rlamacraft @rlamacraft@social.cleverlibre.org

Fun fact: if present-day US copyright law had been in force at the time that Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" was made, Lewis Carol's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" would not have entered the public domain for another 17 years

Maybe restricting our main form of public discourse and communication to message size and complexity customized to the bandwidth constraints of a random iteration of electronic device, and leaving it that way for an entire generation, wasn't the best idea after all.

If you dont vote third party this is pretty much what you sound like.

this is going to be my new go-to.

https://xkcd.com/1782

"Why companies struggle with recalcitrant IT" https://www.economist.com/business/2020/07/18/why-companies-struggle-with-recalcitrant-it

"Airlines are […] now advised to turn the plane off and on again every 51 days, to stop its computers displaying false data in mid-flight."

Love our glorious computerized future

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/18/21329453/kfc-russia-bioprinting-lab-chicken-nuggets-sustainable

its funny how i used to want websites to have scripts running on them. "ajax" or whatever it is we called it. because that way it didn't have to reload the whole page each time you clicked something, so it was faster, since the internet connection was slow. but now i kinda want sites to refresh the entire page when you click on something because the internet is fast now and the thing thats making the web slow IS the scripts

https://github.com/lhoursquentin/sed-bin

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

GNU Terry Pratchett

Reading into browser vendor debates about how to reduce fingerprinting, e.g. enumerating installed fonts: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4055#issuecomment-536063793

There seems to be widespread disagreement about whether this is even possible. Tab Atkins from Google says: "[G]oing from 400 bits to 40 bits of identifying information achieves precisely nothing, since you only need 33 bits to uniquely identify every person on Earth."