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Ref. 1: https://ar.al/2019/02/13/on-the-general-architecture-of-the-peer-web/

Ref. 2: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/101585283036341375

#p2p
#PersonalComputing20
#perspectives
#ITstrategy
#decentralized
#democracy
#evolution
#society
#future
#PeerWeb
#PC20

Our CEO, Todd Weaver testified today at the California Congressional Privacy Commission - hear his testimony- at - https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-ceo-todd-weaver-testifies-at-california-congressional-privacy-commission/ #ChooseFreedom #PrivacyNow #Privacy

Universal Basic Income Pilot In Chicago Takes Cues From California | WBEZ https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/universal-basic-income-pilot-in-chicago-takes-cues-from-california/b6a2f34c-ab1b-49bc-af95-fc54b5c37251
#ubi #basicincome #stockton #california #chicago #illinois #SEED

Have you considered contributing to #OpenStreetMaps? It's like Wikipedia but for maps - a map that everybody can edit! Today, the NSW Address Import project added thousands of addresses for West Pennant Hills, Warrawee, and West Pymble.

If you know those areas, check it out and start mapping!

#opensource #gis

Forgot to mention the microphone we built into that smoke alarm, oops.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nest-microphone-was-never-supposed-to-be-a-secret-2019-2?r=US&IR=T

Sheffield to consider £500-a-month Universal Basic Income trial - The Star https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/sheffield-to-consider-500-a-month-universal-basic-income-trial-1-9594840
#ubi #basicincome #sheffield #uk

Privacy is not a science, it is a human right

https://ar.al/2019/02/14/privacy-is-not-a-science-it-is-a-human-right/

My response to a dangerous turd of an article by Bart van der Sloot (co-founder of Amsterdam Privacy Week – sponsored by Palantir and Google – and docent teaching “Privacy and Big Data” at Tilburg University)

Mr. Sloot attempts to reframe privacy as a “science” and shame those who work to protect it for having a “pro-privacy agenda” & not being “neutral”. He also calls for “new rules” to disallow such biased behaviour.

Martin Scorsese Create a List of 38 Essential Films About American Democracy http://www.openculture.com/?p=1050101 https://t.co/nsIOtTf8TM

Finland gave people $640 a month, no strings attached. Here’s what happened. | MSN
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/finland-gave-people-dollar640-a-month-no-strings-attached-heres-what-happened/ar-BBTsiAQ?ocid=sf
#ubi #basicincome #finland #kela

On the General Architecture of the Peer Web (and the placement of the PC 2.0 era within the timeline of general computing and the greater socioeconomic context)

https://ar.al/2019/02/13/on-the-general-architecture-of-the-peer-web/

Just wrote a thing on my thoughts on the Peer Web and where I see us going with #Hypha.

Mit Grundeinkommen geht es den Menschen in Finnland besser – warum wird es also als Misserfolg gewertet? | EDITION F
https://editionf.com/Bedingungsloses-Grundeinkommen-Finnland-Gesundheit-Leistung-Scheitern-Kolumne
#bge #grundeinkommen #finnland

‘In healthcare, better data demands better privacy protections’

“How can we explain what is going on here? One possibility is that startup nation advocates pushed hard to ratify the plan as soon as possible, because of its contribution to innovation; these advocates view considerations of privacy as obstacles.”

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/12/medical-database-privacy/

Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/in-healthcare-better-data-demands-better-privacy-protections/2590

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As mentioned today at #CopyleftConf, "If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source". And #Copyleft to protect its future status.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/if-software-funded-public-source-its-code-should-be-open-source

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS

"There is no trust in a world where anyone can invent their own definition for #OpenSource, and without trust there is no community, no collaboration, and no innovation." So true, way to many companies tries to trick you today by pretending, that Open Source just mean that you can see the source code. That's neither Open Source, nor #FreeSoftware, don't get fooled! https://opensource.org/node/966

I wish more people would use a #hashtag on top of or even instead #CW. Hashtags can be muted. Think about it.

stage 3 disillusionment: what we're doing is actively harmful. we're destroying privacy, personal relationships, and possibly democracy itself in the name of automating away people's jobs so a billionaire can have a bigger yacht.

where I'm at now: Today I will fix the next bug on my JIRA queue, an activity which is futile, but not more futile than all other human endeavor

(2/2)

stage 0 (illusionment): WOW i got a job at $FAMOUS_TECH_COMPANY so excited to be part of something bigger than myself and contribute to the magnum opus that is the computer revolution. Change the world!

stage 1 disillusionment: we are shipping buggy, unmaintainable, resource-hogging, fragile crap software because there's no financial incentive for craftsmanship

stage 2 disillusionment: the "tech industry" hasn't invented a new, useful technology in the last 10 years, maybe longer

(1/2)

Breaking: The text of #Article13 and the #EU #Copyright Directive has just been finalised

https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/

Please reshare widely and **take action**. This has the potential to endanger the #internet as we know it, making it more and more composed of only large platforms.

This has the possibility of killing #alternative #socialmedia projects and small #startups trying to compete with the big #corporations.