I sometimes forget that KiB style units are confusing. The kB / KB is practically ambiguous. Kibi is “2 to the 10” or 1024 (binary), but…

1 kB ≈ 1 KB ≈ 1 KiB ≈ 1000 B ≈ 1024 B? Read my mind?

The SI metric system is still a great feat though and unifies primary dimensions (length) on equivalent units (meters). Instead of hands, inches, feet, chains, furlongs, barleycorns, rods, and links — it’s just meters prefixed arbitrarily. Time’s probably messed up though.

True story: I saw a ‘6 soft white rolls’ bread package morph into “6 50 foot white rolls” because of metric illness.

Contact forms are magical informants. Can you smell what kind of spam the spammers (and scammers) are cooking?

1. AI traffic/content farming services
2. Blockchain services
3. Coin recovery services
4. Guest posters for any of the above
5. Link sellers
6. Cloaking dealers
7. Cyber security spooks
8. Rich people asking us poor people for money
9. Visionary astrologers and foretellers

The last four years have taught us valuable lessons. In the shopping mall at the “end of the world”, the three most valued goods are toilet paper, toilet paper stocks and finally, toilet paper stockpiling. Accounts of toilet paper recall options are most likely bogus.

As for my biased opinion.. Everyone should consider foss and switch key systems to Linux and BSD for redundancy. That’d be wonderful, even if circumstances eventually optimize towards a futuristic catch 22.

I’m reluctantly coming around to the idea that spofs are a balancing act of sorts. Balance, as in misery loves company, convenience, insurance, and blame ability. The combined legal, technical, and economic consensus unwittingly incentivizes hardcore centralization.