Science & Technology - Dr Robert N. Winter (Page 2)

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.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 23 Sep 2022

The Subjective Nature of 'Nothing to Hide'

Whether you have something to hide has far more to do with who is looking than what they can see.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 30 Jul 2022

The Subjective Nature of 'Nothing to Hide'

Marginalia: Anatomy of a Search Engine

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 4 Jun 2022

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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.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 21 Feb 2022

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'.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 5 Feb 2022

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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.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 17 Jan 2022

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.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 27 Dec 2021

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.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 27 Sep 2021

The image depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were a solid hemisphere, to look at the mysterious Empyrean beyond.

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 s

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 19 Jul 2021

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.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 5 Jun 2021

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The New Cathedral Door

Does it truly safeguard that which is dangerous and true while restricting that which is dangerous and false, and does it arrive at this determination through a process of deliberation; or, does it merely replace one arbitrary determination for another about that which is dangerous.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 23 May 2021

The Infant Hercules and the Standard Oil serpents

Marginalia: WHO

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 16 May 2021

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