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Anti dogmatic thinking

Brining #indymediaback The fallow flower beds/farm that is #indymedia needs to be bought back to life slowly with as little change to the structure as possible. In our current social tech state just about ANY change will start ripping and when this starts it escalates quickly to do real damage. The original 2000-2008’ish structures cover […]

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Q. are the unpleasant side effects from the vaccine true?

A. There maybe adverse reactions. They are likely to be a few people having anaphylactic shock, it happens with many vaccines, but the number is very low. Some may feel a bit ill for a few days as that seems to happen with some vaccines too. There is a risk of other problems, those seem […]

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Take a moment to think about basics

Take a moment to think about basics: activism/campaigning is about building resistance to the mainstream to change its flow in progressive directions. Were #mainstreaming is about shifting activism to reduce these resistances to the mainstream flow. Thus, it’s good to understand that #mainstreming is a #NGO agender to build the jobs of the people involved […]

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If you are interested in online security have a read

This is a truth that our #encryptionists need to be held to account on. The issue is not their code, though we should trust nothing that is not open source and p2p, which rules out almost all of their favourite projects for the last 10 years. And the stuff that in theory could be secure […]

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Why openweb projects fail

I have been developing and using #opensource and #openweb projects for nearly 40 years. For the last 20 years at the coalface of development, this is my experience. Most #openweb projects are more than 99.9% unusable this is normal. A few come up to 5% usability; these are the “successful” ones. It’s very rare for […]

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4opens review of NHSX track and trace app

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THIS? The app is from NHSX with contributions from Apple and Google obvs and Pivotal Labs and Uni of Oxford. All source code for front and backend on Github and open source. https://github.com/nhsx/covid19-app-system-public https://github.com/nhsx/covid-19-app-android-ag-public https://github.com/nhsx/covid-19-app-ios-ag-public What is the actual polatics behind this? #4opens review. Think it duse 2 opens as […]

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#4opens reviews – Discord

https://discord.com The #4opens: Are a simple way to judge the value of a “alt/grassroots” tech project. Open data – is the basic part of a project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data with out this open they cannot work. * hard to say am assuming you can download your chats? but your contacts ect? Say ½ a open Open source […]

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Blind

With out a wider “ideological” world view you have no place to stepaway from your past mistakes. Everyone needs to look at the world from differing perspectives. The current neo-liberal dogma in all its different fashionable clothes is just that a failed dogma that we clearly need to stepaway from. The world can be different, […]

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What is the OMN

The #OMN its a anything in and anything out – mediated by trust database/network. It’s up to “commernerty” what they do with this and up to the individuals what commerty they choose or if a bit geeky can be an individual. it’s just soup (data soup) of course my project is to build a media/news […]

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All code is ideology manifested

Q. Some interesting things, mostly the collaborative pad. As I said some time back, this is how I would (obviously) try running this effort – pads not threads. In terms of general direction, the activitypub etc doesn’t inspire me in terms of rethinking media. I will continue my #postmedia project, which has quite different axioms, […]