Redecentralize

suitable for understanding. The narrative of "redecentralize", as far as I understand it, is about redistributing power to the users of technologies, to involve them in their creation, not only their consumption. If you see, as a psycholinguist, technological innovation as something coming from experts and dependent /...\ shift requires both global coordination and local autonomy. Only software freedom can achieve the latter. As to the former, only politics can do it. Technology alone, especially proprietary technologies, cannot provide the necessary empowerment for local communities to adapt it to their actual needs, and no special committee can ever /...\ Actually, I'm a trained and practicing computer scientist as well and program 8 hours a day, so I in no way feel that technology is "coming from experts and dependent on them" so may I please be allowed to discuss my technology as part of the current

make it technologically such that even if they win politically it will be costly or quixotic to implement a non-neutral net How would this work? Feross ✩  blog | ✎  studynotes | ☮  webtorrent /...\ Adam Ierymenko < adam.ierymenko@zerotier.com > wrote: One reason it's important to keep working on the technology is to remove the incentive for carriers (and others) to fight net neutrality. If we make it technologically such that even if they win politically it will be costly or quixotic to implement /...\ impossible, and should be one of the things the Internet works to make happen. At the same time, we should keep working on the technology. After all, the strong belief in net neutrality that much of society (and the US government) has is due to technology shaping culture and norms

implement discrimination. On Jan 14, 2014, at 1:47 PM, Feross Aboukhadijeh < feross@feross.org > wrote: >  If we make it technologically such that even if they win politically it will be costly or quixotic to implement a non-neutral net How would this work? Feross /...\ Adam Ierymenko < adam.ierymenko@zerotier.com > wrote: One reason it's important to keep working on the technology is to remove the incentive for carriers (and others) to fight net neutrality. If we make it technologically such that even if they win politically it will be costly or quixotic to implement /...\ impossible, and should be one of the things the Internet works to make happen. At the same time, we should keep working on the technology. After all, the strong belief in net neutrality that much of society (and the US government) has is due to technology shaping culture and norms

costly to implement discrimination. On Jan 14, 2014, at 1:47 PM, Feross Aboukhadijeh < feross@feross.org > wrote: >  If we make it technologically such that even if they win politically it will be costly or quixotic to implement a non-neutral net How would this work? Feross /...\ Adam Ierymenko < adam.ierymenko@zerotier.com > wrote: One reason it's important to keep working on the technology is to remove the incentive for carriers (and others) to fight net neutrality. If we make it technologically such that even if they win politically it will be costly or quixotic to implement /...\ impossible, and should be one of the things the Internet works to make happen. At the same time, we should keep working on the technology. After all, the strong belief in net neutrality that much of society (and the US government) has is due to technology shaping culture and norms

reason it's important to keep working on the technology is to remove the incentive for carriers (and others) to fight net neutrality. If we make it technologically such that even if they win politically it will be costly or quixotic to implement a non-neutral net, we make them /...\ impossible, and should be one of the things the Internet works to make happen. At the same time, we should keep working on the technology. After all, the strong belief in net neutrality that much of society (and the US government) has is due to technology shaping culture and norms /...\ think of achieving victory over the opponent." - Odagiri Sekiei (Muji-Shin-Jen ryū)  Nor do I think that technological solutions are everything. But that's what I'm asking about here. 3) That said, here's getting to what I intended to emphasize: The process of decentralization needs

first-person human decisions based on untrusted, commercial third-party inputs. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2014/03/19/why-we-need-first-person-technologies-on-the-net/ --- There are social influences on how we use first person technologies, of course, just as there are social influences on how we speak. But that does not diminish the personal nature of what we do with /...\ GoPro camera.) We have none of them with our smart mobile devices today. Not yet, anyway. Books in the physical world are first person technologies as well. Digital ones we “buy” from Amazon are not, because they come with leashes. Eben asks, “What if every book /...\ back our privacy, or make real progress toward real personal freedom, until we develop and deploy first person technologies for everybody. Without them our democracies and marketplaces will also continue to be compromised, because both require those three virtues of privacy. ... Solutions here will come, like our own voices, from

