Re:Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Proton’s advisory board
by thereddaikon on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:39AM
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On a reddit AMA several years ago Tim or the PR people representing him claimed that he and his team tat Cern were responsible for the open source movement. Except their browser wasn't opened until after the fact, and Stallman and FSF had been doing their thing for years before. He lost a lot of credibility with me after that.
Re:Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Proton’s advisory board
by hammyhavoc on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:59AM
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Wasn't aware of that claim of starting the open source movement! How someone ever thought they would get away with a claim as silly as that is beyond me.
He's also sold a gimmicky cryptoart NFT through Sotheby’s, contributing to and indirectly endorsing environmental destruction. He of all people should be leading by example with how to make existing and future technologies more environmentally-friendly.
Re:Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Proton’s advisory board
by dane-pgp on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:42PM
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> indirectly endorsing environmental destruction.
Didn't creating the web also indirectly cause a lot of environmental destruction? Oh, you mean that your energy use is strictly necessary, whereas other people using energy for something that doesn't interest you is morally wrong. Got it.
Re:Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Proton’s advisory board
by hammyhavoc on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:56PM
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I can list quite literally hundreds of problems solved by the web. How many problems can you say are solved by cryptoart?
Building an internet and providing privacy don't go hand-in-unlovable-hand with SaaS. Decentralization is an important solution to most threat models, as is having physical possession of your server and data. Centralization is the problem here.
Why complicate things when you could just acknowledge that email is archaic and unsuitable for privacy in 2021, and start running your own Matrix home server if you have something worth keeping private?
Trotting out Berners-Lee isn't helping their credibility following the environmental activist debacle. Actions speak louder than words. As has been evidenced, centralized privacy-oriented SaaS provided by businesses are not fit for purpose. Users should take responsibility for their own data and assume everything is compromised by default.