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Reality 2.0
By Katherine Druckman and Doc SearlsTechnology
Reality 2.0 episodes
- Episode 89: Digital Identity
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Phil Windley about digital identity, picos, oauth, and big tech ecosystems.
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- 7 Laws of Identity – Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog
— Here's the most beautiful take yet on the Seven Laws of Identity – put together by Karon and Katrika, who even saw how the Laws connect with the Perception of Ailatan. In the past people have asked why I didn't do a Laws of Identity poster – this must be it. Click to view full size.- Rainbows End - Wikipedia
— Rainbows End is a 2006 science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge. It was awarded the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel.[1] The book is set in San Diego, California, in 2025, in a variation of the fictional world Vinge explored in his 2002 Hugo-winning novella "Fast Times at Fairmont High" and 2004's "Synthetic Serendipity". Vinge has tentative plans for a sequel,[2] picking up some of the loose threads left at the end of the novel. The many technological advances depicted in the novel suggest that the world is undergoing ever-increasing change, following the technological singularity, a recurring subject in Vinge's fiction and nonfiction writing.- Ten Reasons to Use Picos for Your Next Decentralized Programming Project
— Picos are a programming model for building decentralized applications that provide significant benefits in the form of abstractions that reduce programmer effort. Here are ten eleven reasons you should use picos for your next decentralized application.- Moore's law - Wikipedia
— Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years. Moore's law is an observation and projection of a historical trend. Rather than a law of physics, it is an empirical relationship linked to gains from experience in production.- Doc Searls Weblog · Car design trends
— On Quora, here’s my answer to What are the worst design trends in modern cars?—updated by our family’s experience with a new Toyota that features even more indicators than the bunch above::::48 min - Episode 88: Can We Fix Facebook?
Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Jerry Michalski and Petros Koutoupis about Facebook, its weaknesses, relationship to its users, and impact on all of us, and what happens when it disappears for six hours.
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- John Taylor Gatto - The Six Lesson Schoolteacher
— “Look...at the...lessons of school teaching - confusion, class position, indifference, emotional and intellectual dependency, conditional self-esteem, surveillance - all of these lessons are prime training for permanent underclasses, people deprived forever of finding the center of their own special genius....Can you imagine a school where children challenged prevailing assumptions? Or worked alone without guidance? Or defined their own problems? It would be a radical contradiction of everything we've been conditioned to expect schools to do. If you want your son or daughter to learn what Harvard said was necessary, you'll have to arrange it outside of school time, maybe in between the dentist and the dancing lessons. And if you are poor, you better forget it altogether.”John Taylor Gatto- The Seven Lesson School Teacher
— Teaching means different things in different places, but seven lessons are universally taught from Harlem to Hollywood Hills. They constitute a national curriculum you pay for in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what it is. You are at liberty, of course, to regard these lessons any way you like, but believe me when I say I intend no irony in this presentation. These are the things I teach, these are the things you pay me to teach. Make of them what you will.- The Hidden Curriculum of School
- Frances Haugen
- Facebook outage, by the numbers: Largest outage ever tracked could cost millions - MarketWatch
— Outage cost company about $164,000 a minute in revenue, while stock’s decline wiped away more than $40 billion in market cap and cost Mark Zuckerberg roughly $6 billion personally1 hr 7 min - Episode 87: Understanding NFTs
Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Gregory Bledsoe about NFTs and the future of transactions and authentication.
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- double-entry bookkeeping – ProjectVRM
— What makes double-entry bookkeeping important is that maybe it can save our asses from what computing did to our hands-on knowledge of how business works—or ought to work—in a hearty economy. Hence the hope behind the headline above.- Pico Labs
- Triple entry accounting system: A revolution with blockchain | by Kapil RANA | DataSeries | Medium
- NFTY Jigs
— NFTY Jigs is a platform tocreate & manage digital goodsfor the open metaverse1 hr 21 min - Episode 86: Pedal-Assisted Privacy
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers about their various health-related gadgets, including trackers, ebikes, VR workouts, etc., and the ways we incorporate them into our lives.
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1 hr 9 min - Episode 85: Bufferbloat
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Dave Taht about bufferbloat, latency, and the issues plaguing our networks.
