I remembered my login, my UID is in the 200,000s so I’m not as cool as you.

The place doesn’t seem to have changed at all, and that’s not necessarily a good thing.

Wait, Slashdot is still around?

I think these guys are overstating things a bit. The whole reason technical standards exist is to facilitate interoperability, and in most cases this interoperability leads to increased trade. It’s no accident that the first standards were developed during the industrial revolution, where we first started using machines to make parts, and they needed to fit together (like screws and nuts). Then, when the railroads came along, we needed new standards for things like track gague, because without it one countries’ trains couldn’t use the next countries’ track, making cross-border commerce more expensive. It’s also when we started to standardize time (because before the railroads, “noon” was whenever the sun was directly overhead, so varied by region).

These standards weren’t developed altruistically, they were developed to generate more trade. There is a cost to developing them, and companies spend that money in the hopes of making more later. In theory, anyone can access the standards that the ITU or IEEE create, but to participate you need to show up at their meetings, and there is a cost to that. Large companies can afford to send key smart people to those meetings, out of the profit from the products they sell. What is more capitalistic than that?

The standards process is anti-monopolist, though. The reason why they are as “open” as they are is to prevent a single entity from patenting key parts of the standard and gate-keeping access. There have been patented things in standards, but the SDO mandates that the parent-holder disclose it up front, and will not let it in the standard unless certain terms are met (which vary by SDO). It is not anti-capitalist, though, but rather it is a cabal of companies agreeing they won’t let any one of them gatekeep the rest.

Ads? In my Lemmy?

It’s more likely than you think!

No, even Nazis are people. They may be horrible people whose hateful ideology needs to be forcefully purged from society, but they are still people.

Do you know how otherwise same people turn out just as bad as Nazis? It starts by dehumanizing their opponents.

(That’s not necessarily a statement in favor of the Reddit action, that was likely done by a bot anyway so no humans were involved.)

In recognition of this awesome development, I promise not to shit talk about NJ for the rest of the day. Hopefully I don’t have to make any left turns…

The only way to not get banned is to never, ever post.

If there are certain niche subreddits which you can’t live without, download an RSS reader. They still work with Reddit, for now. They won’t let you post or otherwise interact, but you shouldn’t do that anyway.

More than 600 Student Visas so far…

Check Elon’s basement

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There’s is no particular vote that he is fillibustering, he is just doing it because he can.

The NYT also theorized that he wanted to do this at some point anyway, because the record for longest continuous speech in the Senate is currently held by Strom Thurmond, while fillibustering the 1967 1957 Civil Rights bill, and Booker wanted to top it. He only has an hour or two to go to get there.

I wonder what all those “uncommitted” Michigan voters are thinking now…

He’s just oozing merit

No, that’s just how you smell after too much whiskey

They should just start calling themselves “Four Eyes” just so Trump fixated on calling them “nerds”…

Wait, Canadian Kit-Kats are different than American Kit-Kats?

I know plenty of people with a critical outlook on crypto who have a clue what they are talking about.

I shouldn’t feed the troll, but there is a teachable moment here.

Crypto transactions that are direct on a Blockchain, by design, are immutable. Once they are validated in a block, and future blocks are validated on top of that, it is impossible for any entity to change that history unless they control a majority of the validation power of that network. Yes, even the NSA can’t do it. It’s math.

Yes, if the government wants your crypto, it will get it. But the only way to do that is to obtain your private keys. It cannot reverse a transaction, nor reverse-engineer your private keys from a transaction. Yes, not even the NSA can do it. It’s math.

Governments do have other tools at their disposal. But those tools must center on obtaining the key. They cannot “hack” it any other way.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s…

Well, nothing anyone says is going to convince you, because you’re obviously correct. How silly of me to question you!