@hanjabanja I'm drinking G&T! And trying to decide between watching a show about an addict hacker or a horse with low self esteem.
@zedshaw Oh wow. That's taken my hopeful optimism a few notches down tonight.
Freedom always wins. On the Internet, the safe bet is on the people and companies that fight for the user.
Pretty soon, we won't live in a world where most Internet users are just getting used to it. And they will demand more control.
Data is property, and it is power. It is valuable. Internet users are still onboarding, but the implications of the cloud will settle in.
The only way to preserve individual agency in a world where we, and all our possessions, are connected is to own our communications & data.
When everyone and everything is connected and the Internet is like air, who should own it?
If the answer is nobody, how do we ensure that?
When the Internet stops growing exponentially and we're all online and connected to each other, we will have some hard questions to answer.
Laptop and desktops are minority computing devices. That mostly just means that other computers are all around us now. All connected.
The pace of the Internet's growth has been blistering. The Internet you loved when you joined, whenever you joined, no longer exists. Gone.
We're in a time of unprecedented growth for the Internet. Unless we all start having sextuplets, it'll never happen again. This is it.
2.2 billion people started using the Internet since Facebook was founded. Most on mobile. Remember building your first website? They don't.
@wiilassie Probably not, but in Germany you might be able to get via sat. Time zones make that silly here.
@wiilassie there's no legit way to watch the channels, I mean. And stuff like Only Connect doesn't make it here.
@wiilassie There is no legit way, but between iTunes and Netflix, I manage to find ways to pay to see most of it. Mostly iTunes (eg Who).
@andysylvester99 We were using some namespaced link tags - particularly for some indieweb resources. Absolutely a no go.
@andysylvester99 A lot of variance in reader parsing. For example: a surprising number of readers don't handle namespacing well.
Related: can all those people signing up to The Grid thinking they're getting incredible AI be anything but massively disappointed?
@josephrooks I never replied to this, and I apologize - but definitely!
Data caps may be an issue (although cellcos could sell special plans). So, for now, maybe the future is in audio.
@csoghoian This is great. Serious question: could it give certain political groups more ammo to further defund libraries?
@gominokouhai Here's a hint if you're on a shared host: upload the zip file, unzip it, then load in a browser. Should take you through it.
@gominokouhai Gotcha. Yeah, we designed https://
@tef @gominokouhai I should also say: check out #knownchat on Freenode. (I'm actually away from my computer right now.)
@danlyke It is, but I'm being serious - a real, 60-minute investigative news show, perhaps via a subscription, would be awesome. & needed.
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