The currency of the 21st century is information 

What is the effect of #geekproblem, of privacy and encryption, and their fetishization of #cryptocurrencies? The market (liberal individualism and private property that comes with it) provides information on value based on explotion greed and selfishness. #Opendata and #metadata provides information on value based on connection, cooperation and altruism. A #4opens approach spreads connection, cooperation…

Opening up #openweb search

https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/ The idea is to incurage plugins for alt/grassroots search results to mix with the #dotcons results. A “stepaway” project https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/Openweb-Search/issues looking for people to build the search plugins for the #activertypub codebases if you know anyone looking for a usefull and intresting project.

Blind

Without a wider “ideological” world-view, you have no place to step away from your past mistakes. Everyone needs to look at the world from differing perspectives. The current neoliberal dogma in all its different fashionable clothes is just that, a failed dogma that we clearly need to step away from. The world can be different,…

If you are interested in technology and society

Open/closed, a look at the issues in tech The idea of total control manifested in the master/slave relationship of computers and programmers is a core of geek culture. The #geekproblem at root in our society is about liberalism excepting the division of the state and the citizen, it’s about the liberal ideal of individualism “the…

OMN questions

Need help with this conversation: Q. trying to prod some movement outa people here in Berlin its a full time job. people are addicted to pointless. Do you think this is to silly b A. As an engineer this is too woolly to understand. We work with simple unambiguous user stories. In the format “As…

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…

Not scaling is a feature not a problem in federated networks

With the shift from silos to federation for our core social infrastructure, we need to rethink the values embedded in the technology we use. The first one to look at is scaling, the whole technical stack/ programming thinking is currently based on this value if you want a definition of a #dotcons, it’s this, it…