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Reflections of knowledge – Apps and APIs on the decentralized Web(ruben.verborgh.org)
32 points by rubenverborgh 5y ago|4 comments
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A data ecosystem fosters sustainable innovation(ruben.verborgh.org)
2 points by rubenverborgh 6y ago|0 comments
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by rubenverborgh 7y ago
Just not putting all my cards on the table for them to see yet, but I will eventually. The tone drew attention to the case from press and local authorities, which resulted in the right people reaching out to me. It's unconventional, bu
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by rubenverborgh 7y ago
I have zero interest in harassing people. Unconventional replies cause escalation; Facebook’s current staff on this is on a higher pay scale than most. I’ve made my mails impossible to ignore to the point of there being no plausible deniabi
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by rubenverborgh 7y ago
Those are strong assumptions :-) And the snark has a purpose, it’s what draws the attention of readers and people who follow suit. Dry legalese is seldom read.
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by rubenverborgh 7y ago
Exactly.
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by rubenverborgh 7y ago
A precedent, I think.
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by rubenverborgh 7y ago
Trust me, I don't take myself too seriously ;-) Facebook responds with an overload of legal nonsense to discourage people from replying. I overload them with a lot of non-legal nonsense. In the end I just want my data—it's my lega
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by rubenverborgh 7y ago
No worries, that e-mail is definitely not my only response. Not putting all my cards on the table yet. Grandstanding is not my goal; it's a means of attracting attention to a matter that people have been desensitized to. A secondary go
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Getting my personal data out of Facebook(ruben.verborgh.org)
303 points by rubenverborgh 7y ago|75 comments
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
Unfortunately, "pretty sure" is not the way sound arguments are made ;-) Evidence is: https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options... and http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-sh
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
At that point, it becomes a legal matter. Not everything can be solved with technology. (There's homomorphic encryption, bet let's leave that aside for now.) The GDPR legislation in Europe sets a good precedent for demanding remov
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
It does. But linkeddata.org is not an authoritative source, and even though that statement is partially correct, that doesn't mean that JavaScript developers will need to be exposed to RDF. Just like JavaScript developers aren't e
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
No, I mean RDF in general. As you can read in the article I linked to above, programming with Linked Data does not necessarily require RDF.
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
You’re confusing argumentation with perception.
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
Yes, I urgently need to migrate; same with Disqus, needs to become Solid.
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
That's not at all how argumentation works :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18886753
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
You'll be surprised to hear that developers like Linked Data. People starting with Linked Data development today are not burdened by the Semantic Web legacy and mistakes of the past. We've been working with front-end devs who have
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
Technologically, yes. But centralization takes many shapes (as I explain in the article: https://ruben.verborgh.org/articles/redecentralizing-the-web... ). I encourage you to read the article, where you'll see that
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
You can mix and match parts from different vocabularies on the Web. See it as a JSON object where you can add any key you want, except that some of those keys have meaning to some applications. Apps don't have to understand everything,
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
No: blockchain technologies are about reaching decentralized agreements. Solid is about everyone being able to write their own things (so no agreement) without centralized parties.
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
You control access permissions too :-)
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
Yes, I was asked specifically to write a chapter on Tim's work. What we have is the technology to make it work—it's a necessary, but not a sufficient condition.
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
Google might. They do more than advertising, including selling services. They might happily make Google Drive compatible with Solid—especially if this helps break the Solid monopoly. Facebook, probably not so much. Their business model is d
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
How does running analytics on my site impair my ability to talk about what Tim Berners-Lee wants to do for freedom and control? ;-) Yes, I track how popular what content is on my site. Motivates me to write more. Please feel free to block t
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by rubenverborgh 8y ago
More specifically a Tu quoque / appeal to hypocrisy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque :-)
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by rubenverborgh 9y ago
Just saw this, and by total coincidence just met with Dmitri this morning. Sending you an email!
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by rubenverborgh 9y ago
Messaging does exist; check out Linked Data Notifications ( https://www.w3.org/TR/ldn/ ).
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by rubenverborgh 9y ago
Technology is definitely not the only burden. Check out http://blog.dshr.org/2018/01/it-isnt-about-technology.html for a good argument.
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by rubenverborgh 9y ago
Yeah, identity is a very crucial and difficult topic, which I did ignore in that post. Reason being: in my experience, as soon as you start about identity, it takes up everything. So I have made a couple of assumptions about authentication

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