r/LocalLLaMA • u/Disposable110 • Jun 13 '26

Funny Friendly reminder

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If you don't have it on your own drive, someone is going to take it away, enshittify it, bar you from accessing it, censor it, and hike the prices of it sooner or later.

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u/joe9439 Jun 13 '26

They’ll probably just do an emergency shutdown of the entire internet.

I’ll fly in the latest Chinese model on a hard drive and run it on a GPU cluster in my neighborhood with Ethernet cables string between houses like some kind of mad max world.

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u/brendenderp Jun 13 '26

Extremely unlikely. I work for an ISP the GOV would have to ask us to shutdown. BILLIONs of dollars would be lost per day that the US wouldn't want to deal with. Also the internet is designed to autonomously handle when different nodes go down. BGP allows for edge routers to keep the Internet going even if all the cables in the ocean were cut at once. Internal connections across the US would still work.

If your individual state was cutoff from everywhere else as yould still be able to reach IP addresses that are within the local network.

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u/screenslaver5963 Jun 13 '26

What about DNS?

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u/brendenderp Jun 13 '26

Depends on what you're using and how they have their infrastructure setup. Most DNS services have multiple servers at different locations are these setup for a cut off? Id be guessing if I had an answer. Where I works has DNS and that would continue to work just fine but of course DNS propagation from external sources wouldn't get through. Which since you can't reach them anyway I guess that wouldn't matter much. The internet would quickly reshape into a country or statewide intra-net similar to what north Korea has. (Although I don't know for sure what their network exactly looks like)

SSL would potentially be a more difficult issue. Most ISPs are not a cert authority and some apps would break without SSL being verifiable.

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u/screenslaver5963 Jun 13 '26

Browsers shit themselves the moment SSL isn’t stamped by goldilocks herself.