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Dr Robert N. Winter

Dr Robert N. Winter

Technology

InFY24 Strategic Outlook Management Technology

Leading AI-First Organisations

By employing leaders capable of creating an AI framework — because they are awake and aware to the unintended effects of AI on social well-being, data integrity and privacy, diversity, and governance — organisations seeking to transform into being AI-first are well positioned to engage in trustworthy and responsible AI use.

5 August 2023
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InPrivacy

Thunderous Ambivalence

Because being off the grid is next to impossible in many societies, it is tempting to give up and proclaim 'I have nothing to hide'.

22 April 2023
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InBusiness Privacy

Acting for Privacy – An Australian Story

There is the case to be made that this is not only the cost of doing business in the digital age but that, like environmental protections, there are great rewards to be reaped in improved quality of life.

25 March 2023
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InTechnology

Tempus Fugit

As Apple's privacy respecting posture gives way to the pull of marketing dollars through making user data the product, their third way begins to fall short.

18 March 2023
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InPhilosophy Social Comment Technology

Our Mind is a Blurry Image of Life

The hope is much, for having gotten this far is to be forewarned and thus forearmed. In that we do well to employ scepticism when listening to a human interlocutor. Because even the best of us are filling in the blanks in our memory.

18 February 2023
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InAcademia Technology

Ghost Writers — Rise of the Machines

Ultimately, I do not think the problem is that we are building machines so ‘smart’ that their output is indistinguishable from human compositions. The problem is that we are educating humans whose output is so illiterate, and devoid of experience, it is indistinguishable from computer generated text.

4 February 2023
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InHistory Publishing Social Comment Technology

Autodeleting the Public Record

Rage if you will and burn screen time if you like — I simply accept if I want my thoughts to be personal and private then I ought not post them online.

9 December 2022
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InTechnology

Twenty Years of Firefox

Little did I know how consistently Firefox would be my window to the World Wide Web, nor how its security, and in time privacy focus, would shape my understanding of what it means to be online.

23 September 2022
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InLeadership Social Comment Technology

Jotting – Anatomy of a Search Engine

I wonder if there is an alternative reading in which they did not make a conscious decision to be 'evil'?

4 June 2022
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InPublishing Technology

Hugo: Or, There and Back Again

Time again at a premium, I mused on my latest quest for minimalism. In doing so I realised that I was creating as many problems as I was solving.

21 February 2022
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InPublishing Technology

How I Write — Long Form Research

From time to time, I contemplate how I publish. Mostly because I like 'the elegance of a refined workflow'.

5 February 2022
Read Time12 mins

InPhilosophy Technology

Moxie and the Server

To determine if the statement is 'true', we don't need to poll everyone — only to understand the category of the statement.

17 January 2022
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InPrivacy Technology

The Linux Paradigm

In science, a paradigm is a model or pattern — a typical instance or exemplar. But in rhetoric, my chosen field, it is an example or guide as to how one should behave.

27 December 2021
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InPhilosophy Technology

Fourth Way – Living in Harmony with our Online Presence

Instead of these three paths, the Fourth Way seeks to provide an alternative in which a student can seek to find a sense of mastery while still living their everyday life.

27 September 2021
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InPublishing Social Comment Technology

Life is Long, Access is Short

If not accidentally lost, your data can vanish in other ways: the community project shutters, a company goes under, or the subset of services you use are axed.

2 August 2021
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InPublishing Social Comment Technology

A Peer’s Tube

Winter Ink PeerTube will allow for the documenting and preservation of videos to which I can link in my ongoing speculations about life and art. Links, and the content they reference, which are permanent and will always work. A necessity to promote the adoption of individually-owned and controlled sovereign spaces which enable an open and healthy web.

19 July 2021
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InHistory Technology

Intellectual Warehouse

While access to information is now relatively more widespread than in the past, the modern paywall can often prove to be as much of a hurdle to access as the price of manuscripts was in yesteryear.

4 June 2021
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InPolitics Technology

Bitcoin’s Dirty Little Secrets – Political

In praxis, the result for Bitcoin is that the ideological claims for a decentralised, government free, anonymous currency has given way to the ‘worse-is-better’ ideology of why most people seem to be dumping cash into crypto: to get rich and live the capitalist high life.

