• Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    Fun fact: back in the early 2010’s Verizon Wireless started a new mobile payment option where you had the option to get an accompanying debit card for your account with the name of the app on it.

    The mobile payment system name was ISIS.

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      5 hours ago

      Isis was a major Egyptian goddess. It shouldn’t be super surprising that things had that name before the Islamic State co-opted it.

      Bob Dylan has a (great) song called “Isis”

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        one of my friends had a dog named Isis around that time. also the fictional spy agency from the tv show Archer was called ISIS, which was written out of the show at the start of the fifth season, earlier ones have them running around saying “we’re ISIS agents” all the time. it was a totally normal thing until it suddenly wasn’t

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      Back in the day, Avid (the company that makes professional software like media composer and pro tools) sold a NAS system called ISIS (Infinitely Scalable Intelligent Storage). The studio I worked at had a different system, but the head of post production still called it “the ISIS” because he got used to calling the network storage that.

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        Was the system good or had it other false promises? Infinitely sounds very unprofessional for me.

        What happens when we used all the resources on our planet to scale the NAS? Did they have the technology back than, to harvest other planets or even other star systems? So many questions…

        😉