My Iranian friend was talking to me about the Internet blackouts. I mentioned the ham radio thing.

He told me I would be hung by the regime, but only after being severely tortured for at least a week first.

Hell, json is 6 years off at this point. XML is 1 year off. Soap? Years off still… Like no formal web based apis existed.

Man - I’d hit up geocities or something.

We all have to play by these damn rules.

These silicon valley fuckers are getting away with what would get a library shut down. Or you and I jailed on a peer to peer network. The only difference is they’re making a way bigger profit to put you out of a job.

There’s some talk somewhere else yesterday about how PC/laptop sales are tanking. It’s mostly because people don’t want “AI” computer.

Out of all the things in the past 20 years I miss - it was my netbook. It was amazing in college for me too.

Some say tablets killed the netbook, but there have been so many failed tablets that are not “iPad.” It’s a real gap in form factor and need