Musk is BS, Web3 is BS, cryptocurrency is BS. Should I go on?

There's a saying that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Our social feeds would benefit if more people considered this before posting.

Kelsey Hightower is a good personality to watch in this conversation. He is skeptic while learning more with an open mind. His questions, challenges, and analogies are fresh and useful.

There comes a point where following that advice just clears the way for daftness. Never apologize for calling a spade a spade. When whether something is taken as the truth or not comes down to the number of heads repeating it, it behooves one to be vocal and not leace the narrative to someone else.

There is a difference between being critical or skptical, and being pleasant or abrasive / offensive.

Quite so. I took the time to read the article, and it’s not abrasive or offensive. (You didn’t say it was, I took you as making a more general point.)

It’s not saying anything new either.

There comes a point where following that advice just clears the way for daftness. Never apologize for calling a spade a spade. When whether something is taken as the truth or not comes down to the number of heads repeating it, it behooves one to be vocal and not leave the narrative to someone else.

How.... Well. Crap. And now it's outside the delete window

How's one traditionally remedy this?

By deleting within window, or by waiting until it is out of memory and not worth worrying about. It happens...

You could email the mods, but meh?

The EU is made up of two types of countries: small nations, and countries that have not yet realized they are small nations. The UK simply has much less leverage in these negotiations than does the EU, and EU will not reward the UK for leaving the common market.

Germany, France, Spain etc are small nations? What's the criteria for one then?

Germany on its own would not be on on equal footing when negotiation trade agreements with the likes of China, the US or Russia. The EU is.

Germany has more than twice the GDP of Russia. They could reasonably handle themselves. US and China are considerably larger however.

This is the same Canada they're trying to start a trade wea war wor with, right?

I heard the warnings in 2000 at Defcon, though I had no direct contact with him.

This ignores decades of history.

A core design principle of the Internet since the beginning has been the "end-to-end principle", which was that the job of the network was to distribute the bits between end points. FCC rules concerning network data go back to the 1960s.

The FCC began rule-making on network neutrality in the mid-2000s, in direct response to various ISPs blocking traffic.

You're seeing this as a technical issue when it is in fact a legal one. In Canada the telecommunications legislation states the principle well:

(2) No Canadian carrier shall, in relation to the provision of a telecommunications service or the charging of a rate for it, unjustly discriminate or give an undue or unreasonable preference toward any person, including itself, or subject any person to an undue or unreasonable disadvantage.

You can still manage networks and employ CDN. But you can't arbitrarily block content.

I don't even know where to start with that thread. It is filled with instances of complete misinformation.

I really don't understand how users there can support something that will probably result in them paying more for Internet access and limiting what they can access.