But it’s so much easier to just blame the one thing, pretend to do something about it, and claim we’ve made progress.

Yes, HeliBoard is an excellent, open source keyboard app.

They’re invading

Minecraft?

Hard to do better than the OG endless sandbox.

Same as it ever was…

The Internet is a fantastic example of building the airplane while you’re flying it. We can’t just put this thing on the ground and rebuild the engine, we’re in flight and there’s a lot riding on it.

IPv4 was drafted in 1981 and adopted by ARPANET in 1983. For all practical purposes, there was no “internet” yet - which is to say that IPv4 predates the Internet.

IPv6 was drafted in 1998, but wasn’t adopted as an official standard until 2017. The Internet had grown exponentionally long before any manufacturers were even considering implementing IPv6.

There is a mountain of telecom infrastructure built over the past 40 years that still has legacy hardware bits scattered through it. There is a jungle of interdependency tangled through firmware and low-level software that no one living has any real understanding of. There is an ocean of application software that was built on assumptions about the underlying infrastructure that no one ever planned to be updatable, and the creators are long retired.

Anyone want to take bets on how many pieces of slapdash web software out there use some hard-coded regex to pick IPv4 addresses out of strings? Good luck getting those things updated. IPv4 is going to be with us for a long time in the form of shared libraries, Nth-tier dependencies, and legacy hardware drivers.

“In theory, theory and practice are the same. But in practice…”

the tyranny of the default strikes again

A portable (pot)hole?

So, when is it fucking enough!? When will these people have enough money?

It’s all about keeping score, see. When the best capitalist finally gets all the money, they win. And then we can all quit this game and do something else.

Technically false. Digital images are made up of pixels like this:

which reproduce colors by adjusting the intensity of the red, green and blue light in each pixel. If nothing else, every white pixel in the image contains a full-brightness red segment.

A rising tide drowns all users.

It’s related. Warming ocean temperatures are amplifying the hurricanes and destabilizing currents like the Gulf Stream - both symptoms of the same problem.

Yes. Ocean current changes are coming for us all.

I’m sure that you’re right, but I would love to have a list of references for this. Where do you find credible information on the labor sources of these companies?

The Laundromat (2019) attempts to describe the human impact of this kind of large-scale money laundering. It’s worth watching.

This projection of the 4-dimensional being into 3D space appears as the Mandelbrot set. Weirdly, it appears to be the Mandelbrot set no matter what angle you look at it from in 3D space.

“The first step to a successful revolution is destroying all competing revolutionaries!”