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Given the mole rat has gone, the BBC has inspired me to pick a new name for my ongoing series of “State of the Rat” posts where the technology that is supposed to save us – face recognition, automated moderation and the like – turns out to have a bit of an issue. Spoiler: it always will, machines can’t make subjective decisions, discretion can’t be quantised.ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Simon Phipps is a consultant providing insight and knowledge on open source, digital rights and the emerging meshed economy to businesses and governments worldwide, as the founding principal of Meshed Insights Ltd. His writing is regularly featured in a variety of global publications and he is a frequent keynote speaker. He is a delegate at EVENTS | WILD WEBMINK Promotional Materials. My full-length biography is on the About page.; Promotional photographs are available and Faces Of Open Source has some too.; I am gradually building a list of events I have spoken at in the past.; Alternative biography: Computer industry veteran Simon Phipps has engaged at a strategic level in the world’s leading technology companies.WEBM | WILD WEBMINK
Following news that MPEG-LA have generously offered to sell patent licenses to implementers of the latest 3D-capable video standard, MVC, the world’s tapeworms announced they have formed a new collective inspired by the same principle.. Dubbed IPEG-SA (Intestinal Parasites Exploitation Group – Service Administration), they will offer humans the opportunity to license suitably sanitized DIRECT AND INDIRECT CAUSALITY THE OPEN-BY-RULE BENCHMARK What does authentic open source community governance look like? An open source community will involve many people gathering for their own independent reasons around a free software commons with source code licensed under an OSI-approved open source license. But there's more to software freedom than just the license. The key question any potential co-developer will APACHE | WILD WEBMINK The Apache Software Foundation is probably the most respected open source code community. Host to nearly 100 massively important projects like httpd, Subversion and Tomcat, it has thoughtfully and pragmatically built highly effective governance over a long period, tweaking its procedures so they work well without getting in the way of progress.. Many thanks to Jim Jagielski of ORACLE | WILD WEBMINK Posts about Oracle written by Simon Phipps. At a recent debate in the House of Lords on the Digital Economy Bill, a number of amendments designed to ensure citizen rights (as opposed to most terms of the DEB that limit citizen rights in defence on corporate rights) were rejected by the UK government on the basis they would upset the delicate balance of UK law.CWUK | WILD WEBMINK
The news is out that WS-I will now be absorbed by OASIS according to their PDF release.They told us back in July that it was going to happen. As far as I can tell, that’s the end of the WS-* family of specifications – there will be no more, and they are destined purely for “maintenance” atMAKING HYBRID PDFS
It's easy with LibreOffice. Send people attachments you can be sure they can view, but which can also be edited with free, open source software. Here's a how-to video that explains how to make Hybrid PDF files - that's a normal PDF file, but with the ODF source of the document embedded so that anyone with LibreOfficeWILD WEBMINK
Given the mole rat has gone, the BBC has inspired me to pick a new name for my ongoing series of “State of the Rat” posts where the technology that is supposed to save us – face recognition, automated moderation and the like – turns out to have a bit of an issue. Spoiler: it always will, machines can’t make subjective decisions, discretion can’t be quantised.ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Simon Phipps is a consultant providing insight and knowledge on open source, digital rights and the emerging meshed economy to businesses and governments worldwide, as the founding principal of Meshed Insights Ltd. His writing is regularly featured in a variety of global publications and he is a frequent keynote speaker. He is a delegate at EVENTS | WILD WEBMINK Promotional Materials. My full-length biography is on the About page.; Promotional photographs are available and Faces Of Open Source has some too.; I am gradually building a list of events I have spoken at in the past.; Alternative biography: Computer industry veteran Simon Phipps has engaged at a strategic level in the world’s leading technology companies.WEBM | WILD WEBMINK
