The bird was bad for sharing original music; let’s try Bluesky…
Tribute to David Lynch: finger drumming on the Ableton Push, some keyboards for bass and organ, then a layer of guitar.
Image is Berlin’s Landwehr Kanal in winter, manipulated with pixel-sorting software I wrote in Clojure.
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In April 2023, I began working with the Interledger Foundation as a technical ambassador to advance Web Monetization in Mastodon and other applications using ActivityPub. ActivityPub is a W3C standard that adds a social layer to the Web platform. It enables any website or app to have social networking functionality that can interoperate with other websites and apps. Instead of everyone having to join one social network, people can now pick a social network provider like they can pick an email provider. My project’s goal is to adapt Web Monetization to work within federated social networks with Mastodon being the reference implementation.
Community notes is a sort of hope-pill for me. It feels like it’s on its way to becoming a positive example of people making sense together over the internet. Gordon Brander
Subconscious is local-first software. Your data lives on your device, so you always have it with you. It’s also synced to IPFS, a decentralized network. This means you have the multiplayer features of a cloud app, but you own your data, and have credible exit through your device, or any IPFS peer.
Noosphere is open like email, or the web. Anyone can run a node, and developers can build new tools on top. But it also goes a step further, using self-certifying cryptography and decentralized protocols to eliminate the need for any centralized authority. That means you own your data forever. Noosphere is a knowledge commons for thinking freely with others.
The OpenTF Manifesto is exactly what you think it is: an “Open Terraform”, reacting to the Hashicorp #BSL licensing of #Terraform
Terraform was open-sourced in 2014 under the Mozilla Public License (v2.0) (the “MPL”). Over the next ~9 years, it built up a community that included thousands of users, contributors, customers, certified practitioners, vendors, and an ecosystem of open-source modules, plugins, libraries, and extensions. Then, on August 10th, 2023, with little or no advance notice or chance for much, if not all, of the community to have any input, HashiCorp switched the license for Terraform from the MPL to the Business Source License (v1.1) (the “ BUSL ”), a non-open source license. In our opinion, this change threatens the entire community and ecosystem that’s built up around Terraform over the last 9 years.
Our concern: the BUSL license is a poison pill for Terraform.
It has a large number of co-signed companies and individuals, which also commit to things like “Cover the cost of 5 FTEs for at least 5 years”
Where there’s material worth spending time on, it doesn’t feel right somehow to make one’s every thought and reaction public.
I like Maya Land’s writing. Very great turns of phrase, intensely link stuffed posts that has you open dozens of tabs
I might tag this #dark forest for this discussion about how much to put on the open internet today. A vague feeling of unease about being open.
Ok one more quote (which is right before the above quote), because I want to savour extralaboral time as a phrase:
The third part is that in the extralaboral time that I have been spending on this kind of thing, I’ve been doing a lot of reading about the occult. “Occult” itself just means “hidden”, etymologically.
Shared re:Mix link on social today
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I have some scribbled notes about this, where basically a small business in Berlin doesn’t compete with one in Vancouver — or even Calgary or Toronto, just in Canada.
So: how might they work together? Pooling expertise, capital, promotion, etc, while focusing on regional production and sales.
This is the story of what used to be called #Startupy
They rebooted it in Summer of 2022
A few years ago, I published one of those think pieces about finding “language market fit”. I still get emails from frustrated founders seeking help with positioning.
Kind of like a Github for ideas. Or Pinterest for knowledge. But also not quite like that.
Concretely, Sublime is a tool to collect and connect anything interesting you find on the Internet. It’s the simplest way to build your own curated, self-organizing library with all the quotes, links, articles, thoughts, images, and anything else you find interesting.
It’s part bookmarking, part note-taking, part social network. But it’s also none of those things.
I’m not curating my sublime library to build an audience. I’m quietly exposing parts of my library, in case it may resonate with others.
maybe that’s part of the problem, trying to be legible to everyone
Working on putting together a summary of Hashicorp #opensource changes, and revamping my notes generally around #licensing
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I’ve found Mastodon quite a bit more confusing than Twitter because it’s a distributed system, so here are a few technical things I’ve learned about it over the last 10 months. I’ll mostly talk about what using a single-person server has been like for me, as well as a couple of notes about the API, DMs and ActivityPub.
The other angle really is that code costs nothing to copy, so I am in favour of highly permissive licenses. But that fencing a community and potentially signing something to that effect may be the right kind of signalling.
She’d picked the locale, and it really was a local locale, which meant either she had good googlefu or she was more local than she was pretending to be on the phone.
Rose House
(IMO this is also why all the web3 stuff as well as secure p2p messaging like SSB and nostr had their moments when they did: elliptic curve crypto finally meant a public signing key could be “a ~32 char string of hex noise”, which is actually a psychologically tolerable threshold in UI we hadn’t previously identified, but is real. Dropping below the “full page of hex” RSA/DSA key-size mattered.)
Sal Rahman came! He runs the Fediverse Meetup Group, I showed him the DWebYVR/Calendar, and we talked a bit about how to cross promote, and look for some evening event time in the fall
We also wandered up to look at the Internet Archive Canada servers, and how exactly this building came to be
Sounds like David could be interested in being a DWebYVR/Drop-In host in the future
Jai Djwa came, and we had an AMAZING jam session about #cohousing
I’d like to see cohousing be a theme that is part of the wider set of #DWebYVR interests
From my point of view, pooling capital and collaboration is the umbrella that could cover open source, Dweb, mesh networks, cohousing, and tech policy, as part of cross-disciplinary topics that we can bring people together around
Jai is working on East Van Cohousing and he gave me a tour of some of the architectural plans and talked about some of the things planned there, like a built in coworking space
We also talked Texada Island, buying low rise apartment buildings like the Rose Manor that I live in, and more
As self-hosters we are not going to change the face of the world. ==The other 98% of the general public is going to use hegemonic services: self-hosting is a privilege for those who have the education, time and money to put into it.== We’re only deploying solutions that work for us, individually. ==Hosting services for our relatives puts them at risk of losing their data if something happened to us.==
My recommendation to most people putting services online would be: either do it for yourself only, or do it as a team with proper structure and processes. What sounds like an initiative to emancipate people could actually alienate them to you, and that is a huge responsibility.
I believe it’s important to be able to self-host, even if only to prove it’s possible to do without hegemonic services. But we need to figure out how to do decentralise services and data storage for individuals at scale. This is not just a technical problem, and while #E2EE is a good starting point it’s not a silver bullet. I will expand in a further post about the role of E2EE, where it falls short, and what I think we should do as a society to improve the situation.
Meta: experimenting with copying in the tags directly that the person uses
If I paste in their tags, they deep link into their site, which is a different slice of information.
This harkens back to #Agora concepts, and is something that has been discussed in the #Subconscious/Discord — follow mechanics for terms? subscribing to terms? Or namespacing, where bmcnotes/selfhosting might be my local version
I just edited the #LogSeq logseq/export.css to not include the #CSS that completely hides the BMC/Local LogSeq Property that I use, because it meant that critical stuff like the link attribute on a page isn’t included
.content .pre-block {display: none}
Oh look, I have at this point 310 pages with the #link attribute!
Note: you’ll need to add _redirects to your includes command in your #Jekyll config.yml for it to pass through this file, as well as the .well-known folder
74 trillion email messages were sent last year. That’s about 500 million since you started reading this article. Even if a small fraction contains important nuggets of smartness, that’s a lot of good knowledge heading to the grave.