They want to be able to curate the content their students have access to. > - School principal is open to deploying technology and exploring new > methods of learning. Currently they pay some money to a proprietary > content vendor but they want to get out that deal gradually with /...\ automatically implies people > on the ground will have the time, resources and energy to take things > forward and take ownership of the technology they're setting up/using. > > -- > Anish > > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 7:47 PM, hellekin <hellekin@gnu.org /...\ good", that "democracy" is > "necessary", that "transparency" is "appropriate", or that "technology" > will bring all solutions to all problems. They often fail to consider > the genealogy and diversity of situations and tend to remove from

first-person human decisions based on untrusted, commercial third-party inputs. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2014/03/19/why-we-need-first-person-technologies-on-the-net/ --- There are social influences on how we use first person technologies, of course, just as there are social influences on how we speak. But that does not diminish the personal nature of what we do with /...\ GoPro camera.) We have none of them with our smart mobile devices today. Not yet, anyway. Books in the physical world are first person technologies as well. Digital ones we “buy” from Amazon are not, because they come with leashes. Eben asks, “What if every book /...\ back our privacy, or make real progress toward real personal freedom, until we develop and deploy first person technologies for everybody. Without them our democracies and marketplaces will also continue to be compromised, because both require those three virtues of privacy. ... Solutions here will come, like our own voices, from

which resulted in Y" - They want to be able to curate the content their students have access to. - School principal is open to deploying technology and exploring new methods of learning. Currently they pay some money to a proprietary content vendor but they want to get out that deal gradually /...\ since that automatically implies people on the ground will have the time, resources and energy to take things forward and take ownership of the technology they're setting up/using. -- Anish On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 7:47 PM, hellekin < hellekin@gnu.org > wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 /...\ wrong.  An awful lot of ideologies today assume that "progress" is "good", that "democracy" is "necessary", that "transparency" is "appropriate", or that "technology" will bring all solutions to all problems.  They often fail to consider the genealogy and diversity of situations and tend to remove from

They want to be able to curate the content their students have > access to. > > - School principal is open to deploying technology and exploring new > > methods of learning. Currently they pay some money to a proprietary > > content vendor but they want /...\ people > > on the ground will have the time, resources and energy to take things > > forward and take ownership of the technology they're setting up/using. > > > > -- > > Anish /...\ good", that "democracy" is > > "necessary", that "transparency" is "appropriate", or that > "technology" > > will bring all solutions to all problems. They often fail to consider > > the genealogy and diversity of situations and tend

They want to be able to curate the content their students have access to. > - School principal is open to deploying technology and exploring new > methods of learning. Currently they pay some money to a proprietary > content vendor but they want to get out that deal gradually with /...\ automatically implies people > on the ground will have the time, resources and energy to take things > forward and take ownership of the technology they're setting up/using. > > -- > Anish > > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 7:47 PM, hellekin < hellekin@gnu.org /...\ awful lot of > ideologies today assume that "progress" is "good", that "democracy" is > "necessary", that "transparency" is "appropriate", or that "technology" > will bring all solutions to all problems.  They often fail to consider > the genealogy and diversity of situations and tend to remove from

impossible, and should be one of the things the Internet works to make happen. At the same time, we should keep working on the technology. After all, the strong belief in net neutrality that much of society (and the US government) has is due to technology shaping culture and norms /...\ think of achieving victory over the opponent." - Odagiri Sekiei (Muji-Shin-Jen ryū)  Nor do I think that technological solutions are everything. But that's what I'm asking about here. 3) That said, here's getting to what I intended to emphasize: The process /...\ written by Musashi around 1645. This e-mail is already too long so I am going to stop here and repeat my request for technological suggestions.  Have any? > On Jan 14, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Paul Frazee < pfrazee@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Hi Odinn

