2020-02-04
Decentralized is 6 times harder than centralized
Or at least, that’s Matthew Hodgson’s experience at Matrix. I’ve been using 10x as a ballpark for my own purposes for years … same ballpark I guess.
Quick Notes
https://reb00ted.org/quick-notes/
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2020-02-03
Not so anonymized
Students at Harvard found that that de-anomymizing data becomes much simpler when linked to other data, e.g. from data breaches. Not surprising, except for those who like to advocate “anonymizing”.
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2020-01-29
Suffering from capitalism
Hard to argue that this isn’t true for increasingly many. How do we reboot late-stage capitalism into something better?
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2020-01-29
Reboot your Facebook ads
The “clear history” button lets you “see what retailers, payment apps, news sites, and other online services have been sharing … with Facebook for ad targeting purposes, and also erase the user data that the platform has accumulated through these third parties.”
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2020-01-29
Inept is just as bad as bad
Phil Windley reminds us that centralization can be bad not just because the central actor might be evil. They may simply be inept, or careless. His example: Microsoft and a forgotten domain renewal.
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2020-01-28
Blockbuster didn’t learn its lesson either
“Facebook hasn’t learned its lesson” says whistleblower Brittany Kaiser in this piece for the Independent. Andybody surprised?
Facebook is one of those businesses that will bite the dust when the personal data disruption hits for real. Just like Blockbuster when Netflix appeared. Because it hasn’t learned its lesson and shows no sign of wanting to. Unfortunately democracy may be dead by then. So let’s work harder to make that happen sooner rather than later.