Really enjoying @paulmasonnews’ reading of Postcapitalism. Makes the book very accessible.
Month: April 2017
I like dvcs-autosyncs and sparkleshares approach, building auto sync on top of git. Dunno how maintained and if they work on mobile though.
“Information goods conflict fundamentally with market mechanisms.” Postcapitalism.
Main thing I’d like to learn about Syncthing is if/how versioning works. I’d like a changelog of my files.
Got Syncthing p2p file sync working between my laptop and phone. Very cool!
the ‘increasing role of financial motives, financial markets, financial actors and financial institutions in the operation of the domestic and international economies’
http://www.ippr.org/publications/definancialisation-a-democratic-reformation-of-finance
“One of the most worrying long-term consequences of financialisation is the reduction in the capacity of democratic states to meet the demands of their citizens over the demands imposed on them by financial and corporate institutions, institutions which are increasingly free from the responsibilities that were imposed upon them by confident social democracies in the middle of the last century.”
http://www.ippr.org/publications/definancialisation-a-democratic-reformation-of-finance
Money from nothing. Paperless money. Became a core tenet of neo liberalism. (Source: postcapitalism)
Can’t make it sadly – on a training course that evening. Everything always falls on a Wednesday!
Very nice to see @hivestores has started selling DRM free audio books.
Nice article from @ustwo on the use of BDD in design https://ustwo.com/blog/why-designers-should-care-about-behaviour-driven-development