IEEE P7012 MyTerms
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Where Are We?
While the Web isn’t a place, we know it as one. The language we use to describe it is concrete and structural: domains at locations, with sites that are built and have pages that are authored, and contents that are uploaded and downloaded. For a generation or more, we have searched through the Web’s vast Continue reading
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A Cure for Corporate Addiction to Personal Data
I wrote the original version of this post for the March 2018 issue of Linux Journal. You can find it here. Since images from archival material in the magazine no longer load, and I want to update this anyway, here is a lightly edited copy of the original. Bear in mind that what you’ll read Continue reading
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We’ve Had Enough of This Shit
I was going to source this Bloomberg story about AI-related Microsoft Layoffs, but the interruptive popover said, I didn’t accept that, and suggest you don’t either. I just checked in another browser, and in Europe (or at least in The Netherlands, where I am VPN’d right now), Bloomberg gives you these choices: That’s because Bloomberg tries Continue reading
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The Personal Internet
—is not this: By now we take it for granted. To live your digital life on the Internet, you need accounts. Lots of them. Everything on the Internet that requires an account has a lock on you—for their convenience. They don’t know any other way. That’s because all the services we use in the online Continue reading