I was talking to a friend who was thinking about the internet we want to have, decentralized, less silos, a bit like the nineties where it was possible to have static pages, host email, write your own CGI scripts, and it was all step by step easy and possible if that was what you wanted. And we got talking about the kind of things we need to today to get this back. Do you have reading suggestions? Blogs to read? Projects? People to follow?
@kensanata my feeling on this subject is that asymmetric access networks are really at fault here -- many DSL and DOCSIS networks are painfully asymmetric -- 16Mbps down, 1Mbps up. 200Mbps down, 4Mbps up! just barely enough to sent TCP ACKs to sustain a passible ingress speed.
the only solution to that foundational problem, is cheap virtual machines available from the plethora of hosting companies. but that just reinforces the client/server model further, imo.
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damn it I wanna move to Zurich. How do I get Swiss citizenship?
@Wolf480pl Also, @deshipu moved from Poland to Switzerland. I think he also started with a job at an international company in Poland. Red Hat, I think?
@kensanata @Wolf480pl I actually quit Red Hat to move in here (my team didn't have the budget for the more expensive country), and then I got a 3 month temporary permit for finding a job. Eventually I went back to Red Hat (to a different team), but generally, if you are from EU, then it's really easy.
@kensanata @Wolf480pl When you have a job, you get a 5-year permit. When that runs out, if you are from Germany, Italy or France, you can get a permanent permit, otherwise you get another 5 years to learn the language, and then you can get permanent permit after an exam.
@kensanata @Wolf480pl I think you can apply for citizenship after 10 years. There is a language and familiarity with culture exam, and if you are not in a city, your neighbors have to accept it.
