Notices by h (h@social.coop), page 12

When people engage in discussions, there's a minimal level of sophistication about basic terminology and concepts they must be competent with.

That's not intellectual elitism.

What's is incredibly unreasonable and elitist (in the sense that it's a borderline offensive expression of entitlement) is to pretend that the burden of your education, and teaching you the abc of even single simple terms must be a burden for the other person to meet your level of basic incomprehension.

With that in mind, the "permanent web" is not too great if you find out that you inadvertently posted publicly some inglorious pictures of yourself you don't want to be associated with for the rest of your adult life.

The Public Key cryptography model is not a very good match for this situation. You may encrypt the content in question, and a few people can have the keys, but once the keys are out and the content is permanent, there's no way to control what happens afterwards.

Further thoughts on Issues that still need to be resolved on "permanent web" stuff #ipfs, #scuttlebutt:

You don't want the absurdly powerful / gov't /corps to hide information. (permanent data = transparency of the institutions).

But you want to be able to let humans change their minds after they publish something to make it unavailable. Humans must be in control of their personal data. (privacy of the individuals).

You need permanence for transparency.

You need mutability for privacy.

#Scuttlebutt has good security and p2p messaging.
#IPFS has no security whatsoever, but it has the MerkleDAG, which is amazing for hypermedia. It also has brilliant support for streaming video.
#Datproject is great for large repositories with versioning baked-in, and the Beaker browser does a pretty good job making #dat accessible.

No idea how integration could possibly work, the Beaker guys seem to have given up on that idea. But there's enough merit on all three to give it a good thought.

Reading #datproject and #scuttlebutt papers.

There's enough similarity of some basic underlying concepts with #IPFS that it may be possible to connect all three for some hypermedia things.

@cj @nightpool @bob

Agreed on all counts. And this ties in with the very important free computing projects that @jjg and @vertigo are trying to get off the ground.

We can't trust the proverbial "cloud" to do ontologies and associated machine learning work for us, free computer systems are the only way forward.

@jjg I wrote a comment on your blog but I don't know if Wordpress saved it, ate it, or what it did with it.

Anyway, it was basically praise, and the suggestion that you take a look at WABT (Webassembly Binary Tools) which is a pretty straightforward C++ package with minimal or no dependencies.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt

It looks like the best place to get started
(definitely not what you'd think a web development environment would entail)

RISC-V Go Port

Home of the RISC-V port of the Go programming language

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-go

I don't know what's the maturity, coverage, or completeness of this project, but it's already great news that it exists at all.

cc: @jjg @vertigo

#golang #risc-v #riscv

Modern software running on mainstream computing systems is insecure as fuck, wastes energy and resources, and works against the personal, social, and economic interests of most people.

It's about time we start to abandon these systems and their shackles, not just social media alone.

Eventually web browsers and mainstream PCs and mobile devices need to be seriously rethought as well.

There's only reason we must depend on an architecture that is financed by the entertainment and videogames industry escalating the power of the personal computer all the time whilst offering less of what the user actually needs.

The reason is that neoliberalism needs to keep building things more complex and unapproachable to protect their position, using the sacrosanct construct of "intellectual property" to defend it.

Redox is a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust, aiming to bring the innovations of Rust to a modern microkernel and full set of applications.

https://redox-os.org/

#rust #rustlang #redox #redoxos #foss

Our first book has been selected! Derek Wall: Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals. Cooperative Alternatives beyond Markets and States (2017)
#readinggroup #socialcoop

Sometimes I see an HN headline and think it's a joke about HN headlines but it's just regular.

@h @haneiyuu Foxes hunting Tories is an idea that has some merit and really needs to be explored