Quick Notes

Johannes Ernst

https://reb00ted.org/quick-notes/

2021-01-14

Decentralization is about authority: who has it, and how can they exercise it.

This an other gems in a great piece by Beaker Browser developer Paul Frazee.
2021-01-11

And our ICUs are full

Santa Clara County, the heart of Silicon Valley. Better not fall off the ladder or silly things like that for the foreseeable future.
2021-01-11

Hal Plotkin asks for the government to build equity in the technology it uses, and not just rent it

In these times: revolutionary. Fifty years ago it would have been meh because we did indeed get a publicly-owned highway system. Could be as simple as requiring software to become open source some time after a purchase.
2021-01-08

Bitcoin is above USD 40,000

I did not think that would happen. At least not for many years.
2021-01-08

California has a public data broker registry

Maintained by the state’s Attorney General.
2021-01-05

Singaporan COVID-19 contact tracing data not private after all

The police now take the right to access the data for “authorized purposes”. With no clear process by which to limit those “authorized purposes” (ZDNet).

Decentralization is about authority: who has it, and how can they exercise it.