We have enough social media platforms, and they are all broken. Content moderation is bust at even moderate scale, and algorithmic amplification is broken at any scale. We need a reboot. We need to double down on the ideas of Web 1.0, and the tools that make carving out your own place on the interne…

No more platforms please

I recently have provided a customer with a link to a firewall image (using the Turris MOX router with a variant of OpenWRT) hosted on my own webserver. The image included keys material for an OpenVPN connection. The image file was in a hidden directory on my projects webserver. I monitored closely if there would be any downloads besides the one I expected from my customer.

You are sharing your downloads with your Antivirus Company

 Few things make me sadder than the now predictable moment at which a successful person creates a sellable mysticism out of their good luck and privilege. I find it astonishing how often success creates a 360° blind spot from which the beneficiaries of so many privileges, gifts, and fruits of other peoples’ labor can no longer see reality. 

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