suitable for understanding. The narrative of "redecentralize", as far as I understand it, is about redistributing power to the users of technologies, to involve them in their creation, not only their consumption. If you see, as a psycholinguist, technological innovation as something coming from experts and dependent /...\ shift requires both global coordination and local autonomy. Only software freedom can achieve the latter. As to the former, only politics can do it. Technology alone, especially proprietary technologies, cannot provide the necessary empowerment for local communities to adapt it to their actual needs, and no special committee can ever /...\ aspect, specifically designed to tame corporate fears about anything social. It succeeded in bringing free software to the mainstream, but it fails to inflect technological innovation towards inclusive goals beyond the elite class of technologists. > interlocking software structures. This is what Hiveware does. > I'm not sure that

good", that "democracy" is "necessary", that "transparency" is "appropriate", or that "technology" will bring all solutions to all problems. They often fail to consider the genealogy and diversity of situations and tend to remove from "the big picture /...\ purchasing power to fulfill their own agenda. There's nothing automatic in accessing the Internet and magically obtaining empowerment. As you embrace new technologies, your environment changes, and with it your organism, from biological to political. With the few hindsight we have gained on communication technologies, we can tell that /...\ powers already there can use them to their advantage as much as wannabe liberation technologies, except at a must large scale: they act as amplifiers, but when everyone is shouting, who's listening? As much as I like the Internet, I'm still worried that promoting its expansion is more

using p2p to be something thieves and drug dealers and the terrible "hackers" use. I always tell people, investment is not made in great technology, great technology is made with investment. I am 100% with you here and it was at the heart of my post. We need to figure /...\ society to spend resources on decentralized and p2p technologies over centralized ones. People need to pay for this stuff because there is no other way for it to get better. And, as you described, the "free" model is a lie and really is a determinant to peoples freedoms /...\ paid for decentralized systems, we’d get richer — both in terms of freedom and privacy and in terms of opportunities for new technology businesses. On Apr 3, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Adam Ierymenko < adam.ierymenko @zerotier.com > wrote: I LOVE the term “grass computing!” This

think of achieving victory over the opponent." - Odagiri Sekiei (Muji-Shin-Jen ryū) Nor do I think that technological solutions are everything. But that's what I'm asking about here. 3) That said, here's getting to what I intended to emphasize: The process of decentralization needs /...\ written by Musashi around 1645. This e-mail is already too long so I am going to stop here and repeat my request for technological suggestions. Have any? > On Jan 14, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Paul Frazee <pfrazee@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Odinn /...\ that would not be > vulnerable to a well funded and very smart attacker's distributed DDOS or > other disruption efforts. > > Technology can only be at best half the fix for the panopticon problem. > The other half has to be political

source project (which is XSCE - School Server Community Edition) , it is a loose group of volunteers collaborating remotely, but working locally with a common technology base. There would be some NGOs, some companies, some individuals in the mix. Curious to know what you imply by NGO model /...\ strong believer in grassroots movements and local ownership of technology. My focus over the next few months is to make the technology available in human readable form, so anyone can understand, deploy using whatever model that fits best in their scenario. Cheers, Anish

more to decentralisation than blockchain Being ‘decentralised' isn’t good in and of itself, technology can also be used for evil so we should think about the ends not just the means For me, this means focusing on decentralising power by distributing control, knowledge /...\ capability to the network Also considering what values we can enshrine through the use of technology - such as promoting agency, privacy, collaboration and choice An ecosystem of alternatives that work together and collaborate through open protocols is more compelling than one killer app Full post is here: https://medium.com/coinmonks/how-decentralised-are-you-a6539eeb27ff

tell you that private property in general does not make much sense to me. > may I please be allowed to discuss my technology as part of the > current P2P diaspora? My technology is anything but proprietary > in the traditional sense. Just because I maintain that

