8 years ago on election day I went to an IoT meetup in the evening. I remember when I sat down I opened my laptop and the NYTimes big arrow pointed all the way over to Clinton.
I listened to the presentations, and an hour or hour and half later, I hit refresh. The big arrow was at the opposite end of the dial pointing all the way to Trump.
Not going to any IoT or other events today.
What if Automattic sounded out Wall Street for possible IPO valuations, and found out that WPEngine had the same or a higher valuation. Because their cost structure is lower. #WordPress
I think I made the somewhat more general machine-to-machine case rather than the human-to-machine-via browser case. But here we are.
In 2005 I gave a talk at O'Reilly's OSCON about user-controlled Digital Identity with sth I called LID. It featured a "this" and a "that" pointer. I don't think too many people understood what I was trying to say.
Last week I came across some recent mock-ups by @goto of the Google Chrome team. Making the browser identity-aware as he's showing there is exactly what I had in mind: this=the URL being visited. that=the identifier of the user visiting.
Merely 19 years.
These are some personal notes I took from a session at IIW and a few exploratory designs that occurred to me while meeting folks there. @aaronpk and I hosted a session at IIW on the topic of ways in which the browser could help the the f...
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Still planning to do an informal #Fediverse get-together at #SeaGL2024 in Seattle next weekend.
Tentatively: in the "TeaGL" break Saturday afternoon.
Join me?
@dmarti makes the financial case for getting rid of #surveillance #advertising
@stpaultim @pluralistic Bluesky is the very first word in the title?
But of course the argument applies more broadly.
@ShadSterling I am writing this on ARM (MacBook Pro). And ARM-based instances on EC2 are cheaper than those based on x86_64 and I want to move my servers there as soon as I have a setup that works. All that's left for x86 is inertia.
@ShadSterling They have a very long list of problems. The biggest of which is that ARM is eating their lunch. x86 is toast -- not that they haven't known it since they decided to create, and fail, at Itanium 25 years ago.
The end of an era in #tech.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-replace-intel-dow-jones-212628611.html
@pluralistic has a strong anti-Bluesky argument:
AI and Halloween Fun.
Irish revellers flooded the streets of Dublin expecting a Halloween parade last night. The only problem? No parade had been organised.
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Sometimes I really hate decentralized systems.
Case in point: the Arch Linux package repo mirror one of my machines has been using silently stopped publishing package updates. So suddenly I get all those weird errors during and after attempts to upgrades, from invalid package signatures (turns out keys were expired) to "DLL" conflicts.
Would not have happened in a system where the central Arch project controls all repos, instead of volunteers who step up -- and apparently down.
@Brandon ... but more seriously, I think the social graph of the Fediverse and media shared here are probably a good place from where to build this.
@Brandon Now we "just" need to do a minor amount of programming and get it supported everywhere 
@Brandon imho great things could be done by re-starting FOAF in some form, and having the browser evaluate links / pages with a foaf-derived score in mind. “If 10 people I trust trust this page, I can probably trust it, too”
His conflicts of interests are insurmountable. He can take a heroic path to strengthen journalism.
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Currently counting 4 sessions on Fediverse / Social Web / ActivityPub and related at Internet Identity Workshop this week.
