Robert Winter 
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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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Is privilege a driver of #privacy invasion? We think so.
With that said, desperation can be a factor. Not everyone that invades our privacy is doing so maliciously. Sometimes, their business is struggling to survive, and the idea that "we can stay afloat" if we learn everything about our customers seems like a no-brainer.
Marketeers tout this as the only way to win, and those desperate to stay in business fall prey to that philosophy.
It's as much on "us" to create new & ethical ways to win.
Day #097 of #100DaysToOffload and I am troubled by my reasoning on the virus from below.
@dajbelshaw excellent post. And yes, Doctorow does sum things up well.
Though you might want to double check the Disconnect link. It’s taking me to privacy badger and the badger link to uBlock.
@dajbelshaw I am not familiar with blogchains, but interested to learn more.
On the technical side, how do they work? My main challenge is letting people know there is new content. Doing it new post by new post I understand, but adding to an existing post? That has me stumped.
Day #096 of #100DaysToOffload and I reflect on a new piece to commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Day #095 of #100DaysToOffload and as I near the finish line, I muse on what's next.
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Twitter is uniquely poised to lead on interoperability and federation; though they are very large, they are dwarfed by their major competitors, Facebook and Wechat. What's more, Twitter was initially built for federation, with wide, generous APIs that facilitated interop.
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@basil extraordinary! The way the shockwaves hit after the visual of the blast... terrifying.
Day #094 of #100DaysToOffload and I muse on the ability to ignore.
@markosaric what's that saying... plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery.
No, wait... that can't be right.. umm...
@dajbelshaw very well said.
Without a solid grounding in how to read critically, it is all too easy to be swept up by the predominating narrative and buy what is being sold without testing the product.
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Day #093 of #100DaysToOffload and I muse on life under lock down and when Victorians may be late abroad again.
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Free licenses actually can't make software completely free. Software can be protected not only by copyright, but also by trademarks, design rights and patents.
The perfect illustration is Tinder. Let me just show you IP protection of Tinder in US.
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#IP #intellectualproperty #copyright #trademark #patent #design #designpatent #Tinder #FOSS #freesoftware
Day #092 of #100DaysToOffload and I muse on art as background to video calls.
@dajbelshaw during 100 days I have been accumulating a steadily growing list of these.
@basil @dajbelshaw perhaps. But for some people, the more south they go the more northern they get. 😉
@dajbelshaw @basil quod erat demonstrandum.
Day #091 of #100DaysToOffload and I muse on self-gaze in the writing process.
Doug, much as Epictetus taught that philosophy is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline. You showed that food is a way of life also.
Basil, couldn’t care less about dessert? Just another example that civilisation only extends as far north as the Watford Gap services... 🙃
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Philosopher and historian. Doctoral candidate at Macquarie Business School researching Edmund Burke. Boosts/follows do not imply endorsement.
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