<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>A philosophically interesting piece I came across along the same line is the thinking behind Kynetex's CloudOS - <a href="http://cloudos.me/">http://cloudos.me/</a> (the video on the front page). It's a little cringeworthy in parts but it does go towards the idea of having more control over your own data by rebalancing the model from server-client to peer-to-peer.</div><div><br></div><div>Linked without commendation or condemnation :p</div><div><br></div><div>-- d</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 27/10/2013, at 11:35 PM, Gregory Orange <<a href="mailto:home@oranges.id.au">home@oranges.id.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Steve,<br><br>On 26 October 2013 23:44, Steve Boak <<a href="mailto:sboak@westnet.com.au">sboak@westnet.com.au</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I read a lot of technical and environmental material on the 'net, and I<br>appreciate being able to pick and choose what I go and look at. I can't<br>think of a much worse scenario than only being 'fed' links (and advertising)<br>with similar opinions and points of view to what I have recently been<br>reading. I like to see both sides of the fence and look to the radical<br>horizon, not be spoon fed what some web robot 'thinks' I want to see. The<br>feeds I get are guaranteed to be even less relevant if that robot is owned<br>by a global advertising conglomerate and is biased towards sending me to<br></blockquote><br>Do you use DuckDuckGo?<br><a href="http://donttrack.us/">http://donttrack.us/</a><br>http://dontbubble.us/<br><br>-- <br>Gregory Orange<br>_______________________________________________<br>PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<br>http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug<br>Committee e-mail: committee@plug.org.au<br>PLUG Membership: http://www.plug.org.au/membership<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>