Following news that MPEG-LA have generously offered to sell patent licenses to implementers of the latest 3D-capable video standard, MVC, the world’s tapeworms announced they have formed a new collective inspired by the same principle.. Dubbed IPEG-SA (Intestinal Parasites Exploitation Group – Service Administration), they will offer humans the opportunity to license suitably sanitized DIRECT AND INDIRECT CAUSALITY THE OPEN-BY-RULE BENCHMARK What does authentic open source community governance look like? An open source community will involve many people gathering for their own independent reasons around a free software commons with source code licensed under an OSI-approved open source license. But there's more to software freedom than just the license. The key question any potential co-developer will APACHE | WILD WEBMINK The Apache Software Foundation is probably the most respected open source code community. Host to nearly 100 massively important projects like httpd, Subversion and Tomcat, it has thoughtfully and pragmatically built highly effective governance over a long period, tweaking its procedures so they work well without getting in the way of progress.. Many thanks to Jim Jagielski of ORACLE | WILD WEBMINK Posts about Oracle written by Simon Phipps. At a recent debate in the House of Lords on the Digital Economy Bill, a number of amendments designed to ensure citizen rights (as opposed to most terms of the DEB that limit citizen rights in defence on corporate rights) were rejected by the UK government on the basis they would upset the delicate balance of UK law.CWUK | WILD WEBMINK
The news is out that WS-I will now be absorbed by OASIS according to their PDF release.They told us back in July that it was going to happen. As far as I can tell, that’s the end of the WS-* family of specifications – there will be no more, and they are destined purely for “maintenance” atMAKING HYBRID PDFS
It's easy with LibreOffice. Send people attachments you can be sure they can view, but which can also be edited with free, open source software. Here's a how-to video that explains how to make Hybrid PDF files - that's a normal PDF file, but with the ODF source of the document embedded so that anyone with LibreOfficeWEBM | WILD WEBMINK
At the end of last week, the MPEG-LA consortium announced they were extending the arrangement whereby they allow ‘web uses’ of the patents reading on the H.264 standard that they administer for their members to be licensed without charge. The arrangement, which runs in five-year periods, has now been extended to the expiration of the patents in the pool. APACHE | WILD WEBMINK The Apache Software Foundation is probably the most respected open source code community. Host to nearly 100 massively important projects like httpd, Subversion and Tomcat, it has thoughtfully and pragmatically built highly effective governance over a long period, tweaking its procedures so they work well without getting in the way of progress.. Many thanks to Jim Jagielski of JUNE | 2016 | WILD WEBMINK At the end of my testimony in the recent Oracle v Google trial in San Francisco, Judge Alsup asked me to explain what an API is. My answer aimed to simplify the answer for a general listener while remaining recognizable to most programmers. WILL YOU BECOME A PATRON? Is the answer to the "gig economy" patronage? I hope to find out using Patreon! The Gig Economy We're moving more and more into what's called the "gig economy", where instead of a single, full-time, lifetime-long job, people engage in multiple activities. It's certainly what I have been doing for the last few years; consulting on open APRIL | 2017 | WILD WEBMINK 2 posts published by Simon Phipps during April 2017. Never give robots guns. Guns are for killing. Robots can’t make analogue decisions and those are the only ones that should ever control the taking of the life of another person. MAY | 2013 | WILD WEBMINK On FLOSS Weekly this week, Jono Bacon told us all about the Ubuntu Phone. I’ve summarised the most interesting points on InfoWorld today, but the key take-away for me was they are focussing on the carriers and handset vendors yet don’t appear to have a strong plan to build a developer marketplace around the device.As Sir Humphrey would say, that’s a brave choice. JULY | 2010 | WILD WEBMINK 10 posts published by Simon Phipps during July 2010. O’Grady has come to the same conclusion that I did at OSCON, namely that the “open source bubble” may be over – the period where it was assumed open source would be directly monetised – and it’s time for a resurgence of the traditional approach of many parties with their core business elsewhere synchronising fragments of their AUGUST | 2013 | WILD WEBMINK 1 post published by Simon Phipps during August 2013 AZURE LOVES LINUX; WHAT ABOUT MICROSOFT? The news that Red Hat and Microsoft have reached an agreement about hosting Linux is very welcome. I am delighted for Red Hat here, and see this as a huge sign of the continuing power and growth of open source. It shows that the cloud market is one where and embrace ofLinux is table
JULY | 2014 | WILD WEBMINK 1 post published by Simon Phipps during July 2014WILD WEBMINK
