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       title: January 23rd, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-01-23, 20:32:36 -08:00

     

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       link: https://tomscii.sig7.se/2024/01/Ditching-GitHub

     

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         - Github

     

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       Tom Szilagyi writes [“Ditching GitHub”](https://tomscii.sig7.se/2024/01/Ditching-GitHub) — moving to self host his git repos, and welcoming email based git patches. This is not the last of these articles we’re going to read.

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       title: January 23rd, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-01-23, 20:39:58 -08:00

     

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       link: http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html

     

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       An excellent long read by Rudolf Winestock, [“The Eternal Mainframe”](http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html). It describes the cloud as a return to shared mainframes, the death of standalone “offline” personal computers. 

     

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       > True standalone personal computers may return to their roots: toys for hobbyists.

     

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       Fits my [[death of the professional desktop operating system]] hypothesis.

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       title: January 23rd, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-01-23, 21:14:20 -08:00

     

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       link: https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/why-not-p2p

     

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       Great write up by Paul Frazee of [“Why isn’t Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?”](https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/why-not-p2p), going back to his own roots and the “2014 generation of p2p”.[^distsys]

     

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       Bluesky is a sort-of-federated model. Here’s a succinct description:

     

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       > It might be even more accurate to call this a Cryptographic Data Web. Every user's data repository is, in essence, a website. The aggregating applications are, in essence, search spiders. The Web never quite mastered structured data for a variety of reasons; the AT Protocol embraces it fundamentally. Rather than fetching views from sites, you fetch records from users. Our aggregators produce data indexes rather than search pages.

     

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       [^distsys]: That’s 10 years ago and I think we’re still in the early days of distributed systems theory and cryptography being more widely known. The third innovation — seeing Bitcoin arise as a novel protocol — is shunned by many.

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       link: https://x.com/aboodman/status/1749911394647232728

     

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       [Aaron Boodman @aboodman has a thread on fenced communities](https://x.com/aboodman/status/1749911394647232728) which I very much agree with and replied to him with a link.

     

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       Fenced community is my own term, from [[Open Source Licensing]]: restrict access to the scarce resources aka Common Goods of support, maintenance, discussion etc, but keep the code open.

     

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       Ton Zijlstra blogs about [Europe’s AI act being ready](https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2024/01/the-eu-ai-act-is-ready/) and points out that a lot of new acts got passed:

     

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       > In 2020 there was no Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act, AI Regulation, Data Governance Act, Data Act, nor an Open Data Directive/High Value Data implementing regulation.

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       When I say professional desktop operating system, I mean Windows and MacOS on laptops and desktop computers.[^linux] 

     

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       [^linux]: And yes, the graphical Linux desktop experience as well. The low level Linux OS lives on in many appliance, mobile, and embedded devices. This also means it will never be the Year of Linux on the Desktop, because the desktop is going away.

     

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       I don’t have good stats on desktop computer sales. But we clearly see as a ratio of time spent on desktop vs non desktop operating systems, humanity’s time is spent not on the desktop. 

     

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       I do think there’s room for new metaphors. [[spatial computing]] is one direction, and looking at the cost of the [[Apple Vision Pro]], it will remain professional… until it too becomes ubiquitous on mobile.