Re:Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web
by khedoros1 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @08:41PM
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- I like my files stored where I have access to them and no one else does (local filesystem storage)
- I like being able to share files with other people, when I choose to (Dropbox, GDrive, et al, possibly in an encrypted compression format)
- I like instant installation. I dislike software changing under me without my control, being forced to trial-and-error my way through browser choice, not knowing which build of the software I'm running, not knowing how my experience may differ from someone else's (AB testing), and not having my data stored primarily on my local device. (websites)
- I consider remote storage useful, but not 100% reliable, so I won't use it for something that must work (cloud storage)
- I consider remote data processing harmful, more often than not. Not only is it doing things to my data that I have no control over, but they aren't even visible to me, even in the sense of "well, technically you could disassemble the binary and reverse engineer the algorithm..."
- My use of a platform shouldn't depend on one vendor. NaCl depends solely on Google. Apparently, NaCl and Pepper are "destaffed"[1], and I think there was a story the other day about things on the Chrome web store moving away from being available outside of ChromeOS. It's not a platform that I'd care to really invest in, right now.
The less important a particular task is to me, the less I care about the points above. For example: most of my modern games are perma-rented from Steam, auto updates are on, and my saves are stored "in the cloud".
- I like being able to share files with other people, when I choose to (Dropbox, GDrive, et al, possibly in an encrypted compression format)
- I like instant installation. I dislike software changing under me without my control, being forced to trial-and-error my way through browser choice, not knowing which build of the software I'm running, not knowing how my experience may differ from someone else's (AB testing), and not having my data stored primarily on my local device. (websites)
- I consider remote storage useful, but not 100% reliable, so I won't use it for something that must work (cloud storage)
- I consider remote data processing harmful, more often than not. Not only is it doing things to my data that I have no control over, but they aren't even visible to me, even in the sense of "well, technically you could disassemble the binary and reverse engineer the algorithm..."
- My use of a platform shouldn't depend on one vendor. NaCl depends solely on Google. Apparently, NaCl and Pepper are "destaffed"[1], and I think there was a story the other day about things on the Chrome web store moving away from being available outside of ChromeOS. It's not a platform that I'd care to really invest in, right now.
The less important a particular task is to me, the less I care about the points above. For example: most of my modern games are perma-rented from Steam, auto updates are on, and my saves are stored "in the cloud".
[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=239656...