Profiting from convincing (or, perhaps more accurately, “manipulating”) people to pay attention. Big Social Media sites like Facebook are part of the attention economy: you pay nothing to use the site. In fact, you are the product; they sell your attention to advertisers, and therefore design their product to maximize their profits by manipulating you to spend more time on the site. The attention economy is sometimes associated with: loss of free will loss of Privacy psychological harm al...| www.complete.org
This site is built for modern clients using Small Technology. It is served from static files, which are themselves small. It should make no references to any resources from other servers, which helps protect the Privacy of visitors. Each page on this site starts as an org-roam note. org-roam helps highlight, make, and maintain links between related concepts, and you will no doubt notice many, many links here. Since org-roam is a layer atop org-mode, the pages are, of course, in org-mode format.| www.complete.org
Here is information on papers, documentation, and publications written by John Goerzen. Books - As Author I’ve written several books: Real World Haskell The most comprehensive book in existence on using Haskell, an advanced purely functional programming language, to quickly solve everyday problems. As usual with books I’m involved with, it’s loaded with source code and examples. More info: My Real World Haskell page Homepage: http://www.realworldhaskell.org/ Publisher: O’Reilly Pages:...| www.complete.org
The loose, decentralized confederation of non-profit Social Media sites such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, and PeerTube. They all use ActivityPub for federation. Links to this note Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now This started out at a post on my blog. This edited version is intended to be kept more up-to-date. How to Join the Fediverse and Cast off the Attention Economy This started as a post on my blog.| www.complete.org
This started as a post on my blog. This edited version is intended to be kept more up-to-date. In How the Attention Economy Hurts You Via Social Media Sites Like Facebook, I wrote about how the Attention Economy in use at big Social Media networks hurts you. In this post, I’m going to suggest what to do about it. Mastodon and the Fediverse When you use Email, you can send a message from an account at Google to one at Yahoo, Microsoft, or any of millions of businesses and organizations runni...| www.complete.org
The world’s most popular Free Software operating system, the foundation of Debian, and foundation of much of today’s Internet. Links to this note Android A mobile phone operating system based on the Linux kernel. ZFS One of the more advanced modern filesystems with tons of features; originated on Solaris but now runs on Linux, FreeBSD, and others. ZFS on Linux This is about running ZFS on Linux and Debian. Software and Operating Systems Linux| www.complete.org