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Kinda accurate lol (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I had (what felt like) an epiphany (but has seemed obvious to everyone I've shared it with) some time ago:

Electrical signals are serial; they're connectionless, like UDP.

Underlying all these fantastic technologies is just aother connectionless protocol.

[–] Chobbes@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Every digital system is also secretly analog.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 5 points 9 months ago

I've got a grandpa who says this all the time. He was a technician on a bunch of government contracts all through the cold war.

"No matter how much you try or how well you succeed in digitizing things, we still live in an analog world"