Johannes Ernst @J12t@social.coop

Hello! I really like my feed: I learn lots of new things about #infosec, #crypto, #coops and #opensource.

However I'm missing some things--can you help me find them?

I want to talk more about people, working with them, their limitations and potential. I want to talk about #governance, #facilitation, #voting, #cognitivebiases and other concrete things that can be tried (and falsified) in #groups.

Let me know if you're interested, or boost if you think you have followers who are interested.

😀

UBOS Beta 14 is here! Now with support for separate big data disks and more. https://ubos.net/blog/2018/04/28/ubos-beta14-available.html

It wasn't just Greece: Archaeologists find early democratic societies in the Americas
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/it-wasnt-just-greece-archaeologists-find-early-democratic-societies-americas
– '...Tlaxcallan #Mexico is one of several premodern societies around the world that archaeologists believe were organized collectively, where rulers shared power and commoners had a say in the government that presided over their lives.

These societies were not necessarily full democracies in which citizens cast votes, but they were radically different from the autocratic, inherited rule found—or assumed—in most early societies. Building on Blanton's originally theoretical ideas, archaeologists now say these "collective societies" left telltale traces in their material culture, such as repetitive architecture, an emphasis on public space over palaces, reliance on local production over exotic trade goods, and a narrowing of wealth gaps between elites and commoners...'

At the John Perry Barlow Symposium, some of the most brilliant thinkers in the world showed that the EFF co-founder remains a vital and immeasurable influence on the world. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/building-great-collective-organism-mind-john-perry-barlow-symposium-0 source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/984928701023338496

.@Doctorow is asked, “How do you inspire another generation of Barlows?” Read Barlow’s words and have those conversations with the people around you. #RememberingBarlow source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/982775076431872000

oh yeah I gave a talk on how distributed p2p social games (Massively Multiplayer Online Secure Environments) is "the only logical conclusion to our work" at IIW.... here are the slides: https://dustycloud.org/misc/mmose.pdf

Got to meet a couple of people who are kinda heroes of mine of the decentralized compsci history space at this conference (Internet Identity Workshop)

- Randal Farmer of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game) which yes, you read right, was a graphical MMO that ran on *commodore 64 machines* in the 1980s (!!)... he had a copy with him and I got to play an actual, running version (it's been released as free software!) https://frandallfarmer.github.io/neohabitat-doc/docs//
- Carl Hewitt of the actor model (!!!!!!!)

"Europe dumps 300,000 UK-owned .EU domains into the Brexit bin"

Not only a comment on the stupidity of Brexit, but why we also should not be building our decentralized systems upon the quicksand-foundation of DNS https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/29/eu_dumps_300000_ukowned_domains_into_brexit_bin/