And please regulate, regulate, regulate this industry, while you can.
Maciej Cegłowski
Nicola D’Agostino linked to me to the text version of Maciej Ceglowski talk given on May 10, 2017, at the re:publica conference in Berlin.
Worth every second the time you’ll need to read this … especially if, like me, you live in Europe, and then share it everywhere you can!
I’m currently having a problem with the subscribed newsletter. I have a back-log of more than 2600 unread items in my mailbox 😦
I created, some time ago, an ad-hoc email account to collect these emails … and the temptation to mark everything as read is great. At the time, though, I carefully selected the newsletters I wanted to be subscribed to, and before I delete something I want to take the time to read something and figure out if the topic (or the author) still has something actually interesting to tell me or if it is better to end our ‘relationship’ here.
Our technological development has outpaced our ability to regulate it for quite some time. So don’t expect technology to save the day. If we are to put hope into technology as the knight in shining armour, we all ought to demand and work towards better rules and regulation that puts humanity’s interests above those of corporations.
Gabor Szorad (on Dense Discovery, issue 249)
I recently came across this ‘little’ free macOS utility that takes care of scanning the contents of our Mac’s Applications folder and notifying us for which, of the installed applications, an update is available. Whether the app came from Apple’s App Store or was installed manually after a single download on the manufacturer’s site.
In these days of use (I’ve adopted it on three Macs now) it has never failed a beat and very often notifies me of updates well before the related badge appears as far as the App Store is concerned.
Latest, is the name of the application that is the subject of my report, and it is an open source project freely available for download here: LATEST (software update checker).
A venture-capital funded startup is a temporary company that has to convince enough people into using their platform so that they can make good on the exit they promised their investors at the very beginning. It is the opposite of a long-term, sustainable business.
Aral Balkan
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