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- Postcards from the Bleeding Edge
— David Täht writes about politics, space, copyright, the internet, audio software, operating systems and surfing.- Does my modem have Active Queue Management (AQM) for low latency? | Xfinity Community Forum
— Does my modem have Active Queue Management (AQM) for low latency?- RFC 8290 - The Flow Queue CoDel Packet Scheduler and Active Queue Management Algorithm
- Bufferbloat.net - Bufferbloat.net
— Bufferbloat is the undesirable latency that comes from a router or other network equipment buffering too much data.- Cerowrt Wiki - Bufferbloat.net
— The CeroWrt Project is complete. The last build (3.10.50-1) was released in July 2014. The principles learned from that research project have been transferred to the Linux kernel and OpenWrt.- The congestion-notification conflict [LWN.net]
— Most of the time, the dreary work of writing protocol standards at organizations like the IETF and beyond happens in the background, with most of us being blissfully unaware of what is happening. Recently, though, a disagreement over protocols for congestion notification and latency reduction has come to a head in a somewhat messy conflict. The outcome of this discussion may well affect how well the Internet of the future works — and whether Linux systems can remain first-class citizens of that net.- Objections to L4S WGLC
— This document is a companion to a pair of slides presented at the IETF-111 TSVWG session. Due totime and space constraints, the slides could only contain a bare listing of the most pertinent, purelytechnical issues. This document illustrates and links to concrete data supporting the relevance of thoseissues, and amplifies them with further relevant issues. The bullet points from the slides are quoted,followed by supporting material.- Edward Bernays - Wikipedia
- Operational Guidance for Deployment of L4S in the Internet
— This document is intended to provide guidance in order to ensure successful deployment of Low Latency Low Loss Scalable throughput (L4S) in the Internet. Other L4S documents provide guidance for running an L4S experiment, but this document is focused solely on potential interactions between L4S flows and flows using the original ('Classic') ECN over a Classic ECN bottleneck link. The document discusses the potential outcomes of these interactions, describes mechanisms to detect the presence of Classic ECN bottlenecks, and identifies opportunities to prevent and/or detect and resolve fairness problems in such networks. This guidance is aimed at operators of end-systems, operators of networks, and researchers.- draft-ietf-tsvwg-aqm-dualq-coupled-16 - DualQ Coupled AQMs for Low Latency, Low Loss and Scalable Throughput (L4S)
- [OpenWrt Wiki] SQM Details
— If you want to set up SQM to minimize bufferbloat, you should start at the SQM Howto page.- SpaceX nicknames Starlink Internet user terminal 'Dishy McFlatface'
— SpaceX started to offer Starlink satellite broadband internet this week. The company sent out e-mails to potential customers who would want to beta test the Starlink network in its early phase. SpaceX currently operates approximately 888 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit out of thousands it plans to deploy to provide broadband coverage globally. Starlink is initially providing service to the northern United States and southern Canada. SpaceX states that by 2021 the company will provide service to 'the populated world'.1 hr 1 min - Episode 84: Respect on the Web
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about respect on the web, including respecting your users, and algorithmic bias.
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47 min - Episode 83: Intent Broadcasting and the Real Estate Market
Tune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Bill Wendel and Joyce Searls about where tech meets real estate, and how intentcasting could improve the market.
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- Real Estate Cafe | Serving a Money-saving Menu of Services since 1995
- Real Estate Cafe / reVRM Minifesto
— Idea starters to kick-start conversation about VRM's potential role in the residential real estate industry- Ralph Nader on Twitter: "Absentee giant corporate control over local America expands relentlessly. Latest are huge firms like Blackrock buying hundreds of thousands of houses for speculation purposes. Fight absentee corporatist domination. Support the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. @ilsr -R" / Twitter
- Pacaso Is Turning Houses Into Corporations : Planet Money : NPR
— On a sleepy cul-de-sac amid the bucolic vineyards and grassy hills of California's Sonoma Valley, a $4 million house has become the epicenter of a summer-long spat between angry neighbors and a new venture capital-backed startup buying up homes around the nation. The company is called Pacaso. It says it's the fastest company in American history to achieve the "unicorn" status of a billion-dollar valuation — but its quarrels in wine country, one of the first regions where it's begun operations, foreshadow business troubles ahead.- Bill Wendel on Twitter: "Stats below reveal need to replace Active MLS listings with new metric - owners who #Intend2Sell or #IntentionInventory DEC = good month for price reductions, expired listings & to interact #P2P w/ owners planning #LifeTransition in 2022 DM re #ProactHH https://t.co/Tgvjs9S6nM https://t.co/1KkusoNPpz" / Twitter
— BidWarBacklash: 20 yrs ago, Feds report "Housing Starting to Weaken“ cautioned:"Housing values dropped 8% on average during last recession in 1991. Not only could it happen again, ..it could 'happen rather abruptly.'"Instead of bidding #100KoverAsk, willing to #TimeREMarket?- In Case You Were Unclear What the US Government Thinks of NAR... - NotoriousROB
— In light of yet another intervention in a private lawsuit by the Department of Justice, this time in the REX v. Zillow case, a few things should be clearer.One, the Department of Justice really doesn’t like it when NAR uses the 2008 Consent Decree as any kind of a shield for any kind of a rule. NAR has done this in Moehrl, in Sitzer, and now in REX and in all three instances, the DOJ went out of its way to file a Statement of Interest telling the judge that the DOJ in no way shape or form approved any NAR rule or policy.- Instant Buyer - Wikipedia
— Instant Buyer (or iBuyer) is a real estate transaction model wherein companies purchase residential properties directly from private sellers, to eventually re-sell them.[1][2]56 min - Episode 82: Apple’s Child Safety and the Screeching Voices of the Minority
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin about Apple’s new plans to monitor personal devices, and what it means for privacy, ownership, and setting precedence.
