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  • Headofthebored @lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzW.XP
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    4 months ago

    I used to work at a candy factory where most of the machines that made the packaging were from the '50’s or earlier, but had been Frankenstein’d with all sorts of modern sensors and stuff to maximize efficiency. Anyways, there was this one machine that was fascinating. It was from the 30’s I believe but all it did was make small boxes from flat paper stock and it was originally designed to be hand loaded, but they had this robot arm set up that looked like the one in the OG Jurassic Park movie that flipped the eggs basically handing it paper. The arm was controlled by a dusty ass Windows 95 PC that had one job, the robot arm program. This was like 4 years ago.
















  • I’m very skeptical that the Chinese government having your data as an American is worse than the American government and corporations (you know, the people with applicable jurisdiction) having it. Seems more likely to me that American interests just weren’t happy about a huge platform of Americans not being under their umbrella of control and censorship. Sure, you could argue that China of course has their own, but the two wouldn’t completely overlap, so there were windows where things could be freely and organically discussed and organized by Americans, without American government and corporate interference. Obviously that couldn’t be allowed to stand.