lsanger
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President, Knowledge Standards Foundation. Building an encyclosphere. Co-founder, Wikipedia (and many others).
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Comment · 4 years ago
So Wikipedia doesn't accept crypto anymore. Who cares? They don't need it!
The Knowledge Standards Foundation does. We're making an open network of all the encyclopedias (http://encyclosphere.org). Contact us: [email protected]
Disclosure: I was co-founder of Wikipedia, once upon a time, and the KSF is my project.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm not "working on a decentralized encyclopedia." I am working on tools and standards to network together all the encyclopedias in the world. See encyclosphere.org.
Comment · 5 years ago
Grandma is never going to install a password manager. That's your job, geek. Besides, it's a great, unique, valuable Christmas present!
Comment · 7 years ago
Oy, you really did not understand why I moved, even though I explained it quite clearly.
Comment · 7 years ago
> Well it doesn't help that Linux desktop is backed by one of the most condescending cultures that ever stalked the internet.
Ouch.
Comment · 7 years ago
Apple wants to store your data in iCloud--I don't wanna. I don't trust them.
Apple is happy to learn a lot about you. Hence the feds can learn a lot about you through them.
But most important to me is this wretched speech by Tim Cook: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/12/03/tim-cook-adl-keynote-sp...
What a censorious tool. Soured me on Apple for, probably, ever.
Comment · 7 years ago
Good point.
My support person was my 12-year-old son. ;-)
Comment · 7 years ago
Did I suggest that people follow my precise route? I'm not sure I did. I was just reporting how I did it.
Comment · 7 years ago
It's not meant to win over an average Joe. It's meant to maybe win over the sort of people who read my blog--technical or semi-technical, intelligent in any case, capable of thinking outside the box...
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm not, really. Before they moved to the crowd (I refused to follow them there), I used to be an Office expert. I knew the software inside and out. I still use Word 2007. But no, I never did install Office 365 (I see my mistake now!).
Comment · 7 years ago
I didn't even know that was running. I'm going to remove it.
Comment · 7 years ago
Author of the article here. I just noticed that it had been posted on Hacker News. Thanks to se7entime!