Because I haven't posted it in a while!
You've heard of the OSI Model [of networking], and the four and five layer versions of the TCPIP model.
As you may know, neither accurately reflect reality. So I have constructed my own. I present to you, "The nuintari Model of Networking!" Now updated for the "modern" AI era!
1) Physical Layer - Cables and fibers, and electrons and photons, 'n' shit, yo.
2) Data Link Layer - Ethernet mostly, Ethernet as far as the eye can see. There was once others, but they have all died out in a mysterious mass extinction event.
3) Network Layer - IPv4 if you are a basic bitch, IPv6 if you are on your game. Something else entirely if you are an actual dinosaur.
4) Transport Layer - This basically means TCP/UDP/ICMP/etc. Includes QUIC, an evil protocol that should curse developers who use it with festering boils, but for some reason doesn't.
5) Protocol Layer - High order protocols that ride over the Transport Layer. Remember IMAP? POP3? GOPHER? Largely being replaced by the Cruft Layer.
5a) Cruft Layer - An optional layer reserved for overly complicated apps that are a collection of microservices glued together by gratuitous misuse of HTTP.
6) Application Layer - Bringing your kitty cat pictures, hardcore pornography, and terrible UI/UX choices to the screen!
7) PEBKAC Layer - Here there be dragons. Stupid, stupid dragons.
7.5) AI/LLM Layer - A layer of pure noise generated by LLM garbage that oscillates between layers 7 and 8 like an FM radio station. There is no intelligence here, only sloth, greed, malice, and self amplifying stupidity.
8) Politics Layer - This layer brings extra chaos to the PEBKAC layer in the form of middle and upper management, sales and marketing people, and government officials.
9) Time Layer - You are always running out of time. You must acquire a sundial, for they are used to keep time.
10) Money Layer - Everything costs money, and you will never have enough of it. Consider becoming a bank, banks have money.
11) Enlightenment Layer - A special place reserved for network engineers, systems engineers, and software developers who master all preceding layers. Believed to be an empty, soulless void. Those who toil in layer 7.5 can never hope to achieve this layer.
The Psychotic Network Ferret
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2026-08-19 13:36:45 UTC
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