Given the mole rat has gone, the BBC has inspired me to pick a new name for my ongoing series of “State of the Rat” posts where the technology that is supposed to save us – face recognition, automated moderation and the like – turns out to have a bit of an issue. Spoiler: it always will, machines can’t make subjective decisions, discretion can’t be quantised.ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Simon Phipps is a consultant providing insight and knowledge on open source, digital rights and the emerging meshed economy to businesses and governments worldwide, as the founding principal of Meshed Insights Ltd. His writing is regularly featured in a variety of global publications and he is a frequent keynote speaker. He is a delegate at ESSAYS | WILD WEBMINK Some blog posts develop a life of their own, growing beyond the transient and getting used for reference. You'll find those essays moved here as they emerge. I've divided them up into three categories. The first are essays on general community concepts. The second contains essays that explain open source ideas for business people who DIRECT AND INDIRECT CAUSALITY THE OPEN-BY-RULE BENCHMARK What does authentic open source community governance look like? An open source community will involve many people gathering for their own independent reasons around a free software commons with source code licensed under an OSI-approved open source license. But there's more to software freedom than just the license. The key question any potential co-developer willCOMMUNITY TYPES
When I am with business people, I often find I need to distinguish between the different kinds of community that are layered around various Free software commons. It's common to characterise community members as either "developers" (the "open source" worldview often emphasises this) or "users" (the "Free software" worldview oftenemphasises this).
ORACLE | WILD WEBMINK Posts about Oracle written by Simon Phipps. At a recent debate in the House of Lords on the Digital Economy Bill, a number of amendments designed to ensure citizen rights (as opposed to most terms of the DEB that limit citizen rights in defence on corporate rights) were rejected by the UK government on the basis they would upset the delicate balance of UK law.MAKING HYBRID PDFS
It's easy with LibreOffice. Send people attachments you can be sure they can view, but which can also be edited with free, open source software. Here's a how-to video that explains how to make Hybrid PDF files - that's a normal PDF file, but with the ODF source of the document embedded so that anyone with LibreOffice TIPOS DE COMUNIDADES Quando estou com pessoas de negócios, muitas vezes sinto que preciso distinguir entre os diferentes tipos de comunidades que se formam ao redor dos diversos rossios1 (commons) de software livre. É comum caracterizarmos os membros da comunidade como "desenvolvedores" (conforme a visão "open source" costuma enfatizar) ou "usuários" (conforme a visão "Free Software" costuma enfatizar).WILD WEBMINK
Given the mole rat has gone, the BBC has inspired me to pick a new name for my ongoing series of “State of the Rat” posts where the technology that is supposed to save us – face recognition, automated moderation and the like – turns out to have a bit of an issue.WILD WEBMINK
Given the mole rat has gone, the BBC has inspired me to pick a new name for my ongoing series of “State of the Rat” posts where the technology that is supposed to save us – face recognition, automated moderation and the like – turns out to have a bit of an issue. Spoiler: it always will, machines can’t make subjective decisions, discretion can’t be quantised.ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Simon Phipps is a consultant providing insight and knowledge on open source, digital rights and the emerging meshed economy to businesses and governments worldwide, as the founding principal of Meshed Insights Ltd. His writing is regularly featured in a variety of global publications and he is a frequent keynote speaker. He is a delegate at ESSAYS | WILD WEBMINK Some blog posts develop a life of their own, growing beyond the transient and getting used for reference. You'll find those essays moved here as they emerge. I've divided them up into three categories. The first are essays on general community concepts. The second contains essays that explain open source ideas for business people who DIRECT AND INDIRECT CAUSALITY THE OPEN-BY-RULE BENCHMARK What does authentic open source community governance look like? An open source community will involve many people gathering for their own independent reasons around a free software commons with source code licensed under an OSI-approved open source license. But there's more to software freedom than just the license. The key question any potential co-developer willCOMMUNITY TYPES
When I am with business people, I often find I need to distinguish between the different kinds of community that are layered around various Free software commons. It's common to characterise community members as either "developers" (the "open source" worldview often emphasises this) or "users" (the "Free software" worldview oftenemphasises this).
ORACLE | WILD WEBMINK Posts about Oracle written by Simon Phipps. At a recent debate in the House of Lords on the Digital Economy Bill, a number of amendments designed to ensure citizen rights (as opposed to most terms of the DEB that limit citizen rights in defence on corporate rights) were rejected by the UK government on the basis they would upset the delicate balance of UK law.MAKING HYBRID PDFS
It's easy with LibreOffice. Send people attachments you can be sure they can view, but which can also be edited with free, open source software. Here's a how-to video that explains how to make Hybrid PDF files - that's a normal PDF file, but with the ODF source of the document embedded so that anyone with LibreOffice TIPOS DE COMUNIDADES Quando estou com pessoas de negócios, muitas vezes sinto que preciso distinguir entre os diferentes tipos de comunidades que se formam ao redor dos diversos rossios1 (commons) de software livre. É comum caracterizarmos os membros da comunidade como "desenvolvedores" (conforme a visão "open source" costuma enfatizar) ou "usuários" (conforme a visão "Free Software" costuma enfatizar).WILD WEBMINK
Given the mole rat has gone, the BBC has inspired me to pick a new name for my ongoing series of “State of the Rat” posts where the technology that is supposed to save us – face recognition, automated moderation and the like – turns out to have a bit of an issue. EVENTS | WILD WEBMINK Promotional Materials. My full-length biography is on the About page.; Promotional photographs are available and Faces Of Open Source has some too.; I am gradually building a list of events I have spoken at in the past.; Alternative biography: Computer industry veteran Simon Phipps has engaged at a strategic level in the world’s leading technology companies.PRESS PHOTOS
Click any image to reach the publication-quality original. Also a set provided courtesy of O'Reilly Media - please note the attribution requirements: 2012 Photos. I hereby grant permission to reproduce these photographs unaltered (except for necessary and reasonable scaling and/or cropping) by print and online publications to accompany bona fides journalism and promotion of my work.CWUK | WILD WEBMINK
The news is out that WS-I will now be absorbed by OASIS according to their PDF release.They told us back in July that it was going to happen. As far as I can tell, that’s the end of the WS-* family of specifications – there will be no more, and they are destined purely for “maintenance” at OPEN SOURCE DOES NOT NEED MONETISING It's common to hear commentators and business leaders justifying practices that wouldn't be recognised as "open source" by many of us on the grounds that they have to make money somehow. Actions that deny the software freedoms of end users - and even developers - appear H.264 – NOT THE KIND OF FREE THAT MATTERS While the "free for web use" claims for H.264 by MPEG-LA sound great and have deceived many commentators, they are nothing new and contain no good news for open source software. In August 2010, the MPEG-LA consortium announced they were extending the arrangement whereby they allow 'web uses' of the patents reading on the H.264 STATE OF THE RAT TECHNOLOGY TwitterMink. RT @lizrice: UK folks - could you spare 10mins to complete this survey about your use of and involvement in open source? for @openuk_uk 8 hours ago RT @OpenRightsGroup: "It really is quite incredible how closely the bill mimics the Great Firewall approach, but with UK regulators OFCOM s 9 hours ago RT @cstross: “What this country needs is a short victorious war to ITALY | WILD WEBMINK I was in Italy on business this week and as I was flying in and out of Venice airport had the chance to spend a half-day in Venice. It was foggy and damp, but still enjoyable to walk around for a while. AUGUST | 2013 | WILD WEBMINK 1 post published by Simon Phipps during August 2013 DECEMBER | 2011 | WILD WEBMINK A very happy Christmas to everyone who reads Wild Webmink. May you find software freedom waiting for you in the coming year! If you need a last-minute gift for someone, maybe a CD of LibreOffice is the answer – you can make and decorate it yourself, and use this free as a gift card. (thanks to Eliane from Brazil for the lovely tree!)Then go on to help them install it – more on ComputerWorld.WILD WEBMINK
Given the mole rat has gone, the BBC has inspired me to pick a new name for my ongoing series of “State of the Rat” posts where the technology that is supposed to save us – face recognition, automated moderation and the like – turns out to have a bit of an issue.WILD WEBMINK
