Shades of Spinal Tap here
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It’s easy to forget how important email is still.
Here wishing there was a Safe Postoffice.
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Because I am too lazy to DuckDuckGo - and wont Google - can you tell us what a “via” is please?
Sounds fascinating…
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In semiconductor manufacturing layers are deposited one on top of another. A via is a metal plug that electrically connects wires on 2 different metal layers.
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Thanks for the quick response. So its a “vertical” element of the design then? Looong time ago I did a few month QA work in a PCB manufacturing plant - some of it starting to come back to me.
Mostly I was sawing boards in half, etching them and looking at holes under a microscope to ensure we had full penetration of the solder. Kinda like that but a few zillion times smaller?
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Yep, exactly that.
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Fascinating. Mega-sized drive storage becomes a problem for data management at some point here - especially for SafeNet - where you need the ability to process data at a intermediate level for network and transport for X number of Mega/Giga/Terabytes … In time I imagine this sort of tech being added to processors themselves and hard drives just dissolving out of the picture entirely - just as graphics chips are slowly merging with CPUs.
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That’s kinda what I do now…except we look at them with scanning electron microscopes now. 
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Sorry for a daily mail link…
Not being able to share news or not being able to share propaganda… I don’t know. It sound like a bad thing.
We really need the safe network.
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Murdoch battling Google and Facebook. Sometimes there are no good guys
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Facebook is losing it. Censoring not just Australian news sites but government sites including:
- meteorology during life threatening weather
- health during a pandemic
Twitter thread:
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I wouldn’t say ‘censoring’ as the information is still available elsewhere and in a country like Australia Facebook is not the gateway to the web it would no doubt like to be.
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Facebook, with 2.8 billion monthly active users is a natural monopoly and as such, should not have the option to censor important content.
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It’s not a monopoly on accessing this type of information. If it were effectively an ISP, and one of only a few - as it is in some countries - I’d be inclined to agree with you, but I personally block Facebook completely and I can find that information very easily. I presume this is the case in Australia too.
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Its all political of course, but…
what you’re saying is like saying the power company being a monopoly is not a problem because you can just ignore them and use a generator. Or build you own social network from scratch, no problem.
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No, because Facebook isn’t a news or information monopoly and that information is just a click away. No need to build a special clandestine news receiver. That might change of course.
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aaaaaiii don’t know, the way many people use it
Yeah, but many people in the offline world get all their news from the Sun or the Guardian and the government doesn’t arrest them for buying another paper (in the UK).
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