increase in the short term, but the whole thing is resting on the supremacy of its technical architecture. So if somebody breaks the technology *or* somebody comes up with something better or even a worthwhile but incompatible improvement to Bitcoin itself, when everyone stops using Bitcoin in favor /...\ certainly damn interesting. But pets.com and flooz? Not so much. I still need to take a deep, deep dive into the block chain technology. I get the very basic surface of it, but I am really curious about how it might be used as part of a solution

tell you that private property in general does not make much sense to me. > may I please be allowed to discuss my technology as part of the > current P2P diaspora? My technology is anything but proprietary in the > traditional sense. Just because I maintain that

past 16 years I have been working with my research team on >> building >> privacy-enhancing technology, today in a capacity as an associate >> professor. >> So far we had 1.4 million installs of our Tribler software

past 16 years I have been working with my research team on >> building >> privacy-enhancing technology, today in a capacity as an associate >> professor. >> So far we had 1.4 million installs of our Tribler software

exploring the ideas behind this if anyone is interested come and say hello. Asides from this I have a deep interest in how technology can help us all and how we can keep the web open and free. I have a background in internet marketing so I also look

BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, There are at least three groups trying to organise regular London meetups for people working on technology for social change: Techno Activism Third Mondays, Redecentralize, and Spring of Code. I'd like to suggest that we pool our efforts and have

able to run on as many platforms and to be easy to use, Avatar is implemented via JavaScript in the web browser. Looking the technology preview description [1], this seems the be one the most ambitious and thought-out projects I have seen so far. For the peer-to-peer

Please re-tweet.. (https://twitter.com/TriblerTeam/status/445971016972787712) For the past 16 years I have been working with my research team on building privacy-enhancing technology, today in a capacity as an associate professor. So far we had 1.4 million installs of our Tribler software

concept of distributed consensus and cryptographic proof that makes cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin so effective in trustless payments, Ethereum extends the use of these technologies to trustless agreements. This allows developers to easily build innovative new products on a censorship and collusion-resistant foundation." Potential use cases

JSconf EU, we're doing it in Berlin, and we also broadened the topic a bit to basically any cool stuff related to web technology and decentralization. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Michiel

setup your own blog with a mouse click. Twister is a blockchain Twitter alternative. http://twister.net.co/ Zeronet and Twister use implementations of the blockchain technology and Bittorrent to setup the netwerk and distribute the content. While Twister is limited to microblogging functionality Zeronet aims to setup all kind of services

exploring the ideas behind this if anyone is interested come and say hello. Asides from this I have a deep interest in how technology can help us all and how we can keep the web open and free. I have a background in internet marketing so I also look

grant fund - Tech to Unite Us! We've been thinking about the affordances of tech and equality, and we think decentralising digital technologies have a huge role to play in reimaging systems, services and products with equality and inclusion at the core. I've included a blurb about

concept of distributed consensus and cryptographic proof that makes cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin so effective in trustless payments, Ethereum extends the use of these technologies to trustless agreements. This allows developers to easily build innovative new products on a censorship and collusion-resistant foundation." Potential use cases

Europython talk: "Consider my slide about hierarchy and power: it works when the people with authority derive their power through evidence. Unfortunately, technology can be used to manipulate power in a way that is analogous to the way aristocratic power works: "Why are you my King

line of research and technology that I personally find very exciting, and highly relevant to the idea of zero-knowledge centralization -- even though it's still some time off from being scalably useful -- is homomorphic encryption . Homomorphic encryption is a technique where you take two inputs, encrypt them with

viewed by *anyone*. :) -Adam On Aug 4, 2014, at 9:48 PM, Eric Mill < eric@konklone.com > wrote: One line of research and technology that I personally find very exciting, and highly relevant to the idea of zero-knowledge centralization -- even though it's still some time off from being

able to deny changes.) This is a trust decision wrt. the person administrating the peer and the peer hardware and maybe more. Nothing technological means can judge; it's a judgment about those very means among more. Ergo: publications and messages may leave the commissioned set, private data will never

increase in the short term, but the whole thing is resting on the supremacy of its technical architecture. So if somebody breaks the technology *or* somebody comes up with something better or even a worthwhile but incompatible improvement to Bitcoin itself, when everyone stops using Bitcoin in favor

flood plain by the time the rain comes. > I still need to take a deep, deep dive into the block chain technology. I get the very basic surface of it, but I am really curious about how it might be used as part of a solution to the trust

deny changes.) This is a trust decision > wrt. the person administrating the peer and the peer hardware and > maybe more. Nothing technological means can judge; it's a judgment > about those very means among more. Ergo: publications and messages > may leave the commissioned set, private data

usage data, screen space coming to attention of users, all useful for tracking and showing ads which brings monetization. 2. Easy Deployment: current web technology makes it easy to control the client-side code from a server (javascript/browsers), allowing to reduce latency and to do code upgrades without manual intervention

space coming to attention of users, all useful for tracking > and showing ads which brings monetization. > > 2. Easy Deployment: current web technology makes it easy to control > the client-side code from a server (javascript/browsers), > allowing to reduce latency and to do code upgrades without

exploring the ideas behind this if anyone is interested come and say hello. Asides from this I have a deep interest in how technology can help us all and how we can keep the web open and free. I have a background in internet marketing so I also look

demand from something akin to git.) Two effects: a) no more tracking (+) b) no money from tracking (-). > 2. Easy Deployment: current web technology makes it easy to control > the client-side code from a server (javascript/browsers), > allowing to reduce latency and to do code upgrades without

your question about market forces? My answer would be, what market forces? I don't believe the technologies are chosen because the market chooses them. An example for you is one you may deal with many times in your life. Every time you go to a super market

side is of course that it works today - you can already share between ownCloud instances and we hope that the reliance on well known technologies makes it easy for others like pydio etc to implement (they got the draft in advance, btw, so did several others, including some standards organizations

exploring the ideas behind this if anyone is interested come and > say hello. Asides from this I have a deep interest in how technology > can help us all and how we can keep the web open and free. I have a > background in internet marketing

exploring the ideas behind this if anyone is interested come and say hello. Asides from this I have a deep interest in how technology can help us all and how we can keep the web open and free. I have a background in internet marketing so I also look

into account is the question. "Do my friends use it". As more an more friends use Signal, I think it is worth trying. Communication technology that nobody uses accept me is not yet worth trying

paid for decentralized systems, we’d get richer — both in terms of freedom and privacy and in terms of opportunities for new technology businesses. On Apr 3, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Adam Ierymenko < adam.ierymenko@zerotier.com > wrote: I LOVE the term “grass computing!” This slide

interest. Even when there is no extra ambition, it is incredibly hard to understand causalities related with mixing disruptive technology and ancient cultures. In case of skynet and what we had experimented with in Ladakh, there is no organization or immediate plan for organization, and there

able to run on as many platforms and to be easy to use, Avatar is implemented via JavaScript in the web browser. Looking the technology preview description [1], this seems the be one the most ambitious and thought-out projects I have seen so far. For the peer-to-peer

Hosting. >> I haven't seen anything like it right now, but maybe it could tie >> together a bunch of the technologies people here are working on. >> >> >> I could also imagine using Docker and a "packaging" format

exchanged emails and a group of us met for a P2P sprint in November 2013 working in small groups on various different bits of technology in both a practical "hacking" sense (i.e. we wrote code) and in a broader philosophical / architectural sense (i.e. we debated, discussed and brainstormed

networks, and fewer people wanting/needing to search as things get put in front of them via their networks -- and their deprioritization of open web technologies. See Eric Schmidt's display of righteous anger at Twitter blocking Google from indexing tweets. -- Eric

