Robert Fromont @robertfromont@mastodon.nzoss.nz

#Keybase just came out as a crypto-currency marketing scheme. Moreover, they're trying to spin the fact that they actively hid that their funding was coming from a crypto "non-profit" as a positive, _somehow._

I know they're popular on the fediverse as an identity verification service. If you're using it for that purpose, I urge you to reconsider in light of this.

Andre is bang on. It's not right or sustainable for people with advanced skills and experience to have to live in poverty, so they can spend their working hours building and maintaining the commons. I'm wouldn't claim to be one of those people, but for years I made that choice anyway, so I could dedicate myself fulltime to #PublicInterest causes and commons projects. We all ought to be able to receive a living wage from the community for that sort of work.
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"Language is humanity’s most spectacular [set of] open-source project[s]"
- #GretchenMcCulloch
https://gretchenmcculloch.com/book/

In this analogy, the core maintainers are the editors of dictionaries. Users of language can follow the standard package encoded in dictionaries, but are also free to modify to fit their needs and preferences, and share their customizations with their neighbours.

Okay, "I'll write some microfictions," I said. "This should be short."

First one fills three toots and I only shortened it to that with effort.

Need a weekend read?

Thanks to the generosity of @mcsweeneys and the authors, The End of Trust, the first all-nonfiction McSweeney's issue, focusing on technology, privacy, and surveillance, is free to download under a @creativecommons license. https://www.eff.org/the-end-of-trust

https://permaculturenews.org/2017/01/10/open-source-tools-permaculturists/

*sigh* I really must get around to publishing some of my research and thinking around the use of #FreeCode software in the #permaculture movement, and my experiences working on upgrades to the permaculture.org.nz website.

Cory Doctorow's new book, "Radicalized," opens with the story "Unauthorized Bread," a clever and compelling fable about #DRM, and the grim future we face if we don't fight back today. Read our review here: https://u.fsf.org/2vl https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1243902