I can confirm that anonymous cowards who cut holes in your clothes when you leave them out to dry is a real problemwww.urbandictionary.com #
2019/02/12 #
Today’s links:
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Why data, not privacy, is the real danger - An article highlighting that the bigger danger to all the surveillance is the ability to compromise your personal autonomy via the creation of digital voodoo dolls, my worry is what happens when this is done not by the big tech firms, but every random person / stalker out there, with big tech there is at least some possibility of accountabilitywww.nbcnews.com #
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It's not just Jeff Bezos that is experiencing extorsion, it's happening to a lot of people for example YouTubers are being targeted by anonymous scammers threatening to shut down channels, extorsion and it's cousin intimidation happens all the timewww.theverge.com #
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CERN day 1 - Remy Sharp is in CERN rebuilding the first web browser, called WorldWideWeb and originally built by Tim Burners-Lee in 1990, as part of a sort of historical restoration projectremysharp.com #
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Thought of this DuckDuckGo search earlier, sort of put me off using the search engine a bit, also adds a new layer to the other famous search engines famous motto that I hadn’t seen beforeduckduckgo.com #
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"Don't be evil" motto predates DuckDuckGo foundation by around 8 yearsen.wikipedia.org #
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Starting to think that eventually people will all just talk via the mediums of bugs and pull requests rather than actual conversation, for the record I quite like the old fashioned mouth based way of communicatinghelp.github.com #
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Techdirt piece that seems to agree with my observation that the EU copyright reforms might be a controlled demolition of the internet as we know it, they suggest by the big media companies - The reality is that either way, we need a system that can support and sustain a lot more people than in the past, more participation, more varietywww.techdirt.com #
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Jeff Jarvis - "Journalism’s mission is to convene communities into civil, informed, and productive conversation"buzzmachine.com #
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Chasing That Feeling - Business Of Dreamsbusinessofdreams.bandcamp.com #