{"id":3888,"date":"2011-10-30T22:29:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T02:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2014-03-11T20:07:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T00:07:04","slug":"the-pros-and-cons-of-tethering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3888","title":{"rendered":"The pros and cons of tethering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until Tuesday (2011-11-01), I am sort of half-cut-off from the Internet.  I can browse, I can blog, and I can push commits to my project repos, but I can&#8217;t do IRC or mail.  This is a heads-up for my GPSD and other collaborators; I&#8217;m still here.<\/p>\n<p>How this happened is a case study in 21st-century Internet vicissitudes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That freak early storm that dumped heavy snow up and down the East Coast took out the FIOS line to my house on Saturday night.  I was half-panicking at the thought of no Internet when I realized that I could solve p[art of the problem by tethering my desktop machine to my smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, browsing and blogging and repo pushes.  However&#8230;because of spam coming off T-Mobile&#8217;s network, Freenode blocks connections from it; no IRC for me.  I also have no incoming mail because thyrsus.com is the downstairs server connected to my FIOS line.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh&#8230;won&#8217;t be fixed until Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until Tuesday (2011-11-01), I am sort of half-cut-off from the Internet. I can browse, I can blog, and I can push commits to my project repos, but I can&#8217;t do IRC or mail. This is a heads-up for my GPSD and other collaborators; I&#8217;m still here. How this happened is a case study in 21st-century&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3888\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The pros and cons of tethering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-3888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-smartphone","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5450,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions\/5450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}