Don Marti

This talk will help maximize the value of your privacy toolset for today's best options, while helping you plan for the future. Threats have changed, but so have your options for tools and services to use.

Now that California law codifies our right to check out how our personal information is shared, that means we have an opportunity to  optimize our privacy toolkits and habits, and level up by focusing where it counts. We'll cover topics including ad blocker myths and facts, recommended extensions, and how and when to use your rights under California law.

While open source software developers must cope with the risks of under-compensation and burnout, open source software users face the risks of software going unmaintained or unfixed. This talk covers a new market design intended to reduce risk for both developers and users. A simple trading system, similar to a futures market, provides incentivization for not just particular software tasks, but for difficult to manage "meta" work such as bug triage. I will show a live demo including several use cases.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) helps shift the balance of power on the web away from the "data brokers" that share people's sensitive health and finance information on the Internet, and toward sites that people trust. We'll cover how to use the new law to help you automate your privacy preferences and protect your web site's users from companies that track and target them. Regulation alone can't fix the surveillance economy problem, but this new law opens up opportunities for technical measures to protect people's information and increase revenues for legit businesses.

A long-lived Internet bug is spreading malware, enabling fraud, and taking financial support away from important cultural goods. The good news is that anyone with a web site can help fix it. I'll cover how to use one line of JavaScript to help warn your site's users when they're vulnerable to third-party tracking, and how to inform, nudge, and reward them to get protected.

Scylla is a new NoSQL database, capable of 2 million requests per second per node with Apache Cassandra compatibility. Scylla enables faster cluster scaling and more overhead to handle complex queries.

Not every software install is meant for production.  Some of your software’s most important deployments are short-lived demo and evaluation installs.What do they have in common?  They’re your software’s first chance to make a great first impression. Unfortunately, demos are hard.  They take a long time to set up, you have to reconfigure them for last-minute software changes, and somehow, demos seem to break anyway.  Time to change that.