IPFS powers the Distributed Web
A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open.
Comment: This buries @protocol. Open source and a decade in development, in real world use already.
IPFS powers the Distributed Web
A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open.
Comment: This buries @protocol. Open source and a decade in development, in real world use already.
StartMail is the private email service that guards your data the way you should
No matter who handles your email services, you’re very likely, though often unknowingly, allowing them into your life. They can track you and your activities as well as read your emails in exchange for that free service. And that doesn’t even get into all the ways your emails and even your email address itself can be compromised and misused.
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The Two Undersides to Geo-Politics
The prize that America truly seeks is to seize for itself over the coming decades, all global standards in leading-edge technology, and to deny them to China.
China’s intent now is not simply to refine and improve on existing technology, but to leapfrog existing knowledge into a new tech realm (such as by discovering and using new materials that overcome present limits to microprocessor evolution).
‘Largest Distributed Peer-To-Peer Grid' On Earth Laying Foundation For A Decentralized Internet
Forbes reports on ThreeFold, an ambitious new “long-term project to rewire the internet in the image of its first incarnation: decentralized, unowned, accessible, free.” “We have 18,000 CPU cores and 90 million gigabytes, which is a lot of capacity,” founder Kristof de Spiegeleer told me recently on the TechFirst podcast. “It's probably between five and ten times more than all of the capacity of all the blockchain projects together…”
Why Sci Tech Publishers Fight Online Innovation: Money
Who reads academic papers? Give up. Answer: Other academics, students, and curious people with an interest in often arcane research.
Here’s another question: What characteristic do many of these journal readers share? Answer: A desire to zoom through information without paying.
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: The End of SciTech Publishing Silos? The End of Amazon?”
Alert Reader Brad Stepheson writes in:
I'm writing to provide some of my industry perspective from within an open source community project focused on foundational elements of Web 3.0. You are very much keyed-in on the importance of Web 3.0 decentralization, re “…G Gestapo”, censorship, etc.. I recall you've broached this during many of your appearances at least over the past year or two, the latest I've watched being X22 Spotlight posted 2019-12-21. Your consistency with this has led me to contact you.
Web 3.0: The Decentralised Web Promises to Make the Internet Free Again
Edina Harbinja and Vasileios Karagiannopoulos
Have you recently considered deleting your Facebook account, boycotting Amazon or trying to find an alternative to Google? You wouldn’t be alone. The tech giants are invading our privacy, misusing our data, strangling economic growth and helping governments spy on us. Yet because these few companies own so many of the internet’s key services, it seems there is little people can do to avoid having to interact with them if they want to stay online.
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Web 3.0 – Displacement of #GoogleGestapo?”