Here is your LOL-Guardian article of the day.
- Balkan energetically travels the world, delivering TED-esque talks with such titles as “Free is a Lie” and “Avoiding Digital Feudalism”. His appearances have proliferated on YouTube, although he himself uses an online video player that doesn’t harvest personal data. (“If there’s a free and open, decentralised and usable alternative, we try to use it,” he says – he favours, for example, the privacy-respecting search engine DuckDuckGo over Google.) At the same time, he and Kalbag are on a painstaking journey that involves ideas and prototypes aimed at creating a new kind of digital life.
Because of fucking course you give TED talks. And I'm checked out.
I like their idea. Go back to the days of tor and limewire and napster... if you want to consume, you have to participate. So you sign up, give a little extra hard drive space/partition to the app, and the app adds you as a storage node on the network. It's what the web was, too. At first. Before AOL.
Around 2012/2013 I was beginning to get involved with a group of folks who wanted to establish peer-to-peer internet via meshnets, using traditional internet to bridge international gaps until someone could figure out how to do that homebrew style. The problem is that in order for peer-to-peer meshing to work as a replacement for the regular old internet, regular old people have to give a fuck about how they get their data, and regular old people don't give a fuck about how they get their data. Maybe now with a bunch of RaspPis, wifi cards, weather balloons and such a project like that might be a little more feasible, but I doubt it. I would say that the future is municipal broadband, but that's going to be illegal shortly in the few areas it's not already prohibited.
That is insane and depressing. Honestly, I'm surprised you guys in the USA are still allowed to have municipal water coming out of your taps, when some private company could be charging ten times the price for worse service. Won't someone please think of their God-given right to a huge profit?I would say that the future is municipal broadband, but that's going to be illegal shortly in the few areas it's not already prohibited.
I've heard of MaidSafe before, and it was not good things. And of course there's a bit about cryptocurrencies Core dump of exciting decentralized things: OStatus and ActivityPub: GNU Social, postActiv, Mastodon, PeerTube IPFS The return of static Tor-friendly webpages and services
More like "make current monopolizing ultrastructure obsolete". Blockchains seems to be where the world is going. With initiatives like IPFS, the web and local virtual content are quite possibly merging — or, at least, the public part of it.