challenges that Jer referred to coming through. Specifically over the past year I have worked on a couple of commercial P2P type technology solutions compared to none over the previous 15 years. But xkcd summarizes those types of data points more succinctly :) http://xkcd.com/605/   > Date

tech turn up in unexpected places > https://blog.twitter.com/2010/murder-fast-datacenter-code-deploys-using-bittorrent I think that’s an unfortunate example: that’s a decentralised technology used for better centralisation (where a centralised service is large enough to be decentralised internally.) I.e., it does not avoid the reliance on centralised end-user

unexpected places > https://blog.twitter.com/2010/murder-fast-datacenter-code-deploys-using-bittorrent I think that’s an unfortunate example: that’s a decentralised technology used for better centralisation (where a centralised service is large enough to be decentralised internally.) I.e., it does not avoid the reliance on centralised end-user

model of Easier Self-Hosting. I haven't seen anything like it right now, but maybe it could tie together a bunch of the technologies people here are working on.  I could also imagine using Docker and a "packaging" format consisting of some pretty basic manifest metadata that

Easier Self-Hosting. I > haven't seen anything like it right now, but maybe it could tie > together a bunch of the technologies people here are working on. > > I could also imagine using Docker and a "packaging" format consisting > of some pretty basic

haven't seen anything like it right now, but maybe it could tie >>  together a bunch of the technologies people here are working on. >> >> >> I could also imagine using Docker and a "packaging" format >> consisting of some pretty

haven't seen anything like it right now, but maybe it could tie >>  together a bunch of the technologies people here are working on. >> >> >> I could also imagine using Docker and a "packaging" format >> consisting of some pretty

emails and a group of us met for a P2P sprint in November > 2013 working in small groups on various different bits of technology > in both a practical "hacking" sense (i.e. we wrote code) and in a > broader philosophical / architectural sense (i.e. we debated

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aware of any meshnet that would not be vulnerable to a well funded and very smart attacker's distributed DDOS or other disruption efforts. Technology can only be at best half the fix for the panopticon problem. The other half has to be political

group of us met for a P2P sprint in > November 2013 working in small groups on various different bits of > technology in both a practical "hacking" sense (i.e. we wrote code) > and in a broader philosophical / architectural sense (i.e. we > debated, discussed and brainstormed

able to run on as many platforms and to be easy to use, Avatar is implemented via JavaScript in the web browser. Looking the technology preview description [1], this seems the be one the most ambitious and thought-out projects I have seen so far. For the peer-to-peer

able to run on as many platforms and to be easy to use, Avatar is implemented via JavaScript in the web browser. Looking the technology preview description [1], this seems the be one the most ambitious and thought-out projects I have seen so far. For the peer-to-peer

little more into the tech scene I plan to spread around some interest. There is a huge amount of technology stuff here (not quite as much as the Bay up North, but a lot), so I'm sure there will be interested people

exploring the ideas behind this if anyone is interested come and say hello. Asides from this I have a deep interest in how technology can help us all and how we can keep the web open and free. I have a background in internet marketing so I also look

remain focused on building the "next Google", but when you look at the underground digital scene, what is striking is the vitality of decentralized technologies. The bitcoin being the most visible today.  So there is a lot of relevance for Europe to massively invest in the decentralization

haven't seen anything like it right now, but maybe it could tie >>  together a bunch of the technologies people here are working on. >> >> >> I could also imagine using Docker and a "packaging" format >> consisting of some pretty basic

exploring the ideas behind this if anyone is interested come and say hello. Asides from this I have a deep interest in how technology can help us all and how we can keep the web open and free. I have a background in internet marketing so I also look

roots. Please re-tweet.. ( https://twitter.com/TriblerTeam/status/445971016972787712 ) For the past 16 years I have been working with my research team on building privacy-enhancing technology, today in a capacity as an associate professor. So far we had 1.4 million installs of our Tribler software