Robert Winter 
@rw@qoto.org
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Philosopher and historian. Doctoral candidate at Macquarie Business School researching Edmund Burke. Boosts/follows do not imply endorsement.
Joined Jul 2019
Day 014 of #100DaysToOffload and I look at the different resolutions in writing.
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Please share this video on how privacy-respecting contract tracing works! The more people that install these apps, the higher change we have of lowering the infection rate.
@freemo @design_RG @moonman @realcaseyrollins@mstdn.social your policy around blocking was what attracted me here as some admins are so hyper sensitive.
Out of interest, how does the whole profile forwarding thing work? In that I understood if I fell out with an instance admin I could ‘move’ to another instance an retain my followers - another fediverse mantra I haven’t critically examined. Am I reading your post correctly that an admin could delete my account meaning any forwarding to my new instance wouldn’t work?
@freemo @design_RG @moonman @realcaseyrollins@mstdn.social I saw an article recently, can immediately place it else I’d link, in which the author was slamming the large instances for essentially centralising what is a decentralised federation. The author couldn’t understand why people flocked to big instances and all I could think of was a Pareto distribution. Added to which, far more people care about numbers than we might like to think. If you want to be an ‘influencer,’ you need a large base of people to influence. For most, joining a large instance seems the simplest route to that.
But the idea that many small instances is potentially bad for the fediverse because it can hamper people’s ability to connect is an interesting point, which I hadn’t considered. I had always uncritically bought the fediverse line that all instances can connect as gospel without thinking on the networking implications of political admins who block nodes, thereby reducing the number of edges in the network.
Day 013 of #100DaysToOffload and I look at How I Write, from the technology standpoint.
@freddyym very much in agreement with you there. It is just a number.
What is more. Before I got a full understanding of online privacy, I use to post on Facebook very regularly. At best, I'd get a handful of likes. I then stopped posting for a bit, and at a number of events where I would meet large numbers of people who knew me (think in the hundreds) I would get approach by people who missed my posts. What struck me was they were all ghost readers, enjoying the content but not willing to comment, share or even like.
This saw me shift from extrinsic to intrinsic motivation, which is why I write for my own edification first, and if others find a bit of illumination then all the better.
Glad you enjoy my work, yours has been on my keen interest list for some time and glad to see some key publications in the privacy space re-sharing your writing. If has helped me to reshape my understanding of data.
Day 012 of #100DaysToOffload and I discuss 'How I Publish.'
Hmm... although I wrote a day 011 post for #100DaysToOffload, I don't think I published it here? Well, today you get two for the price of one. 🙂
Day 011, I explore 'The Cloud of Unknowing.'
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This is quite possibly my favourite person to listen to during this crisis. He's a historian and philosopher who is actively spreading awareness of the threats of surveillance that could come long after the pandemic is over. He's also extremely positive in the way that he looks at the crisis saying that we are more prepared now than ever before.
Watch some of the interviews linked bellow:
Day 010 of #100DaysToOffload 'Good night, and good luck.’
@design_RG Looks to me as though it is back to the future. I do miss the days of forums as in many ways I prefer their layout to more general all in one feeds.
If social networks start to adopt some forum functionality (such as post previews), I think it a step forward.
@amolith your browser seems to be so new, it is old. 😂
Day 009 of #100DaysToOffload and I contemplate Maciej Cegłowski concept of 'ambient privacy' in: So this is how #privacy dies:
A very interesting period of the war and I think the character of Hess fascinating from the perspective of the politicisation of events. This is particularly the case when we look at events after the war.
During the Nuremberg Trials, the court found Hess guilty on two counts: crimes against peace (planning and preparing a war of aggression), and conspiracy with other German leaders to commit crimes. He was found not guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Although the Soviet member of the tribunal, Major-General Iona Nikitchenko, discented from the panel and thought the death penalty warranted, Hess was sentenced to prison and spent the rest of his life there (dying in 1987).
This contrasts with Albert Speer who was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Though he avoided the death penalty by an even closer margin (three of the eight judges advocated for the death penalty - two Soviet and one American) he was sentenced to prison. After serving only one term, was released in 1966.
While I am sure there is much legal nuance to explain this, one can't help but think strong Soviet opposition to the release of Hess, because they deemed him to have known about the German invasion of the USSR before the fact (and prima facie blamed him for it), is more the cause of his life long incarceration than his crimes.
Contrast and compare with Speer who, following support from Charles de Gaulle, US diplomat George Wildman Ball and Willy Brandt (West German Chancellor from 1969 to 1974), was released from prison and went on to have something of a celebrity life after the war. I have never been a supporter of conspiracy theories, but episodes like this do lead me to see how some of them get their traction.
Day 008 of #100DaysToOffload and I write about my mother and Gakyō Rōjin (The Old Man Mad About Art).
@design_RG deleted and reposted accordingly. Thanks for the tip. And yes, I am finding it a great process to write something small everyday. Been so focused on my research I have got out of the habit of journaling my daily musings. Can recommend the process.
Day 007 of #100DaysToOffload and I compare building architecture with system architecture in 'Endurance Through Renewal.'
@design_RG thanks for the support. 🙂And yes, that should have been day 007! Blurry eyes at the end of a long day do not make for good editing.
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Decentralize.today will launch an #Mastodon and #peertube instance next week. Including hidden @torproject support. Trying to contribute and keep things growing.
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Philosopher and historian. Doctoral candidate at Macquarie Business School researching Edmund Burke. Boosts/follows do not imply endorsement.
Joined Jul 2019
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