It's such a learning experience working on the #MoodleNet project with @dajbelshaw, with an open-by-default approach, which isn't limited to the code - we're involving the #community in the whole process of "how the sauce is made".
Here for example are some diagrams of 3 possible approaches to building the #platform architecture:
- Fully #federated - Federated with a core #API-as-a-service - Centralised #SaaS
You may have noticed me doing research about the technology stacks being used by #ActivityPub apps, this is because I'm involved in a couple federated projects (both of which are new use cases, and extending the #ActivityStreams format).
One of those (current dayjob) is #MoodleNet (for educators to curate educational resources together), and we now decided to use #Elixir for the back-end, which I explain in detail here:
@kaniini Smartphones are the gateway being used to uplift you in to the enlightened, post-human era. Digital assistants ease and accelerate the process.
"Those of us who were on the internet back in the ’80s remember when we treated it as a private playground. We could say whatever we wanted, to whomever we wanted. After all, it was purely ephemeral. Nobody was keeping this stuff; like CB radio, you could be a total jackass and get away with it.
All those early Usenet discussions? Yeah, Google recovered them and put them online. Our beliefs were the exact opposite of true." - #af3e
@mwlucas I heard someone once ask who thought their email would forever be private. Keep our smartphones up to date and some day soon not even our thoughts will be ours.
Folks: yes, venture capitalists and Silicon Valley gave us surveillance capitalism but now they say they’re sorry and want to give us the cure. Shouldn’t we just let them?
Me: “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.” – Narcotics Anonymous, 1981.
Google says you can turn off its location tracking services on your phone at any time. An AP investigation has found that isn't true. https://t.co/wRqGuz3uL5
More tests, and you can now mark a user as the instance admin.
All of this is nothing but procrastination because I’m stuck on privacy stuff. I guess I will follow my gut feelings with that tomorrow, and take the bashing if it comes.
@bob@resist_berlin@aral Like any good pusher, Microsoft can afford to give the first dose for free. If we want to offer our free software for free to schools, one of us is going to be working without getting payed.. again.