No.20173
>>20172What do you even mean 'bullshit'. Obviously capitalism could continue without the internet as it did before, but for the current form of capitalism, yes it's essential.
No.20174
>>20172>buying up IP addressesyou baka-ass uygha, how many IPV6 addresses do you think there are?
You are right about centralization, though. The ongoing attacks against sites like Kiwi Farms shows how fragile the whole system actually is, and how easily you can be deplatformed by even one link in the chain breaking down.
No.20175
>>20174>The ongoing attacks against sites like Kiwi Farms shows how fragile the whole system actually is, and how easily you can be deplatformed by even one link in the chain breaking down.*furious eyerolling*
No.20176
>>20175Why is it eyerolling? Is it because a bunch of rightoids user the site? Does the fragility of the internet suddenly stop being an issue because we're not the ones on the losing end? Dumb uygha
No.20177
>>20173What is the current form of capitalism?
>>20174>Kiwi FarmsEven more worthless than the examples listed in OP
No.20178
>>20177>Even more worthless than the examples listed in OPAbsolutely, but *that's how rightoids view us.*
It's like you forget that weapons can be turned against you or something.
No.20179
>>20178Whatever. Let the right wingers rule over this godforsaken wasteland of spam and solipsism, in my opinion.
No.20180
>>20172You posted this on the internet. Just sayin'
No.20181
>>20180Sure, but this website is a massive exception that proves the rule.
No.20182
>>20179The internet is what you make it, and if you think it's spam and solipsism without seeking out anything else then that's what it will always be for you.
No.20183
No, it's the primary means of communication.
No.20184
>>20183Anecdotally, I use SMS and traditional phonelines for communication. I have a Gmail account in the event that I'm asked for an e-mail address for something, but I don't use it beyond that.
No.20185
Those are things running on top of the Internet, not the Internet itself you absolute techlet
>muh IPs
IPv6
No.20187
>>20177finance capitalism. it'd actually collapse instantly if you cut the submarine cables.
No.20188
>>20187>not knowing about the secret shortwave nets used by tradersdo you even latency?
No.20189
E-commerce generates trillions of dollars in sales. That's probably going to be the main purpose of the internet I think. A sort of alienated virtual storefront for buying whatever commodity you want or need.
No.20190
I like the internet. It makes software piracy infinitely easier for one.
No.20192
>>20185>IPv6Literally no one uses these, and it doesn't solve the economic problem anyways
>>20187There are much better things for financial capitalists to invest in than the internet
No.20194
>>20180This website is literally dogshit, and the fact that one of the only places on the internet that at least claims leftism is a fucking 8chan-descendant imageboard full of unfunny incels that failed at life is a scathing indictment of trying to find any actual leftist discourse anywhere online.
No.20195
>>20192>Literally no one uses these, and it doesn't solve the economic problem anywaysMost devices still use IPv4 today, although IPv6 is becoming more widely used as well. As of 2019, according to some reports only around 35% of internet traffic was over IPv6, but that number has been increasing every year since then. So if you want to make your app work on all devices, including older ones and lower end devices, you should definitely support both versions. There is probably no real benefit anymore from just supporting one version versus the other.
No.20196
>>20183There is nothing that's communicated on the internet that's more thought-provoking or interesting than a "MILFs in the area" ad
No.20197
>>20192it's steadily increasing, and sometimes translating to/from IPv6 happens automagically
you might be using IPv6 without even knowing
No.20199
>>20196again with the techlet shit. the Web and the Internet are not the same. get it right!
No.20200
>>20174>The ongoing attacks against sites like Kiwi Farms You could have said "cloudflare downtime" or "amazon downtime" or "chinese cyberattack against github" and this would have made sense.
No.20201
>>20181>Sure, but this website is a massive exception that proves the rule.That's not the idiom you're looking for.
Exceptions don't prove rules holy shit you'd better be high when you typed that.
>>20192>>IPv6>Literally no one uses these,Many /leftypol/ users do. It's especially common for mobile phone users.
>>20190thisx10
But to make something interesting out of the thread:
Cybercrime, or cyberwarfare, can be devastating. There is critical net infrastructure being maintained by one or two volunteers. Even non-malicious acts have taken down hundreds and thousands of services, imagine what someone malicious like a state-sponsored actor could do.
No.20202
>>20198Hmm, should I try to navigate a shitty tagging system with spotty availability and no idea if I'm gonna get malware'd so I can upload them onto my $200 Amazon gadget, or should I just walk over to a fucking public library?
>>20199Irrelevant
No.20205
>>20202the fuck you are. libgen and scihub are godly. The risk of malware from an epub ebook file is nonexistent. If you're worried about malware from a PDF file it's trivial to run them through software that removes that possibility. Yes, you can upload them to your $200 amazon gadget or your reader that cost $40 used. Local libraries are great and should be supported but they can't compete with libgen. Instant access to every periodical, poem book, paper, magazine and comic ever published ffs.
No.20206
>>20204Here, let me illustrate it for you
Read this thread >>>/siberia/415011
Now tell me whether or not you think the people who made the posts in that thread are the most alienated, degraded, set-aside dregs of industrial capitalism
No.20207
>>20204I mean, he is kinda right.
This place IS overrun by incels, edgelords, and schizos, and the only reason any of us stay here is because the anglophonic internet left is such a dire fucking place right now that's been hijacked by insufferable idealist PMC radlibs (much like the actual core left in meatspace)
No.20208
>>20202I upload docs from libgen onto my cheap-ass kindle all the time. I have a malware-blocking browser extension and a virus scanner, both for free. It's literally fine.
No.20209
>>20208 (me)
Also if you're using a kindle specifically and not a generic e-reader, you're gonna have to convert epub to either mobi or azw3
No.20210
>>20205>>20208>>20209I would still much rather check out a book from a public library
There's really not very much that online commons resources like libgen have that a well-funded urban library system doesn't have
No.20212
>>20211Well actually the internet was supposed to be used for exchanging research data over long distances.
No.20213
>>20212Public research universities in the US have always been an integral element in the military-industrial complex. Many research programs rely on government and military grants, the CIA recruits their agents from them, and they happily lend their expertise on certain topics to the military.
No.20214
>>20213True but that doesn't refute the point
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