"Therefore, the Lunar Bureau of the United Nations Peace Keeping Force DataWatch has created the LINK, the Lunar Information Network Key. There are currently nine thousand, four hundred and two Boards on Luna; new Boards must be licensed before they can rent lasercable access. Every transaction--every single transaction--which takes place in the Lunar InfoNet is keyed and tracked on an item-by-item basis. The basis of this unprecedented degree of InfoNet security is the Lunar Information Network Key. The Key is an unbreakable encryption device which the DataWatch employs to validate and track every user in the Lunar InfoNet. Webdancers attempting unauthorized access, to logic, to data, to communications facilities, will be punished to the full extent of the law."
from The Long Run (1989)
Your browser won't access a site without TLS; this is for your own protection. TLS certificates are valid for one TCP session. All certs are issued by an organization reporting directly to a national information security office; if your website isn't in compliance with all mandates, you stop getting certs.
If capitalism is allowed to operate without regulation, it corrodes.
If government is allowed to operate without regulation, it corrodes.
The pattern is clear. Unchecked power imbalances are bad for everyone, but the folks at the top of a power imbalance generally advocate for it, and change the environment to ensure their power and reduce everyone else.
What is that aspect of humanity that causes unchecked power to imbalance anyone and everyone? I'm saying it is unchecked immaturity. Recognition is step one. If the species identifies en mass there is an unchecked immaturity issue in adults, a huge amount of it will evaporate, and people will be given an excuse to start calling other adults on their immaturity. Harsh, but necessary as the immature are actively justifying destroying people all over the place.
I remember a few years back when it seemed anyone who (1) had a pulse and (2) had rumors circulating that they might be a software developer got a contact from an AMZN recruiter about once a month if not sooner. It was frequent to have somebody complain on HN about how they could not get an interview with FAANG and I'd say "you really haven't gotten interviews with AMZN" and of course they were getting interviews with AMZN.
I once wrote a reply email to an Amazon recruiter saying effectively, "If Amazon were the last software company left on earth, I would rather become a carpenter than work there. Please never ask me to interview there again."
Anyhow a couple years later I got called by a recruiter from Amazon asking me if I'd be willing to relocate to work there.
I had a similar experience with Facebook, although my email was much more aggressive (this was when their recruiter contacted me right after I got tripped by one of their UX dark patterns in a way that translated to real world harm). I kept getting invites until I put a clear statement expressing my desire to never ever work for Facebook into my LinkedIn profile
FWIW I think it's because recruiters at most companies are effectively contractors and don't have access to all history of communications.
I think I wrote an email along those lines, at some point, although it was as much annoyance with the persistence of a particular recruiter as it was a desire not to work at Amazon.
The most interesting part is that of all the Hitchhikers' media, only the original radio series and their published scripts are in complete agreement with each other on all details of world-building.
Thank you for mentioning AutoEQ, I didn't know about it and it looks like a great resource :)
I wonder why laptops don't come with an internal speaker DSP profile loaded onto the EEPROM. This seems like one of those things that you really just want to do in firmware.
IEMs and headphones come EQed out of the factory AFAIK, but apparently quite poorly. I ran the autoEQ profile on my Moondrop Aria beater IEMs and it both cut through the muddiness and opened up the soundstage quite dramatically.
"Therefore, the Lunar Bureau of the United Nations Peace Keeping Force DataWatch has created the LINK, the Lunar Information Network Key. There are currently nine thousand, four hundred and two Boards on Luna; new Boards must be licensed before they can rent lasercable access. Every transaction--every single transaction--which takes place in the Lunar InfoNet is keyed and tracked on an item-by-item basis. The basis of this unprecedented degree of InfoNet security is the Lunar Information Network Key. The Key is an unbreakable encryption device which the DataWatch employs to validate and track every user in the Lunar InfoNet. Webdancers attempting unauthorized access, to logic, to data, to communications facilities, will be punished to the full extent of the law."
from The Long Run (1989)
Your browser won't access a site without TLS; this is for your own protection. TLS certificates are valid for one TCP session. All certs are issued by an organization reporting directly to a national information security office; if your website isn't in compliance with all mandates, you stop getting certs.
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