When I’m being mechanically turked by ReCaptcha, who’s AI is benefitting? Is it in the public good or did a big corp buy them out?
Anyone use huginn?
“Huginn is a open source system for building agents that observe the world and act on your behalf.”
I actually really like the idea of digital personal assistants. Sometimes a timely digital reminder can stop my lizard brain from putting the kibosh on my frontal lobe. The problem, as with most things, is that they’ve been hijacked by commercial interests, who wish to harvest your attention, not support your intention.
Oh yeah, FDroid got a What’s New feature, and orgzly got an Agenda view. Libre software that I use getting new features, love it.
"Which smart speaker should I buy?" How about – none of them? Or at least phrase the article – "do I actually need a smart speaker"? Tech journalism is often horribly complicit in upgrade culture. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/01/amazon-echo-google-home-sonos-one-which-smart-speaker-buy
Browser plugin idea: something like those (admittedly annoying) anti-virus browser extensions that tell you if a search result is ‘safe’, but it tells you whether the organisation behind a particular result is safe for humanity or not.
Searching for radical books and seeing Amazon as the first result is a real nuisance.
When you had no plans for the evening, then you find out from a friend that there’s a book launch on the topic of cooperative alternatives beyond markets & states. Win!
http://www.perc.org.uk/project_posts/launch-elinor-ostroms-rules-radicals-derek-wall-1st-december/
Looking into tech strategy stuff. Coming across frameworks like TOGAF, ArchiMate. Hoping there’s a bit of a simpler starting point, something like Community Canvas but for tech.
travis ci is fantastic, but the workflow for building up the build script is a real pain – commit, wait for build to execute, hit an error, repeat.