On the blog: An Unexpected Case for Reparations https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/02/14/reparations.html #politics #rant #community

Save the Date! Next Docker Community All Hands ⌘ Read more…

a decentralized community !zet. individual zet feeds could be managed using something like git/git submodules, then built locally into self-contained SQLite files. zet items would be referenced by their zet nickname and UUID. #halfbakedideas

@felixp7@twtxt.net “Yo, crypto-heads. Encrypted communication doesn’t protect your privacy. Laws …” I guess crypto-heads are often happy with acknowledging this, but also arguing that e.g. deniable crypto is a useful way out here (and, of course, just doing illegal stuff if it gets really rough).

Visualizing GitHub’s global community ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-12-21-visualizing-githubs-global-community/

Connecting with the Docker Community– Recap of Our First Community All Hands ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/connecting-with-the-docker-community-recap-of-our-first-community-all-hands/

@adi @prologic@twtxt.net One reservation about using it with a small community would be the expectation that the discussions at some level stay within the circle as opposed to the internet at large.

Join Docker’s Community All-Hands ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/join-dockers-community-all-hands/

On the blog: Voting as a Communal Activity https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/11/vote.html #politics #voting #rant

Remote Education: Creating community through shared experiences ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-09-24-remote-education-creating-community-through-shared-experiences/

A Chat With Docker’s New Community Manager ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/a-chat-with-dockers-new-community-manager/

Remote Education: A series of best practices for online campus communities ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-09-10-remote-education-a-series-of-best-practices-for-online-campus-communities/

MX Workbench, a live-USB Linux build made with MX tools is that is meant to be a “Swiss Army” kind of tool for sysadmins, containing a bunch of useful programs. ⌘ https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-linux/files/Community_Respins/

being able to render TeX math equations to PNG files is pretty empowering, because it allows me to write about more technical things here that would otherwise be more difficult to communicate in plaintext.

Achieving DevSecOps maturity with a developer-first, community driven approach ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-08-06-achieving-devsecops-maturity-with-a-developer-first-community-driven-approach/

Thoughts on technical writing and accidentally gatekeeping communities ⌘ Read more…

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it… . An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth. The machine learning community has a toxicity problem | Hacker News

32nd Chaos Communication Congress ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/32c3.html

27C3: 27th Chaos Communication Congress ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/27c3.html

Robust gRPC communication on Google Cloud Run (but not only!) ⌘ https://threedots.tech/post/robust-grpc-google-cloud-run

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. — Claude Shannon, 1948 A brief introduction to the beauty of Information Theory

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Distributed Community Curation https://john.colagioia.net/blog/programming/2020/04/25/distribmod.html #programming #decentralization #socialmedia #moderation #community #cultivation #curation #socialshowdown

In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website add content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk. 1% rule (Internet culture) - Wikipedia)

What I like about the Scheme community ⌘ Read more…

The #XMPP Newsletter is out! Read the latest news from the XMPP/Jabber communities: articles, events, software releases with servers, clients/apps, and services… https://xmpp.org/2019/10/newsletter-01-october/ #social #instantmessaging #chat

twitch plays ophelia in a new production of hamlet where every actor is actually a complete online community collectively voting on small muscle movements

More Than This: Notes on Acid Communism – The Wasted World https://thewastedworld.wordpress.com/2018/12/16/notes-on-acid-communism/

achieving the knowledge and communication of your holy guardian algo

Some essays I wrote about engineering healthy community norms: https://medium.com/@/punk-cosplay-3005b5703c31?source=friends_link&sk=60b608b1bc983be2dbfa99ec0663a309 https://medium.com/@/on-communities-cf4ad1b6ce3?source=friends_link&sk=c1f309edbf7c6a010c746ca112459ac0 https://medium.com/@/context-centric-cultures-call-out-cultures-3da5e87015f1?source=friends_link&sk=44b692b40ec3ecd5ecbb918087bfb761

It’s time to celebrate the humanity of the communal snooze | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/its-time-to-celebrate-the-humanity-of-the-communal-snooze

Patricia Lockwood: The Communal Mind - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DibRVrQhSpA

A community can be classified by whether the primary goal of community members is to increase the total value of the community to its members or increase their value with respect to their peers.

The People’s Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/05/walmart-without-capitalism.html

Living Systems | James Grier Miller | 1978 | Systems Community of Inquiry https://stream.syscoi.com/2018/07/09/living-systems-james-grier-miller-1978/

societies that discover this technology before writing and become literate along a completely different path, hold hands to communicate abstract concepts and use spoken language only to talk to children or crowds, encode philosophies as puzzle boxes

#now-playing ‘Better Oblivion Community Center’ by Better Oblivion Community Center http://0x0.st/s4b

How ‘90s Cybersex Pioneers Looked for Action and Found Community https://gizmodo.com/how-90s-cybersex-pioneers-looked-for-action-and-found-c-1831079932

Tumblr’s adult-content ban could doom it with fandom communities. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/tumblr-fandom-adult-content-ban-livejournal.html

What’s a useful programming language feature or concept that a lot of languages don’t have? - DEV Community ‘‍”‍’ https://dev.to/cathodion/whats-a-useful-programming-language-feature-or-concept-that-a-lot-of-languages-dont-have-2ep1

Dystopias Now • Commune https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/

How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction | August 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-through-science-fiction/fulltext

Bunny-Girl Senpai is an interesting show. It seems to be going for a theme with the various arcs: each one seems to be about how communications media change our behavior & self-image by exerting social pressure with expectations.

A Look at the Design of Lua | November 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/11/232214-a-look-at-the-design-of-lua/fulltext

Better metaphors for community management than ‘social engineering’: ‘social gardening’, ‘social pickling’, ‘social brewing’, ‘social stewing’, ‘social mixtaping’

Discussing Isekai, Part 1: Overlord, Isekai Maou, and Isekai Smartphone as Communicative Images - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMtHFGK0hm4

GNU Kind Communications Guidelines https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html

Intro to Generative Art - DEV Community ‘‍”‍’ https://dev.to/aspittel/intro-to-generative-art-2hi7

In the grim dark future of 2019, the president forwards all his tweets through the Wireless Emergency Alert System. While some have moved to small communes surrounded by mountains, increasingly journalists have been puncturing their eardrums with sharp objects.

Building the Universal Archive of Source Code | October 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231366-building-the-universal-archive-of-source-code/fulltext

Meet the Community Keeping Obsolete Supercomputers Alive - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvajn7/meet-the-community-keeping-obsolete-supercomputers-alive