@glyph @kjaymiller I discussed that ellipsis with my attorney when I first incorporated in 2016. It can be mitigated, carefully.
I was offering Tahoe-LAFS, which has the curious property that file-storage providers (my business) don't necessarily have the ability to read data uploaded by users (my customers). We discussed how this works, including the related example of Signal successfully convincing the USA that it cannot read its customers' text messages.
However, we still had to set up a basic conceptual pipeline for law-enforcement requests, even though I never received one. We assumed that a court *could* order me to destroy encrypted file data once they had identified it through other means, and also that DMCA requests could possibly be lawful but might be worth fighting depending on how poorly-filled-out they were.
I also had to publish terms of service. It's not enough to comply with the law; I also had to put customers on notice.
Phew, someone has built a product with native GUI etc around managed Tahoe-LAFS. I didn't expect to see anything from that direction anymore.
#tahoelafs #tahoe-lafs
@publicvoit Well, I haven’t read all of it!
I think Agenda was relevant to the dissertation because (a) it organized items primarily with tags (called “categories”, with initial tagging of each new item applied using text matching rules and implication rules) and (b) it was the program the term “PIM” was invented to describe.
I agree about the drawbacks of the cloud. As the wise man said, there is no cloud; there are only other people’s computers. #TahoeLAFS is a solution to the resulting loss of autonomy, but it’s not widely adopted.
I don’t think Flickr and del.icio.us were “totally different from PIM in almost [every] aspect”. Most people used them for managing their own photos and bookmarks, in precisely the way TagTrees was designed to be used; they didn’t allow you to apply or even suggest tags to other people’s photos or bookmarks. (On del you could bookmark someone else’s page, of course, with your own tags.)