Source: https://xkcd.com/927/.
Not posting with alternative text is like missing half of the xkcd.
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Wow, somehow this escaped me all these years. I feel like I’ve got a bunch of fresh XKCD to read now.
For the uneducated: On a mobile browser you just press and hold the comic (long tap). On a computer you hover over the image and the alt text will appear next to the cursor.
The alt text in this one was:
spoiler
Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.
One of my favorites
Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.
Wasn't the standard USB-C? Maybe we should just create the Universal USB, the U-USB.
With their naming standards, it would probably be called "U^2SB, Universal Super Fast Serial Bus"
It's USB-C.
I thought I recognized the original Alt text
I'm very glad this comment is finally obsolete.
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This of course ignores all the other times a new common standard succeeded
Doesn't that almost always require a significant government intervention/regulation.
Phone and laptop chargers converged from numerous standards to just a few all on their own I think, no?
Yes, but under treath of lawmakers mandating a single standard. And the EU has now forced a single standard anyway on smartphones, tablets, etc.
Although I agree that there are quite a few examples of a "naturally emerging" single standards without lawmaker intervention, but this is not really one of them...
Yeah, in such a situation you should always try to compare the standards, look at the userbases and suddenly there are only very few that actually make sense. If everyone just does this, one standard will eventually crystalise as the one to use (or at least depending on the situation). Character encoding is an interesting example, because nowadays (almost) everything just uses UTF-8, despite there having been many.
UTF-8 is absolutely magical in how it's backwards compatible with ASCII. Windows still uses UTF-16 which makes supporting Unicode filenames and stuff a huge pain compared to linux. At least pretty much the entire web is UTF-8.
This is the reason I was super hyped by the synergy of the fediverse, all the support and use of activity pub. And god I hope Facebook doesn't ruin it. This community has grown so rapidly and organically, I just wanna see it continue to thrive.
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Ahh this was the one they talked about on the WAN show
I finally got a proper USB 3.012542 cable.
It's bad when the actual naming scheme is more ridiculous. See USB 3.2 gen 2x1. Hopefully usb 4 simplifies things, but let's be honest, it probably won't...
You should have just linked to the page. It would have embedded the image, right?
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