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  • jwz: Mozilla's Original Sin
    #tech-industry | Some will tell you that Mozilla's worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and that may have been the first domino, but I hold that implementing DRM is what doomed them, as it led to their culture of capitulation. It demonstrated that their decisions were the decisions of a company shipping products, not those of a non-profit devoted to preserving the open web.

    JWZ perceives Mozilla's duty to be "building THE reference implementation web browser" (sic). This aligns with me, I have the same expectation - web browsers are too important to be monopolised; there needs to be more than one implementation in active use.

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  • Access to Law Should Be Fully Open: Tell Congress Not to Be Fooled by the Pro Codes Act
    #law #tech-industry | In fact, it sounds obvious: mandatory regulations should be made available online, for free, so people can more easily know, share, and comment on them. Here’s the trick: this language would effectively endorse the claim that SDOs can “retain” copyright in the law, as long as they let the public read it online.

    When I was younger I was always wondering "why don't people just keep all the law on Github?"

    1 year ago | View Shared by kos
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  • siderea | How to Compete with Patreon [New Media, Tech, Patreon]
    #tech-industry | Patreon has no meaningful competitors, and also it sucks, so there's a huge opportunity for somebody to kick sand in its face and take its lunch money. But to do that you would have to understand what actually Patreon does that is worth it to creators to allow Patreon to take 5% of their proceeds...

    Creators deserve a way to promote monetize their work that doesn't keep them locked in and doesn't tie their wellbeing to changing decisions of a privately owned company. This is why I always wondered why Patreon is the platform of choice for so many people. This amazing article helped me understand better what Patreon is really doing.

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  • Honoring Peter Eckersley, Who Made the Internet a Safer Place for Everyone
    #tech-industry | The impact of Peter’s work on encrypting the web cannot be overstated. The fact that transport layer encryption on the web is so ubiquitous that it's nearly invisible is thanks to the work Peter began.
    2 years ago | View Shared by kos
  • Why Developers Are Building So Many Side Projects | Future
    #tech-industry | (...) internet project builders are straight-up gamblers. The excitement before you click “launch” on your next idea is addictive; you just don’t know what will happen.

    I can't directly relate - my side projects are usually explorations driven by curiosity, and I always enjoyed building more than launching. A great read nevertheless!

    2 years ago | View Shared by kos
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  • If I can shop and bank online, why can’t I vote online?
    #tech-industry | ...computer and network security experts are virtually unanimous in pointing out that online voting is an exceedingly dangerous threat to the integrity of U.S. elections. There is no way to guarantee that the security, privacy, and transparency requirements for elections can all be met with any practical technology in the foreseeable future.

    See also xkcd 2030

    2 years ago | View Shared by kos
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jwz: Mozilla's Original Sin

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Some will tell you that Mozilla's worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and that may have been the first domino, but I hold that implementing DRM is what doomed them, as it led to their culture of capitulation. It demonstrated that their decisions were the decisions of a company shipping products, not those of a non-profit devoted to preserving the open web.
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JWZ perceives Mozilla's duty to be "building THE reference implementation web browser" (sic). This aligns with me, I have the same expectation - web browsers are too important to be monopolised; there needs to be more than one implementation in active use.