Quick Notes

By Johannes Ernst

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• 2021-02-21

  Liberté, égalité, reparabilité.

  • tech

  Slowly, but steadily, some of tech’s worst practices are being chipped away. Why France’s New Tech ‘Repairability Index’ Is a Big Deal. Wired.

• 2021-01-14

  Decentralization is about authority: who has it, and how can they exercise it.

  This an other gems in a great piece by Beaker Browser developer Paul Frazee.

• 2021-01-11

  And our ICUs are full

  Santa Clara County, the heart of Silicon Valley. Better not fall off the ladder or silly things like that for the foreseeable future.

  

• 2021-01-11

  Hal Plotkin asks for the government to build equity in the technology it uses, and not just rent it

  • government
  • open-source

  In these times: revolutionary. Fifty years ago it would have been meh because we did indeed get a publicly-owned highway system. Could be as simple as requiring software to become open source some time after a purchase.

• 2021-01-08

  Bitcoin is above USD 40,000

  • bitcoin

  I did not think that would happen. At least not for many years.

• 2021-01-08

  California has a public data broker registry

  • privacy

  Maintained by the state’s Attorney General.

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