Tall, once dark, black-clad atheist skeptic SF fan; writes (mostly about computers) for a living. Grizzled internet veteran, online since 1985. Current primary email is from 1991.
All opinions expressed are my own & not those of any employer.
The great Dr Jane Goodall, ethologist and campaigner for great apes and much else, has died at the age of 91.
She loved this _Far Side_ cartoon, and wrote a forward for a later Gary Larson collection.
Get a sense of scale for computer storage...
Byte of data: a grain of rice
Kilobyte: a cup of rice
Megabyte: 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte: 3 container lorries
Terabyte: 2 container ships
Petabyte: covers Manhattan
Exabyte: covers the UK (3 times)
Zettabyte: fills the Pacific Ocean
from @npub1mr9m...5drd
The privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy & skepticism of authority. As it tries to go mainstream, can it escape its roots?