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Printer tracking dots (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 11 months ago by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] Docus@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So the yellow dots became public knowledge 20 years ago, and other than a one liner that other tracking methods may exist, nothing about these other methods seems to be published. Surely the three letter agencies haven’t given up on tracking.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have another question as to why we don't have an open source paper printer.

[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No market for it. Printers have already become so fucking cheap to make that the manufacturers can't survive unless they overprice their ink.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I'm tempted to see if I can't get some old daisywheel printer running on a modern Linux machine.