Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org
Joined May 2019
@informapirata @paolomonella @socrates
I don't think so.
@freemo can confirm that #QOTO does not block any instance, see https://qoto.org/about/more
Yet, not blocking any server is enough of a sin. 🤷♂️
Comunque @paolomonella, sembra che posso boostare i tuoi post anche se @socrates mi impedisce di seguirti.
Se ti menziono puoi leggermi?
Ah come sarebbe divertente un bel dialogo socratico sull'opportunità di impedire il dialogo con persone che dialogano con qualcuno che non piace a Socrate!
Chissà che ne penserebbe Socrate! 😉
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La didattica #DidatticaADistanza si basa su uno scambio di dati fra docenti e studenti, dati spesso veicolati da società del cosiddetto “Capitalismo di #Sorveglianza”
L’informatica può descrivere le relazioni probabilistiche che legano informazioni e dati e li può quantificare, classificare e correlare, spiegando come permettano di influenzare comportamenti individuali al di là del mercato, di coordinare reazioni collettive ed orientare processi storici.
Di Giacomo #Tesio
http://www.tesio.it/2021/02/24/il_valore_dei_dati_slides.html
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Slides by @Shamar@qoto.org @giacomotesio@twitter.com on #DistanceLearning, data and #GAFAM are now online. Talk "Il Valore dei Dati", conference "Strumenti liberi per la didattica a distanza e l’amministrazione pubblica" http://www.tesio.it/2021/02/24/il_valore_dei_dati_slides.html
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I wrote you a new blog post (remember those???):
The story of how the Tiny C Compiler got ported to #OpenBSD, from my perspective.
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Webkit's source code:
if(amazon || google){
}
Haha, HAHHhahaha
La slide del mio intervento di domani per la Conferenza #AIUCD2021 titolato "La lotta informatica per la Democrazia cibernetica".
#cloud #copyright #FreeSoftware #FreeSpeech #DRM #Informatics #Coding #ComputationalThinking #Marketing #OpenSource #FOSS
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PinePhone Mobian Edition Is Coming on January 18, Powered by Debian Linux
https://9to5linux.com/pinephone-mobian-edition-is-coming-on-january-18-powered-by-debian-linux
"For five years, Republicans let him degrade political culture by normalizing his behavior. For five years, they let him wage war on democratic norms and institutions. For five years, they treated his nonstop mendacity as a quirk of character, not a disqualification for office. For five years, they treated his rallies as carnivals of democracy, not as training grounds for mob rule."
5 anni.
Noi con Berlusconi ce ne abbiamo messi 20. E i danni li pagheremo ancora a lungo, temo...
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La lezione è che demagogia ed antipolitica non danneggiano le parti politiche.
Danneggiano le istituzioni democratiche.
Opporsi a demagogia ed antipolitica è obbligo prepolitico.
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Non condivido.
Meno male che c'è la carta.
Ci fossero stati solo bit in un database Trump non sarebbe stato sconfessabile e i suoi 60 ricorsi indimostrabili.
E allora sì sarebbero stati cavoli amarissimi
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No, trust is not slavery.
But if you are not even aware of such trust or what such trust enables, if you cannot understand in any way if it's going to be used well or not, if you cannot have any sort of impact on the life of those you trust... that's slavery.
If a doctor poison you, your parents can sue him, kill him or whatever...
So your trust is backed by a form of feedback control.
If Google (or Twitter or Facebook) tune your search results (or time line or whatever) to hide certain ideas from you and your neighbours or to increase the probability a certain idea spread among your peers... you have no way to imagine that unless you have a deep understanding of how the software you use works.
Same if WhatsApp tell you it's secure. Or Signal, or...
Informatics is everywhere, just like writing.
If you HAD to resort to a free reading&writing service for ANYTHING you had to read or write, would you call it a democracy?
I guess not.
Informatics is exactly the same: it's a primitive field, just like writing was in Ancient Egypt. And it's a tool to centralize Power, just because it's primitive.
To free people, we do not need to give them easy tools for free. That's what #GAFAM pretend to do!
To free people, we need to give them SIMPLE and COMPOSABLE tools but we also need to explain them that they shouldn't let any software they do not understand deeply TO USE THEM!
Because if you do not understand a software, you are not a user, but used.
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nasce il primo sindacato di Google.
https://blog.quintarelli.it/2021/01/google-employees-announce-creation-of-union.html
benvenuti nell'età adulta.
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Very bad ruling re #Assange and press freedom. The fact his extradition to the U.S. was ONLY rejected on mental health grounds and not PRIMARILY on press freedom grounds is absolute bs.
I hope it's not a way for this judge to shake the case just so that SHE doesn't go down in history books as have made the decision to extradite him, but that the U.S. hope is the higher court will reject the health grounds as she pretty much sided with the U.S. on the actual merits of the case.
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nasce il primo sindacatato di Google.
https://blog.quintarelli.it/2021/01/google-employees-announce-creation-of-union.html
benvenuti nell'età adulta.
My wife is a doctor.
I helped her a lot during University, PhD and even to organize her work efficently (she follows more then 1200 patients spread on a wide territory).
So I know a bit or two about medical theory and practice.
It's a completely different matter.
Informatics is about Information.
Information is the building block of our minds.
You can delegate medicine (that has thousands years of history) without being enslaved because you do not need it for every thing you do.
You cannot delegate Informatics in the same way because you need it for every thing you do.
It's really like delegating your mind. Would you delegate your mind to people you cannot understand, reach or effectively held accountable for what they do with it?
I know what you mean, but it's really like saying they have no time to learn how to write!
Sure, part of the process is to invent an alphabet for #Informatics so that the few orthogonal and fundamental concept can be learned since primary school.
BUT I'm sure that all peasants in Ancient Egypt would have argued they had no time to learn how to write! That's why they were under a Theocracy! That's why they had no time, after all.
Informatics CAN be simple.
But by making it EASY, by hiding its fundamental complexity (that is basically the complexity of math and human logic), you teach people to depend on tools... that could (and in the long term, will) enslave them.
Joined May 2019