Given the mole rat has gone, the BBC has inspired me to pick a new name for my ongoing series of “State of the Rat” posts where the technology that is supposed to save us – face recognition, automated moderation and the like – turns out to have a bit of an issue. Spoiler: it always will, machines can’t make subjective decisions, discretion can’t be quantised.ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Simon Phipps is a consultant providing insight and knowledge on open source, digital rights and the emerging meshed economy to businesses and governments worldwide, as the founding principal of Meshed Insights Ltd. His writing is regularly featured in a variety of global publications and he is a frequent keynote speaker. He is a delegate atWEBM | WILD WEBMINK
Following news that MPEG-LA have generously offered to sell patent licenses to implementers of the latest 3D-capable video standard, MVC, the world’s tapeworms announced they have formed a new collective inspired by the same principle.. Dubbed IPEG-SA (Intestinal Parasites Exploitation Group – Service Administration), they will offer humans the opportunity to license suitably sanitized DIRECT AND INDIRECT CAUSALITY THE OPEN-BY-RULE BENCHMARK What does authentic open source community governance look like? An open source community will involve many people gathering for their own independent reasons around a free software commons with source code licensed under an OSI-approved open source license. But there's more to software freedom than just the license. The key question any potential co-developer will APACHE | WILD WEBMINK The Apache Software Foundation is probably the most respected open source code community. Host to nearly 100 massively important projects like httpd, Subversion and Tomcat, it has thoughtfully and pragmatically built highly effective governance over a long period, tweaking its procedures so they work well without getting in the way of progress.. Many thanks to Jim Jagielski of ORACLE | WILD WEBMINK Posts about Oracle written by Simon Phipps. At a recent debate in the House of Lords on the Digital Economy Bill, a number of amendments designed to ensure citizen rights (as opposed to most terms of the DEB that limit citizen rights in defence on corporate rights) were rejected by the UK government on the basis they would upset the delicate balance of UK law.CWUK | WILD WEBMINK
The news is out that WS-I will now be absorbed by OASIS according to their PDF release.They told us back in July that it was going to happen. As far as I can tell, that’s the end of the WS-* family of specifications – there will be no more, and they are destined purely for “maintenance” atMAKING HYBRID PDFS
It's easy with LibreOffice. Send people attachments you can be sure they can view, but which can also be edited with free, open source software. Here's a how-to video that explains how to make Hybrid PDF files - that's a normal PDF file, but with the ODF source of the document embedded so that anyone with LibreOffice RESPONDING TO POST TRUTH POLITICS In his article Understanding Trump, George Lakoff offers a master class in the psychology of the Trump phenomenon. It is definitely worth your time to read it. At the end, he outlines a game plan for responsing to Trump which I think is superb. But I think it applies to more than just US politics;WILD WEBMINK
Given the mole rat has gone, the BBC has inspired me to pick a new name for my ongoing series of “State of the Rat” posts where the technology that is supposed to save us – face recognition, automated moderation and the like – turns out to have a bit of an issue. Spoiler: it always will, machines can’t make subjective decisions, discretion can’t be quantised.ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Simon Phipps is a consultant providing insight and knowledge on open source, digital rights and the emerging meshed economy to businesses and governments worldwide, as the founding principal of Meshed Insights Ltd. His writing is regularly featured in a variety of global publications and he is a frequent keynote speaker. He is a delegate atWEBM | WILD WEBMINK
Following news that MPEG-LA have generously offered to sell patent licenses to implementers of the latest 3D-capable video standard, MVC, the world’s tapeworms announced they have formed a new collective inspired by the same principle.. Dubbed IPEG-SA (Intestinal Parasites Exploitation Group – Service Administration), they will offer humans the opportunity to license suitably sanitized DIRECT AND INDIRECT CAUSALITY THE OPEN-BY-RULE BENCHMARK What does authentic open source community governance look like? An open source community will involve many people gathering for their own independent reasons around a free software commons with source code licensed under an OSI-approved open source license. But there's more to software freedom than just the license. The key question any potential co-developer will APACHE | WILD WEBMINK The Apache Software Foundation is probably the most respected open source code community. Host to nearly 100 massively important projects like httpd, Subversion and Tomcat, it has thoughtfully and pragmatically built highly effective governance over a long period, tweaking its procedures so they work well without getting in the way of progress.. Many thanks to Jim Jagielski of ORACLE | WILD WEBMINK Posts about Oracle written by Simon Phipps. At a recent debate in the House of Lords on the Digital Economy Bill, a number of amendments designed to ensure citizen rights (as opposed to most terms of the DEB that limit citizen rights in defence on corporate rights) were rejected by the UK government on the basis they would upset the delicate balance of UK law.CWUK | WILD WEBMINK
The news is out that WS-I will now be absorbed by OASIS according to their PDF release.They told us back in July that it was going to happen. As far as I can tell, that’s the end of the WS-* family of specifications – there will be no more, and they are destined purely for “maintenance” atMAKING HYBRID PDFS
It's easy with LibreOffice. Send people attachments you can be sure they can view, but which can also be edited with free, open source software. Here's a how-to video that explains how to make Hybrid PDF files - that's a normal PDF file, but with the ODF source of the document embedded so that anyone with LibreOffice RESPONDING TO POST TRUTH POLITICS In his article Understanding Trump, George Lakoff offers a master class in the psychology of the Trump phenomenon. It is definitely worth your time to read it. At the end, he outlines a game plan for responsing to Trump which I think is superb. But I think it applies to more than just US politics;CWUK | WILD WEBMINK
The news is out that WS-I will now be absorbed by OASIS according to their PDF release.They told us back in July that it was going to happen. As far as I can tell, that’s the end of the WS-* family of specifications – there will be no more, and they are destined purely for “maintenance” atLIBREOFFICE
Yesterday I read LWN’s (paywalled but accessible from here) interview with Mark Shuttleworth, where he is quoted as saying that the formation of The Document Foundation (TDF) and its launch of LibreOffice “led Oracle to finally decide to stop OpenOffice development and lay off 100 employees.” Mark says this in the context of his new campaign as an apologist for Contribution LicensingCOMMUNITY TYPES
When I am with business people, I often find I need to distinguish between the different kinds of community that are layered around various Free software commons. It's common to characterise community members as either "developers" (the "open source" worldview often emphasises this) or "users" (the "Free software" worldview oftenemphasises this).
ODF | WILD WEBMINK
The details for Document Freedom Day 2010 have been announced – it’s on March 31st and there will be events all over the world. This should be a year of celebration as well as campaigning, as we have made enormous strides in promoting liberty. Usage of ODF is more common than ever, and new Microsoft Office users now get the opportunity to select it as the default format. SKYPE | WILD WEBMINK Having suspended disbelief for as long as I could, my ability to take Microsoft at their word over Skype was shattered today by the announcement by Digium, sponsors of the Asterisk project, that they have been told they can no longer sell their Asterisk-Skype interaction module after July 26. In one move, we have illustrated the risk of a hybrid open source model, the danger of dependency on a WILL YOU BECOME A PATRON? Is the answer to the "gig economy" patronage? I hope to find out using Patreon! The Gig Economy We're moving more and more into what's called the "gig economy", where instead of a single, full-time, lifetime-long job, people engage in multiple activities. It's certainly what I have been doing for the last few years; consulting on open RESPONDING TO POST TRUTH POLITICS In his article Understanding Trump, George Lakoff offers a master class in the psychology of the Trump phenomenon. It is definitely