July 2017 - Page 5 of 6

Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more — https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more

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4th July 2017

Restricted access to external SD card on Android makes using syncthing for photos a bit of a faff.

4th July 2017

“The “counterculture” that celebrated the early Internet and stamped it with utopian fantasies is not synonymous with the “counterculture” of student protests, civil rights, women’s rights, or the anti-war movement.”

https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/its-time-to-fix-things-a-review-of-move-fast-and-break-things/

4th July 2017

Liking riot.im. Handy as a bridge to IRC.

3rd July 2017

Are we making progress?

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2nd July 2017

Synco

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2nd July 2017

The P2P Web has one rule: users should control their own data, always and forever. You should never give up ownership for the privilege of access.

P2P Sites are self-published. Each one has its own domain, identified by a public key. They’re created at the push of a button, and synced to peers who host on the author’s behalf.

The peer-to-peer web and Beaker Browser. Looks interesting.

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2nd July 2017