IPv4! Hail IPv6
but IPv4 is so much nicer to read :((((
/s in case it’s not obvious
Every single fucking isp (at least in the states): nah
Really? Both my home internet and my mobile phone internet give me ipv6 addresses.
My cellular yeah, though I don’t consider them an isp since most throttle or deprioritize data after ~50 gigs. But both isps I’ve had, and all of the friends who I’ve helped with networking stuff (basically all of them), IPv4. Sometimes, some janky ‘conversion’ at the modem that leaves them with just v4 anyway. That was with their isp-supplied hardware…
Blockchain. It was an interesting poc, but it has yet to have a useful implementation apart from scams.
Tamper evident logs are a good use case for blockchain.
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I worked in a company where this was used for implementing tamper evident logs, that allowed auditors to check for tampering.
Blockchain is just a tool that can have legitimate uses other than scamming people.
Polio.
Kinda surprised we eradicated smallpox, yet polio still exists.
It’s only a handful of people in the mountains of Afghanistan; there’s a lot of fear around letting westerners in with needles.
Don’t worry, the anti-vaxxers are going to give it a comeback.
Yeah i was just on a forum and some MAGA idiot was so obtuse he didn’t see what the connection was. When i said hope you didn’t vote for Trump on a posting about an iron lung. 🤣🤣
Measles.
Private health insurance.
the republican party in the us.
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Religion.
It served a purpose when societies were first moving from hunting and gathering to agriculture. A community needed to coalesce around something tangible for resource sharing, protection, decision making, etc…
It’s why, from a societal evolution perspective, we went from totemic religions based on fertility and family groups, to mass religions with defined hierachies and roles, because the evolution or religions reflect that evolutions of society at the time.
We don’t need that anymore. It does more harm than good in the modern world.
People used to need religion to stop them from functioning the same as animals back then, but in this century, if someone needs to be told by a religion that murder is bad to stop them from doing it, then they should be locked up.
Also so much molesting goes on at religious places that people just sweep under the rug. And what batshit crazy is going on with women in religions? Like there is a stoning sentence for a married woman who cheats, she just cheated! Get a freaking divorce and move on.
Cults get so much shit but what exactly is the difference between a religion and cult? They sound pretty similar if you look from an outside perspective.
The most important thing is we gotta think about the children. Just imagine how cruel it would sound to an alien.
“We make our 9 year Old daughters up before sunrise every morning to pray but our sons can avoid that till they are 14”
“We make our kids go without food or drinks for 16 hours everyday for a month every year. It is good for their body! (Kid passes out in the background)”
“My daughter is having her first child too late. She is 14!”
“So we send our daughters to be nuns, they will live there until they die.”
“I cut my son’s dongdong.”
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The oldest two mechanisms of authenticating on credit cards.
From oldest to newest, they are:
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Printed data on card.
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Magstrip (which basically has the same data in machine-readable form).
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Smartcard chip with contacts.
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Wireless.
The first two mechanisms hand over all the data required to impersonate the cardholder whenever used, which isn’t very secure. Yes, there’s value to keeping a mechanism around for a while to permit transition time, but we should have had tap-to-pay hardware on PCs and phones and the like a long time ago.
Does smartcard and wireless actually have an encryption layer of some kind?
I’d assume so, but more importantly, for both, there’s a cryptographic signature being performed by the card. The credentials never leave the card — there’s a private key on the card, and what goes out is a signature on the transaction, which is useless for doing other transactions.
That’s not true for all cards, at the very least. Skimming wirelessly by RFID is or was a thing. The whole backbone of the credit card system is designed to expect the number.
I disagree that we should have a card reader on our computers for payments.
That is just a way too big of a security concern.
I prefer something like the Swedish system Swish, you have a separate app on your phone where you can send money to friends and family as well as pay for stuff online.
Sadly, while Klarna supports Swish, they require the use of a Klarna account to use it, and since most internet shops in Sweden uses Klarna it limits the ability to use it as I want to.
and with that you need a smartphone, with a google-approved operating system and with it half of the factory bloatware, or otherwise you are barred from paying online, right? that sounds such a good idea.
no.
I said nothing about the OS on the phone, why would you assume that I like Android?
I am an iPhone user, but that is beside the point, if Swish and BankID could run on an open mobile plattform, I’d be happy with that.
My point it to separate the main computer from the payment system while still being convenient.
