Why isn't SSL just a checkbox in the prefs for the an S3 bucket? Amazon already knows who I am. They know more about me than the IRS. 💵#
If Google were honest they'd explain they're trying to create a Facebook-like experience in the web, and label sites as being inside or outside their domain. If they don't want to make a web browser, use some of their wealth to subsidize one. A thinking-big company would do that.#
Happy to report that I'm starting to get more reasonable and thoughtful responses to my Google and HTTP faq. I have toned it down, remembering that some people came to the belief that HTTP is bad for the web honestly, and therefore may respond to more simply-stated objections. And this has led me to a distillation of the moral case against what Google is doing. #
I've been around the tech industry almost as long as anyone. I've yet to see a tech company grow past the "break things and never look back" stage. What comes next, imho, is understanding that the people they serve are not who they think they are. I highlighted the word serve in that sentence. It's an unfamiliar concept to the tech industry, but they should learn it. It's more humble, more achievable than the godlike status they feel they deserve, an adolescent way of thinking. #
What Google is planning on doing to the web is unnecessarily damaging to the work of millions of people. Google could step back and look at their objectives, and let's see if we can compromise, so they can get what they really want and the web can remain what it always has been, an open space for experimentation, free thought, and the development of world-changing ideas. It's where Google itself came from. #
Let's see if they gained any maturity and sense of perspective of their place in the world in the 20 years since their founding. When you achieve adulthood all of a sudden you can see the context in which you exist. Blowing things up is the way children approach the world. Adults try to work things out, we hope. 💥#
Braintrust: Can you format a Mac without logging in? #