Gert V @gert@social.coop

“We are not just fighting for our own lives. We are fighting for the third world countries who are being destroyed now. We will not let them down. We are not going away.”

The speeches have started. And what powerful speeches they are. #YouthStrike4Climate

Seen in Vancouver. #culturejamming

#ExtinctionRebellion
#ClimateChange

2) The reason DNS/SSL are so hard is *because* of the coordination with central authorities.
3) If your address was your key fingerprint, no need for a CA; you already know how to make a secure connection (why .onion does not need https)
4) SSL CAs are as weak as the *weakest* CA in your CA list. It only takes one badly acting CA for you to be man in the middled.
5) DNS and SSL CAs centralize the otherwise decentralized fediverse.

Down with DNS, down with SSL CA cartels.

Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/29/bill-gates-davos-global-poverty-infographic-neoliberal

(submitted by bogle)

Tomorrow through early friday, we are doing this fediverse hackathon https://indieweb.org/2019/Vlissingen

Anyone can participate remotely! We will be chatting in #social on irc.w3.org

But you can also come in person if you can make it to Vlissingen! There is still plenty of space, and it will be in this cool tower: https://www.watertorenvlissingen.com/

Thank you, thank you, thank you @aral for writing this:

https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

#Google #Facebook #Apple #Amazon are such benevolent do-gooders for us all. #SurveillanceCapitalism is a ruse. It had to be said, and we can't thank #FAANG enough for the great stuff they do for #humanity /s

Let's thank them on #HackerNews before the entry leaves the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18888212

Quoting @cwebber in https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collaboration/:

"participants in the decentralized social web is so good at fighting each other that apparently we do that work for them.

But it doesn't have to be that way. You might be able to come to consensus on a good way forward. And if you can't come to consensus, you can at least have friendly and cooperative communication."

Looking at https://gnu.org/consensus

Maybe it should be renamed GNU ControVerse.

Quoting @rhiaro in http://rhiaro.github.io/thesis/chapter5#swwg-competing-specifications: (1/2)

"Eventually the Working Group as a whole acknowledged this, and resolved to move forward all of the prospective standards separately, and to stop trying to force convergence.

This decision was controversial in the eyes of other members of the wider W3C community who were not members of Social Web Working Group, and potentially confusing for developers looking for the solution to decentralised Social Web protocols."

The four eras of digital computing:

① Mainframe (centralised)

② Personal Computing (PC 1.0; decentralised)

③ Web/Cloud (Mainframe 2.0; centralised)

④ Peer Computing (PC 2.0; decentralised)

The PC 2.0 era is what some of us are working to usher in.

(From https://ar.al/2019/01/05/hypha-spike-deployment-1/)