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by frabcus 13y ago
When first shown it by a friend, I didn't want to use it because I was ideologically only using open source stuff, and servers I have control over. I carried on using Unison and some dodgy shell scripts. Some years later, I got a free
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by frabcus 13y ago
Philanthropy is one of the few credible models left for good journalism. (The other being pay-for niche, like the Economist). So I like that another really excellent philanthropically funded news organisation is starting (Pro Publica has be
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by frabcus 13y ago
Do you know who the best person we can interview about this is? Looks really interesting / important.
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by frabcus 13y ago
Wow! That looks very interesting
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by frabcus 13y ago
Yep - have filed a bug and replied with link to it. Thinking about what we should do!
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by frabcus 13y ago
Thanks! Filed as an issue https://github.com/frabcus/redecentralize-website/issues/23 Do you know if any of the open Github competitors store the issues in a decentralized way? Similar to Bugs Everywhere?
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by frabcus 13y ago
I feel the same, and have filed a bug https://github.com/frabcus/redecentralize-website/issues/22
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by frabcus 13y ago
We tried using WebRTC, unfortunately the recording stuff isn't rolled out yet. So we're doing the interviews using Google Hangouts still, for now.
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by frabcus 13y ago
I'm one of the founders of Redecentralize.org. My own main motivation wasn't just privacy, but also resilience (against, say, hurricanes) and fun (the web doesn't have the same joy it once did). So my favourite interview so f
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by frabcus 13y ago
Yep - the idea was that it isn't generally known about. There's lots of interesting stuff going on that we wanted to highlight - hence the site!
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by frabcus 13y ago
You can never criticise a politician if there's a law that lets anyone control their own name. Democracy becomes unworkable. Similarly, you can't criticise business leaders or civil servants. So corruption becomes rife.
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by frabcus 13y ago
Interesting - perhaps it has the same market as Opera's browsers used to (e.g. carriers)? As a geek, I often forget that a shared market can indicate why a company is doing something new, as well as a shared product.
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by frabcus 13y ago
Price per watt of solar PV is on an exponentially improving trend line, since the late 1970s. http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/24/solar-powers-massive-pri... Natural gas is, well, much less predictable. But h
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by frabcus 13y ago
They'd get money from Bing [1] if Google dropped the contract in 2014. Firefox sell a commodity product - their default search engine - so have no need to be blackmailed by their customer. [1] e.g. see "Firefox with Bing" mov
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by frabcus 13y ago
This is great stuff, and I want more! Any other good blog posts about it? Or overviews? How are people reacting?
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by frabcus 13y ago
We (ScraperWiki) can still access some of our US East servers. From those, can daisy chain SSH into the ones that are offline. Those servers can't see the world, but are working fine and can see other EC2 instances.
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Large chunks of EC2 have no net connectivity(twitter.com)
3 points by frabcus 13y ago|0 comments
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Interview with Jacob Cook of arkOS(redecentralize.org)
3 points by frabcus 13y ago|0 comments
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by frabcus 13y ago
I really don't think either Windows 98 or IE4 were "first to market". OS/2 and Netscape were available and better at the time. Microsoft's skill was other aspects - really building the whole products that businesses
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Interview with Serval Project (mobile phone mesh) founder(redecentralize.org)
2 points by frabcus 13y ago|0 comments
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Interview with Tony Arcieri of Cryptosphere(redecentralize.org)
2 points by frabcus 13y ago|0 comments
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Why does Google Docs have so many ways of sharing?(blog.scraperwiki.com)
3 points by frabcus 13y ago|0 comments
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by frabcus 13y ago
Liverpool, UK - ScraperWiki - CTO ScraperWiki is a Silicon Valley style startup, in Liverpool, UK. We’re changing how data science is done together on the Internet. We're hiring a CTO. If you were doing the job, you'd describe it
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by frabcus 13y ago
It is quite hard to explain! I didn't get it from the headline "heartbeat monitoring" - I assumed it was a medical startup. It's definitely a problem I have, particularly checking backups reliably run. Feels like it shou
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What's a CTO at a startup actually do?(blog.scraperwiki.com)
1 points by frabcus 13y ago|0 comments
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Google ‘should be investigated by the taxman’ say MPs(metro.co.uk)
2 points by frabcus 13y ago|0 comments
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by frabcus 13y ago
Where's a reference for it now being client-server? I can't find anything with a quick search.
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by frabcus 13y ago
The original wording was carefully chosen - things can cost less than they are worth.
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How we used email as a customer support system at mySociety(flourish.org)
2 points by frabcus 13y ago|0 comments
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How to use time-travelling anthrop. pollsters to tell good from evil marketing(flourish.org)
1 points by frabcus 14y ago|0 comments

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