I am a bit confused as how you missed that…
I said nothing about the OS on the phone, why would you assume that I like Android?
that’s not what I assumed. I assume that this app would only support the 2 most popular mobile platforms, and that on android, as is tradition with payment related apps, it would refuse to work when it detects that your phone’s software has been changed in any significant way.
if Swish and BankID could run on an open mobile plattform, I’d be happy with that.
current trend is to make these apps OWASP compliant, which dictates that all apps should at least be an undecipherable, obfuscated black box, and better even make use of the OS’s integrity checking system, like play integrity on android.
My point it to separate the main computer from the payment system while still being convenient.
I am a bit confused as how you missed that…
I did not miss that. I was commenting on this, why it would be harmful in today’s world.
Something attached to the main computer, but with its own firmware/controls is still far better than having no device at all, and relying on external code for verification. Would a discrete box separate from everything else be better (independent of mobile phones as well)? Sure. But a great step that would be progress compared to the current status quo is what the other poster describes, with logic and chip verification running on a device attached to the device or computer with which you wish to pay.
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interesting timing
Racism, but here we are in 2025 it being more prevalent than ever.
Racism will never die as we evolved to be tribal. Best we can do as a society is make it unacceptable. Which was happening when I grew up in 70s/80s America. Now we’ve backtracked and gone all-in with dog whistles.
Dog whistles? It’s open now.
That’s not true. Sure, we have tribalism, but there’s no reason it has to be about race. It could be about religion, politics, country of origin, and countless other things
In reality, it’s not purely about race. Most racism isn’t between groups that are culturally identical, it is between groups with significant cultural differences. Race is just the most obvious attribute used to identify the other group.
Lol
Speak of the devil and the ones equating skin color with culture will appear
Bring any nuance to a charged topic and the ones who think in black and white terms will come to misinterpret what you said in the least charitable way.
Mhmm, the nuance of racism and “it just being biology/tribalism/instinct,” haven’t heard that before.
The was no ‘just’, just as there was no equating.
equating skin colour with culture
Not equating. They said that people of an ethnicity are often also of a culture common among those of that ethnicity.
I’m in Costa Rica, and people are likely to (correctly) assume that I’m a foreigner here because I’m white.
It’s not equating. It is, however, a way to tell what is likely.
Sports. Watch the crowds in some European soccer or basketball matches and you’ll see how we managed to keep tribalism alive and well, but (mostly) harmless.
(You need stadiums that can handle tens of thousands of people bouncing on the stands for ninety minutes without collapsing, though.)
Most types of industrial scale pollution, but it’s cheaper to bribe some key people than actually care about the environment
Young earth creationism and flat earth
Young earth creationism
What I hate so much about that, is all the “evidence” just points to some near extinction level event that humans worldwide suffered.
And obviously for that to have happened, it means there had to be a lot more people.
Like, entire cities/tribes/whatever were wiped out everywhere, but some had individuals survive. Which explains how “the last two people” could have kids who just happen to later have spouses and kids of their own without any explanation for where the new people came from.
They were just outside of walking distance.
Over the 300,000 plus years anatomically modern humans have been on Earth, that’s probably happened a bunch. Hell, we’ve had 2-3 actual ice ages over that span.
We don’t know shit about 250k of those years.
From what I understand (and as a Christian), it’s those Christians that take a literal reading of the Bible, not understanding that those parts of the Bible aren’t meant to be read literally but are about the WHY of creation rather than the HOW. It’s about WHO God is rather than how He did things.
Either that or Genesis is just an explanation made up by a people group that had little to no idea how anything in the natural world works lol
If you squint real hard, Genesis is a tale of stellar and planetary formation. Then comes evolution. Give the first bits a read! Yeah, evolution is mixed up a little, still surprisingly on point for a bunch of Bronze Age sheep herders.
Then there’s a second tale, in the same short book. What a clusterfuck. But I can still see some real history in it. If I squint real hard.
Squint so hard your eyes are closed, maybe. Any overlap between biblical verse (translated through at least two languages) and modern scientific understanding is coincidental.
Like a prophecy referencing cities burning being reimagined as a nuclear exchange instead of, you know, a fire.
Yeah seeing as the writers of the Pentateuch didn’t even know what the stars were, I’m pretty sure that’s all a coincidence lol.
I always thought 2 Peter 3:8 basically addressed this issue.
Wow! Nailed it! I had thought that as a young Christian, didn’t know there was a verse for it. Lost my religion long ago BTW.
What’s weird is the young Earth thing is relatively new. Before the 1850s or so, you would be laughed out of the room. As ignorant as we were, naturalists were having a hard time trying to figure a world that was millions, or 10s of millions, of years old. Churches, of any stripe, sure as hell wasn’t preaching it.
And here we are, with the flat Earth idea being even newer.
Gender essentialism and tuberculosis
Measles