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- Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life | Electronic Frontier Foundation
— Apple has announced impending changes to its operating systems that include new “protections for children” features in iCloud and iMessage. If you’ve spent any time following the Crypto Wars, you know what this means: Apple is planning to build a backdoor into its data storage system and its messaging system.- Daring Fireball: Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope
— My first advice is to read Apple’s own high-level description of the features, which ends with links to detailed technical documentation regarding the encryption and techniques Apple is employing in the implementations, and “technical assessments” from three leading researchers in cryptography and computer vision.- Eva on Twitter: "Apple distributed this internal memo this morning, dismissing their critics as "the screeching voices of the minority." I will never stop screeching about the importance of privacy, security, or civil liberties. And neither should you. https://t.co/lLDfxEUIXL" / Twitter
— Apple distributed this internal memo this morning, dismissing their critics as "the screeching voices of the minority."I will never stop screeching about the importance of privacy, security, or civil liberties. And neither should you.- GitHub - nadimkobeissi/appleprivacyletter: An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning.
— An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning technology.- Transactional analysis - Wikipedia
— Transactional analysis (TA) is a psychoanalytic theory and method of therapy wherein social transactions are analyzed to determine the ego state of the communicator (whether parent-like, childlike, or adult-like) as a basis for understanding behavior.[1] In transactional analysis, the communicator is taught to alter the ego state as a way to solve emotional problems. The method deviates from Freudian psychoanalysis which focuses on increasing awareness of the contents of subconsciously held ideas. Eric Berne developed the concept and paradigm of transactional analysis in the late 1950s.[2]- Reality 2.0 Episode 80: NSO Group's Pegasus, Stingrays, and Grindr
— Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin about NSO group and Pegasus, Stingrays and cars, and surveilling priests.- The Encryption Debate in Australia: 2021 Update - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
— In 2018, the heads of Australia’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies were given broad powers by the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018,1 or TOLA Act, to gain access to encrypted communicat- Internet of Snitches – Purism
— Imagine an Internet of Snitches, each scanning whatever data they have access to for evidence of crime. Beyond the OS itself, individual phone apps could start looking for contraband. Personal computers would follow their lead. Home network file servers could pore through photos, videos and file backups for CSAM and maybe even evidence of copyright infringement. Home routers could scan any unencrypted network traffic. Your voice assistant could use machine learning to decide when yelling in a household crosses the line into abuse. Your printer could analyze the documents and photos you send it.- Reality 2.0 Episode 49: Parler, Ownership, and Open Source
— Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Petros Koutoupis, and Kyle Rankin talk Parler and platform lock-in, the concept of data, software, and hardware ownership, and the open source social contract.- Reality 2.0 - Blog - Reality 2.0 Newsletter - November 25, 2020: Owned.
— This week’s conversation was rooted in the concept of ownership, including hardware, software, and in the case of platform lock-in, even ownership of ideas. Over the course of nearly an hour, we questioned our ownership of our social media profiles, our photo storage accounts, our MacBooks, and our code.- Apple Adds a Backdoor to iMessage and iCloud Storage - Schneier on Security
— Apple’s announcement that it’s going to start scanning photos for child abuse material is a big deal. (Here are five news stories.) I have been following the details, and discussing it in several different email lists. I don’t have time right now to delve into the details, but wanted to post something.- Apple Privacy Letter: An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology
— An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning TechnologySecurity & Privacy Experts, Cryptographers, Researchers, Professors, Legal Experts and Apple Consumers Decry Apple's Planned Move to Undermine User Privacy and End-to-End Encryption56 min - Episode 81: Geeks at Home: The Gear That Makes Us Happy
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers and Petros Koutoupis about how we make our personal spaces better for work and play.
