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Just not putting all my cards on the table for them to see yet, but I will eventually. The tone drew attention to the case from press and local authorities, which resulted in the r…

I have zero interest in harassing people. Unconventional replies cause escalation; Facebook’s current staff on this is on a higher pay scale than most. I’ve made my mails impossibl…

Those are strong assumptions :-) And the snark has a purpose, it’s what draws the attention of readers and people who follow suit. Dry legalese is seldom read.

Exactly.

A precedent, I think.

Trust me, I don't take myself too seriously ;-) Facebook responds with an overload of legal nonsense to discourage people from replying. I overload them with a lot of non-legal non…

No worries, that e-mail is definitely not my only response. Not putting all my cards on the table yet. Grandstanding is not my goal; it's a means of attracting attention to a matte…

Unfortunately, "pretty sure" is not the way sound arguments are made ;-) Evidence is: https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options... and http://gs.statcounter.com/…

At that point, it becomes a legal matter. Not everything can be solved with technology. (There's homomorphic encryption, bet let's leave that aside for now.) The GDPR legislation i…

It does. But linkeddata.org is not an authoritative source, and even though that statement is partially correct, that doesn't mean that JavaScript developers will need to be expose…

No, I mean RDF in general. As you can read in the article I linked to above, programming with Linked Data does not necessarily require RDF.

You’re confusing argumentation with perception.

Yes, I urgently need to migrate; same with Disqus, needs to become Solid.

That's not at all how argumentation works :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18886753

You'll be surprised to hear that developers like Linked Data. People starting with Linked Data development today are not burdened by the Semantic Web legacy and mistakes of the pas…

Technologically, yes. But centralization takes many shapes (as I explain in the article: https://ruben.verborgh.org/articles/redecentralizing-the-web... ). I encourage you to read …

You can mix and match parts from different vocabularies on the Web. See it as a JSON object where you can add any key you want, except that some of those keys have meaning to some …

No: blockchain technologies are about reaching decentralized agreements. Solid is about everyone being able to write their own things (so no agreement) without centralized parties.…

You control access permissions too :-)

Yes, I was asked specifically to write a chapter on Tim's work. What we have is the technology to make it work—it's a necessary, but not a sufficient condition.

Google might. They do more than advertising, including selling services. They might happily make Google Drive compatible with Solid—especially if this helps break the Solid monopol…