On 3/28/19 3:51 PM, Sven Semmler wrote:
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On 3/25/19 4:49 PM, [email protected] wrote:
What does this say about the direction Joanna and Golem are
taking?
I am severely confused about that. I'd have thought the direction to
go is open hardware, more local, more decentralized, more
compartmentalized, zero trust.
I think the idea is that "zero trust" can come from a crypto-based
algorithm and that the hardware will be locally owned like bitcoin. But
I don't necessarily agree with this model; it feeds the "monetize every
relationship and action" trend along with other problems like pollution.
And if the basis is intimately financial, then economies of scale and
expertise will weigh heavily on it they way they have with crypto
currencies: eventual centralization will be baked-in.
Also there are many examples of zero trust (or accountability) in
traditional methods, like counting paper ballots or balancing your
checkbook from bank statements; its not an invention of Computer
Science. But we love computers and must now throw billions of
transistors at each instance of every little problem; A-Z must receive
the silicon blessing.
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What I love about personal computers is that they're the opposite of
"strap some chips onto objects and forget about it". They're never mere
"gadgets" but more like a workshop. They do many things and so we focus
on one or two units most of the time.... we worry about how fit and
secure our PCs are and we have a dialog with them about it. OTOH, iot
and other gadgets rarely even real anything like an operating system to
us bc we're not supposed to care.
I want operating systems to reveal even more about a computer's internal
state - in snazzy, intuitive ways - than they already are. That's why I
thought at the beginning that "Invisible Things Lab" was such an awesome
moniker while exposing awful things that hide in a computer. Then to
boot they provided a solution that manifests itself in the window frames
we constantly look at. Definitely not a trendy move but great nonetheless.
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