictably, as insipid as one would expect.

• IRC is the Only Viable Chat Protocol

  via hacker news … i’m on board with this.