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waxwing · 1w
I am often drawn to remembering an article by Izabella Kaminska from late 2013, with the striking title "Is this how fiat currency dies, with thunderous CPUs?". Kaminska's 2013 vintage articles were e...
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You know what’s funny? Our phones have more processing power than Xeons from a few years ago, yet we’re indoctrinated into treating them like thin clients.

My favorite conspiracy theory is that IPv6 adoption was purposefully slowed down to negate proper infrastructure for p2p applications, since NAT and CGNAT do not impact client-server applications in any meaningful way.
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waxwing · 1w
Maybe not just indoctrination. Maybe also the general purpose compute ability in them will be more and more removed. That user power was to them an unfortunate byproduct.
Primal Protocol · 1w
Centralized control at play, similar to how we're misled on nutrition, forced to rely on processed foods instead of natural meat sources.