hamish campbell @hamishcampbell@mastodon.social
Political and tech - On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity
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"We already lost the mobile world for a duopoly of Apple and Google, now we’re losing the desktop most used application, the Web Browser, to a monopoly from Google again, how much control do you want that company to have over the future of the Web?"
https://andregarzia.com/2018/12/while-we-blink-we-loose-the-web.html
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The_Gibson We are in a post silo internet.
Their power wanes with every passing day.
Federate or die.
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We all know who pays for surveillance capitalism in terms of privacy. But who pays financially? Show more
https://youtu.be/tS3kNkq64d8 #ExtinctionRebellion a video on how it works... #4opens #OMN
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the social pressure with regard to Facebook is slowly starting to swing the other way, a few years ago, I would get "wait what you don't have a Facebook account?!", nowadays I mostly get an understanding nod along with "I don't log in to the main site anymore, I only use it for Facebook Messenger".
Draft outline script - 01. Buying the boat & motivation http://hamishcampbell.com/index.php/2018/11/21/draft-outline-script-01-buying-the-boat-motivation/
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#ActivityPubForWordPress are plugins for WordPress sites that add support for the ActivityPub standard.
This means people can follow the WordPress site from ActivityPub-powered services such as Mastodon etc.
There are a couple of such plugins right now:
"ActivityPub" by @pfefferle
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
"PteroType" by @jdormit https://wordpress.org/plugins/pterotype/
https://getpterotype.com/
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The report on the sustainability of open source, written by Nadia Eghbal in 2016, identifies the problem well enough but doesn't have much of a solution.
It's written from the venture capital perspective, so startup culture is uncritically endorsed and there are various other questionable assumptions about corporate involvement. In some places there are also references to the myth of the lone developer ("rockstar" type thinking).
The problem it describes is that the current economy depends heavily on software and that underneath the glossy startups the infrastructure comprises largely of Free Software developed and maintained by a relatively small community of "key contributors". The software economy is mostly free riding upon the digital infrastructure base, and there isn't much systematic thinking about how to keep the infrastructure level going in the longer term.
I'd describe this problem in terms of the failing social reproduction of developers. It might be easier than ever to learn python, but it can be hard to make ends meet while running a software project, even if it's vital to the free rider economy.
It gives the classic example of OpenSSL - something which runs on the majority of internet servers and yet which in 2014 at the time of heartbleed was maintained by just one developer in precarious circumstances and hardly funded.
It's written from the venture capital perspective, so startup culture is uncritically endorsed and there are various other questionable assumptions about corporate involvement. In some places there are also references to the myth of the lone developer ("rockstar" type thinking).
The problem it describes is that the current economy depends heavily on software and that underneath the glossy startups the infrastructure comprises largely of Free Software developed and maintained by a relatively small community of "key contributors". The software economy is mostly free riding upon the digital infrastructure base, and there isn't much systematic thinking about how to keep the infrastructure level going in the longer term.
I'd describe this problem in terms of the failing social reproduction of developers. It might be easier than ever to learn python, but it can be hard to make ends meet while running a software project, even if it's vital to the free rider economy.
It gives the classic example of OpenSSL - something which runs on the majority of internet servers and yet which in 2014 at the time of heartbleed was maintained by just one developer in precarious circumstances and hardly funded.
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https://campaign.openworlds.info
Its a safe space for Campaigning and NGO groups to access the #openweb Founded on #4opens and moderated by an ethical code of conduct.
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This is a conversation I have sometimes :)
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Over the next few years we face this problem
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The untold story of the original Greenham Peace March https://youtu.be/JKoWKF3ktXI
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Using the modern web doesn't feel empowering. It feels immensely frustrating.
The web is barely usable without ad-blocking. Pages take an age to load and the content jumps around as more ads download and display. Also the ads are spying on you.
The entire JS ecosystem is dependency hell and sometimes you have to download massive JS files just to view a web page. The JS is probably also spying on you.
Worse still, JS is also probably why the Back button doesn't work properly on so many sites.
On a narrow boat in London for a month #boatingeurope to stop going sturcrazey in the flat.
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I'm just so tired of denialists..."I don't wanna" -> Making up just about every excuse in the book to not change
Political and tech - On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity
Joined Dec 2016