13 April 2021
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InTechnology

Tool Time

Consider that a UI should assume the user doesn’t have a high level of software experience, nor is willing to learn how to use the command line to undertake some level of personalisation.

10 April 2021
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InPublishing Technology

How I Publish – Back to the Future

A few months back I gave a short sketch of how I publish online. But today is back to the future as I return to WordPress.

12 August 2020
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InArt Privacy

Art as Background

Turner was something of a privacy advocate. In the 1841 census he rowed a boat into the Thames so he could not be counted as being present at any property

2 August 2020
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InTechnology

Nibbled By System

I am a simple man who fears being nibbled by system. I like things I can see and touch. In…

23 July 2020
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InTechnology

Easy To Use

I learn today that Jules-Albert de Dion took the chequed flag in the world’s first motor race, the Paris–Rouen in…

22 July 2020
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InTechnology

To CDN Or Not To CDN

As the great bard made a Prince of Denmark once say: To be, or not to be, that is the…

19 July 2020
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InTechnology

Site With Less Byte

This has started me on my own quest for a lighter footprint in my publishing platform. To that end, there is much tinkering to do.

17 July 2020
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InTechnology

To Federate, But How?

It also raises questions about cross posting to other platforms, such as Medium, which are the natural hunting ground of avid readers.

8 July 2020
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InTechnology

Losing Readers?

While I am not a popularity junkie, it is more gratifying to know one is writing for a large than a small audience as I write to try and assist others.

7 July 2020
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InPublishing Technology

How I Publish — Version 3.0

Avid readers, and those who accidentally stumbled in searching for something else, will have seen deliberations on whether or not to switch platforms.

1 July 2020
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InTechnology

Labours of Love

As the saying goes, 'God is in the detail' and only by finessing the little things does the overall project take on a majestic form.

22 June 2020
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InTechnology

Point Of No Return

Ever a man to love a bit of tinkering, the blogging process has also proved to be as much a technical as a mental exercise.

21 June 2020
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InTechnology

Confessions of a Platform Junkie

Having perused and discarded a number of options (Medium, Tumblr, Squarespace and Jekyll), I am now caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

20 June 2020
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InTechnology

Updating My Plank

As a man who loves his technology, one thing I enjoy reading about is how others use theirs. There is…

5 June 2020
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InPrivacy Technology

Take Notes, No One Is Watching

End to End Privacy requires providing users with encryption everywhere they don't control. This is a promise a platform needs to uphold.

3 June 2020
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InBusiness Politics Privacy Technology

Distributism

To replace a People's Republic network with a Democratic Club network isn't necessarily an improvement because it only prefences one centralised solution over another.

29 May 2020
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InPrivacy

The New Commons

As our forebears strove for the aspiration to vote, the mortgaging of our data for access to services requires us to strive for the aspiration to privacy.

28 May 2020
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InHistory Privacy

Airbrushing Memory

With digital services often serving as our memory, to remove content from personal drives is to airbrush our memory.

23 May 2020
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InPublishing Technology

Please keep scrolling

Perhaps this is the heart of my distaste for much social media: it is designed to halt my thinking and focus my attention, not impell me to think on.

22 May 2020
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InPrivacy

Code is Speech?

A point to remember when next your private moments are leveraged to improve a marketing algorithm. The unintended consequence of code is speech.

19 May 2020
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InPrivacy

Language Defect: Privacy

The issue is not can they keep my data safe from an unauthorised third party, but can they keep my data safe from their algorithms.

18 May 2020
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InTechnology

Centralising the Decentralised

The only prevention is to discourage the banning of alternative views and instead engagement in rational discourse.

17 May 2020
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InPrivacy Publishing Technology

How I Publish — Version 2.0

My quest for a publishing platform which was both elegant, unencumbered by endless plug-ins and left me alone with my text, brought me to write.as.

14 May 2020
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InTechnology

The Pied Piper of Zoom

In a sense, our online privacy is much like a child, vulnerable to the world and easily spirited away by a platform which offers ease of connection.

8 May 2020
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