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One of my favorite characteristics of IPFS-backed package management is decent offline/LAN support.

 
 
 

Official motto: "Colombia, the only risk is wanting to stay"

*extends stay for another 10 days after having had extended 3 times in a row*

 

To be clear: I don't think losing the ability to unpublish is bad, but a company's complete control over what is published under your name.

 

"we’re extremely cognizant that developers feel a sense of ownership over their code". You and your feelings. http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141905368000/changes-to-npms-unpublish-policy

 

"By publishing a package you now cede control over your code to npm, Inc.. This is to prevent you from pulling an Azer when you no longer like npm, Inc."

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141905368000/changes-to-npms-unpublish-policy

 
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The dark side of digital finance: On financial machines, financial robots & financial AI

> If the future of banking is going to be digital, we want it to be populated with those who value the deeper tenets of open source philosophy. Otherwise we could be left with increasingly alienating, exclusive and unaccountable financial surveillance states, presiding over increasingly passive and patronised users.

 

Your 1M transactions/second blockchain solution is useless, if it relies on trust. The point is zero-trust consensus. http://www.coindesk.com/behind-scenes-launch-new-blockchain-consortium/

 

Best journalism taxes can buy: "whoever sits on their data or hides behind privacy laws is complicit [in terror]". https://www.tagesschau.de/kommentar/becker-117.html

 

Also, you have no right to people telling you to f*** off in a polite way, when you send them that as a first response.

 

"our trademark lawyers are going to be banging on your door and taking down your accounts" is hardly "trying to be reasonable" to OSS devs.

 

In comments on Brussels, Erdogan just blamed Kurds for the Ankara attacks, but Turkey had blamed ISIS until then. Read carefully these days!

 

Every time you make fun of potential AfD voters, you assure them that it's the right choice. Similar to the church accepting all sinners.

 

I wonder how many journalists the Turkish gov has to jail, how many civilians they have to murder, until it's called the "Erdogan regime".

 

Why "smart city" shouldn't just mean making existing city systems and structures more digital: http://magazine.backfeed.cc/how-astute-are-smart-cities/

 
 

WANT: leak site for hidden updates from crowdfunding campaigns where people run away with the money.

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