The first time I heard about Secure Scuttlebut, or SSB, I thought it was the coolest idea. Let people moving around from place to place be the transmission mechanism for a network. Facebook over sneakernet! I love protocols and this one triggered some sort of itch with the …
Earlier this week PT over at Adafruit published an interesting post on the evolving relationship between some of the larger open source hardware companies and open source itself. The post catalogs various ways in which three marquee open source hardware companies - Arduino, …
Once again, it is time for the US Copyright Office to revisit its decision to legalize breaking Digital Rights Management (DRM) for specific purposes. The default rule in the United States is that breaking digital locks on copyright-protected works is illegal, so the …
Thanks for the reply, Marty. I've put my copy of the code on Github, critiques welcome of course. I'm definitely interested in collaborating, the alternative would be getting an account on your git repository if you'd like to keep it close.
The other day I posted a surprisingly glowing first impression of Meta’s new Threads app. This is the counterpart to that.The site is brands, man. All of it. It’s like the glossy fashion magazine of social networks.And I get it. I really do. This is going to succeed beyond …
On Mastodon I was joking that I want to create a social media simulator app that takes you through the exhausting process of setting up an account (avatar, enticing follow-able description of yourself, a unique name, a solid unrememberable password…) and then it gives you a space …
Dare Obasanjo, over on Mastodon:Robots.txt needs an update for the 2020s. Instead of just saying what content can be indexed, it should also grant rights.Like crawl my site only to provide search results not train your LLM.Call it license.txt.The robots.txt standard allows a …
I’ve worked alongside news and journalism for a long time - since helping the team at Latakoo to define and build their first products that helped journalists with networks like NBC News send video back to their newsrooms using commodity internet connections. But the last few …
Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, people have been making a lot of comparisons between internet institutions – particularly various social media things – and premodern political forms and figures.
Professor von Explaino
