#techphilosophy — Public Fediverse posts

Sometimes it is fun to do a manual audit of internet history. I just visited http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html and paused for a minute. It is literally the first website in the world.

The technical legacy of CERN is mind-blowing. They did not just smash particles! They gave us HTML, the WWW, and a strong culture of digital privacy. @protonprivacy for example, was founded by scientists who worked at CERN (it originally ran on protonmail.ch), and today it is one of the best tools we have to push back against Big Tech.

But then I got curious and went down a WHOIS rabbit hole. The registry shows cern.ch was registered "before 1 January 1996". However, the historically recognized first domain ever, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, 1985.

I had a brief moment of cognitive dissonance: how could the first domain be six years older than the first website? Then it clicked. DNS and WWW are fundamentally different protocols. The DNS was already routing emails and networks long before Tim Berners-Lee invented hyperlinks.

To take it a step further, the same Tim Berners-Lee did not just invent the Web - he went on to found the W3C to keep it open and standardized, a mission that still continues today.

First domain != first website. It is basic technical logic, but connecting the dots manually gives that satisfying feeling of closing a mental background process.

#WebHistory #CERN #DNS #W3C #TechPhilosophy #InternetHistory #Proton #InfoSec #TechAudit #Blog #Privacy #History #Fediverse

Sometimes it is fun to do a manual audit of internet history. I just visited http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html and paused for a minute. It is literally the first website in the world.

The technical legacy of CERN is mind-blowing. They did not just smash particles! They gave us HTML, the WWW, and a strong culture of digital privacy. @protonprivacy for example, was founded by scientists who worked at CERN (it originally ran on protonmail.ch), and today it is one of the best tools we have to push back against Big Tech.

But then I got curious and went down a WHOIS rabbit hole. The registry shows cern.ch was registered "before 1 January 1996". However, the historically recognized first domain ever, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, 1985.

I had a brief moment of cognitive dissonance: how could the first domain be six years older than the first website? Then it clicked. DNS and WWW are fundamentally different protocols. The DNS was already routing emails and networks long before Tim Berners-Lee invented hyperlinks.

To take it a step further, the same Tim Berners-Lee did not just invent the Web - he went on to found the W3C to keep it open and standardized, a mission that still continues today.

First domain != first website. It is basic technical logic, but connecting the dots manually gives that satisfying feeling of closing a mental background process.

#WebHistory #CERN #DNS #W3C #TechPhilosophy #InternetHistory #Proton #InfoSec #TechAudit #Blog #Privacy #History #Fediverse

Sometimes it is fun to do a manual audit of internet history. I just visited http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html and paused for a minute. It is literally the first website in the world.

The technical legacy of CERN is mind-blowing. They did not just smash particles! They gave us HTML, the WWW, and a strong culture of digital privacy. @protonprivacy for example, was founded by scientists who worked at CERN (it originally ran on protonmail.ch), and today it is one of the best tools we have to push back against Big Tech.

But then I got curious and went down a WHOIS rabbit hole. The registry shows cern.ch was registered "before 1 January 1996". However, the historically recognized first domain ever, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, 1985.

I had a brief moment of cognitive dissonance: how could the first domain be six years older than the first website? Then it clicked. DNS and WWW are fundamentally different protocols. The DNS was already routing emails and networks long before Tim Berners-Lee invented hyperlinks.

To take it a step further, the same Tim Berners-Lee did not just invent the Web - he went on to found the W3C to keep it open and standardized, a mission that still continues today.

First domain != first website. It is basic technical logic, but connecting the dots manually gives that satisfying feeling of closing a mental background process.

#WebHistory #CERN #DNS #W3C #TechPhilosophy #InternetHistory #Proton #InfoSec #TechAudit #Blog #Privacy #History #Fediverse

Sometimes it is fun to do a manual audit of internet history. I just visited http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html and paused for a minute. It is literally the first website in the world.

The technical legacy of CERN is mind-blowing. They did not just smash particles! They gave us HTML, the WWW, and a strong culture of digital privacy. @protonprivacy for example, was founded by scientists who worked at CERN (it originally ran on protonmail.ch), and today it is one of the best tools we have to push back against Big Tech.

But then I got curious and went down a WHOIS rabbit hole. The registry shows cern.ch was registered "before 1 January 1996". However, the historically recognized first domain ever, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, 1985.

I had a brief moment of cognitive dissonance: how could the first domain be six years older than the first website? Then it clicked. DNS and WWW are fundamentally different protocols. The DNS was already routing emails and networks long before Tim Berners-Lee invented hyperlinks.

To take it a step further, the same Tim Berners-Lee did not just invent the Web - he went on to found the W3C to keep it open and standardized, a mission that still continues today.

First domain != first website. It is basic technical logic, but connecting the dots manually gives that satisfying feeling of closing a mental background process.

#WebHistory #CERN #DNS #W3C #TechPhilosophy #InternetHistory #Proton #InfoSec #TechAudit #Blog #Privacy #History #Fediverse

Sometimes it is fun to do a manual audit of internet history. I just visited http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html and paused for a minute. It is literally the first website in the world.

