It would be very odd if the US or Israel did it, because this started when Iran wanted to stop communications among citizens who were protesting the government.

TL;DR, yes. It was Iran. It began before the attacks on Iran (back when it was Iran attacking its own people)

Can’t you make your Steam friends list private?

I agree with part of what you’re saying, but I think it’s worse than you’re saying.

I think it’s more like if cigarettes were a bit less addictive, still gave you cancer, but nobody becomes a billionaire thanks to your addiction and cancer.

Including Lemmy, in a sense.

Even if not purposely, it’s designed to resemble systems that were built this way for that purpose.

What’s the problem? It seemed to do a good job explaining it. As a non-American who didn’t get the joke either, it was helpful

How many Oz in a Wizard again?

So then a TB must be about…a metric shitton?

LOL…yes. should’ve been an Eighth, but we don’t have a coin for that.

Your math is right. I was just thinking of a Byte as $1.00 and going from there. Then remembered that bits are smaller, but they shouldn’t be $1 because a single bit is not very powerful. But making it worth $1 or $0.01 would make the math messier.

But yes. Two bits are a quarter is probably the best compromise! Lol

Well…up until recently

A kilobyte must have sounded like so much memory back then.

A byte is 8 bits. Even if we want to call bits quarters ($0.25) and bytes dollars, 69KB would be $69,000! That’s a lot of dollars.

(And it’s actually 1,024 or something instead of 1,000, which just increases it that much more).

It’s crazy how KBs used to be incredibly meaningful, and now we’re buying multi-TB drives like they’re nothing!

EDIT: Math fail. Let’s say TWO bits are a quarter…lmao

In this context, “hairy” can mean “tricky” or “difficult”.

Archiving things that generally aren’t for sale!

Are you a man? Call it a kilt.

What are you trying to convince me to be scared of with that article?

I’m aware.

while the cops do some fucked up shit

Yeah, I live in Canada, and while the cops do some fucked up shit, it’s not nearly to the level as US cops.

I never see a cop and feel scared for myself or anybody around me. At most, I feel worried that there’s something happening.

Huh, you’re not very good at this conversation thing, eh?

Lol, someone asked you to explain your position, and you responded by asking questions asking about someone’s personal situation. I think you’re the problem here.

Well… sometimes. More often than the LLM!

It doesn’t seem all that bad. OnlyFans seems more like a brothel when, in the past, there were only pimps.

You’re trying to argue in bad faith. I’m not even going to address your silly attempt at a “gotcha”.