My thoughts on things, mostly tech focused.
We built the internet on email & passwords, coupled with an analog payment system based on typing 16-digit numbers into forms. If someone pitched this today, we’d laugh them out of the room. The answer might be in places most of our brightest minds aren't willing to look at - yet.
Free software is better when it's simple to run, simple to understand, and simple to adapt. I argue that a lot of free software actually comes at a price that is not 0, and provide some hints and ideas for how I quantify "simple".
This article makes the case for offline mobile signers. Instead of juggling multiple wallets and trusting browser extensions, what if we had one secure tool that just handles the critical stuff?
LLMs in the middle: Content aware client-side filtering using browser extensions and local large language models to filter content across multiple websites.
How people who work in data see each other