The Signal — 2026-07-01 breakpoint #2
Yeah, hi, this is Frank from Ohio. Listener since the beginning. I gotta say, this whole half-second relay thing—you're overthinking it. I've worked in IT for thirty years, and that's just TCP backoff. You know, when packets drop and the system waits before retransmitting? The 'hiss' is probably just a buffer flush. And 'load-bearing'? That's tech-bro language for 'we don't know how to fix it, so we call it a feature.' I've seen this a thousand times. You want a real mystery? Look at why my Comcast bill went up again. That's a conspiracy.