Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
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Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
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#2And soon will win the big brother award for accepting DRM ?
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#3Key quote (for me) from the interview:
"A social network is disempowering because you put a lot of energy into it, all your personal data out there, and tell it who your friends are. You can only use that information inside the silo of that particular social network."
source: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604052/webs-inventor-tim-...
Re: Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
#4Key quote (for me) from the interview: "A social network is disempowering because you put a lot of energy into it, all your personal data out there, and tell it who your friends are. You can only use that information inside the silo of that particular social network." source: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604052/webs-inventor-tim-...
Yeah. I wish we had something more decentralised, like e-mail, but for social networks. Like, a standardized social network protocol that most people use (popularity is important here). There is nothing special about what social networks like Facebook do, the biggest challenge is probably serving so many requests and storing lots of data with high availability.
Re: Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
#5And soon will win the big brother award for accepting DRM ?
Tim Berners-Lee is not the equivalent of the W3C (though he did vote for EME).
I think the main reason to allow this is that otherwise the only effect is that the same thing will happen in a non-standard fashion with Apps and other binaries being the way to access protected content.
That said, I'm not happy with it either and I wished that the web would remain DRM free, the only reason it has the adoption that it does is because it was open from the beginning.
Finally, the way to vote as a consumer is with your feet: simply refuse to access DRM protected content and it will go away all by itself.
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#6Key quote (for me) from the interview: "A social network is disempowering because you put a lot of energy into it, all your personal data out there, and tell it who your friends are. You can only use that information inside the silo of that particular social network." source: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604052/webs-inventor-tim-...
Yeah. I wish we had something more decentralised, like e-mail, but for social networks. Like, a standardized social network protocol that most people use (popularity is important here). There is nothing special about what social networks like Facebook do, the biggest challenge is probably serving so many requests and storing lots of data with high availability.
Even email is no longer really decentralized. Google and a few other email silos now make up the bulk.
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#7Internet? That's still around?
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#8I think his work on educating people about the web ever since it's creation is pretty awesome.
His list of questions for kids is great, especially the one on 'what happens when I click a link' [0]
[0]: https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids.html#What1Re: Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah. I wish we had something more decentralised, like e-mail, but for social networks. Like, a standardized social network protocol that most people use (popularity is important here). There is nothing special about what social networks like Facebook do, the biggest challenge is probably serving so many requests and storing lots of data with high availability.
Even email is no longer really decentralized. Google and a few other email silos now make up the bulk.
This is why I use Fastmail, and encrypt my Google Drive data. It isn't any more secure as far as I can tell, but I'm tired of 2-3 companies holding all my easily accessible data in one place. Especially when they are openly using that data for advertising.
These days I'll always take a paid service over a "free" one where I'm the product.
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#10Key quote (for me) from the interview: "A social network is disempowering because you put a lot of energy into it, all your personal data out there, and tell it who your friends are. You can only use that information inside the silo of that particular social network." source: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604052/webs-inventor-tim-...
Yeah. I wish we had something more decentralised, like e-mail, but for social networks. Like, a standardized social network protocol that most people use (popularity is important here). There is nothing special about what social networks like Facebook do, the biggest challenge is probably serving so many requests and storing lots of data with high availability.
I've heard of diaspora being described like email.