Decentralized Web Summit - Live From The Internet Archive

What Hacker News said

Cites th-ai · 2016-10 · on “IPFS is the Distributed Web”

Any bashing on Named Data Networking? [LINK] Rather than the system getting less reliable exponentially as it scales up, it gets more reliable exponentially as it scales up. [LINK] Integrity and trust are properties of the data; not of the way that you obtain ​it. [LINK] There's no routing. You get rid of all of the routing chatter. You get rid of all of the routing brittleness. [LINK] We wanted to turn around the incentive structure where right now senders have a lot of power and receivers have basically nothing, they have to eat what they're fed. [this video]

Cites guilhas · 2017-04 · on “Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award”

It can be difficult to make those decisions. But I would say TBL is definitely worried about the future of internet. (Decentralized Web Summit - From The Internet Archive) [this video]

Cites pdkl95 · 2018-11 · on “Facebook Applied for Patent to Predict Who’s in House Based on Family Photos”

Words on their own are not worth much in the long run. It's easy to pursue well-meaning plans on good days when everything is working like it's supposed to and everywhere you go people seem to be talking about the amazing stuff your "unicorn trajectory" will create. Cory Doctorow had a useful analogy[1]: if you're trying to lose weight, most of the time it isn't very difficult to resist tempting siren's call from the box of cookies in your pantry. Obviously not buying the tempting snack would have been a better (and simpler) idea, but willpower is plentiful on good days. Obviously that's a poor risk assessment: of course it's easy to make the annoying-bug-beneficial choice when it doesn't co