Notices by Alan Zimmerman (alanz@social.coop), page 16

And potentially an even BETTER choice is self hosted free 'community edition' fork of #HackMD to collaboratively work on Markdown files.

Maintained by @sheogorath

#DiscoverOpen

https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd

More people in the FOSS community need to look at AI and deep learning. If we're not involved, AI will be proprietary.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-foundation-pushes-open-source-ai-forward-with-the-deep-learning-foundation/

Heads up, Tootdon users!

It has been discovered that Tootdon silently forwards copies of posts you interact as well as the auth token to your account to its to own servers.

https://mastodon.social/@kjwon15/99757268648426867
https://mastodon.social/@slipstream/99758520139922701

Consider replacing it with an open-source Masto app like Mastalab or SubwayTooter.

Make sure you also revoke Tootdon from your Authorized Apps in Preferences.

For folks here on Monsterpit:
https://monsterpit.net/oauth/authorized_applications

#Rustlang announce extension of core team, the creation of FOUR working groups:

- #NetworkServices
- #WebAssembly
- #EmbeddedDevices
- #CLI

Focusing on end-to-end experience. Supercharging momentum into the project.

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-the-2018-domain-working-groups/6737

LOL, some people still troubled that they can't (legally, unthinkingly) steal the work of others.

Further proof that the GPL and Stallman have always been right.

#FOSS #freesoftware

https://social.coop/media/VR6G8HrgP8IFb88hAJg

To expand on this: "web scale" is what you need when you need to control every users path through your application and aggregate their data into one massive pool (or "lake") of data.

Federation doesn't let you do that. Federation on open protocols means everyone gets to do what they actually need/want to use your app and code for.

Insight for this evening: "web scale" only makes sense for centralized apps. If you write a federated app you just scale it horizontally, and things that are actually impossible to federate are really supercomputer workloads, not "web scale"

@sevensixfive I like Zotero for managing the files also. I have a direct link between the file, the citation, and any sorts of notes, tags, links, or other info I associate with that particular reference. I'm a big fan of having it sync the files with a cloud storage provider. That lets me have the same set of files accessible from my home & work computers (+ backed up in the cloud). I'd recommend using the pcloud.com webdav service for this: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/webdav_services

All the #Mozfest dialogues and debates videos have *finally* been. I'm going to celebrate by watching the discussion between data scientist Emily Gorcenski and Sarah Jeong

Come back to Mastodon @sarahjeong we miss you on here!

Had an awesome chat over a drink with Emily, where she spoke about facing up to Nazis, punching them, and holding a gun to one of their heads in her town Charlottesville.

Can't describe how amazing to me she is. Simply incredible human.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXL4SfXH5zM

Related to this, unpaid labor in academia is a HUGE issue.

I want to pay this kid because I am benefiting from his work, but without a grant, it would be out of pocket (I applied for a grant so that I can pay him and others like him).

The people who can afford to work for free are people who are privileged enough to not have to work several dozen hours each week for money to support themselves.

Stop reinforcing this privilege.

@mattcropp @Greg Its because credit union CEOs who cut the check for federation dues to run conservative. Its up to credit union boards to find CEOs that are capable of operating a financial institution AND have the coop values. CEO succession planning is a huge problem for the CU industry, its one of the major reasons for the industry's contraction despite growing market share.

Many changes made to the Petnames document based on further conversations with Mark. Definitely in a cleaner state. https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/petnames.md

On a related note to my previous post, two of the top-5 largest instance are company owned (pawoo.net by Pixiv and friends.nico by Dwango, who owns niconico). And the admin for mstdn.jp works for Dwango. So from one angle, the success of Mastodon is already strongly influenced by commercial companies (without these three, instead of the much-quotes one million users, there would be only about 400 thousand). Looking at the bright sight, so far this has not ruined the fediverse.

On people dropping out of Mastodon: You need to keep finding more people to follow in an interest based network since people will be dropping out all the time. Your relatives and friends from school don’t disappear as quickly on Facebook, nor do journalists and news outlets disappear on Twitter, but in the more interesting and interest-based communities, that’s simply how it is. You need to replenish the pool and keep finding and following more people. They’re everywhere.

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.

#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.

I think one of the central realizations required to be an adult, at least it has been for me, is that fault matters almost not at all. Responsibility and fault are almost entirely decoupled. If something is a way and you want it to be another way, there is often no one else that will make it that other way except you.

When younger, I felt a deep injustice had been done to me if I was being held responsible for something that wasn't my fault. But now I see that this is sort of the whole idea of responsibility: You're on the hook, no matter whose fault it is. And that sort of sucks, but it's also sorta zen once you get it.