I don’t have a great reason for not having a Facebook account, for deleting mine, as I did, a couple of months ago. But I’m okay with that. I’m not particularly interested in convincing other people to follow my lead, at least not right now. But I do think Facebook is rather bad. Here’s someContinue reading “After Facebook”
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Love in the age of decentralised personal computing
How will the distributed network revolution impact online dating? Services like OKCupid, Tinder and Match.com operate on centralised, client-server models. Daters sign up to a service and give it some personal information: photos, biography text, age, sex, location, and preferences. The service stores the info, and gives the user an interface for checking out profilesContinue reading “Love in the age of decentralised personal computing”
Using nginx to give your Urbit page a nice URL
Here’s the newest component of my little media empire, a chat room: chat.operatingspace.net (dead link removed) It runs on Urbit, which is a fascinating, complex project which I’ll sum up here as: a decentralised, programmable social network. This blog post is a tutorial for something I just learned how to do: set up nginx toContinue reading “Using nginx to give your Urbit page a nice URL”
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