Two years ago … today … where does the time go!
Cloudflare and Apple Partner to Improve Internet Privacy
”The new protocol — ODoH (Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS) — makes it harder for third parties to track DNS queries by separating IP address from queries.”
Five HUNDRED AND Forty Nine DOLLARS
now THAT is a lot of spondoolicks!
I have been asked a number of times as to what - exactly - is People First. Last week my occasional co host turned the tables on me and asked me the same question.
And I answered him!
looking for a PROPER home for a new email account …
Proton has a deal at the moment
Any thoughts? Alternatives? Experiences?
I think it’s fair to say that Just Good Music For Micro Blog whilst not a bad idea - has now run it’s course. Time to pull it down and move on.
// @joejenett - what say you?
After last week’s newsletter, received a nice email that contained the following quote. Seemed appropriate.
“If you don’t think you can & believe you are not good enough, you are absolutely correct!”
Tom Conway (via Randall Rospond)
To really understand this is well beyond my pay-grade
Bottom line … Apple are tracking us all - in a very sneaky way …
”It sucks that they’ve let the NSA, CIA, your ISP, et al slurp up this unencrypted pattern-of-life data off the wire for the last 2+ years, and they’re still going to transmit the data (encrypted) to Apple in realtime, on by default every single mac, but at least the 0.01% of mac users who know about it now can turn it off, so Apple will only get a realtime log of what apps you open, when, and where for the other 99.99% of mac users.”
Anybody shed light in a simple way?
Purdue Pharma pleads guilty to criminal charges related to US opioid crisis.
Remember them?
Doesn’t it feel like another lifetime?
Very early days … BUT … if you are interested in joining the People First Network …. we are here :
https://my.peoplefirst.network/share/hSmPm7enh-CQp6gt
No Facebook, no Twitter, no algorithms …. just people.
🎬 🎵 Is there any movie that features Miami that doesn’t open with a camera out at sea - rushing toward the shore line across the water at speed?
Leisure centre Oasis took their name from closes down
Now if only the band would as well, the world would improve at a stroke.
Business Bifurcation
Another Gaping Void nails it. Full piece here, though they don’t use the phrase 'business bifurcation'.
For a long time, it has been clear that business is bifurcating. The two models are either;
- the 'pile-em-high-and-sell-em-cheap' model to borrow from Tesco's Jack Cohen's business strategy
- the 'totally-high-end-special-and-niche' model - think $20 dollar pints of beer, $300 bottles of wine, handcrafted artisan wafers ...
Gaping Void's piece brings you right up to date with stories form Saville Row - a set of businesses you might expect to fail in thelight of (say) Brookes Brothers collapse. But no - business bifurcation.
To be fair - those high-end examples aren't the only way to be in that niche space. Business that scale and deliver low price, do so at the cost of service, value, the personal touch, sometimes quality ...
If you are a small business - don’t wonder how to compete with Amazon ... work out how to differentiate from Amazon. What worked 20, 30 years ago - still works. It's just that the 'what' is different.
And the first 'what' is 'what business are you in'. It might not be what you think. The business you are in is your 'core'. Everything else is context. (To borrow from my 'old' friend Geoffrey Moore.)
Where is the ‘webp’ format suddenly coming from - and if it is THAT standard - why don’t all apps recognize it?
Don't Fear The Future Of Work
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the source of this piece on The Future of Work. I don’t disagree with the headline, but the article itself falls short of providing solace. In fact it falls short of being an article - but that's another story.
An altogether disappointing piece that ends ...
“I really come away from this concerned about the direction [of work], but optimistic about our ability to change it."
David Autor, Co-chair, MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future and MIT Professor of Economics
On what grounds? Their was nothing of substance in the piece. Just opinion.