Notices by Alan Zimmerman (alanz@social.coop), page 17

Whoa nice. Paradigms of Aritficial Intelligence Programming (a lisp classic) is now libre and available online https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp

it's super weird to me that there are living people who were born before the discovery of what feel like very fundamental facts of biology, like dna's helix structure, neurotransmitters, rem sleep

#introduction

happy to be here. one way to live through the privatization of the internet and our lives. and also, maybe, this is a social network that doesn't suck.

I love this article on code comprehension; people don't read code unless they are trying to do something with it, usually to change it. Papert's theory of constructionism claims that meaningful learning happens when the learner constructs something new to achieve a goal they already have.

Makes me wonder if there's any way to really understand code *apart* from trying to make it do new things.

http://akkartik.name/post/comprehension

@jjg :-)
Well, many of us have some public storage laying around that we control (vs e.g. dropbox or google drive). And we can rsync via ssh private keys all over the place.

We need donated storage, agreed upon targets, and means (scripts and cron jobs).

I think the original site plus two at minimum for copies?

I haven't thought about it a lot yet. Just typing...

I guess I should write up something on known patterns for database structures for federated social networks at some point, because it's a tricky topic...

@indie I found it informative when the artical pointed out that a major driver towards People Farming was the inability to pay people directly over the early Web.

We can do better now with more traditional business models, and we should.

mastodon meal name policy: HE HUNGERS FOR NAMES, HIS GAPING MAW SALIVATING, SURROUNDED BY A MINDLESS CACOPHONY OF PIPING WITHOUT HARMONY OR RHYTHM

THIS IS MY HECKING AESTHETIC https://computerfairi.es/media/_GEf-3o2XjSkhiiJhOM

https://blog.coralproject.net/the-real-name-fallacy/

This article is an extremely good look at why using your government name^^ online does shit for harassment and abuse.

^^i say government name because “real name” means nothing in this world where we can choose who we want to be

‘Facebook And Google’s Surveillance Capitalism Model Is In Trouble’

“Most people associate Facebook with cute family photos and think of Google like a semi-reliable encyclopedia. But these services have only a tangential relationship to the way either company actually makes money. The twin Silicon Valley titans rely on two closely intertwined technologies, customer surveillance and advertising, to maximize shareholder profits.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/facebook-google-privacy-antitrust_us_5a625023e4b0dc592a088f6c

On our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/facebook-and-googles-surveillance-capitalism-model-is-in-trouble/2030

"Far more powerful than how many languages you know (in terms of syntax), is how many paradigms you are fluent with."

Enjoying the read about #programming at https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/29/the-paradigms-of-programming/

WOOOHOOOO !!!! http://www.noyb.eu  will be able to start enforcing #GDPR on May 25th 2018 - as we just passed our €250k minimal goal! THANKS A LOT! For everyone that did not join yet: The €500k goal for "full noyb" is still there! pic.twitter.com/CWxfPckYhM #nextcloud

@alcinnz @alanz @peter Be aware that Brave will receive DAT support soon through their cooperation and donation in support of the codeforscience.org

now that firefox will be able to handle decentralized protocols like dat:// does it make sense to imagine a client-to-client activutypub protocol?

freeyourstuff.cc, mostly a browser extension, now also has a command line downloader for your contributions to proprietary sites, using #puppeteer. It's still a bit experimental, but you can check it out here:

https://github.com/eloquence/freeyourstuff.cc/blob/master/cli/INSTALL.md

https://social.coop/media/6O8_17n3elJzD1rrAoA