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- My Big Round World – Everyone's a square…
- Pet Sematary (1989) - IMDb
— After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.- Sony Alpha 7R Review: Digital Photography Review
— If there's one thing you can say about Sony's digital camera business, it's that they've experimented with many different concepts. From SLRs with dual autofocus systems and Translucent Mirror Technology to its NEX mirrorless line-up, Sony has gone down virtually every avenue in digital imaging. Its latest products - the Alpha 7 and Alpha 7R - may be the most exciting products to come out of the Sony labs in some time. The company has managed to create full-frame cameras which are about the same size as the Olympus OM-D E-M1. In other words, the Alpha 7s are much smaller than their full-frame interchangeable lens peers (such as Nikon's D610 and the Canon EOS 6D), an achievement made possible primarily because they're not SLRs.- Sony a6400 review: Digital Photography Review
— Sony's a6400 is a compact 24MP mirrorless interchangeable lens camera with an APS-C sensor that will serve plenty of photographers from family documentarians to pro shooters looking for a lightweight second body. The big news is that it has a new processor based on that used in Sony's sports-shooting flagship a9 which enables 'Real-Time Tracking' autofocus, which is one of the most effective autofocus implementations we've yet seen. It's also among the easiest to use, once you've gotten it set up.- Amazon.com: Electro-Voice RE20 Broadcast Announcer Microphone with Variable-D: Musical Instruments
- X2U - Microphone to USB Adapter
- Cam Link 4K | elgato.com
- Key Light Air | elgato.com
- Watch Free Movies Online Now | Stream Free TV with Plex
- 4K UHD Hisense Roku TV with HDR (2020) (55R6G) - Hisense USA
- Aeron - Office Chairs - Herman Miller
- Swopper Active Stool Archives | Ergify
- 18 Best Ergonomic Office Chairs 2021 | The Strategist
— Whether you’re working from home at a DIY desk setup or commuting to an office, you may have begun to feel the strain that sitting for seven or more hours a day can put on a body. If said strain has led you to wonder whether it’s worth investing in a better, more ergonomic office chair, the answer is almost certainly yes, according to experts we spoke to. “Makeshift setups can cause a laundry list of problems, including back, shoulder, and wrist pain,” explains Dr. David Perna of Back and Body Medical. Dr. Marc Agulnick, an orthopedic surgeon based on Long Island who’s affiliated with NYU Winthrop Hospital, agrees: “If you’re sitting for a long period of time in one position that’s not natural, or a bad position from a postural standpoint, over time that’s going to break down your spine.”- Arcade1Up | Officially Licensed Arcade Cabinets
53 min - Episode 80: NSO Group's Pegasus, Stingrays, and Grindr
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin about NSO group and Pegasus, Stingrays and cars, and surveilling priests.
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- Defending Against Spyware Like Pegasus – Purism
— What’s particularly scary about spyware in general, and is true for Pegasus as well, is that victims have no indication they’ve been compromised. Due to how locked down the iPhone is from the end user, detecting Pegasus in particular requires expert forensics techniques. This has left many at-risk iPhone users wondering whether they too are compromised and if so, what do they do?- Here’s how to check your phone for Pegasus spyware using Amnesty’s tool - The Verge
— Amnesty International — part of the group that helped break the news of journalists and heads of state being targeted by NSO’s government-grade spyware, Pegasus — has released a tool to check if your phone has been affected. Alongside the tool is a great set of instructions, which should help you through the somewhat technical checking process. Using the tool involves backing up your phone to a separate computer and running a check on that backup. Read on if you’ve been side-eyeing your phone since the news broke and are looking for guidance on using Amnesty’s tool.- Mobile Verification Toolkit
— Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) is a tool to facilitate the consensual forensic analysis of Android and iOS devices, for the purpose of identifying traces of compromise.- The FBI Is Locating Cars By Spying On Their WiFi
— The FBI is using a controversial technology traditionally used to locate smartphones as a car tracking surveillance tool that spies on vehicles’ on-board WiFi.- Catholic priest quits after “anonymized” data revealed alleged use of Grindr | Ars Technica
— In what appears to be a first, a public figure has been ousted after de-anonymized mobile phone location data was publicly reported, revealing sensitive and previously private details about his life.- Secure, Fast & Private Web Browser with Adblocker | Brave Browser
— Brave stops online surveillance, loads content faster, and uses 35% less battery.145 min
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