Paul Lindner @lindner@social.coop
Happy to see Uranium Club show up on @resonatecoop this morning.
https://resonate.is/profile/9203/
Always nice to see good stuff come out of Minneapolis.
In June 1995 I presented "Using Gopher with the World-Wide-Web" at GopherCon 95.
""Together the strengths of Gopher and WWW create a better, more integrated information system.""
http://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNSeLizSGrHjpMZKQg21Sw15NQNTmMjA43mDtw66fNDSz/Webbedgopher.txt
I ❤️ Standards
A long, long time ago I had an ISO bumper sticker with two cars colliding at equal heights. Can't seem to find any evidence of it existing anywhere, offline or online...
@resonatecoop Google and other companies restrict their employees from contributing to AGPL code.
I suggest giving some thought to negative/positive liberty., covered in "Decoding Liberation: the promise of free/open source sw"
http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~bcfoss/DL/
Is Utopia a Hospital?
Fred Turner --
A hospital is a place where people get together, work very hard over very long periods of time in defined roles, checking and rechecking each other’s work, and they work toward a benevolent goal of saving lives.
https://032c.com/fred-turner-silicon-valley-thinks-politics-doesnt-exist
One solution; treat open source like a VC.
Companies take a "FOSS/FLOSS" round -- in exchange for using community property firms would put ~7% of equity in escrow, that would be used exclusively to fund these efforts.
Music videos with Javascript bugs -- Titles on MTV have been showing 'undefined' for over a week.. It's funny no one notices or cares that it's messed up....
Authors: would you recommend Medium membership for someone that wants to support good writing? Any alternatives? As always concerned that Medium took $132m in venture funding that will have to be paid...
The #teamhuman book is out, and very very good. A must read. If you have more time than money I have some paid-for Play Books gifts I can give. DM me.
Buy your copy of Ted Nelson's "Computer Lib/Dream Machines" while you can.
If you really want to play games with the algorithms change your locale from en-US to en-GB. You'll soon be getting Royals, FIFA and Daily Mail clickbait.
https://medium.com/s/douglas-rushkoff/the-real-value-of-facebook-19d1d6cb3003
Native Ads in your News Feed Circa 1903
Only 1 week left to enjoy Youtube Annotated videos...
You can find this engraved sign in the Shreve Jewelry Store elevator in San Francisco.
I asked the staff about it. They said that fixing the light would require replacing the entire panel. But that would trigger a building-code upgrade for the whole elevator system. Total cost? $80,000.
Cost of sign? $3
"Known Issues"
"Without the efforts of the workers the company would not have value so the idea that the workers and owners ought to be the same cohort has a great deal of attraction."
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/1/233510-a-people-centered-economy/fulltext
Finally! a way to re-platform your Google+ data before the April 2019 shutdown.
https://gplus-exporter.friendsplus.me/ exports to Wordpress, Blogger and other places. Hoping that this allows for communities to transition to new hosting or for individuals to go #indieweb
I started selfhosting my Known instance at https://1500wordmtu.com
The folks at withknown.com are nice, but their focus isn't on end-users these days and I need to get this on SSL, plus would like to use more plugins. [And if all goes well this posts to my social.coop mastodon account!]
Another data point for @ntnsndr -- Six Apart Japan, who maintain the original Movable Type blogging platform had an employee buyout a couple years ago:
Paul Lindner
boosted
Leaving NYC for Nashville
http://wesmckinney.com/blog/leaving-nyc-for-nashville/
(submitted by happy-go-lucky)
