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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…
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“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…
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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…
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Tantek’s notes of what I just said at Homebrew Website Club
Tantek’s very fast transcribing to IRC. Log is here
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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…