https://hypothes.is/stream.atomHypothesis StreamThe Web. Annotated2022-12-29T15:07:37.186606+00:00tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:h9jX0IeKEe25mX9BZm7ZSwYak Shaving2022-12-29T15:07:37.186606+00:002022-12-29T15:07:37.186606+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>I do agree with the article that you have to learn when to say no to the temptation of "endless fiddling" but it is through this fiddling that I sometimes find myself in a new place, sometimes slightly before the rest of the pack. If it weren't for this fiddling, I'd be spending my life solving boring problems for boring bosses.</blockquote>I am Frank and I am a yak shaver...
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:V5GF3GRNEe2Q0dO2-0V0LQThe Man Behind Mastodon Built It for This Moment2022-11-14T18:51:26.237852+00:002022-11-14T18:51:26.237852+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>There is no consensus, there is no single idea of what to moderate and what not to moderate. Some people are going to have different expectations of what they want to see or how strict they want to be about who talks to whom. The Fediverse provides different places where you can go and experience social media the way that you want to experience it. You can have a super safe space with very strict moderation; nobody has required you to compromise on anything whatsoever.</blockquote>I think this is the basis why I like the idea of decentralization. There is no single source of truth. You have your own values and morals. And have different expectations. You can choose your own adventure on your own terms.
It is up to the admin, the community and in the end yourself how you want to deal with different opinions.
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:_u4e_FleEe2cudeTT0kk2AWhy I left algorithm-based social media and what happened next2022-10-31T21:00:05.591542+00:002022-10-31T21:00:05.591542+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>And one day, while having a little smackerel of something, the absurdity of this just hit me.How absurd it is that we create something like the Internet. A global web of interconnected computers. And someone makes us believe that to communicate with each other we need the help of a dysfunctional, closed building that shuts people out and harms people and the environment with their business model.The internet is out here, outside those walls. And it won’t exclude anyone or throw anyone out.The internet is already a social medium.</blockquote>Jaron Lanier once gave a similar example. How weird it is that to have a conversation with a person, a third party has to be involved. Like a social network. Why not just have the conversation on your own domains? This also reaches out to the idea of webmentions and having conversations through your blog or website.
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:V8APllVnEe2C1rc_yIfl3wTed Nelson's two-way links - ReadWrite2022-10-26T19:49:45.952055+00:002022-10-26T19:49:45.952055+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>“Cheap and democratic as it was, Berners-Lee’s Web didn’t have half the features Xanadu promised to, and two-way linking was one of them</blockquote>Ted Nelson and TBL were for a long time not sharing the same vision. Also see http://hyperland.com/TBLpage
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:gZNNFlVmEe2Znk8CkKiEuwTed Nelson's two-way links - ReadWrite2022-10-26T19:43:46.594874+00:002022-10-26T19:43:46.594874+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>Nelson defines two-way links as: “anyone may publish connected comments to any page”. So it’s about connections, not just one-way via an HTML a href, but back and forth across the Web.</blockquote>This would make social network silo's obsolete...
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:tUC6qFViEe2-bZMHp-j_zwThe Internet Is Rotting2022-10-26T19:16:35.375749+00:002022-10-26T19:16:35.375749+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>“Procrastination Principle,” wherein an elegant network design would not be unduly complicated by attempts to solve every possible problem that one could imagine materializing in the future</blockquote>Een mooie term. Maak een systeem niet op voorhand overdadig complex om mogelijke toekomst-scenario's al op voorhand op te lossen.
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:XubxwlViEe2UjI8qlhwJIQThe Internet Is Rotting2022-10-26T19:14:10.555345+00:002022-10-26T19:14:10.555345+00:00frankmeeuwsen
Your use of the word in backlinks-notation makes me wonder how you use it in your personal system :-)
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:-UQEhlVhEe2E1_cXlgg0YgThe Internet Is Rotting2022-10-26T19:11:19.985801+00:002022-10-26T19:11:19.985801+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>Since Kindle books don’t live on the World Wide Web, there’s no URL pointing to a particular page or passage of them.</blockquote>There is the possibility to use the "kindle://" uri to link to specific locations in an e-book.
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:dBAU7FVeEe2mM3ugQN3oLgThe Internet Is Rotting2022-10-26T18:46:08.020867+00:002022-10-26T18:46:08.020867+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>Once the error was noted, Amazon—in something of a panic—reached into every Kindle that had downloaded the book and deleted it. The book was, fittingly enough, George Orwell’s 1984. (You don’t have 1984. In fact, you never had 1984. There is no such book as 1984.)</blockquote>Een beroemde en beruchte case dat laat zien hoe ver de macht van het platform reikt.
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:oQp0KlVdEe2tKr9GtW-xNAThe Internet Is Rotting2022-10-26T18:40:13.980979+00:002022-10-26T18:40:13.980979+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>Some information sticks around when it shouldn’t, while other information vanishes when it should remain.</blockquote>Dit is een ironisch gegeven. Sommige ogenschijnlijk tijdelijke posts blijven lang online (van memes op social media tot cyberbullying) terwijl duurzame en relevante kennis over tijd verdwijnt. Ik merkte dit zelf tijdens het schrijven van [[Bloghelden]], over de geschiedenis van blogs in Nederland. Veel blogs waren begrijpelijk verdwenen en opslag op bv The Internet Archive had veel gaten.
