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robin

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Governance & Standards at @protocollabs — Former NYT, W3C TAG, science.ai — Privacy, Web, Science, Politics, Philosophy. (he/him/Ishmael)

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maegul, to fediverse
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Decent Decentralisation

https://berjon.com/decent-imaginaries/

Good counter to the focus on protocols.

> a protocol needs to achieve two things: it needs to prevent the accumulation of power imbalances between parties … and it needs to make it easy for users to cooperate in building the the rules they want for how the protocol's operation affects them … the success of decentralisation and … of a democratic digital world rides not only on liberation but also on organising.

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robin,
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@astrojuanlu @maegul @fediverse Thank you!

robin,
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@maegul @poVoq I'm well aware of democratic work at the instance level, I just don't think that it's the right granularity and I don't see how it doesn't get captured. I'm interested in solutions that work even for people who use Gmail.

I don't understand the Bluesky comment, it doesn't sound related to anything I've said or even to reality?

robin,
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@poVoq Except that there is no necessary requirement to reproduce the constraints of IRL infrastructure specifically at that location. A good question is why pick a server instead of, say, people who use the same undersea cable? Typically that's because cables are a commodity whereas servers provide a single point of capture. But there are two options: make the server democratic or make the server a commodity (a real one, with no power and near-zero switching costs).

robin, to random
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Bluesky no longer requires invites: https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-06-2024-join-bluesky

robin, to random
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If you have experience with or knowledge of international schools in Brussels, or know someone who does, I'd really appreciate some advice!

robin, to random
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Ever since I was a little child, I've wanted to be on "Internet Exchange". Ok, so maybe it hasn't been running quite that long but it's one of my favourite newsletters and I'm absolutely delighted that @mallory invited me on to talk about GPC!
https://internet.exchangepoint.tech/cybercrime-gpc/

robin,
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@LillyHerself @mallory Not a friend to green macaroons? :)

robin,
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@LillyHerself @mallory Oh no, sorry to hear that!

robin,
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@LillyHerself That said, it almost came out way worse. I was supposed to do a karaoke version instead, but sadly there was a problem with the label so @mallory had to scrap that.

tonofcrates, to random
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I wrote some ideas for how to actually make HTML documents a viable replacement for PDFs.

https://willcrichton.net/notes/portable-epubs/

robin,
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@dginev @tonofcrates Whoa blast from the past!

freakonometrics, to random French
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questions aux parisiennes et parisiens... il existe des lieux sympas, gratuits (ou pas trop chers) pour bosser tout un dimanche...? idéalement du côté de Denfert, mais j'imagine que je peux bouger...
dans 10 jours, je vais aussi chercher des endroits pour bosser entre 14h et 23h (avec une bon wifi pour faire pas mal de réunions zoom), le soucis est que mon bureau sera à Saclay, et l'hôtel à Denfert....

robin,
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@freakonometrics Ça ne colle pas totalement à ton cahier des charges mais au cas où tu ne trouves pas un truc qui colle mieux: https://www.letank.fr/ il y a plusieurs années c'était top et animé par une équipe très sympa. Ce n'est pas sur le site mais à l'époque il y avait moyen de louer un coin de table pour quelques jours moins cher que le tarif pour un vrai bureau, je pense que tu peux demander!

ntnsndr, to random
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Okay, I'm supposed to be writing a digital privacy guide for normies. What would you put on it?

robin,
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@ntnsndr Things in the basics that I often see forgotten:

  • If you use Chrome, there's no point in ad blockers, you're done for anyway. It has to be another browser.
  • You also want app tracking protection, like DuckDuckGo offers.
  • Permission Slip from CR!
  • If on Firefox, you can turn on GPC too.
ntnsndr, to random
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I wish more people used @matrix with me. It really is a beautiful blend between Slack and Signal, except federated and secure.

robin,
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@ntnsndr Which client do you use? I tried a few but they were quite painful. I trust Signal enough that it wasn't worth it.

ntnsndr, (edited ) to random
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Thought experiment: Would you use email if you couldn't interact with Gmail or Outlook accounts? Who would not be on email were it not for a Gmail or Outlook account?

robin,
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@ntnsndr It would seem hard to make it work? That's 90+% of correspondents gone, meaning probably 100% of mailing lists. Most people wouldn't be able to write to colleagues at work!

ben, to technology
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I've called myself a technologist for over a decade, but the definition in this post is better than anything I've offered. Thank you, Robin. https://berjon.com/chimeralogist/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

robin,
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@theblackbunny @ben Thank you!

robin, to random
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I've been talking with a bunch of people (and am one myself) who all have a particular set of skills but whose job titles are all over the place. I think that set of skills and the need for this position aren't random — but it needs a name. (Click to find out!)
https://berjon.com/chimeralogist/

robin, to random
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Very interesting: a CPPA staff memo recommending a legislative proposal to make support for GPC mandatory in browsers. ❤️‍🔥
https://cppa.ca.gov/meetings/materials/20231208_agenda_item5.pdf

robin, to random
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Argentina, now the Netherlands... 💔

The fascist wave will continue until we build new institutions that can deal with the complexity of the world we've created, that are powerful enough to counteract these novel concentrations of power and the inequalities they support. 🌳✊🏻

robin,
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@J12t Well, the philosophical project is in https://berjon.com/internet-transition/. Details and theory of change in the process of being worked out but it's vast, I'm not sure how to handle the scope.

ntnsndr, to random
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Is there a reasonable path emerging to bridge Social.coop to Bluesky federation?

robin,
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@ntnsndr You mean like https://berjon.com/ap-at/ ? I don't think that we need to bridge so much as integrate.

christina, to random
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Reading this from Ecological Complexity: “The adaptive cycle: More than a metaphor” and wondering if you have favorite non-metaphorical perspectives on measuring adaptive capacity in organizations and networks?





cc
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1476945X1830165X

robin,
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@christina @mariafarrell @Valdis @dajb @ntnsndr @RuthMalan I don't have it anywhere near worked out, but I suspect that the conceptual proximity between adaptive cycles and active inference (notably Markov blankets) means that the formalism of the latter could be used to describe the former mathematically. I don't have the maths to pull it off (yet?). Here are some cursory notes.

Pic from my notebook (too long to type out sorry)

robin,
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@junosz @christina @mariafarrell @Valdis @dajb @ntnsndr @RuthMalan Thanks, these look interesting indeed! Regarding curiosity, that's another link to active inference, as part of perdurance. I think there might be a there there.

robin,
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@junosz @christina @mariafarrell @Valdis @dajb @ntnsndr @RuthMalan Right, I'm not necessarily looking for a grand unifying insight but more for hooks to develop a more densely connected intellectual toolbox.

danja, to random

@robin, I'm loving your Web cycle!
But this has to be the best version of Ship of Theseus :
https://youtu.be/LAh8HryVaeY?si=Q3G1Eyt_bi0CS1xZ

robin,
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@danja haha 😂

dietrich, to random
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I use the tabs2txt extension to export a text file listing the URLs in my (checks stats from my Tab Statistics extension)... 2617 tabs.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabs2txt/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-count-button/

robin,
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@dietrich Can't waaaaaait

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