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#nature #naturephotography #naturephoto #forest #forestphoto #forestphotography #woods #tree #autumn #autumnvibes #autumncolours #fall #fallcolours #fallenleaves #trail #trailadventures #outside #outdoors #outdoor #presence #branches #photo #photography #photooftheday #picoftheday #colourful #solid #strong
Tim Berners-Lee ( @timbl) explains why he gave away the #WWW for free.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free
"For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free. That’s why, in 1993, I convinced my #CERN managers to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone."
But he adds:
"Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments…Trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web."
**For the benefit of those who are less techy or may not know about the ways we can deal with personal identity data.**
Personal digital ID - a hot topic in the UK atm.
Many people and companies are working on systems to provide secure ways to hold our personal identity info. Some include wider profiles like our job, interests, hobbies etc. Some are OPEN SOURCE and part of a diverse ecosystem of data interoperability (you can use the same data POD (personal online data). Bluesky is active this landscape with their 'ATProto' personal data approach, and the Fediverse with the more versatile 'ActivityPub' user profile. There is also the WWW3 standards Solid project, and other Open Social Protocols (listed on the Solid project wikipedia page linked below).
Of course, just like IT sysadmins who provided website CMS at universities a decade ago, the UK govt thinks it needs walled garden private enterprise to partner with. They will spend probably ten times the money going down that route (just like universities did). This is old fashioned and not what other large national/territorial entities will be doing.
From the Solid wiki page"
>"Solid's central focus is to enable the discovery and sharing of information in a way that preserves privacy. A user stores personal data in "pods" (personal online data stores) hosted wherever the user desires. Applications that are authenticated by Solid are allowed to request data if the user has given the application permission. A user may distribute personal information among several pods; for example, different pods might contain personal profile data, contact information, financial information, health, travel plans, or other information. The user could then join an authenticated social-networking application by giving it permission to access the appropriate information in a specific pod. The user retains complete ownership and control of data in the user's pods: what data each pod contains, where each pod is stored, and which applications have permission to use the data."
These open source systems are robust and based on the idea that only you can own and control your data. Though the data may be held centrally on (for example civic servers or other server companies who provide a Slid POD) it cannot be accessed by them. Im researching into this a lot more in coming days :)
Links to read carefully if youre interested in what I'm talking about.
CAVEAT: Im not a tech expert at this so go easy if you'd like to correct any info here :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_project)
https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/how-to-set-up-solid-pods-a-data-ownership-guide/
https://solidproject.org/get_a_pod
https://www.projectliberty.io/dsnp/
#digitalid #openid #solid #atproto #activitypub #dsnp #academia #academicchatter
**For the benefit of those who are less techy or may not know about the ways we can deal with personal identity data.**
Personal digital ID - a hot topic in the UK atm.
Many people and companies are working on systems to provide secure ways to hold our personal identity info. Some include wider profiles like our job, interests, hobbies etc. Some are OPEN SOURCE and part of a diverse ecosystem of data interoperability (you can use the same data POD (personal online data). Bluesky is active this landscape with their 'ATProto' personal data approach, and the Fediverse with the more versatile 'ActivityPub' user profile. There is also the WWW3 standards Solid project, and other Open Social Protocols (listed on the Solid project wikipedia page linked below).
Of course, just like IT sysadmins who provided website CMS at universities a decade ago, the UK govt thinks it needs walled garden private enterprise to partner with. They will spend probably ten times the money going down that route (just like universities did). This is old fashioned and not what other large national/territorial entities will be doing.
From the Solid wiki page"
>"Solid's central focus is to enable the discovery and sharing of information in a way that preserves privacy. A user stores personal data in "pods" (personal online data stores) hosted wherever the user desires. Applications that are authenticated by Solid are allowed to request data if the user has given the application permission. A user may distribute personal information among several pods; for example, different pods might contain personal profile data, contact information, financial information, health, travel plans, or other information. The user could then join an authenticated social-networking application by giving it permission to access the appropriate information in a specific pod. The user retains complete ownership and control of data in the user's pods: what data each pod contains, where each pod is stored, and which applications have permission to use the data."
These open source systems are robust and based on the idea that only you can own and control your data. Though the data may be held centrally on (for example civic servers or other server companies who provide a Slid POD) it cannot be accessed by them. Im researching into this a lot more in coming days :)
Links to read carefully if youre interested in what I'm talking about.
CAVEAT: Im not a tech expert at this so go easy if you'd like to correct any info here :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_project)
https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/how-to-set-up-solid-pods-a-data-ownership-guide/
https://solidproject.org/get_a_pod
https://www.projectliberty.io/dsnp/
#digitalid #openid #solid #atproto #activitypub #dsnp #academia #academicchatter
Tim Berners-Lee ( @timbl) explains why he gave away the #WWW for free.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free
"For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also ask that they pay for each search or upload they made. In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free. That’s why, in 1993, I convinced my #CERN managers to donate the intellectual property of the world wide web, putting it into the public domain. We gave the web away to everyone."
But he adds:
"Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users’ private data to share with commercial brokers or even repressive governments…Trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web."
With PodOS you can now access your #Solid data while offline. Opt-in by visiting the Settings page (Button in the footer)
This Joy of Coding notion led me to expand the concept to be #JoyfulCreation.
After all coding is social and countless people are involved in getting results that fulfills our collective needs.
This is what the future #SocialWeb will bring. #CommonsParticipation 💪
Joyful creation is where fediverse allows us to ✨ social code the social code together.
With PodOS you can now access your #Solid data while offline. Opt-in by visiting the Settings page (Button in the footer)
By the way, if you’re looking into decentralized tech where people are actually in control of their own data (as in who can use it, when and how), checkout #Solid https://solidproject.org There are a lot of interesting insights, especially for storing sensitive data. #OpenSocialWeb #ActivityPub #Fediverse
Key learnings from building social apps with ActivityPods. #ActivityPub
https://activitypods.org/key-learnings-from-building-social-apps
Great to see a PeerTube video embedded in this ActivityPods page;
https://activitypods.org/key-learnings-from-building-social-apps
Standard practice is to embed a YouTub video, but that's another DataFarm dependency we clearly have the tools to replace.
I happily announce, that #PodOS will get funding from @nlnet https://nlnet.nl/project/PodOS/
This gives me the great opportunity to add new features to the data browser, provide new elements for you to build custom low-code apps and dashboards and interwine PodOS with specialized apps and the rest of the #Solid ecosystem.
