Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology
Oh boy. Where do I begin?<p><i>Rather than safeguarding the fact that you are or were job searching, we threatened exposure. Current employers might retaliate if they saw that you were job searching. You did not expect that any personal information you’d given us, in the context of a private, secure job search, would be used publicly without your explicit consent. I sincerely apologize. It was my failure.</i><p>How about we stop giving our data to third parties just so we can use their software.<p>&quot;The Cloud&quot; is a corporate euphemism for &quot;extreme centralization of data in our servers&quot;.<p>And &quot;Software as a Service&quot; is even worse, because it basically says you are RENTING the software, and trusting them to do &quot;the right thing&quot;, including and especially with your data.<p>This is insane. It&#x27;s 2020. Why are we doing this? One reason: we don&#x27;t have a good open source alternative that can be hosted on many different places. Such an alternative should actually be end-to-end encrypted, and the hosting should be just redundant dumb boxes earning cryptocurrency for storing something.<p><i>So, what happened? How did I screw this up? I’ve been asking myself this question a bunch over the past 48 hours.</i><p>What happened was the same thing that happened 17 years ago when Mark Z laughed about the &quot;dumb f$cks* who &quot;trusted him&quot; with their passwords. To quote the excellent V for Vendetta speech:<p><i>How did this happen? Who&#x27;s to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you&#x27;re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn&#x27;t be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.</i><p>Look, I&#x27;m biased. I have put my money where my mouth is and am building this reality (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qbix.com&#x2F;platform" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qbix.com&#x2F;platform</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intercoin.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intercoin.org</a>). I have historically been downvoted for even mentioning that I am doing tangible things to solve this and give away the software. But I persist in doing so because it&#x27;s better to actually <i>build the alternative</i> than talk about it endlessly. The Impossible Burger will do more for veganism than decades of talk ever could.<p>If you want to join this effort, email greg at the domain qbix.com . But whether you choose to support Mastodon, Matrix, IPFS, Dat, MaidSAFE or whatever, realize that we need to move towards a future where infrastructure is decoupled from power over your data. Your data should be encrypted and only enough shared for indexing. It should be provable with verified claims and zero-knowledge proofs, but only with your consent.