Category: Big Picture
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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…
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Two unethical “business” models
It was pointed out to me that there are two more ways people make money, and that means there are two more “business” models of some kind. I didn’t list them in my original post as “business” models because, to me, they are so awful: 4. Take valuable things from others by force Bank robbery,…