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:j51GglVcEe28dOPUphDMpQThe Internet Is Rotting2022-10-26T18:32:35.298476+00:002022-10-26T18:32:35.298476+00:00frankmeeuwsen
I like the term "content drift". It goes beyond link rot and shows how information on a page changes over time. I remember there was a blog in the early 2000's that had it's edits also visible for the reader and stored in git-repo's. I'm not sure whose blog it was though.
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:xmFiCFVbEe2Df1M9bBhnkgThe Internet Is Rotting2022-10-26T18:26:57.655636+00:002022-10-26T18:26:57.655636+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>The web, like the internet, is a collective hallucination, a set of independent efforts united by common technological protocols to appear as a seamless, magical whole.</blockquote>Dit ligt dicht bij het idee van David Weinberger "[Small Pieces Loosely Joined](https://www.smallpieces.com/)"
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:N_aWblVbEe20nDP9DhwT-gThe Internet Is Rotting2022-10-26T18:22:58.696990+00:002022-10-26T18:22:58.696990+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>surveillance beacons</blockquote>Een mooie beschrijving voor wat advertenties en trackingpixels eigenlijk zijn
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:4R-xNlVaEe2lDzeIDjSEZwThe Internet Is Rotting2022-10-26T18:20:32.959586+00:002022-10-26T18:20:32.959586+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>the internet had and has no main menu, no CEO, no public stock offering, no formal organization at all. There are only engineers who meet every so often to refine its suggested communications protocols that hardware and software makers, and network builders, are then free to take up as they please.</blockquote>Het internet is één groot succes voor decentralisatie. Als het internet succesvol was gestart als centraal systeem (denk aan Compuserve, AOL en ons eigen Het Net) dan zou het er veel anders uitzien. Dankzij het decentrale protocol kan het internet zijn wat het nu is.
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:DqV2ejZoEe2x5st79kQUJgModal editing, the superior way of editing2022-09-17T09:06:46.835903+00:002022-09-17T09:06:46.835903+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>How is it possible to memorized every single Vim command, how can
we, for example, delete two words? Well, we want to delete,
two, words. We have delete as a verb, word as a subject
and two as a movement. It’s so easy as positioning our cursor behind
the first word we want to delete, and in normal mode type d2w. Is
it really that easy? what does that mean? Literally delete two
words. That’s how vim commands work. How can we change a word? cw
(Change Word), delete an entire paragraph? dip (Delete Inside
Paragraph), change the content of a quoted text? ci" (Change
Inside “). We could spend the entire day listing example, but you get
the point.</blockquote>verb-movement-subject. This really hits me home. This I get. Very interesting to try and learn.
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:Id4J7DZnEe2i8WshWGf9WgModal editing, the superior way of editing2022-09-17T09:00:09.588742+00:002022-09-17T09:00:09.588742+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote> first glance, modal editing controls may appear unintuitive or just
weird. Modal editors make us of mnemonics to try to make it intuitive
for us to learn the commands. Sounds doubtful, but believe me when I
say that it’s just about undertanding the logic behind i</blockquote>True!
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:BilR3jZnEe2cSoeNQwR4IwModal editing, the superior way of editing2022-09-17T08:59:23.105704+00:002022-09-17T08:59:23.105704+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>what’s the philosophy behind modal editing? We can summarize
it in a few lines, but I’ll probably forget something.
Optimize the use of the keyboard.
Minimize the distance our hand travels from what we call the home
row. This is our keyboard’s main row, in which our hand normally
rests.
Make use of modes (this is where modal editing comes from), that
change the behaviour of the different keys in our keyboard so we can
make use of the specific functions our text editor gives us.
Understand that, either writing or programming, we actually spend
more time editing text than adding it, and for that reason the
optimization of it should be prioritized.
Reduce the amount of repetitive actions we perform. For this, modal
editors give us macros, that really facilitates this matter.</blockquote>I like this way of thinking and I understand the philosophy. Although I don't quite agree with the line "we actually spend more time editing text than adding it". As a writer, I spend a lot of my time actually creating new texts. But I like to optimize the use of keyboard and minimize hand travels.
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:kiMUUDZmEe2fpKuQfH7FywModal editing, the superior way of editing2022-09-17T08:56:08.440826+00:002022-09-17T08:56:08.440826+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>If you’re reading
this it’s because you’re interested in learning about a concept that’s
not common or you want to know what all this is about</blockquote>That's a better way to approach various notetaking philosophies than the "mine is better than yours"
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:G4vVjA5kEeyKWcPyglyw5QArtists Have Been Attempting to Secure Royalties on Their Work for More Than a Century. Blockchain Finally Offers Them a Breakthrough2021-09-05T16:12:46.230221+00:002021-09-05T16:12:46.230221+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>A smart contract is a code that executes a set of conditions required for a trade to occur; if one condition fails, then so does the trade. Thus, by adopting blockchain smart contracts to trade ownership of their work, an artist can ensure resale royalties as a condition for the transfer of title, meaning they automatically get a cut of any future sales of their work.</blockquote>This is an interesting idea with smart contracts.
tag:hypothes.is,2015-09:6sgEUg4YEeydS3sXdFbQaALoot is a viral social network that looks like nothing you’ve ever seen2021-09-05T07:14:51.904825+00:002021-09-05T07:14:32.217431+00:00frankmeeuwsen
<blockquote>What he’s not doing is raising a bunch of venture capital and doing a traditional startup</blockquote>Well... that's the good part of it...