Axel Dürkop @xldrkp@scholar.social

Dealing with the aspect of velocity when developing and establishing standards an article by Moxie Marlinspike on Signal comes to my mind.[1]

[1]: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

Excellent article on the rise and fall of #RSS by Sinclair Target[1]. Not just a precise story of an unfortunate fork it can also be read as an appeal to not repeat the same mistakes from the past when developing new frameworks for #decentralization and #federation.

Dealing with #ActivityPub and the discussion about its pros and cons[2] we should set up a moderating unit to accompany further development.

[1]: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mm4z/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss
[2]: eg. https://schub.io/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.html

I want to explain the idea of the #Fediverse to strategic and political players.

Does anyone have a good drawing that says more than words? E.g. how #Peertube, #Mastodon and #Pixelfed play together?

In the current #IPFS newsletter I read about #ProtoSchool[1]. I think that's a great initiative, because information and education about the idea of decentralization and federation is needed.

The tutorials at ProtoSchool are about IPFS and the like which is good. But I wonder if #ActivityPub and non-blockchain-based federation should appear there, too.

Should we ask if ProtoSchool could be a place for that? Should we write such a tutorial?

[1]: https://proto.school/#/

Just became a member of the "Federation Networks Association" https://feneas.org/ @noplanman

Checking out the new Scratch 3.0 with my daughters. They love it!

Great lecture on "The" Social Credit System in China by Antonia Hmaidi at #35c3

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events/9904.html

Baked some vegan cantuccini for my students for the last session before christmas. Used the source code of the recipe[1] to explain the advantages of free and open and repeat some #Python basics.

[1]: https://collaborating.tuhh.de/snippets/194

Happy and proud to say that the Hamburg University of Technology now has an English translation of its Policy of #Openness in #Research and #Teaching online.[1]

Writing the policy was a collaborative process with colleagues and presidents that I could participate in as a co-author.

Looking forward to observing what effects it has when going forward to further opening up #science and teaching.

[1]: https://www.tuhh.de/alt/tuhh/uni/information/ordnungen-richtlinien/open-policy.html

Has everybody noticed the book "The End of Trust" that can be bought or downloaded for free from the website of the EFF?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/end-trust-sale-bookstores-and-free-download-now

What kind of solutions do you use to protect your children on the net?

Spent my day together with my buddies #Django and #Pandas. We three had a good time building a web app to present research results.

When playing with https://35c3.bleeptrack.de/ I realized that it's not just circuit diagrams that we see but also floor plans of the digital housings we live in. Sometimes there are doors, sometimes not, sometimes it's a loft, sometimes a hut.