Scott Mallinson

Software development engineer

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  • We Need to Have an Honest Talk About Our Data (WIRED) VR pioneer Jaron Lanier talks with WIRED about why the original architecture of the internet forced us into a kind of information trickery, and how we can fix it—to everyone’s benefit.

  • China is making the internet less free, and US tech companies are helping by Shannon Liao (The Verge) While doing business in China, US tech companies must play by local rules — or face getting kicked out.

  • The Chinese Farmer Who Live-Streamed Her Life and Made a Fortune (The New Yorker) Liu Mama, a loud-mouthed, ruddy-cheeked Northern farmer with millions of online followers, is one of many Chinese streamers participating in a virtual gold rush.

  • The EU’s Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News (Electronic Frontier Foundation) All this month, the European Union’s “trilogue” is meeting behind closed doors to hammer out the final wording of the new Copyright Directive, a once-noncontroversial regulation that became a hotly contested matter when, at the last minute, a set of…

  • How China complicates Apple’s chest-thumping about privacy by https://www.facebook.com/contentnewton (The Verge) A former Facebook executive points out that Apple likely has to make compromises, too

  • China systematically hijacks internet traffic: researchers (iTnews) Exploited omission in US-China cyber detente agreement.

  • UK data watchdog fines Facebook maximum legal amount for Cambridge Analytica scandal by James Vincent (The Verge) The fine is just £500,000, but regulators say it should have been ‘significantly higher’

  • Server to Client by Ali Alabbas (alistapart.com) Before anything can happen in a browser, it must first know where to go. There are multiple ways to get somewhere: entering a URL in the address bar, clicking (or tapping) on a link on a page or in another app, or clicking on a favorite. No matter…

  • http://scottmallinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/44580389_504602653355225_534340483416876841_n-2.jpg Can I? Should I? Will I? A fellow @beijinghikers assessing one of the many peaks in the Baicheng Landform.

  • http://scottmallinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/43816407_128895578083109_1207915326575704037_n-1.jpg Thank you @mathiasheng for awarding me first prize 🏆 for this photo from our recent trip to Xinjiang. A special thanks to @beijinghikers for organising the incredible and eye-opening trip.