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Per Axbom
There was a time when every café, clothing store and friend did not ask you to follow them on Instagram.
@DavidBlue Wow, thank you. Will add this to my next newsletter.
@carl Grattis Carl! 👏
Just signed up for a course in freelance journalism. Took me 30 years but I finally remembered this is what I really want to do 😅
Feels very exciting.
Got my copy of Introvert Doodles today! It's divine. Making it a coffee table book so guests can understand me better.
@wednesday Thank you so much Wednesday! Proofreading is really helpful 🙏
@lbaclin Cloudron felt more stable and self-updating :) I'm still a rookie.
But I will likely try Yunohost on my planned home server.
@humanetech Thanks :) LinkedIn is a mess 😅
Finally felt it was good enough to publish:
Digital Ethics and Moral Theory Explained
A brief guide to moral theory and how digital ethics fits within the branch of applied ethics.
New blog post: Digital Ethics and Moral Theory Explained
It's not always obvious how the idea of ethics should merge with the very broad concept of digital. Especially since the word ethics brings to mind a whole field of academia rooted in ideas brought forth by greek philosophers. This is my contribution to framing digital ethics in a way that makes it more useful for everyday work with digital products and services.
Three branches of ethics
Let's start off with the different branches of ethics that are central to conversation, and generally stud
https://axbom.com/digital-ethics-explained/
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@ambivalena Wow vad häftigt. Tack för tipset!
@wednesday I really like this way of framing it.
Have spent many hours today writing on a blog post about applied ethics. Not quite done yet. Now reflecting on what makes me put in all those hours. All that effort.
I've been blogging for almost 25 years. Nobody asking me to do it. Nobody paying me to do it. Truly not asking for thanks. I am a privileged individual. Just reflecting on this fascinating passion and drive that still keeps me going. I'm the one who is thankful.
@abbe98 Very fair point. I'm not read up on how the whole data collection works in this case, but I'm also wondering how much is automated by FB advertising tools and how much is proactively shared.
All-in-all I think companies are extremely naive in their use of third-party tools. And data that may be collected under fair-use to process an order is inadvertently then also shared with subprocessors for profile building.
Nice bit of reporting from Swedish Radio. They built an online fake pharmacy and activated Facebook advertising tools. Thousands of simulated visits to the pharmacy were made each day, and the reporters could see all the sensitive, personal information being stored by Facebook.
Facebook sent no warnings to the pharmacy, despite saying they have tools in place to prevent this from happening.
A few weeks ago they revealed how this was happening with real pharmacies.
@opassande Glad midsommar!
Nytt inlägg på bloggen: Tillgänglig inloggning med QR-kod
Kontakter med myndigheter, banker och företag kräver allt oftare inloggning med QR-kod. Antingen i kombination med BankID eller Freja eID. Det finns många övergripande problem med QR-koder, men jag vill här adressera hur de visas på ett sätt som gör det oerhört svårt för människor med olika grader av synnedsättning att nå viktiga tjänster.
I filmen visar jag problemen och en potentiell lösning. Den som bryr sig om tillgänglighet kan alltså börja förbättra inloggning med QR-kod redan idag. Digit
https://axbom.se/tillganglig-inloggning-med-qr-kod/
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New blog post: How captchas break democracy
A terrible captcha solution making it difficult to vote for many EU citizens.
https://axbom.com/how-captchas-break-democracy/
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After @maloki shared the ongoing European Citizens' Initiative support form for UBI, I couldn't get over the disastrous use of a captcha on an official EU website. And one used for voting/support no less.
Do share the blog post to help more people understand the importance of ending this practice in web development.
How captchas break democracy
https://axbom.com/how-captchas-break-democracy/