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I actually sat in a management meeting not so long ago, where we all agreed that efficiency and productivity was higher than before (according to our metrics) – and still, one of the people present said that they missed being able to just pop up, look over direct reports' shoulders, etc.

The rest of us confronted them with the fact that all of us – they too – had celebrated our progress moments earlier, and agreed employees delivered better than ever, but we were still unable to totally persuade them.

I find that infuriating, and kind of frightening.

Not only have managers all over the world done things like stuff people into open floor plans (despite the fact that it was never backed by science, and its selling points are now actually refuted by science), and thought that there is something "special" about physical co-location (ignoring the possibilities of video-conferencing for fifty years);

They are now actively going against better knowledge because of their own need for the feeling of control (which they'll never achieve, of course – slackers will slack anywhere), and will continue to use butts in chairs as a metric.

Quick prototyping with Python and wx would be my typical use-case.

A user-token – if consistent and mappable – would, for instance, be "personal data" at least for the service provider for a storage solution such as this.

Also, like other "self-sovereign identity" and data hubs, services such as this should be very clear that the only privacy-guarantee it can practically make to its users is regarding authorization of first-party access to data. Outside of that, no technical guarantees can be made (whether we're talking caching for legitimate reasons, or sharing/selling data to partners).

Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level.

Started because of frequent multitasking of heavy work with limited resources. Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources.

I'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...

Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level.

Started because of frequent multitasking of heavy work with limited resources. Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources.

I'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...

Or where books are stricken from reading lists or curriculums for fear they make kids question authority [1] – where or Harry Potter's inclusion in school libraries is challenged for their focus on magic (often based on claims that the novels contain occult or Satanic subtexts) [2].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_and_evolution_in_publ...

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/10/cory-doctorow-...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20071230201312/http://www.ala.or...

I'd rather not teach people to trust AUTHENTIC VIDEO™ (that can't guarantee authenticity), but to learn to deal with the fact that there's Photoshop for video now.

    This is why we have the American College of Pediatricians and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

I'd rather not teach people to trust AUTHENTIC VIDEO™ (that can't guarantee authenticity), but to learn to deal with the fact that there's Photoshop for video now.

    However, bias can show up in what’s not reported just as easily and in that case their is nothing to detect.

But that doesn't mean that you should blindly trust some discriminator system (which we know can't make any technical guarantees, and comes with additional risks) instead of learning to reason about these things.

Why not learn to how to deal with the fact that we can't trust any information at face value, rather than keep making cognitive shortcuts based on assumptions?

And laws have retroactive impact via e.g. police and courts. Education would have a preventive impact.

It requires teaching people the tools to evaluate arguments, statements and media.

I don't claim anything wrt objective truth (though I tend to think there is one, but whether we're able to directly observe it and/or agree on it is another matter) – I'm claiming we have tools (knowledge, cognitive ability) to weed out obviously incoherent, illogical, biased, untrustworthy or otherwise bad thought.

We've had some of the tools needed to distinguish good from bad thinking for millennia, so I find it kind of weird there hasn't been more focus on this in basic education earlier.

Digital signature and timestamped fingerprinting will also have errors, and they don't solve the social side of this issue. It still leads us to a faulty thought-process; We cannot inherently trust content on the basis of its medium.

We can't inherently trust content on the basis of its medium.

    We should measure harm and then fine the businesses that spread the harm.

Societies should teach people to recognize and deal with mis- and disinformation, rather than provide them faulty assumptions upon which to base their trust.

We stop treating video as if its some perfect representation of reality that's inherently trustworthy, and learn from confronting similar issues with other media earlier in history.

Focus on media literacy, critical thinking and digital literacy.

The fact that you can't imagine – and I don't provide – any alternative proposition does not make implicitly trusting video a good proposition.

But, yeah, I suspect reality will probably disappoint us both...

It infuriates me to no end that (bad) leaders would rather go by their own feeling of control, rather than look at the numbers.

We'll need to deal with video the same way we do with images, audio, and eye witness accounts. The way to do that is to establish a measure of trust in some quantifiable or methodological way, rather than just trusting the medium.

Let's not just establish a new proxy for implicit trust here.

We've had to confront similar issues with other media earlier in history, after all.

I kinda suspected this, as I'd been doing certain work from home earlier – but I was always surprised to hear leadership exclaim their fears about WFH, and their suspicions of both efficiency and productivity.

The worst part is, though, that many are vying for a swift return to a traditional colocated work-place – even though they agree that the current situation works fine (pandemic, and its specifics aside). I've even heard some say it's different to actually be able to pop up and peek over their employees shoulders, to see "what they're actually doing", even in cases things are going better than planned already...

But there isn't any technological solution to the arms-race of offense and defense.

We need strong regulation, and effective enforcement as well.