@pluralistic your innovation article immediately brought to mind Carliss Baldwin and Eric von Hippel's seminal work on the nature of innovation, and how open collaborative activity is really the engine of innovation in the modern economy. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/orsc.1100.0618
@huitema@feld@mnot those lists are run by Mozilla (for Linux distro), Google (who own >80% of browser market) and la bit at Microsoft.... only a few mostly anonymous/inaccessible blobs with big legal departments. LetsEncrypt sponsored by... ah the above.
ccTLDs tend to be covered by law of their local government; .com though is a US corporation.... I know I can walk into the SWITCH.ch offices ;) [and why my primary domain is .ch ;) ]
@jeroen@huitema@mnot .com, .net, and .org are all operated by Verisign who is happy to bend over for the federal government here and do whatever is asked of them
It’s common for voluntary technical standards developing organisations (SDOs such as the IETF and W3C) to make decisions by consensus, rather than (for example) voting. This post explores why we use consensus, what it is, how it works in Internet standards and when its use can become problematic.
The thing is, if you asked ANYONE outside Australia ‘who is Gina Rinehart’ last week, you would have got a blank stare. This portrait is now how she will be known and remembered.
@mnot@pluralistic We're renaming the Streisand Effect. This might fuck up scientific literature a bit, and search engines will struggle with Rinehart Effect, but the whole academic paper structure and search engines are fucked up anyway. And LLMs will fuck it up too, because there are two famous portraits within a few days of each other.
“Namatjira’s political leaders all look frozen, dull behind the eyes, whiter than white, and as if battling an internal war with their fakery and greed.”
A quick overview/review of a book that I found fascinating: "Design Rules Volume 1: The Power of Modularity" by Carliss Baldwin and Kim Clark. It ties together a lot of themes I've ben focused on, and there's even more interesting followup work!