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I do not get it. Did you have to shut it down? Does not make sense to complain that someone uploaded stuff to a public unprotected writable storage. Wouldn't se
by vletal 4y ago
I do not get it. Did you have to shut it down? Does not make sense to complain that someone uploaded stuff to a public unprotected writable storage. Wouldn't securing it with a set of credentials suffice?
- p_l 4y agoSome were open for uploads by design, in spirit of sharing things - essentially use the free space left after maib purpose to provide friendly mirrors for things like new projects etc. I recall using Archie to find copies of open source software at the ending edge of that era. Some also were used as submissions for projects, long before sites like sourceforge started. Especially since plonking a bigger source dump on newsgroups wasn't exactly well received.
- jorvi 4y agoSometimes people should be able to do nice things without it getting abused, no? In The Netherlands, in the nicer neighborhoods we have something called a ‘buurtbieb’ aka a ‘neighborhood libraries’, which is a weatherproof cabinet where people can put surplus books that other people in the neighborhood can borrow. Of course you could take all the books or use the cabinet to store candy, but why would you?
- jumpkick 4y agoWe have these throughout many neighborhoods in my city in central Florida, USA. We’re a college town so I just assumed it was somehow connected to that. Neat that it’s an international thing!
- dividedbyzero 4y agoMunich, Germany has them as well
- Liquid_Fire 4y agoIn the UK these are commonly set up inside old unused telephone boxes - you can find them in many villages/towns, e.g.: https://nothingintherulebook.com/2018/11/03/british-phone-box-libraries/ https://nothingintherulebook.com/2018/11/03/british-phone-bo...
- neutronicus 4y agoHere in Baltimore, MD, too, although the focus is mostly on kids books
- evandrofisico 4y agoHere in Brazil we have those on bus stops.
- yawz 4y agoGreat to hear these little neighborhood libraries are international. We have them here where I live in Colorado, US.
- Kon-Peki 4y agoIndeed. The zoning code for my town specifically calls them out (as allowed, with no permits necessary).
- theandrewbailey 4y agoCan confirm neighborhood libraries are a thing in Pittsburgh (USA).
- sodapopcan 4y agoWe have them in Toronto, ON. We call them LLLs or Little Lending Libraries. There are actually quite a lot of them.
- coldacid 4y agoWe have them out in the 905s too. I've seen quite a few of them here in Durham Region.
- username923409 4y agoI've also seen many of these at bus stations near Victoria, BC.
- phyzome 4y agoUsually called Little Free Libraries in the US. (The name is a little weird, because regular libraries are also free...)
- DocTomoe 4y agoObligatory "Free as in beer vs. free as in freedom" comment. I have pulled stuff out of small community bookshelves that would never have seen their chance in a "professional-run" public library, both bad and good.
- samatman 4y agoThe word "public" in "public library" is load bearing, you can't replace it with "regular", hence your confusion. Private libraries (mine for example) are not free, as in beer or otherwise.
- elliekelly 4y agoThere are two libraries near me that aren’t free - they charge an annual “membership” fee. One even operates more like an old blockbuster when it comes to newly released books. They charge a daily rental fee! It’s 25¢ a day, I believe.
- db48x 4y agoTrue, though to be fair most people never get to use private libraries. Or they used a library at their University that was technically private, but that gave access to the public as well. Public libraries are ubiquitous and very normal, while private libraries are the exception.
- samatman 4y agoIt's a normal elision, yes, we all picture a public library when we say "library". But "free library" isn't redundant or weird, because "public" is a modifier of library, not a trait. People tend to call their personal library a "book collection" or the like, but it's a library, in just the same way that a Little Free Library is. So most people who read have at least a small private library, whether they think of it in those terms or not.
- Arubis 4y agoThere’s actually coordination around these things: https://littlefreelibrary.org/ https://littlefreelibrary.org/
- boredumb 4y agoIn Puerto Rico there are quite a few of these on the sidewalk and despite the rains they are generally always stocked with books. There are bars on everyone's windows and doors, but books piled up on the street.
- chasd00 4y agothere's one down the street from me but instead of books it has canned food. It says "little free pantry" on it. It must have been around for a while because the neighborhood it's in has long sense been gentrified and is populated with very well-off residents vs the working poor that use to live there.
- mbeex 4y agoI think, you don't get the full grasp of "early, friendly internet". Very few people do today. In my bubble - programming, for example, young people can't even imagine that there were times when you could focus on _things_ instead of writing layers of security code around them.
- hardware2win 4y agoI think you make it sound as if that was good, but it was straight naive or irresponsible
- 0des 4y agoIt was a different time
- beowulfey 4y agoSure, in today’s world. That’s like saying it would be naive and irresponsible for me to go outside without a life preserver today despite an unforeseen catastrophic global flood drowning the lands 10 years from now. It was a different world, with different expectations and frameworks.
- ysavir 4y agoThe GP is saying "I miss the days where I could easily exploit people" and the response was "I miss the days where we respected each other enough to not exploit each other". It wasn't naive or irresponsible, but reflective of a time with more trust, cooperation, and good intentions.
- throwawayHN378 4y ago
- mbeex 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism