The internet is fine! The capacity has not been reached. The backbones are not overwhelmed.
The whole throttling (especially by Akamai, who IS a CDN) is just PR.
The only thing that could be overwhelmed are the ISPs, who can have their own throttling in place if they want to.

For example, https://www.de-cix.net/en/news...

All DE-CIX Internet Exchanges are able to handle the existing and expected traffic growth without any problems. Even if all companies in Europe were to operate exclusively remotely with staff all working from home, and the UEFA European Football Championship were to be broadcast in parallel, we would still be able to make the necessary bandwidth available for seamless interconnection.

How about turning off telemetry? This will reduce the load by...loads!

And that is a cause that is more measurable than the nebulous "death due to air pollution."

Good one

And some of us think the climate numbers are being messed with to push an agenda, the educational system is rigged to produce a never-ending stream of Junior Marxists, and that the criminal system is being weakened to the point of not existing anymore. We also think immigration and felon-voting is being used to pad the rolls of the Left.

Do you have any sources for any of those claims? Because it sounds pretty unbelieveable. There's a conspiracy between all climate scientists? Marxists? In the USA? If that's true, when do they become so anti-communist? In the USA, the word socialism (not communism) is used as if you can end an argument with it. And do you have any numbers of those claims? WIth the felons?

If you're working 50+ hrs and no vacay, get a better job. I did. Cut commute in half, work 40 hours (plus on-call once every 5 weeks) and no one calls me outside of on-call. And that's as syseng. Don't wait for the rising tide to lift you, fucking lift yourself.

That is great for you! Are you aware that finding a job is not easy, and there are a lot of people living from paycheck to paycheck working multiple jobs which can't afford to "walk out" of a bad job?

Free software and open hardware are a start

instead of spying on their neighbours, ring users are getting spied on.
That's overall still bad, but I can't help but feel schadenfreude about this

This has the effect of "making the trains run on time"

The German trains don't run on time. In fact, they are the ridiculed for not being on time.

Internationally so: japan times

Deutsche Bahn, which used to be famous for its punctuality, has come under fire in recent years for delays, last-minute train cancellations and expensive ticket fares.

(The JP times story is about something else entirely, that is about Deutsche Bahn being bad, but not being late)

It is a simple hack, so to speak, but you should always be happy when someone discovers something new and exciting for them. If you want to discuss if this is a hack or not, be my guest.

However, the reason we should be discussing this is the horrible practice of instagram of not protecting their users content as advertised. They say they give only privileged users access to resources, but they make those resources public.

They should know better, especially since they already do have an authentication scheme with logging in in place.

This is as bad as an open (no authentication) database with customer data. This is a major security fuck up.

I can hear someone writing an instagram-scraper as we speak...

Because people pull in more and more of libraries from the internet.
Some are for good reasons, like the growing complexity of everything, some are for no good reason (like "let's use a huge JS framework to serve a static website").

because for revocation you have to check again. If you don't have access to the CRL, or actively check, you succeed where you shouldn. Expiry is the "safeer default", as a compromised cert is at most (in let's encrypts case) 90d valid.

This is showing how much power google has over the internet. Do we want this? What if they decide to kill $your_browser the next day?

Voting software

Meanwhile, shooting people in the face with a shotgun or shooting them in the knee with an arrow is totally A-OK since especially the former never happens in life AFK.

Source:

Or, you are a patient, wear one of those and want to not fear for your life because some idiot thought that an open WLAN into your heart was a good idea.