HiTekRedNek

@HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to ban public sector orgs from paying ransomware gangs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Insane that it wasn’t, “Oh, you’re trying to blackmail our government? Here, have an airstrike.” TBH

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know. Isn’t great? When there’s no party in true “control” then whoever wants to think it’s the other guy’s fault can easily do so.

  I was already an adult in 1996. It was definitely a bipartisan thing. Despite many tech insiders warning how it would cause the exact opposite of what it was intended to do, Clinton didn’t just sign it. He and Al Gore, for years, claimed it as their own.

  Hell, it was this exact act Al Gore was referring to when he claimed he “invented” the Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The deregulation in the 90s is what killed the local ISP. Thanks, Bill.

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FolderDrive USB-C flash storage drags computer folder icon into the physical world – Skeuomorphism in reverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  sings The cirrrrrrcle of liiiiiiiife.

  I mean, the computer folder icon is modeled after a real folder, sooooo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s less of a defense of AI slop than it is a condemnation of the entire music industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, launches open-source Secure Messaging technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  takes picture of screen from another device yep, so secure.