Privacy for privacy sake is a weak argument, and privacy advocates should abandon it.
Source: Privacy Is Just the First Step, the Goal Is Data Ownership
Category Archives: Technology
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Web in ‘downward plunge’, says its creator
Thirty years after he invented it, Sir Tim Berners-Lee says the web is not what it should be.
Programming Sucks
This is a really great essay which helps one understand what it’s like inside the mind of a programmer/sysadmin/etc.
Possibly one of the best articles I’ve ever read!!!
Source: Programming Sucks
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic….
Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never, Ever, Ever Be Illegal. EVER.
Congress has never made a law saying, “Corporations should get to decide who gets to publish truthful information about defects in their products,”— and the First Amendment wouldn’t allow such a law — but that hasn’t stopped corporations from conjuring one out of thin air, and then defending it as though it was a natural right they’d had all along.
Source: Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never, Ever, Ever Be Illegal. EVER.
The Lebowski Theorem of machine superintelligence
When warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence, many doomsayers cite philosopher Nick Bostrom’s paperclip maximizer thought experiment. Imagine an artificial intelligence, he says, which decides to amass as
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Nikola Tesla predicted the smartphone in 1926
In an interview published in Collier’s magazine in 1926, Nikola Tesla, then in the twilight of his career, made some predictions about the future that included electric airplane flights “from New York to Europe in
How I cured my tech fatigue by ditching feeds
On paper, smartphones are amazing pieces of glass. They have magically cured boredom as we always have something to do — those endless feeds of content are..
Why We Should All Ditch Other Messaging Apps for Signal
Encrypted, simple, and free, Signal is the one messaging app you need on your phone.
Source: Why We Should All Ditch Other Messaging Apps for Signal