Due to Reasons, I needed to get a pgp public key off a computer that I could neither upload it off of nor did I have access to a USB port.
I thought Iβd try taking a photo of the key and OCRβing it.
An hour later, I would like to inform you that above and beyond the issues you expect, iOS OCR will happily roll dice on whether it feels that any given βoβ, βxβ or βcβ shall be encoded as ASCII or Cyrillic.
Imagine this was 1944, and the Allies were slowly but surely starting to defeat the Nazis; but then in the middle of the complex war, a new US president came into power, and he suggested that Europe should now achieve peace by letting Hitler keep France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, and Poland.
We Europeans would laugh at that president. Just like we are laughing at Trump right now, for suggesting we should let the modern day Hitler keep Crimea, Kherson, Zaporitzjzja, Donetsk and Luhansk.
glad weβre at the stage of our cyberpunk hell-timeline that we have corporate botnets DDoSing the free software communities that they rely on, leading to an arms race between the biggest companies in the world and a virtual anime person developing a proof-of-work proxy with an anime girl mascot thatβs now deployed by the united nations
The web is broken, IMHO
So there is a (IMHO) shady market out there that gives app developers on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows money for including a library that sells users network bandwidth. Infatica [1] is just one example, there are many more.
I am 99% sure that these companies cause what effectively are DDoS attacks that many webmasters have to deal with since months. This business model should simply not exist. Apple, Microsoft and Google should act.
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