Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardojmendez@mastodon.social

Here's "It's all about the curry", my Monkigras 2018 talk on software craft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EB6F-nhT-c

Delivered a lot of talks over the years, but I gotta say this has been one of my favorites so far.

#softwaredevelopment #craft @redmonk

In case you're wondering, this is Lessig's talk: Laws that choke innovation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs

"Common sense revolts".

#creativecommons #copyright #Europe

#Europe has passed their new #copyright bill.

Best I can say is at least it did not keep the filtering technology bits.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/european-parliament-approves-copyright-bill-slammed-by-digital-rights-groups/

As Lawrence Lessig had pointed out in a talk well over a decade ago, extremism on one side will always engender extremism on the other.

This will end badly. It'll entrench incumbents, at the very least, and likely push people to guerrilla P2P approaches.

Tresorit just raised €11.5 on a series B:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/04/tresorit-series-b/

Some months ago they had failed to raise $1MM on IndieGoGo for Preevat, a privacy-focused social network. I expect those plans are now out the window.

Glad to see a #privacy-focused service get some backing. Let's hope it signals a change in market perception.

#venturecapital #investment #europe

Here's the transcript for "Ledgers - When would you even...", a talk I gave to enterprise developers at SAP Inside Track Berlin.

https://numergent.com/2018-09/Ledgers-When-would-you-even.html

There should be a video online soon.

#distributedledgers #decentralization

#sitberlin currently streaming on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tewV0iir7eE

Off to a good start with a talk on #infosec, bug bounties and responsible disclosure.

For a responsible disclosure program, #infosec researchers need:

- A point of contact,
- No legal consequences,
- Financial reward

Openness is important too, sharing discoveries after they've been fixed has value.

Tim Philippp Schäfers @ #sitberlin

Legal restrictions against reverse engineering devices make security researchers afraid of disclosing vulnerabilities. Everyone ends up worse off.

Sebastian Neef @ #sitberlin #infosec

The project was dismantled by the Pinochet regime. Visionary approach aside, it doesn't look like Cybersyn was staying true to its self-organized ideal.

"The design looked more like bureaucratic centralisation of control via bottom up reporting and top-down direction. Workers were expected to perform processes and use resources in the ways that had been modelled and planned. Any significant deviation from was to be reported upwards, and corrective directives were to be cascaded downwards."

Can't believe I had never heard of Project Cybersyn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

It was a fascinating, prescient attempt at using a computer network to develop self-regulating factories, complete with Star Trek-looking control room. In Chile. In 1973.

According to Wikipedia, it allowed the Allende government to still guarantee food transport to Santiago using only 200 trucks, when 40000 drivers were striking.

In #Berlin? I'll be speaking at SAP Inside Track this Saturday about distributed ledgers. Stop by!

https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/events/SAP+Inside+Track+Berlin+%7C+September+2018

The talk is currently walking a fine line between "how do you even?" and "why would you even?". It'll be interesting to see which shape it's in by Friday.