Posts by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #9gnfzfplWojGFl0ezA by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2019-03-15T16:07:45Z
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@fribbledom
(DIR) Post #9hpMbfusGGNxfBZeqG by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2019-04-15T08:46:19Z
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'Included in the list of takedown demands are a bunch of the Archive's "collection pages" including the entire Project Gutenberg page of public domain texts, it's collection of over 15 million freely downloadable texts, the famed Prelinger Archive of public domain films and the Archive's massive Grateful Dead collection. Oh yeah, also a page of CSPAN recordings. So much terrorist content!'https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190410/14580641973/eu-tells-internet-archive-that-much-site-is-terrorist-content.shtmlGo home, French government, you've had too much Bordeaux.
(DIR) Post #9kbIhNNRXECndubLOa by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2019-07-07T08:22:56Z
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@Gargron For what it's worth, that's a common idea among people who actually talk about decentralization (as opposed to the blockchain-blockchain-blockchain crowd). The usual separation is:- Architectural decentralization, which might as well just be "distributed";- Organizational decentralization, based on the institutions or individuals involved;- Logical decentralization, where the entire network doesn't need to have a single state.
(DIR) Post #9kbIsEhw6lTzwMMiH2 by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2019-07-07T08:24:53Z
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@Gargron fwiw, that's a common idea among people who actually look into the centralization aspects (as opposed to the blockchain === decentralized crowd). The usual separation is:- Architectural decentralization, which might as well just be "distributed";- Organizational decentralization, based on the institutions or individuals involved;- Logical decentralization, where the entire network doesn't need to have a single state.Vitalik Buterin went over it here:https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76a274
(DIR) Post #9lEy9CJJakMfeuXfyS by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2019-07-26T11:21:02Z
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From the "way to prove Ricardo wrong" department... I have been defending Amazon as not being part of the #surveillance economy, so I'd have appreciated a less on-the-nose way to make me look silly.> Ring has enlisted local police departments around the country to advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free Ring products and a “portal” that allows police to request footage from these cameras, a secret agreement obtained by Motherboard shows.https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement?xyz
(DIR) Post #9mXW0S8tRmDWIfUp5U by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2019-09-03T06:04:46Z
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@Karlitschek Hadn't heard about the new license. In case anyone's wondering: checked it and it seems just as open as before, only non-OSI approved yet. The intent seems very similar to AGPL, only with specific language to cover hosted MongoDB services.FAQ: https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license/faq
(DIR) Post #9mXrkjLYQNb8Jngr1E by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2019-09-03T09:38:39Z
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@tuttle @Karlitschek From the license, section 13 applies specifically to MongoDB in a software-as-a-service approach. In that case, I would read it as it spreading to anything on the SAAS setup.If you are building anything other than a MongoDB SAAS platform, I would not expect it to apply, even if you build on MongoDB or modify it for your own application/service.This is also how their FAQ explains it.
(DIR) Post #9mXrkjgp9IbzNldqAi by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2019-09-03T11:23:47Z
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@Karlitschek @tuttle Splitting hairs, but... it makes it a non-OSI license.If I had to choose between MongoDB and (say) a hypothetical Oracle closed-source equivalent, I'd still choose the version that is open, even if OSI disapproves of the license. As a user, I wouldn't care, given that I get all the other benefits of open source.I'd never evaluated this before, but of all 10 OSI criteria, #9 is precisely the one someone could drop without me getting concerned.To each their own. 🤷♂️
(DIR) Post #9mXuOOh0pmvrkklliq by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2019-09-03T12:45:00Z
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@0 @Karlitschek @tuttle Given that they are not arguing that the license is FOSS, and state that it isn't OSI-approved, I don't think they are that confused.To me, they are just a company trying to find a sustainable path, avoiding what they see as a loophole that allows large providers to profit from them without contributing.Can't fault them for that.
(DIR) Post #9nVTN47uhSTkLQUTMe by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2018-11-14T13:49:22Z
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@Tryphon @wakest Tell him about this:https://samsungnext.com/whats-next/introducing-the-samsung-next-stack-zero-grant/We are receiving applications until November 30.
(DIR) Post #9pB71RGk9R9pjnrqD2 by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2019-11-21T04:54:41Z
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@yogthos There's a part of me that wants to give them a Nobel Prize for shamelessness.Most of me just wonders how much of a sociopath do you need to be in order to keep upping the antisocial behavior ante like that.
(DIR) Post #9sOCmVq7jb9JKAHqkq by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2018-02-09T09:11:56Z
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#Joplin is an open-source, private alternative to #Evernote which stores notes using #markdown. http://joplin.cozic.net/Usability isn't there yet - for example, you can't change the font size, so notes can be hard to read. It might be a good alternative for some, though.#opensource #notetaking #notes
(DIR) Post #9tEO9OxGIqMLH2ecgy by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2020-03-21T11:53:57Z
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@liaizon Fun trivia: Ayn Rand would probably despise being called a libertarian, and denounced it because she thought it was related to anarchism, and anarchism lead to collectivism."The Fountainhead" is more about her philosophy of objectivism, how she detested collectivism, and her idealization of creators vs. ... anyone else. There was barely any politics in it beyond those related to the individual rights or a creator over his creation.
(DIR) Post #9tEpmoX7pmeEezRleS by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2020-03-21T17:03:50Z
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@liaizon Who says you can’t take it with you?
(DIR) Post #9tsX4b2cBRB547ts4u by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2020-04-09T20:29:48Z
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@cwebber
(DIR) Post #9w8zp8ph5O13ylhd4K by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2020-06-14T11:10:50Z
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Am I the only one fascinated by the fact that we have nazis rising on countries that fought the nazis, while countries that had actual fascists are looking aghast at their bullshit?Intellectually, I know the social and educational mechanics at work, but it still strikes me that it works out that way.
(DIR) Post #9w8zpAeQKGBncORemO by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2020-06-15T12:33:33Z
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@socksy There were groups supporting the nazis on both the UK and the US before WWII, so it's no surprise the sentiment survives, even if they're no longer as blunt as calling themselves the British Union of Fascists. You can find assholes everywhere.I would not have expected this resurgence, though. I can't say why. I suspect that a part of me still has higher expectations of people than it should.
(DIR) Post #9w8zpAsbTXX2KN4ysi by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2020-06-15T12:38:50Z
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@socksy To elaborate, I fully understand why populism works. It's just that I mostly expect people to learn from history. Let's say that maybe in the 1930s the result of this type of populism wasn't obvious, but now it should be.Even if you don't care about slightly browner people, or those with foreign-sounding last name, the nazi regime was plenty bad for Germans too.Maybe we needed more easily digestible movies focusing on that.
(DIR) Post #ADYOI4EDqAUzoP1BQ0 by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2021-11-18T20:40:34Z
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@dredmorbius @humanetech @galaxis @tindall Fascinating reading this - it's exactly one of the key design principles of something that a friend and I are working on: designing for personas.https://distributedc.org/#/post/zdpuAxUCDJSmGHsXKphXGkVqdEgGshhAu67r7Zyd3domWMF8N/799545d3-4778-53b8-91c8-3f5a5a6f5cb6Would love to read what you think if you give distributed[C] a try. Not adding more details for now because it would be great to see what kind of questions come up on a first encounter.(UI is still kind of raw - we are focusing on the core for now)
(DIR) Post #AQmBeIxYvDge7KmchU by ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
2022-12-19T18:56:22Z
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@matt @jeff @write_as I recall meeting someone at the ActivityPub event that @cwebber organized, back in 2018 or 2019, who was doing exactly this.I could tell it was too early back then, but it might be the time now.