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So Wikipedia doesn't accept crypto anymore. Who cares? They don't need it! The Knowledge Standards Foundation does. We're making an open network of all the encyclopedias ( http://e…

I'm not "working on a decentralized encyclopedia." I am working on tools and standards to network together all the encyclopedias in the world. See encyclosphere.org.

Grandma is never going to install a password manager. That's your job, geek. Besides, it's a great, unique, valuable Christmas present!

"Humanity has been contemptuously used by vast digital empires," says my new "Declaration of Digital Independence" ( https://larrysanger.org/2019/06/declaration-of-digital-indep...…

Oy, you really did not understand why I moved, even though I explained it quite clearly.

> Well it doesn't help that Linux desktop is backed by one of the most condescending cultures that ever stalked the internet. Ouch.

Apple wants to store your data in iCloud--I don't wanna. I don't trust them. Apple is happy to learn a lot about you. Hence the feds can learn a lot about you through them. But mos…

Good point. My support person was my 12-year-old son. ;-)

Did I suggest that people follow my precise route? I'm not sure I did. I was just reporting how I did it.

It's not meant to win over an average Joe. It's meant to maybe win over the sort of people who read my blog--technical or semi-technical, intelligent in any case, capable of thinki…

I'm not, really. Before they moved to the crowd (I refused to follow them there), I used to be an Office expert. I knew the software inside and out. I still use Word 2007. But no, …

I didn't even know that was running. I'm going to remove it.

Author of the article here. I just noticed that it had been posted on Hacker News. Thanks to se7entime!

Ever since I heard of this site, I've thought that (annotating the web, or parts of the web) is a great idea for a website, and they're executing it pretty well. It's not what we'r…

In the wonderful event that Infobitt becomes a superior product and accordingly gains market share to the detriment of news sources, then we will of course know where our bread is …

This is a good idea. We need to code the "like" feature as the first step to implementing this.

It's certainly something we can consider now that we've soft-launched. We've thought about it in the past, and now I guess it is a good idea to consider it again!

Battling organized partisanship is a problem for down the road. My hope is that, by the time we deal with that, we'll have the funding and the personnel to code up a system that en…

The fact that bitt and fact order, as well as which fact is displayed to the reader, is (or will soon be) subject to vote will provide a moderating influence, I hope. The reason Wi…

I actually agree. This is one area in which Wikipedia shines. But when it comes to breaking news, or tracking the actual order of events as they were reported, not so much.

As I have said several times before, Wikipedia doesn't follow Surowiecki's rules for "wisdom of crowds" effects. The Infobitt model has an advantage over wikis that will enable a w…

Yes, may the best model win!

Yes, agreed. There are some issues (mostly having to do with scalability) we have to sort out before we launch to public view without login.