The latest monthly roundup episode: We go deep on what “sovereign computing” looks like when you try it for real, from spinning up a Fedimint federation to self-hosting services that keep working even when platforms or politics turn against you. We then connect local AI, persistent knowledge bases, and geopolitics to one question: do we own our tools or do we rent our future? @OKIN@vryfokkenou@Ricki Allardice
This is a humble request for banking executives (the C-Suite types), to try and use their own services as a normal client would have to use them.
Just give your support number a call and see what you have to deal with. I have just completed a security check, after two days of trying to reach the right department, only to be told I have failed the security questions. I have never heard of most the accounts, companies, credit cards, etc they asked me about, but I failed the test.
I guess some database was bought, probably on the cheap, with BS data and that is viewed as more reliable than me on phone, logged into both my online banking site, and mobile phone app, while on the phone with the banking consultant, answering their questions.
This is not a dig at any one bank. I have accounts with all the colours - take your pick.
Please don't tell me it's for my own protection. It's for YOUR protection.
If your security systems worked, then the much-touted increase in fraudulent transactions and activity would not be possible, and you would not have to keep tightening the screws.
Imagine telling a stranger your most personal message so they can walk it across the room to your partner—then watching them copy it into a company database. That’s how most digital communication works today. We unpack why privacy is not secrecy, why “I have nothing to hide” is a trap, and how to build a tech life that works in your interest rather than mining it.
This could be the end of the Nation State as we know it. Breaking down of huge territories under one government, into smaller states competing for your money
The year of the Linux Laptop 2 months in and my laptop still makes me smile every time it boots up. Super fast boot up, software that just works, did I mention most of it is free?
Pro tip for politicians: If you want to demonstrate your effectiveness, there is simply no better way than to just cut the grass. It's the easiest, cheapest and least technically complicated of any of the municipal services we pay for. If you can't do this, how are you to be trusted or believed when you talk about anything else more difficult and complicated?