Quick Notes

By Johannes Ernst

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

2020-04-10

On governance of COVID-19 projects
- covid-19
- privacy
“Such a price would be too high: we would trade our freedom against our health.”
2020-03-30

Selling German lessons to the German
- ads
So Facebook tracks us, and knows all these things about us? Well, much of it is wrong. In recent days, it has been pushing this ad on me, arguing I really need to learn the German language and culture. #SellingIceToTheEskimos
2020-03-25

More remote work = more remote spying

“Slack, Zoom, Google Hangouts: Are Your Remote Work Apps Spying on You?”
2020-03-25

Virtue in the times of COVID-19
- covid-19
Italian Giuseppe Berardelli, 72, refuses respirator for the benefit of a stranger who is younger. Dies shortly thereafter. I stand in awe. The fact that he was a priest should not be relevant.

Link to article.
2020-03-23

Pandemic response needs volunteers
- china
- covid-19
Not surprisingly, the Chinese government couldn’t address the crisis by itself either. All authorities are outmatched by a big-enough calamity like this one. So the Chinese recruited volunteers. What are we doing in the West?
2020-03-23

25% more internet traffic
Sonic says that’s how much their traffic is up since shelter-in-place orders. Sorry, no link: customer e-mail.

On governance of COVID-19 projects