Snarwin

@Snarwin@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  "Title II" in this context refers to Subchapter II of 47 U.S.C. Chapter 5. 47 U.S.C. is the Communications Act of 1934, the act of Congress that established the FCC, and Chapter 5 is the part that deals with "Wire and Radio Communications."

  If you want to know what this law empowers the FCC to do, you can read the statute yourself. Or, if that's too difficult, you can also use your access to the internet to look up more accessible sources, such as Wikipedia's "Common carrier" article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Patent infringement claims in 2019 saw Mozilla reach a settlement to avoid litigation. As part of that settlement it was forced to make changes to MLS that impacted its ability to invest in (commercially exploit?) and improve the service.

  Yet another nice thing ruined by IP trolls. It's long past time we threw software patents into the dustbin of history where they belong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could you compress text files by mapping a word to how commonly it is used and translating it with an application?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This technique is called Huffman coding, and it's used in a number of compression algorithms.