Notices by Alan Zimmerman (alanz@social.coop), page 11

@xj9 @mattcropp @mayel check out what sunbeam.city is doing.

Instance run as a coop, no need to be a member to create an account. Gov doc coming up soon and could be adapted.

"Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits"
https://m.slashdot.org/story/344802

The article argues that a microkernel architecture can be more secure.

Does this mean the day has finally come for GNU Hurd?

TED talks are to good sessions like airports are to homes. They are un-talks in the worst, most designy kind of way.
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Just seen a sponsored ad saying "Treat every lecture like a TED talk".

Do not do this. A TED talk is a scripted monologue. A real class is a two way communication of knowledge and you must be able to go "off script" if necessary.
https://twitter.com/AndrewR_Physics/status/1022157454426210305

#Documentation is more important than the code. — Apparently most developers think the opposite way.

If you can't supply additional and useful to humans information for your code, in quantity as much or more than the code itself, you probably have only a very vague idea of what you're ever doing. — A monkey, basically.

GNU Social is joining #ActivityPub side of the #fediverse thanks to the hard work of @up201705417! Federate all the things! Standards are powerful things!

Startup creeps aren't accidentally reinventing libraries and buses. They're very deliberately inventing libraries and buses that poor people aren't allowed to use.

cabal-helper 0.8.1.0 http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-helper-0.8.1.0

There's a lobste.rs mirror on #gopher: gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/julienxx/Lobste.rs/

"Imagine This: A Web Without Servers"
Tara Vancil - JSConf EU 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_WvfF3FN8&feature=youtu.be

#opencoop friends, with all this talk of decentralization, some of you might be interested in this draft I'm working on about why it never seems to persist. I'd be grateful for any feedback: https://share.mayfirst.org/s/PqscGDDicwpZ34Z

enoki
"An experimental tool for peer-to-peer publishing"
https://enoki.site/
dat://enoki.site/

"The Media’s Failure to Connect the Dots on Climate Change"

https://newrepublic.com/article/150124/medias-failure-connect-dots-climate-change

@cigarBGuitarEfx @fdroidorg I honestly couldn't make it a day without a password manager. I find keepassDX to be the best I've used on android, nice material design . But keepassdroid has its place as a more stable option .

Trying to pull it all together: https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-07-26_Cash_Free

"Capitalism was built on the bodies of millions from the very start. From the late 17th century onwards, the transatlantic slave trade became a pillar of emergent capitalism. Much of the wealth (…) was made from the enslaved labour of Africans. The capital accumulated from slavery – from tobacco, cotton and sugar – drove the industrial revolution in Manchester and Lancashire (…) The west is built on wealth stolen from the subjugated, at immense human cost."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/26/communists-capitalism-stalinism-economic-model

fun fact if someone's name or a word has an accent mark in it and you leave that accent out, you're misspelling their name/that word

Productive train journey today.

Started website redesign. Serving over the peer-to-peer web using dat://

Taking things back to basics.

Committing to making a better web for the future.

Thanks to @aral for the inspiration.

#dat #decentralised #beaker #redesign

#Google's class system in the workplace.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/inside-google-s-shadow-workforce

Is this what we want as a model for our lives? Is this what we want to blindly accept and copy/paste in #Kreuzberg, #Rennes, #Zurich, and everywhere else?

(Also, what about the yellow badges...?)

#FuckOffGoogle

And that's why Mozilla can say "RSS/Atom has been in decline and support has been dropped by companies such as Google (Google Reader), or Apple (Apple Mail), or changed focus." And that's why I think we need to keep RSS/Atom despite big companies dropping support because RSS and Atom work precisely for the slow web, the small sites, for average Internet people, for us.

Tramp using the new multithreading in Emacs! https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-07/msg00862.html

h/t @Koral_001@twitter.com