The Death of the Mind

We’ve seen internet-enabled holiday displays before, and we know IPv6 offers much more space than the older IPv4 addressing scheme that most of us still use today, but the two have never been more spectacularly demonstrated than at jinglepings.com. The live video stream shows an Internet-connected Christmas tree and an LED display wall that you can control by sending IPv6 ICMP echo request messages, more commonly known as pings. Reading the page, you quickly parse the fact…

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When I look back on 2018, of course I see successes for user freedom across the world: the appeal in Christoph Hellwig’s GPL compliance case against VMWare is moving forward; Google employees are rallying against Dragonfly, the authoritarian search engine being built for the Chinese government; the Free Software Foundation’s (FSF) home state of Massachusetts is taking steps for the Right to Repair; and people all over the world shared their tips and tricks to…

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