Tag: hacker politics

  • Could the internet disappear within 20 years?

    From a Quora answer I just made : The protocol will still exist. But there is now a real danger that “the internet” will have been successfully enclosed by private corporations. What will that look like? 1. the end of net neutrality means that the phone companies / network providers can choose to prioritise packets…

  • Restraining Bolts

    Today I’m being driven crazy trying to print out FiloFax pages on an HP printer. Although I’ve created a PDF file of the right size, I have the right size piece of paper, and I’ve set up the paper-size in the print-driver, the printer is refusing to print because it detects a “paper size mismatch”.…