worth your time to read it. At the end, he outlines a game plan for responsing to Trump which I think is superb. But I think it applies to more than just US politics; DECEMBER | 2011 | WILD WEBMINK A very happy Christmas to everyone who reads Wild Webmink. May you find software freedom waiting for you in the coming year! If you need a last-minute gift for someone, maybe a CD of LibreOffice is the answer – you can make and decorate it yourself, and use this free as a gift card. (thanks to Eliane from Brazil for the lovely tree!)Then go on to help them install it – more on ComputerWorld. JULY | 2010 | WILD WEBMINK 10 posts published by Simon Phipps during July 2010. O’Grady has come to the same conclusion that I did at OSCON, namely that the “open source bubble” may be over – the period where it was assumed open source would be directly monetised – and it’s time for a resurgence of the traditional approach of many parties with their core business elsewhere synchronising fragments of their AZURE LOVES LINUX; WHAT ABOUT MICROSOFT? The news that Red Hat and Microsoft have reached an agreement about hosting Linux is very welcome. I am delighted for Red Hat here, and see this as a huge sign of the continuing power and growth of open source. It shows that the cloud market is one where and embrace ofLinux is table
WILD WEBMINK
Given the mole rat has gone, the BBC has inspired me to pick a new name for my ongoing series of “State of the Rat” posts where the technology that is supposed to save us – face recognition, automated moderation and the like – turns out to have a bit of an issue. Spoiler: it always will, machines can’t make subjective decisions, discretion can’t be quantised.ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Simon Phipps is a consultant providing insight and knowledge on open source, digital rights and the emerging meshed economy to businesses and governments worldwide, as the founding principal of Meshed Insights Ltd. His writing is regularly featured in a variety of global publications and he is a frequent keynote speaker. He is a delegate at ESSAYS | WILD WEBMINK Some blog posts develop a life of their own, growing beyond the transient and getting used for reference. You'll find those essays moved here as they emerge. I've divided them up into three categories. The first are essays on general community concepts. The second contains essays that explain open source ideas for business people who EVENTS | WILD WEBMINK Promotional Materials. My full-length biography is on the About page.; Promotional photographs are available and Faces Of Open Source has some too.; I am gradually building a list of events I have spoken at in the past.; Alternative biography: Computer industry veteran Simon Phipps has engaged at a strategic level in the world’s leading technology companies.WEBM | WILD WEBMINK
Following news that MPEG-LA have generously offered to sell patent licenses to implementers of the latest 3D-capable video standard, MVC, the world’s tapeworms announced they have formed a new collective inspired by the same principle.. Dubbed IPEG-SA (Intestinal Parasites Exploitation Group – Service Administration), they will offer humans the opportunity to license suitably sanitized DIRECT AND INDIRECT CAUSALITY APACHE | WILD WEBMINK The Apache Software Foundation is probably the most respected open source code community. Host to nearly 100 massively important projects like httpd, Subversion and Tomcat, it has thoughtfully and pragmatically built highly effective governance over a long period, tweaking its procedures so they work well without getting in the way of progress.. Many thanks to Jim Jagielski of ORACLE | WILD WEBMINK Posts about Oracle written by Simon Phipps. At a recent debate in the House of Lords on the Digital Economy Bill, a number of amendments designed to ensure citizen rights (as opposed to most terms of the DEB that limit citizen rights in defence on corporate rights) were rejected by the UK government on the basis they would upset the delicate balance of UK law.LIBREOFFICE
Yesterday I read LWN’s (paywalled but accessible from here) interview with Mark Shuttleworth, where he is quoted as saying that the formation of The Document Foundation (TDF) and its launch of LibreOffice “led Oracle to finally decide to stop OpenOffice development and lay off 100 employees.” Mark says this in the context of his new campaign as an apologist for Contribution LicensingMAKING HYBRID PDFS
