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by lsanger 4y 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: inf
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by lsanger 5y 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.
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Geeks: Give the Gift of Computer Security(larrysanger.org)
1 points by lsanger 6y ago|1 comments
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by lsanger 6y ago
Grandma is never going to install a password manager. That's your job, geek. Besides, it's a great, unique, valuable Christmas present!
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Tell HN: Social media strike proposed for July 4-5 by Wikipedia co-founder
310 points by lsanger 7y ago|141 comments
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How to Decentralize Social Media(thenextweb.com)
1 points by lsanger 8y ago|0 comments
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by lsanger 8y ago
Oy, you really did not understand why I moved, even though I explained it quite clearly.
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by lsanger 8y ago
> Well it doesn't help that Linux desktop is backed by one of the most condescending cultures that ever stalked the internet. Ouch.
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by lsanger 8y 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 C
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by lsanger 8y ago
Good point. My support person was my 12-year-old son. ;-)
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by lsanger 8y ago
Did I suggest that people follow my precise route? I'm not sure I did. I was just reporting how I did it.
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by lsanger 8y 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...
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by lsanger 8y 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 36 5 (I see my mistake now!
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by lsanger 8y ago
I didn't even know that was running. I'm going to remove it.
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by lsanger 8y ago
Author of the article here. I just noticed that it had been posted on Hacker News. Thanks to se7entime!
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by lsanger 12y ago
Ever since I heard of this site, I've thought that (annotating the web, or parts of the web) is a great idea for a website, and they're executing it pretty well. It's not what we're doing, but it's still cool and my
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by lsanger 12y ago
In the wonderful event that Infobitt becomes a superior product and accordingly gains market share to the detriment of news sources, then we will of course know where our bread is buttered. Infobitt will suck without good sources; so probab
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by lsanger 12y ago
This is a good idea. We need to code the "like" feature as the first step to implementing this.
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by lsanger 12y ago
It's certainly something we can consider now that we've soft-launched. We've thought about it in the past, and now I guess it is a good idea to consider it again!
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by lsanger 12y ago
Battling organized partisanship is a problem for down the road. My hope is that, by the time we deal with that, we'll have the funding and the personnel to code up a system that enables us to test out some technical solutions to this p
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by lsanger 12y ago
The fact that bitt and fact order, as well as which fact is displayed to the reader, is (or will soon be) subject to vote will provide a moderating influence, I hope. The reason Wikipedia articles are often biased is that people in authorit
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by lsanger 12y ago
I actually agree. This is one area in which Wikipedia shines. But when it comes to breaking news, or tracking the actual order of events as they were reported, not so much.
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by lsanger 12y ago
As I have said several times before, Wikipedia doesn't follow Surowiecki's rules for "wisdom of crowds" effects. The Infobitt model has an advantage over wikis that will enable a wisdom of crowds effect. People contribut
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by lsanger 12y ago
Yes, may the best model win!
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by lsanger 12y ago
Yes, agreed. There are some issues (mostly having to do with scalability) we have to sort out before we launch to public view without login.
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by lsanger 12y ago
I have of course wondered what it would be like to do Infobitt with a wiki, and I considered setting a wiki up for that purpose. The bottom line is that wikis lack the potential reasons for using the Infobitt format in the first place--maki
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by lsanger 12y ago
No, it's not. I use Google News when trying to figure out how to organize and summarize the news. Google News isn't very good at ranking news, and it doesn't even try to summarize the facts in the news.
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by lsanger 12y ago
The news on the front page looks a little weird because a bunch of new people from Hacker News just arrived and ranked the news very quickly and sloppily. So it's OK. In a few days when things have settled down (??), you'll see it
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by lsanger 12y ago
I'd prefer to say that it started with a bang (it really did) but slowed way down due to the unsupportable weight of trying to compete with the 800-pound-gorilla, Wikipedia. :-)
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by lsanger 12y ago
"Wikipedia for news" might be a brief statement of the purpose of Wikinews, but it isn't an attempt to solve the problem I'm concerned to solve. Wikipedia made encyclopedias better by making a giant encyclopedia. Wikinew

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