kjetilk

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by kjetilk 8y ago
OK, so nobody said decentralization is easier. There's been plenty of academic papers saying pretty much the same as you do. But we have to, not for technical reasons, but for ethical and social ones. So, we're starting to tackle
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by kjetilk 8y ago
Right, but if you had data that were just that confidential to you, that's the easy part. Just encrypt it and don't let anybody look. I don't really have that kind of data, but I do have a lot of stuff that's just privat
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by kjetilk 8y ago
Oh, but that's more a matter of where you start and what you bootstrap. In both cases, DNS and TLS CA-based stuff is about trust. You need to trust the DNS server, as there could be malicious servers sneaking in, and you need to trust
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by kjetilk 8y ago
Oh, but Solid isn't just a social network. True, social networks have really powerful network effects, so it is a key to success, but not the only key. We're separating data from apps, which enables permissionless innovation. That
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by kjetilk 8y ago
Not really, it is pretty much the other way around. :-) We're basically building the simplest thing that could possibly work, they are rebuilding a lot of infrastructure that they have to use, but we can use where it makes sense. So, t
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by kjetilk 8y ago
Great question, because it is basically the most ignored problem in the Semantic Web community and thus the one that we are spending quite a lot of time on. So, basically, there is one data model , RDF, but RDF does not require the same se
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by kjetilk 8y ago
Actually, we've been chatting about this, and I think it would be great to start selling Solid servers on a OLinuXino board with a nice box around. Not because it would make us a lot of money, but to demonstrate that you, at least a bu
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by kjetilk 8y ago
Mmmmm, sorry. So, we have an #UXFAIL here. I've relayed it on to the rest of the inrupters. Obviously, we're happy if you have more detailed experiences to share, there's a bunch of frontend stuff to fix (I'm working mos
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by kjetilk 8y ago
Yup, it is. Though, I'm not sure about homomorphic encryption, but there has been some work on encryption in the academic community that has very clear application to Solid. Here's a paper written by some friends of mine: http:&#
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by kjetilk 8y ago
Right, so that's one of the reasons why Solid is built on top of Linked Data and RDF, we need the power of these technologies to support those advanced use cases. The Web Access Control spec is here: https://github.com/
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by kjetilk 8y ago
Well, I guess we just asked the opposite question: Is there any reason to keep this sub-surface any longer, and we didn't find any such reason... :-) So, it is just "release early, release often". So, the code and the spec ha
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by kjetilk 8y ago
So, we're kinda dogfooding that, we're not only building decentralized social networks, the business is also decentralized, so we haven't got any big corporate offices. A lot happens out of Boston, but I'm based near Osl