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1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 15:25:02 UTC Bob Mottram

   • Chris
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
   @csaurus @lnxw48a1
   
   

   "standardized cyberguts"
   
   

   • Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 15:38:16 UTC Bob Mottram

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     • Chris
     • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     @csaurus @lnxw48a1 so this article makes the similar mistakes to others, although the author does understand decentralization. He assumes that internet standards always fail, and yet we have TCP, DNS, HTTP, XML, TLS. The list could go on for a while.
     
     On usernames, that people havn't been making the same complaints about email for the previous N decades is perhaps illustrative of some tech journos fishing for any reason to dislike something not centralized. That the author believes that there is "no adult in the room" presumably means he assumes himself to be incapable of taking adult decisions or of deciding what is legit from what is hype/fakery.