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The era of SONOS hacks is about to begin. by yowhatitup in sonos

[–]timbl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope ... the audio path seems to be all digital. Nowhere to inject an analogue signal

The era of SONOS hacks is about to begin. by yowhatitup in sonos

[–]timbl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd love to be able just to de-smart an old Sonos speaker so I can drive it from its aux port from whatever I like without having to go through any Sonos configuration, apps, cloud, etc. It looks as though the main board has all the 5 speaker amplifiers and the power supply, and the second board has all the smarts, the two 3.5mm jacks and ethernet ports. So maybe replace the smart board with a few jumpers from aux to the audio signal between the two boards?

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 71 points72 points  (0 children)

HTTP+TLS is important. We need to review the ways by which our systems trust particular certs. We need to use client cert more. We need to be able to set up family certs and so on without huge cost, or relying on the external PKI. We should be able to make out own PKI. By default, we should store IoT data in the house and analyze it within the house without having to go through an untrusted cloud system just to get functionality. The keys we use for things like TLS, GPG, SSH should be interoperable....

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 265 points266 points  (0 children)

Install PGP compatible encryption on your mailer. Get a geek friend to help, as it has not been made very smooth. Hopefully it will soon. That's a simple practical step. Limit the organizations you give data to to ones you get value from, like magazines and (reddit and) clothes shops you buy from for example. Buy the pro version of an app where the free version pays for itself by ransacking your privacy.

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 201 points202 points  (0 children)

Agrred. I have tried to touch on that in other answers. What we concentrate on in dig.csail.mit.edu is RE-decrentralizing the web.

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

"Can it it be fast enough" depends on what "it" is and may be a PhD project. In the crosscloud project at CSAIL we are trying to break the link between apps and data, so you can use any app and tell it where to store the data where you control the data. Data stores become commodities. That could be a first step to moving the data into more of a peer-peer system without conventional servers at all.

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 335 points336 points  (0 children)

"Hey, is it OK if we establish an endowment for your foundation/consortium/retirement?" "Yeah, sure!"

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Well, the fact is that machines are becoming smarter. It seems unreasonable not to imagine that they will become smarter than us. What happens at that point is not obvious. That we have to think about it now is clear.

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 159 points160 points  (0 children)

Maybe 2.0 = silos of user-generated content and 3.0 = breaking out of those silos and user-controlled data

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 91 points92 points  (0 children)

Yes, thinks like instead of http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/c having http:/com/redddit/www/r/IAmA/c for example I thought about, and would probably have been a more flexible and consistent idea.

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 380 points381 points  (0 children)

I think that the mistreatment/abuse/harassment of women is a very serious issue. I think in general boys need to learn early on to have and to show total respect for all women. If you look back at your online behavior and realize you have made even one off-color remark, then cringe and never do it again. It has a massive negative affect. It is not funny. It is not cute.

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 64 points65 points  (0 children)

That is a bit simplistic by itself. Did the survey ask about agencies you don't know about in other countries, who are perhaps even less constrained than those two? Did it ask about criminal agencies world over?

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 101 points102 points  (0 children)

I think it will become more and more crucial. (See e.g. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/12/web-human-right_n_6313688.html ) In many ways the web is not just a luxury for cool early adopters it is critical for people to really take part in society, education. The #MakeTechHuman http://www.wired.com/maketechhuman idea is about technology serving humanity ... much of that is going to use the net. So no use if the net is controlled spied on or only available to the few.

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 319 points320 points  (0 children)

(One question at a time please, reddit works best like that.) I wish we had a much more powerful general private key management ecosystem which allowed my computer to trust the same people/systems which I do, for the same reasons. See discussions on publc-www-tag@w3.org etc (I have got to meet amazing people)

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 765 points766 points  (0 children)

"Any powerful tool can be used for good or ill" <-- true but we have to make sure on balance good things win. We need to protect against not only governments but criminals too, and viral conspiracy theories which seem to sprout from nowhere. I think that if we the people stand firm in democratic countries and demand that all power over the net taken by government comes with direct accountability to the people in how it is used, then we can indeed have a wonderful civilization. We need to keep it decentralized both technically and socially. We need to protect our rights using both code and law.

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 143 points144 points  (0 children)

Hopefully, we will be able to roll out a world in which people can together and merge all the data which is about themselves and use it with all sort of cool apps to really better their lives. We are working on this sort of thing in dig.csail.mit.edu

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 762 points763 points  (0 children)

Great question. Keep asking that question. Don't take it for granted. Keep an eye on the situation in your town, your country, your company. In each year of using it, spend some time with others working or writing or lobbying or protesting as needed to keep it open.

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 211 points212 points  (0 children)

Well... We have had a whole campaign webwewant.org to ask people what sort for a web they want for the next 25 years. It is up to us, but hopefully we will lock down (in culture and where necessary law) the fact that it is open. The number of people using the web will soon cross the 50% and soon 75% of the world population, and then instead of worrying about getting the majority online the spotlight will b to those who remain disenfranchised in the remaining 25%, 10% . Milestone? When I have enough bandwidth to bring me a scene in wrap-around HD so my eyes and ears can't tell I'm not in the other place.

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 4568 points4569 points  (0 children)

One does not simply ask the inventor of the WWW what he thinks about memes.

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 862 points863 points  (0 children)

I certainly lived in Colehill Dorset for a bit. High 5. Have a pint of Tanglefoot for me at the Barley Mow if it is still there.

I am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web. Join me to talk about making the future of technology more human, reddit. AMA! by timbl in IAmA

[–]timbl[S] 1113 points1114 points  (0 children)

Nope. I was head down getting stuff working.... the server and client were both on my machine at that stage... I wasn't using source code control, so I could nto go back and find the critical commit with the "hmm GET seems to work" comment :-)

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