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2 days agoI remember reading articles at the time of the last patents running out. Some were so misguided it was hilarious.
They called it the death of MP3! As if patents were good or necessary, instead of restrictive and troublesome for interoperability.
How am I supposed to imagine a clothed pig splicing fiber cables or setting up a rack full of communications equipment with fiber patches. They don’t even have opposable thumbs, how can they unplug an LC plug with its retention clip?
If my job isn’t real I’m taking the internet down with me, then he can read his hand drawn memes to his neighbor.