What we think for granted is under threat. We're still alive and kicking though.
Technology is a power infrastructure.
The internet protocol means you could talk the protocol and be part of the network.
Over the last 20 years, people were naive about the internet. Strategic autonomy is at stake. Sovereignty is in danger. We should end with alternative networks and stop using Gaggle.
The internet is consuming a lot of energy. Strong narratives are coming to us from people who want to make money out of it. But we who know about tech must debunk those narratives.
"The internet is broken, but we can fix it"
A book that is not yet translated, written in 2019.
If we want to fix the internet we have to have democratic control over the internet. The internet should be considered as a Commons. We're looking into capital and how extraction works.
#EmpoderaLIVE is the hashtag to discuss the ongoing conference in Málaga. It mostly happens on closed suveillance networks, but we may as well start somewhere and free the conversation here on the decentralized, open network #Fediverse.
I received an email from Google telling me they're updating their terms. I think the account was related to the #hackerspaces mailing-list. I clicked a link to refuse the #TermsOfService: I successfully entered the email verification code. Now it asked me for a telephone number, which I refuse to give, since I simply want out of their service. They refuse to allow me to refuse their ToS.
> (c) put in place a policy to respect Union copyright law in particular to identify and respect, including through state of the art technologies, the reservations of rights expressed pursuant to Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790;
Article 4(3) of the above says:
> expressly reserved by their rightholders in an appropriate manner, such as machine-readable means in the case of content made publicly available online.
If I want to expressly forbid data-mining of public contents by AI, where should I put it?
If I put it in one place (e.g., my canonical website), is it enough, or should everyone add specific lines of code EVERYWHERE to avoid feeding AIs? (What a waste of resources)
Is there a /.well-known/ space for this? Or a HTTP header? Or an HTML header? Or a specific (machine-readable) blurb to put somewhere? Where? How?
With NodeBB, Discourse and Flarum, this makes three #forum software that can now participate in the #Fediverse. The ongoing #SocialCG meeting will certainly endorse the new working group dedicated to topic-centric fediversity, along with @lemmy and @kbin.
#ngiforum23 I am shocked to see "expert" people on stage about #digital#commons telling about markets and government regulation. Go back to Commons 101, Mr Linux foundation.
That said, 99% of #NGI funding is geared towards tech... but if we want to build internet for humans and the digital commons, how do we fund the required human centric community work to sustain the stewardship of the commons?
No, #Ubuntu, it's not OK to send unsolicited email via /etc/cron.daily to advertise your racketeering activity of pay-for-security-patches-while-you-can.
And above that, it comes with unwanted broken software? Let me tell you: there is a funny 'ubuntu-deluxe' script that will help people move away from your creep and upgrade to #Ubuntu Deluxe AKA Debian stable.
Oh, so that's why people are mentioning BirdSite these days. As corporations move away from the public and open Internet, we can see the evergreen pattern of embrace-extend-extinguish that capitalism likes to stand for.
The Internet is publicly funded;
the Open Science Foundation privatizes it so that Ze Market can operate its "self-regulation"
Military-funded corporations boom and skyrocket into worldwide "leaders"