“You first need to discover as much as possible relevant items within the desired domain, meaning that everything needs to be discoverable (i.e. it needs to be made available and be accessible, but also the right structure and metadata need to be in place for everything to be properly indexed and categorised)” The #OMN is…
#mainstreaming #openweb standerds to the #EU
I have been working with a group based around the activitypub socialhub to outreach the #fedivers and #activitypub standard to the #EU in seminars you can see the video recording in this post. Looking like the #EU will trial a few fedivers apps as tools for communication. ActivityPub For Administrations (with chat) 2021-04-19 This is…
“governance” in open-source projects
Our current working models of “governance” in open-source projects are Monarchy (the dictator for life), Aristocracy (the devs), oligarchy (the NGO/ funders) and finally way out on the edge Democracy (the users). If we are to have a positive social impact, we need to consciously shift from these forms of governance to something more based…
To understand the social/tech #hashtags
To understand the social/tech #hashtags I have been using for the last 10 years you need to use a tool from political science called ideology. It’s a simple idea, widely excepted for the last 200 years. How it works, by looking at powerful social groups thinkers have “distilled” generalizations that hold these groups together and…
If we close everything we are left with the evil, a bad outcome
What do you think *should* be closed? Or at least is OK to be closed? Let’s start from a traditional liberal view: The majority of social interactions should be done in the OPEN and some private interactions should be done CLOSED. We can discuss from this. What the current dogma misses is that just about…
A talk goes off topic – what is an #ecryptionist is illustrated.
Q. Grumpy old geeks have a valid point of view http://scripting.com/2021/04/02/145549.html?title=pleadingForStallman Pleading for Stallman A. but no TLS. Q. this is a valid point of view too http://scripting.com/2014/08/08/myBlogDoesntNeedHttps.html My blog doesn’t need HTTPS A. It’s a valid point that Google and Amazon have monopolist interests and are trying to enforce them. Nevertheless, TLS is an…
outreaching ActivityPub to the EU – draft
This was an interesting process playing a role to do the document – outreaching ActivityPub to the EU https://pad.public.cat/p/ngi0-ec-activitypub-liaison-presentation-2021-04-19#/13 Good to get an outcome from this: #activertypub as a cross-platform standard for #dotcons who operate in EU funding to further this – we would need democratic structures in the #fedivers style to make this real…
The techshit churn
Almost all new alt-tech projects are worthless and a waste of attention. This should be obvious if you look back at the hundreds, thousands of dead projects. Yet people keep building them, i know they look shiny and sound new – but they are actually almost all dull and are copies with no linking back…