Hot take: ISO standards do not meaningfully matter to me, because an extremely impoverished, unbanked person cannot freely access their contents from a smartphone or library computer.

Therefore, I go out of my way to avoid referring to them or relying on them in anyway.

@soatok ISO standards are behind a fuckin paywall?

jesus christ

@matildalove @soatok
ISO: "We created global standards for everyone to follow"
Everyone: "Can we see them?"
ISO: "No"
@aires @soatok they didn't clarify that by "everyone" they meant "wealthy techbros" because to them it's just obvious that those are the people who matter

@matildalove
Their roots are in manufacturing and constructions where the price of the standards are almost incidental compared to the costs of producing the final product.

Having said that I do still think they're often massively overpriced.

@aires @soatok