Have been looking at #dat again, do you think we can build this:
The Open Media Network is a trust based, human moderated, #4opens project that builds a database shared across many peers (both #p2p and server). The project is more important for what it DOES NOT DO, than what it does do, using technology to build human networks. There are ONLY 5 main functions:
• Publish (object to a stream of objects) – to publish an object (text, image, link)
• Subscribe (to a stream of objects) – to a person or organization, a page, a group, a hashtag subject etc.
• Moderate (stream or object) – you can say I like/dislike (push/pull or yes/no) this etc you can comment.
• Rollback (stream) – you can remove from your flow (instance database) untrusted historical content by publishing flow/source/tag.
• Edit (meta data of object/stream) – you can edit the metadata in any site/instance/app you have a login on.
We would build in the moderation tools of the #Fediverse.
This is the back-end of the project to build a #DIY trust based, grassroots, semantic web. The front-end may be anything you like, for example regional-/city-/subject-based #indymedia sites to a distributed archiving project #makeinghistory
The data cauldron and the golden ladle. The technology we call the #WitchesCaldron.
@serapath can I ask who is funding this new outreach of #dat tech dev, this usually can be used to find out if the is hope or fail of #NGO tech projects.
1/3 From Jen Ratcliff on #DAT: 8/18 "The Tropical Storm Watch went into effect Friday for areas of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties. A full list of advisories can be found here."¹
📍 SIGN UP FOR EMERGENCY ALERTS‼️
▪︎ Cal OES 🔗 calalerts.org
Via Jenn Ratcliff #DAT: “#FEMA "A Disaster Recovery Center is now open for #Maui residents affected by wildfires to apply for federal disaster assistance and find resources.
University of Hawaii Maui College
310 W. Ka’ahumanu Ave.
Kahului, Hawaii
Open 8 AM–7 PM HST daily.
ADA accessible; translation available."
This is open to all Upcountry residents in need of food... [questions at end of questionnaire] They're totally optional (the ones without the red asterisk *) and if you don't feel comfortable answering, no problem!…
Via Riley Riley #DAT: 1/7 “Pls share with anyone searching for a missing persons.
I visited the Family Assistance Center at the Kahului Community Center at 275 Uhu St. It’s important that everyone understands there are 2 missing persons lists.
The first list is the one circulating as a google doc. This was created by a citizen. It is NOT the Maui county list. It is NOT official…”
From Jenn Ratcliff at #DAT: “From Joanie Rowe Pruet: Just sharing info in case some didn’t see this post. This is from someone who lived through the Paradise Camp Fire. For possible emergency funds.” #MauiWildfires#MauiFires#MauiCounty#Maui
In 2020, I published This is Fine: Optimism & emergency in the p2p network(https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/this-is-fine). It laid out a clear argument that the #fediverse is irreparably vulnerable because of its p2p nature and political naivete:
"Anyone with administrator access to an Instance can read anything that travels through that Instance’s infrastructure – including direct messages. The level of risk correlates with the number of cross-Instance interactions between users. If users from different Instances communicate, an attacker need only compel one Instance to reveal the direct messages between all of the interacting accounts. [...] In a peer-to-peer network without encryption, there’s no structure, no agreed-upon governance, and absolutely no protection. Compromising or compelling an Instance or its staff means that all of network traffic is laid bare to its assailant. [...] The decentralised community seeks to antagonise a powerful status quo whilst making tradeoffs that do not acknowledge how societies directly threaten their communities."
Today, Kolektiva - a anti-colonial anarchist instance - announced an FBI raid of one of their admins, which included the seizure of an entire copy of the Kolektiva instance.
This is literally the kind of situation I warned about nearly three years ago.
What do we do about this? Honestly, I have no idea. I've spent three years so far trying to get developers and advocates to care about this. I founded my own research firm, New Design Congress, specifically to get platform designers -- especially in the decentralized community -- to come to terms with this reality, that all infrastructure are expressions of power, and are at their very core political.
We've been blown off consistently, especially by people who ought to know better and who now either steer massive emerging projects, or act as major ideological activists for these platforms.
New Design Congress spent three years sending proposal after proposal to funders like @mozilla, Reset.tech, @EC_NGI, the @PrototypeFund, and others. We've been knocked back every time. We have never received direct support or advocacy from civic society organisations who champion the rebuild of a equitable Internet. We have only been able to continue our work and grow thanks to our NDC community and a handful of extremely forward thinking private organisations -- or, shamefully, organisations who have already been subjected to the precarity of decentralization.
Any #avpreservation folks out there with this decade experience of digital transfer of audio from #DAT using #DDS drives? Anybody got dat2wav or vdat working on win10 or better still, is there a linux implementation?