Notices by small circle 🕊 in calmness (smallcircles@social.coop)

"What can a technologist do about climate change?"

-- Bret Victor, 2015

https://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/

#ClimateChange #technology

Brilliance already exists. People are #AGI and they are treated like dirt. That's why #AI is a folly.

#AI is needed for #Hypercapitalism, just because #people are not willing to keep destroying their world. Except for the elite that isn't affected. Through wealth protection. Or so think they are.. mankind is an organism and you can't just cut out its heart and replace with dumb plastic.

@cwebber I couldn't agree more on this direction where fun has a central role, and well explained in the @spritely thread.

I really liked the notion of 'joyful coding' coined by Dan North @tastapod that's further elaborated into an alternative to the very serious SOLID principles at https://cupid.dev

Am expanding the idea at social coding movement to become 'joyful creation' and holistically address co-creation on the open social web, which includes evolving the open social stack itself.

If you say #FOSS has won, you refer to the software. It has eaten the world.

FOSS for sustainable income is utter failure. Why is that? --> heated discussion hobby of a lifetime.

My 2cts? I'll ditch the term. FOSS is too broad to be subject of meaningful discussion. With its vague definition ideology and flamewar is best outcome.

The fluffy definition has serious consequences.. of the 😻 FOSS lovers 50% percent wages religious war on how foss has won, 45% are privilege vs. fossbro massacres.

#TravelAnnouncement 🦋

After 10 years of doing hard janitoring duties for our collective commons I'm finally able to pause, step back, and relax. To assess where I am in life, and realign accordingly.

Our distraction-based economy has become so chaotic and info-bombarded, that our contributions can no longer find those of other people timely enough to make 1 + 1 equal two.

Time for proper self-reflection.
Which dreams are worth walking?

I'll be back soon #fedi o/
With a fresh reshuffled deck.

#Nutshell of the day.. Big problem of our world:

- Explain how to solve a wicked problem.

- Doing so before people scatter is near impossible.

Tech analogy: World-wide #sx Sharding

Thank you @dansup for all you do for us #fedizens 💗

You inspire and show the way. The things we do and sacrifice in our community work can be very tough, underappreciated. You keep going with a firm guiding light on the horizon. Your work inspires others to build #humane technologies for #change ✊

Beacon for others to help shape this complex distributed email-like fedi organism of ours. Help refactor a beast, a technical monster

Let's go friend! Towards a #Peopleverse

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/beyond-luring-deceptive-logos-there-is-a-peopleverse/4780

#Showerthought 🤔

Money itself is worthless. Yet an ultra handy concept, toolset + framework for dealing with value / resource exchange in our global economy.

The secret sauce of #hypercapitalism - its 'infra' layer, is based in core on wicked manipulation of oil + data to gain wealth and power by already powerful elites.

When we ask ourself why hypercapitalism is winning? Imo its because its a lazy system. Cutting corners, using vices --> more chance to 'win'.

It's a virtue-eroding system.

Thus to introduce a viable alternative economic model that aligns with human and planetary needs, we should first of all design a system that helps reinforce virtues, offer technological support that reinforce the levels of humanity in all of us.

Only then can we hope to counteract the eroding forces of #hypercapitalism on the social fabric of society and put stop to the destruction of our planet. Shape beautiful ways for us to live together that gradually take the upper hand.

A #peopleverse.

#ShowerThought Wouldn't it be better for software success rate if product owners and development team would communicate exclusively in pseudocode using a domain-specific language they agreed to use between them?

In Holland we have an analogy to gauge whether someone has too much #ownership + decision making power in a project.

This by simply asking the question: "What would happen if you walked under a bus tomorrow?"

Which are the top 3 most prominent and vital #FOSS projects you would nominate to be equipped with bus-free zones and in-house dormitories for the dev crew?

Utterly biased for fedi, I already say mastodon, so that option no longer counts.

My oh my..
Could we even find 3 for that list? 😛

@serapath @cwebber

Thanks a lot for these resources. I will have a look! 👍

@cwebber

Not only are the implications of the BS shared heap architecture easily overlooked and consequences come later, this has been the de-facto approach for any decentralized web technology thus far, including AP. Where hard-tech mindset and focus dominates.

And yes, the complexity warrants all that attention.

Yet there's less thought and attention payed to how DX, UX system / application / solution design should cope in the higher levels of the stack, and esp. in FOSS circles.

2/..

@cwebber

Making it extra hard to bridge the technology adoption chasm beyond early adopters, while the decentralized ecosystem suffers protocol decay.

Re:new computing paradigms.

> "local-first p2p social networking at scale"

.. someone said.

That buzzwordy sentence might see us enter a new exciting social web of adventure, if we don't squander the opportunity.

Technical all is once again possible. Martin Kleppmann inspires with generic local-sync protocols, universal back-ends, etc.

3/..

@cwebber

But thinking about exploring technical possibilities is way out of lock-step again, speeding ahead of how one would use this shiny technology to build useful things on top of in the best possible way.

I have difficulty wrapping my head around picturing a local-first social network at scale where CRDT's p2p synchronise application state and data of all actors - people, apps, services - in the social graph between 1,000's of peers. So many options, what approach is even feasible?

4/..

@cwebber

Meanwhile there are already hundred or more local-first projects and vendors who are independently building "the right way", in other words fragmenting into indvidual explorations with little cross-pollination and co-creation.

Why isn't there already an IETF local-first working group, or something similar?

Well.. someone should step up to the plate to do that, that's the wait now. Lotta work for volunteers and no funding beyond hard-tech. So this is up to vendors then, I guess.

5/..

@serapath @cwebber

I agree. Or rather something is missing.

Right now all the entities that are founded to serve the FOSS community are like arcane and distant temples and mystic shrines that we devs must make pilgrimage to and pray for the right support.

These temples need to come closer to people, come down to earth where they fly aloof, and built bridges too.

This bridgebuilding is part of 2 themes of social coding movement: #SustainableFOSS and #FSDL, Free Software Development lifecycle.

"Following" is about the poorest social networking interaction we could implement.

"Following" is also freaking cringe as a concept.

#ReimagineSocial? 🤔

I am sorry people. There are too many replies for me to respond to them all. Please check other branches of the discussion as your question may already be addressed there.