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dannyobrien

5,179 karma · joined October 7, 2010

International Director then Director of Strategy @ EFF, Committee to Protect Journalists, now Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. Coined "life hacks" (sorry), wrote http://www.ntk.net/ , co-founded https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ .

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/malaclyps; my proof: https://keybase.io/malaclyps/sigs/Te_kJq5oVspmHK7CS9NSFnEgjpWrTgofYGP1M_BCgik ]

Email: danny@spesh.com Web: https://danny.spesh.com/

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Grev – Thinking Coreutils

github.com·3 pts·dannyobrien·
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How Deep Is Tulainyo Lake?

caseyhandmer.wordpress.com·2 pts·dannyobrien·
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Protocols for People: AI, the Internet and the IETF

digitalmedusa.org·2 pts·dannyobrien·
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Agntcy – Open Infrastructure for the Internet of Agents

docs.agntcy.org·2 pts·dannyobrien·
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How I play video games with spinal muscular atrophy

openassistivetech.org·175 pts·dannyobrien·
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Verifiable partial data for peer-to-peer systems

bab-hash.org·2 pts·dannyobrien·
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Atomically Precise Mechanosynthesis of Carbon Structures on Hydrogenated Si(100)

somewhereville.com·4 pts·dannyobrien·
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Cindy Cohn on Privacy Battles Old and New

lwn.net·2 pts·dannyobrien·
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AI Psychosis, AI Apotheosis

oblomovka.com·18 pts·dannyobrien·
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Micron Is Exiting Its "Crucial" Consumer Business

servethehome.com·4 pts·dannyobrien·
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The Geek Code (1993)

github.com·1 pts·dannyobrien·
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Keyhive – Local-first access control

inkandswitch.com·167 pts·dannyobrien·
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Executive Director Cindy Cohn Will Step Down After 25 Years with EFF

eff.org·5 pts·dannyobrien·
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A Choice of Giants

kriskowal.com·2 pts·dannyobrien·
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Meta Talks World-Lock Rendering for AR/Mr at Hot Chips 2025

servethehome.com·3 pts·dannyobrien·
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Ed25519 Support in Chrome

ipfsfoundation.org·3 pts·dannyobrien·
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How Does a Blind Model See the Earth

lesswrong.com·2 pts·dannyobrien·
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HTML-in-Canvas

github.com·222 pts·dannyobrien·
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Creative Commons Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI

creativecommons.org·4 pts·dannyobrien·
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Corbent: Next‑Generation Direct Air Capture

lesswrong.com·2 pts·dannyobrien·
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LLMs and Humans Unite, You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Chores

oblomovka.com·1 pts·dannyobrien·
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Saving pages as standard archival web archives (WARC)

webrecorder.net·3 pts·dannyobrien·
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A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music Sharing (2008)

eff.org·3 pts·dannyobrien·
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Tips for Building and Deploying Robots

rodneybrooks.com·122 pts·dannyobrien·
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Pavel Durov and the Blackberry Ratchet

oblomovka.com·82 pts·dannyobrien·
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Mike Mageek is dead

fudzilla.com·344 pts·dannyobrien·
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Disenshittify or Die

pluralistic.net·14 pts·dannyobrien·
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Best Practices for Working with Large Language Models

thenewstack.io·2 pts·dannyobrien·
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Big Nerd Ranch is dead for good

mastodon.online·3 pts·dannyobrien·
1

Reflections from Local-First Conf

norman.life·1 pts·dannyobrien·
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