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Benjamin Mako Hill
Personal blog · mako.ccculturepolitics
Benjamin Mako Hill's personal blog at mako.cc covers culture and politics. Since 2009, 94 different Hacker News readers have linked it 145 times, most often “Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his copyrighteous essays on Google reading most people's email and on free software needing free tools, plus his Wikipedia research paper.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- One commenter calls one linked post a good counterargument; another calls a different linked post good reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)25 people · 35 mentions · first linked 2015-09-12
- Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2014-05-12
- Free Software Needs Free Tools (2010)7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2010-09-07
- Free Software Needs Free Tools (2010)6 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2016-01-02
- Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports (2012)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-12-08
- Identifying “Underproduced” Software3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-30
- How markets coopted commons-based peer production (2018) [video]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-31
- /fun/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-25
- Is English Wikipedia’s ‘rise and decline’ typical?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-24
- The Financial Times has had an error on its “Market Data” page for 18 months2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-02
What Hacker News says?
https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/trust-your-technolust Just need to get the right color for your paper stock!
Comment linking /copyrighteous/trust-your-technolust
on “Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS"”Submitted Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014) as a story · 453 points
HN discussion> Debian's patches to cdrecord introduced so many bugs that they eventually ended up driving the original author away from open source. That's not how I remember it. I remember distros (Debian and others) patching cdrecord, which resulted in the upstream author getting furious and re-licensing cdrecord under a non-free license to stop them. Of course the software was then forked, and the author indeed ragequit free…
Comment linking /copyrighteous/award
on “How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home”Submitted Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports as a story · 344 points
HN discussionYes, these secondary network effects are maddening. See also: https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be... I've updated the post to reflect this problem.
Comment linking /copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours
on “Trackers”Submitted Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014) as a story · 252 points
HN discussionI didn't see https://kolabnow.com/ mentioned anywhere. It's more than email, it's a groupware based on FOSS with a pretty good track record ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolab_Now#Kolab ). Hosted in Switzerland with 2FA and strict privacy guidelines https://kolabnow.com/privacy - No end-to-end encryption, though, but as everybody knows https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be...
Comment linking /copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours
on “Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?”Submitted Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours as a story · 229 points
HN discussionyou can decide not to buy corporate products That's a fallacy by both choice and externality. There are cases in which there is no choice but to use specific corporate products, or in which choices are made without an individual's consent or involvement. Karen Sandler, co-host (with former FSF directory Bradley Kuhn) of the "Free as in Freedom" podcast has an implanted, closed-source proprietary medical device. She…
Comment linking /copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours
on “Edward Snowden: Permanent Record”Submitted Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014) as a story · 118 points
HN discussionFurther down in the comments you'll find a research paper [1] that analyzed why Wikipedia succeeded where others failed. I am not sure I bought into the conclusion (which prompted my initial comment), but at least it has a comprehensive listing of all the main players at the time: Interpedia, TDEP, Everything2, h2g2, TheInfo, Nupedia, GNE [1] https://mako.cc/academic/hill-almost_wikipedia-DRAFT.pdf
Comment linking /academic/hill-almost_wikipedia-DRAFT.pdf
on “Wikipedia is 20”Submitted The Costs of Requiring Accounts as a story · 106 points
HN discussionWikipedia was originally intended to be a smaller sandbox area for Nupedia, the expert-authored encyclopedia from Bomis (Jimmy Wales's company). Of course, Wikipedia turned out to be much more successful. But there were other collaborative Internet encyclopedia projects that didn't do so well. Benjamin Mako Hill has a paper exploring what made Wikipedia succeed while the rest failed: https://mako.cc/academic/hill-al…
Comment linking /academic/hill-almost_wikipedia-DRAFT.pdf
on “Wikipedia is 20”Submitted Free Software Needs Free Tools (2010) as a story · 86 points
HN discussionhttps://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be...
Comment linking /copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours
on “Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail”Submitted Free Software Needs Free Tools (2010) as a story · 85 points
HN discussionhttps://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be...
Comment linking /copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours
on “Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use?”Submitted The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy and Wikipedia as a story · 84 points
HN discussionFor those interested in commemorating in person, there are events planned in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, NYC, and SF https://info.thoughtworks.com/celebrate-aaron-2016 and Seattle https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/celebrate-aaron-swartz-2016
Comment linking /copyrighteous/celebrate-aaron-swartz-2016
on “Aaron Swartz died three years ago today”Submitted Between the Bars: Snail-mail blogging for prison inmates as a story · 63 points
HN discussionAn obscure joke on this topic that's always tickled me though perhaps not objectively funny: https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/property-2
Comment linking /copyrighteous/property-2
on “The last patent on AC-3 (Dolby Digital) expires at midnight”Submitted When Free Software isn't better as a story · 61 points
HN discussionBest of luck staying off of Google properties. It gets more challenging by the day. http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-bec... Don't like YouTube's copyright claim issues on video game playthroughs? Use Twitch. Oh wait, what's that? Google is trying to buy Twitch. http://kotaku.com/report-youtube-is-buying-twitch-for-1-bill... Oooops.
Comment linking /copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours
on “Google is Breaking the Internet”Submitted The Financial Times has had an error on its “Market Data” page for 18 months as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSatire, ya'll: http://mako.cc/fun/
Comment linking /fun/
on “Unhappy Birthday”Submitted Taking a Principled Position on Software Freedom as a story · 20 points
HN discussionIt is satire: http://mako.cc/fun/
Comment linking /fun/
on “Unhappy Birthday”Submitted Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (2014) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionIt pretty much did happen: https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be... https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/sep/15/email/
Comment linking /copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours
on “Ray Tomlinson, Inventor of Email, Has Died”Submitted How markets coopted commons-based peer production (2018) [video] as a story · 11 points
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