Author: Johannes Ernst

  • The “family intranet” — or not

    I talked a bit at the last Homebrew club meeting about setting up various web applications on our home server for use by the family. So far, we’re now using: Owncloud for family notes and a family calendar, which automagically shows up on various PCs, tablets and phones by means of Caldav. Shaarli for bookmarking…

  • “Your Lack of Privacy Is Someone Else’s Wealth”

    Great quote from Jaron Lanier. It just about sums it up. Perhaps “… and/or Power” could be added. But then it’s less catchy. This is a great insight. Why do we instinctively feel uncomfortable with invasions of privacy? We often take that as a given, without thinking through what exactly it is that makes us…

  • Thank you, IndieWeb guys

    One thing I do value is the respect of my peers. Thank you, Indie Web guys. It rarely happens that techies agree with anybody on anything. (I know, I am one.) It is even more rare that they listen to you. This evening, I actually got spontaneous applause after some impromptu remarks, which indeed did…

  • Tantek’s notes of what I just said at Homebrew Website Club

    Tantek’s very fast transcribing to IRC. Log is here

  • Tech in 2020 is looking ever-darker

    When I started this blog, I was a lot more excited about upcoming technology than I am now. Much more. Not that technology isn’t evolving the way I was expecting; that’s going just fine. It is the use of that technology by the Big Guys that worries me. Right now, I have to predict these…