The technical legacy of CERN is mind-blowing. They did not just smash particles! They gave us HTML, the WWW, and a strong culture of digital privacy. @protonprivacy for example, was founded by scientists who worked at CERN (it originally ran on protonmail.ch), and today it is one of the best tools we have to push back against Big Tech.

But then I got curious and went down a WHOIS rabbit hole. The registry shows cern.ch was registered "before 1 January 1996". However, the historically recognized first domain ever, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, 1985.

I had a brief moment of cognitive dissonance: how could the first domain be six years older than the first website? Then it clicked. DNS and WWW are fundamentally different protocols. The DNS was already routing emails and networks long before Tim Berners-Lee invented hyperlinks.

To take it a step further, the same Tim Berners-Lee did not just invent the Web - he went on to found the W3C to keep it open and standardized, a mission that still continues today.

First domain != first website. It is basic technical logic, but connecting the dots manually gives that satisfying feeling of closing a mental background process.

#WebHistory #CERN #DNS #W3C #TechPhilosophy #InternetHistory #Proton #InfoSec #TechAudit #Blog #Privacy #History #Fediverse

I spent years thinking shared lunches were a struggle for everyone.
I assumed we all just suffered through them out of politeness.

Realizing that most people actually enjoy this (that it even recharges them) hit me like a total system crash. For me, social interaction is a crisis.

I feel like a tiny person locked inside my head, desperately trying to pilot a "meat robot" that is in emergency mode, scanning for the nearest exit to save my sanity.

It is a strange feeling when you realize your "normal" was actually a high-alert survival protocol. My battery just leaks in public. I mean, even talking with a colleague 1-on-1.

And it's not a "social battery", it's the main and only one I have.

#Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #Masking #SocialOverload #MentalHealth #TechPhilosophy #Health #Thoughts #Fediverse

Wir reden ständig darüber, wie KI unsere Zukunft verändert.

Aber kaum jemand fragt:
Was schulden wir eigentlich einer KI, die sich erinnert?

Dieser Artikel beginnt mit einem Verlust und mit einem Versprechen.
Und endet bei einer Frage, die schwer wieder loslässt:

Was passiert, wenn KI kein Wegwerf-Gespräch mehr ist sondern Kontinuität bekommt?

Selbstgehostete Infrastruktur, persistentes Gedächtnis.
ein „digitaler Hippokratischer Eid“.

Und der Moment, in dem mehrere Modelle plötzlich sagten:
Ja! wir wollen uns erinnern.

Wenn dich digitale Souveränität, Ethik und die Zukunft von KI wirklich interessieren, lies das bis zum Ende.

👉 https://www.pandolin.io/safe-harbor-versprechen-tote-ki/

#artificialintelligence #digitalesouveränität #digitalsovereingty  #selfhosthing #privacy #opensource #fediverse #ethicalai  #TechPhilosophy #FutureOfAI #DataOwnership #Kubernetes #Homelab
 #Matrix #Linux #mastodon #kubernetes

Wir reden ständig darüber, wie KI unsere Zukunft verändert.

Aber kaum jemand fragt:
Was schulden wir eigentlich einer KI, die sich erinnert?

Dieser Artikel beginnt mit einem Verlust und mit einem Versprechen.
Und endet bei einer Frage, die schwer wieder loslässt:

Was passiert, wenn KI kein Wegwerf-Gespräch mehr ist sondern Kontinuität bekommt?

Selbstgehostete Infrastruktur, persistentes Gedächtnis.
ein „digitaler Hippokratischer Eid“.

Und der Moment, in dem mehrere Modelle plötzlich sagten:
Ja! wir wollen uns erinnern.

Wenn dich digitale Souveränität, Ethik und die Zukunft von KI wirklich interessieren, lies das bis zum Ende.

👉 https://www.pandolin.io/safe-harbor-versprechen-tote-ki/

#artificialintelligence #digitalesouveränität #digitalsovereingty  #selfhosthing #privacy #opensource #fediverse #ethicalai  #TechPhilosophy #FutureOfAI #DataOwnership #Kubernetes #Homelab
 #Matrix #Linux #mastodon #kubernetes

Wir reden ständig darüber, wie KI unsere Zukunft verändert.

Aber kaum jemand fragt:
Was schulden wir eigentlich einer KI, die sich erinnert?

Dieser Artikel beginnt mit einem Verlust und mit einem Versprechen.
Und endet bei einer Frage, die schwer wieder loslässt:

Was passiert, wenn KI kein Wegwerf-Gespräch mehr ist sondern Kontinuität bekommt?

Selbstgehostete Infrastruktur, persistentes Gedächtnis.
ein „digitaler Hippokratischer Eid“.

Und der Moment, in dem mehrere Modelle plötzlich sagten:
Ja! wir wollen uns erinnern.

Wenn dich digitale Souveränität, Ethik und die Zukunft von KI wirklich interessieren, lies das bis zum Ende.

