Connection speeds are faster than ever, and website speeds are... not.

"If you add another advertisement to your pages, you generate more revenue. If you track your users better, now you can deliver tailored ads and your conversion rates are higher. If you restrict users from leaving your walled garden ecosystem, now you get all the juice from whatever attention they have.

The question is: At which point do we reach the breaking point?

And I think the answer is: We are very close."

“If anything you post online can be used against you forever, even if you pose no immediate threat to anyone, then the dragnet that people feared would happen under Trump is already happening,” she told The Intercept. “When ICE agents are speculating on your relationship status, what kind of power dynamic does that create?”

Things at Purism are not looking good.

Finally, Stack Overflow is realizing that the unwelcome environments in tech are about more than just dealing with insults and bullying.