Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof@identi.ca
Chinatown, United States
http://www.do-not-panic.com/ Costarican Linux hacker, free culture activist, tennis, jog, snowboard fiend, San Francisco earthling, puto
Edward Snowden will kick off LibrePlanet 2016: Will you be there?
Free Software Foundation at 2016-01-27T21:49:47Z
This is huge: the opening keynote for LibrePlanet 2016: Fork the System is a conversation with National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Technologist Daniel Kahn Gillmor.
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/edward-snowden-will-kick-off-libreplanet-2016-will-you-be-there
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And now I cannot attend even if I could afford to.
Likewise. Sometimes, being a federal employee sucks.
David Thompson at 2016-01-28T14:27:21Z
This AI is "just" a neural network. Not to say that this isn't impressive, but the system is essentially a black box. You can't have conversation with this AI to find out *why* it does the things it does. This is why folks like Marvin Minsky and Gerald Sussman expressed disinterest in neural networks.Yutaka Niibe, Luis R. Rodriguez, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Christopher Allan Webber likes this.
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@davexunit@identi.ca True, but very often you can't have a conversation with a human to find out why it does the thing it does. That often gets explained away as "instinct" or "intuition" or "innate reaction".
Building Better Minds document
Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-01-28T21:29:45Z
I mentioned it on another thread, but I've been reading the Building Better Minds document from OpenCog and it's super interesting.
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Mike Linksvayer at 2015-06-04T17:15:41Z
Whether they'd care about licensing depends on whether software would still be subject to property regimes which could be enforced against machines. My first guess is that's very path dependent, and on the path we're on now, yes.
Whether they'd care about software freedom and what they'd consider that to be is orthogonal (but to the extent info property regimes persist, will presumably be twisted up in those, like today).and way more interesting. Some variables to consider:
* At what scale is 'self-programming' most effective?
* At what scale are autonomous 'computers' most effective?
* How effectively can 'self-programming' innovations be communicated and used across 'computer' boundaries?
* To what extent does collaboration across 'computer' boundaries increase effectiveness?
* How do political concepts such as freedom apply to 'computers'?
'Comptuer' in quotes because I really mean something like machine intelligence which has autonomous agency, which might be on tiny scale, or could be borgian.Luis R. Rodriguez, olm-e likes this.
federated collaboration
Mike Linksvayer at 2015-04-13T21:44:42Z
Eagerly awaiting https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-April/077517.html whatever that means.
But sad that Erik Moeller leaving position at Wikimedia.
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InterestingMike Linksvayer at 2014-05-10T20:08:19Z
Water marks the amateur.
Adapted from http://robmyers.org/2014/05/09/artworld-ethereum-identity-ownership-and-authenticity/Luis R. Rodriguez likes this.
Stefano Zacchiroli at 2014-04-08T07:54:46Z
#kudos to the fantastic #Debian security team for their timely work on #heartbleed http://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&post=1565Marcelo Nicolas Manso, johns, Raúl Benencia, Luis R. Rodriguez and 3 others likes this.
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Yeah, the Debian team is fast, but I was still surprised to have the patch available already this morning! Great work!
Kudos indeed! \o/
Stefano Zacchiroli at 2014-04-06T11:20:11Z
new blog post: «historical overview of #debian source code» https://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2014/04/historical_overview_of_debian_source_code/ #debsourcesOlivier Berger, Luis R. Rodriguez likes this.
Free Software Foundation at 2014-04-06T02:44:10Z
Sony blocking Sintel on YouTube is exactly why we need to support the GNU @MediaGoblin crowd funding campaign.kompatux3s, Undefined, Francisco M García Claramonte, Selk' Nam and 13 others likes this.
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why did they block it?
Sigh.
From what I've gathered Sony added the 4K version of Sintel to their 4K video sample libraries. All fine so far. However, the Sony's take-down bot considers everything in their sample libraries as (C) Sony or its associates, so as soon as the original video is located, it's targeted for an automated DMCA takedown.Carlos Solís at 2014-04-07T15:18:57Z
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How? (O.O)!
Novena
Greg Grossmeier at 2014-04-03T23:27:20Z
Novena, one of the projects that ioerror/Jacob referenced in his LibrePlanet keynote, is doing a crowdfunding campaign where you can purchase an as open/Free as possible laptop.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop
If I had an extra $2k I'd do the laptop option right now.Luis R. Rodriguez, jrobb, Christopher Allan Webber likes this.
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Yeah, I was thinking it would be a cool home server, I could just keep it tucked away, but it has its own screen for when I need to look at it.
Our kids are gonna have the most kickass hardware to play with, ne? ^_^
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Dang, were you at LibrePlanet and I missed you?Unfortunately for me, no I wasn't at LP. I'll make sure to find you in a crowd if we're ever at the same event, don't worry :)Mike Linksvayer at 2014-03-24T18:36:01Z
Garrett and OPW, great choices http://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-award-winners-announcedLuis R. Rodriguez, johns likes this.
I was thinking today, why am I in the executive director role at the FSF rather than someone else who works here? I can point to one critical difference between me and everyone else here. I can keep the plants in my office alive.
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@johns, When I was Executive Director of FSF, I had no plants, IIRC. Is that ultimately why I had to leave? I hadn't realized. :)
Sounds like more evidence!
A Snowden interview that did not require installing proprietary backdoors to watch would be much more awesome. #sxsw
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Mike Linksvayer at 2014-03-12T23:24:05Z
WWW next 25: Universal, Secure, Resilient?
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Denver Gingerich at 2014-02-24T21:37:28Z
The 1.0 release of #Pitivi is fast approaching, but it needs your help: http://fundraiser.pitivi.org/ Free software video editors rock!Luis R. Rodriguez, Robin Millette, Christopher Allan Webber likes this.
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Stefano Zacchiroli at 2014-02-24T23:37:41Z
#debian accepted in #gsoc2014 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/debianLuis R. Rodriguez likes this.
Stefano Zacchiroli at 2014-02-22T13:14:56Z
#notmuchMutt is featured in @lwnnet's update about #Notmuch https://lwn.net/Articles/586992/Luis R. Rodriguez, Greg Grossmeier likes this.
Thanks for notmuch-mutt! I use it daily :-)
sazius at 2014-02-22T15:46:47Z
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Mike Linksvayer at 2014-02-16T23:10:32Z
IP, commons, and World Values Survey traditional/secular-rational and survival/self-expression dimensions
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