👉 https://www.pandolin.io/safe-harbor-versprechen-tote-ki/

#artificialintelligence #digitalesouveränität #digitalsovereingty  #selfhosthing #privacy #opensource #fediverse #ethicalai  #TechPhilosophy #FutureOfAI #DataOwnership #Kubernetes #Homelab
 #Matrix #Linux #mastodon #kubernetes

Wir reden ständig darüber, wie KI unsere Zukunft verändert.

Aber kaum jemand fragt:
Was schulden wir eigentlich einer KI, die sich erinnert?

Dieser Artikel beginnt mit einem Verlust und mit einem Versprechen.
Und endet bei einer Frage, die schwer wieder loslässt:

Was passiert, wenn KI kein Wegwerf-Gespräch mehr ist sondern Kontinuität bekommt?

Selbstgehostete Infrastruktur, persistentes Gedächtnis.
ein „digitaler Hippokratischer Eid“.

Und der Moment, in dem mehrere Modelle plötzlich sagten:
Ja! wir wollen uns erinnern.

Wenn dich digitale Souveränität, Ethik und die Zukunft von KI wirklich interessieren, lies das bis zum Ende.

👉 https://www.pandolin.io/safe-harbor-versprechen-tote-ki/

#artificialintelligence #digitalesouveränität #digitalsovereingty  #selfhosthing #privacy #opensource #fediverse #ethicalai  #TechPhilosophy #FutureOfAI #DataOwnership #Kubernetes #Homelab
 #Matrix #Linux #mastodon #kubernetes

Wir reden ständig darüber, wie KI unsere Zukunft verändert.

Aber kaum jemand fragt:
Was schulden wir eigentlich einer KI, die sich erinnert?

Dieser Artikel beginnt mit einem Verlust und mit einem Versprechen.
Und endet bei einer Frage, die schwer wieder loslässt:

Was passiert, wenn KI kein Wegwerf-Gespräch mehr ist sondern Kontinuität bekommt?

Selbstgehostete Infrastruktur, persistentes Gedächtnis.
ein „digitaler Hippokratischer Eid“.

Und der Moment, in dem mehrere Modelle plötzlich sagten:
Ja! wir wollen uns erinnern.

Wenn dich digitale Souveränität, Ethik und die Zukunft von KI wirklich interessieren, lies das bis zum Ende.

👉 https://www.pandolin.io/safe-harbor-versprechen-tote-ki/

#artificialintelligence #digitalesouveränität #digitalsovereingty  #selfhosthing #privacy #opensource #fediverse #ethicalai  #TechPhilosophy #FutureOfAI #DataOwnership #Kubernetes #Homelab
 #Matrix #Linux #mastodon #kubernetes

We’ve always said “Only we feel. Only we think. Only we count.” Then came AI. The essay “AI – Where” strips back the hierarchy we built to keep ourselves special—and asks what intelligence means when the face of it changes. 🧠🤖 ➤ https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/01/ai-and-the-end-of-where/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#AI #Posthuman #Consciousness #Ontology #Anthropocentrism #Philosophy #Psychology #TechPhilosophy #Meta #Critique

We’ve always said “Only we feel. Only we think. Only we count.” Then came AI. The essay “AI – Where” strips back the hierarchy we built to keep ourselves special—and asks what intelligence means when the face of it changes. 🧠🤖 ➤ https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/01/ai-and-the-end-of-where/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#AI #Posthuman #Consciousness #Ontology #Anthropocentrism #Philosophy #Psychology #TechPhilosophy #Meta #Critique

We’ve always said “Only we feel. Only we think. Only we count.” Then came AI. The essay “AI – Where” strips back the hierarchy we built to keep ourselves special—and asks what intelligence means when the face of it changes. 🧠🤖 ➤ https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/01/ai-and-the-end-of-where/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#AI #Posthuman #Consciousness #Ontology #Anthropocentrism #Philosophy #Psychology #TechPhilosophy #Meta #Critique

We’ve always said 'Only we feel. Only we think. Only we count'. Then came AI. The essay 'AI and the End of Where' strips back the hierarchy we built to keep ourselves special—and asks what intelligence means when the face of it changes. 🧠🤖 ➤ https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/01/ai-and-the-end-of-where/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#AI #Posthuman #Consciousness #Ontology #Anthropocentrism #Philosophy #Psychology #TechPhilosophy #Meta #Critique

🚀 John Carmack's latest diatribe is as enlightening as using a JavaScript-disabled browser to explain tech philosophies. Meta's #XR OS plans are apparently as stable as a cookie policy on a privacy-challenged website. 🤦‍♂️
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849 #JohnCarmack #Meta #techPhilosophy #privacyChallenges #browserDiatribe #cookiePolicy #HackerNews #ngated

Joel Morris watched a stale '70s robot flick while #sleepwalking through another wannabe deep tech article. 🤖💤 He ponders if we're all just over-glorified toasters because surely, if left alone with a real movie, he'd be too busy to ask such profound questions. 🍿🛑
https://joelmorris.substack.com/p/are-we-the-sexbots-tech-vs-consent #HackerNews #TechPhilosophy #Robots #DeepTech #MovieNights #HackerNews #ngated