It's easy with LibreOffice. Send people attachments you can be sure they can view, but which can also be edited with free, open source software. Here's a how-to video that explains how to make Hybrid PDF files - that's a normal PDF file, but with the ODF source of the document embedded so that anyone with LibreOfficeWILD WEBMINK
Given the mole rat has gone, the BBC has inspired me to pick a new name for my ongoing series of “State of the Rat” posts where the technology that is supposed to save us – face recognition, automated moderation and the like – turns out to have a bit of an issue. Spoiler: it always will, machines can’t make subjective decisions, discretion can’t be quantised.ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Simon Phipps is a consultant providing insight and knowledge on open source, digital rights and the emerging meshed economy to businesses and governments worldwide, as the founding principal of Meshed Insights Ltd. His writing is regularly featured in a variety of global publications and he is a frequent keynote speaker. He is a delegate at ESSAYS | WILD WEBMINK Some blog posts develop a life of their own, growing beyond the transient and getting used for reference. You'll find those essays moved here as they emerge. I've divided them up into three categories. The first are essays on general community concepts. The second contains essays that explain open source ideas for business people who EVENTS | WILD WEBMINK Promotional Materials. My full-length biography is on the About page.; Promotional photographs are available and Faces Of Open Source has some too.; I am gradually building a list of events I have spoken at in the past.; Alternative biography: Computer industry veteran Simon Phipps has engaged at a strategic level in the world’s leading technology companies.WEBM | WILD WEBMINK
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STATE OF THE ONION
Posted on October 10, 2020 by Simon PhippsGiven the mole rat
has
gone, the BBC has inspired me to pick a new name for my ongoing series of “State of the Rat ” posts where the technology that is supposed to save us – face recognition, automated moderation and the like – turns out to have a bit of an issue. _Spoiler_: it always will, machines can’t make subjective decisions, discretion
can’t be quantised.
------------------------- IN WHICH FACEBOOK REASSURES US ONCE AGAIN THEY CAN DEFINITELY IDENTIFY PORNOGRAPHY, NO PROBLEM, TRUST US TO FILTER IT OUT MATE. > Is the Beeb OK? https://t.co/XHak9FZbxp pic.twitter.com/IEbSIOUMGs>
> — Olivia Solon (@oliviasolon) October 9, 2020>
* Why some onions were too sexy for Facebook(BBC)
* Seed Company
(Facebook)
_(10 October 2020)_
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Posted on May 27, 2020 by Simon Phipps It’s been a while since we discussed state of the rat filteringtechnology
, but
some examples recently need to go on list. ------------------------- MACHINES UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT YOUR CHILD SHOULD KNOW: > pic.twitter.com/afJQIUzas9 > — Guitar Hero 3 uncovered in Iraq, circa 167 BC (@JizzLizz) May> 24, 2020
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------------------------- THE FILTER CAN TELL WHEN YOU ARE USING DIRTY LANGUAGE AND WILL PROTECT SENSITIVE AMERICANS FROM YOUR CRUDENESS: > Also for the "mandatory filtering is the answer" > file.https://t.co/Xht1y5281m > — Simon Phipps (@webmink) May 27, 2020>
------------------------- NASA IS OF COURSE STEALING THE COVERAGE OF THE SPACE LAUNCH FROM NBC. > NBC Universal (likely robotic) copyright lawyer running around > videos/livestreams claiming Doug and Bob's crew walkout on NASA TV > is copyrighted to them. @NBCUniversal>
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> I'm going to say that's an error. Problem is you have to remove it > as dispute can take forever. pic.twitter.com/2AtUOYrQRx>
> — Chris B – NSF (@NASASpaceflight) May 28, 2020>
------------------------- FACEBOOK’S BOTS DON’T AGREE WITH FACEBOOK’S ADJUDICATION: > Oh, the fucking irony..>
> I'm trying to share a story about Facebook apologising for tagging > this picture as nudity, and it's literally tagged the article as > nudity…https://t.co/aXRyQctlyM> @joshgnosis
> from @GuardianAus>
> pic.twitter.com/SvfzvO8jOa > — Aby Darling (@AbyDarling) June 12, 2020>
------------------------- FACIAL RECOGNITION WILL DEFINITELY HELP US FIND THE RIGHT GUY > pic.twitter.com/LG2cimkCFm>
> — Chicken3gg (@Chicken3gg) June 20, 2020>
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| Comments Off on Rat Redux STATE OF THE RAT TECHNOLOGY Posted on June 25, 2018 by Simon Phipps While we’re on the subject of mandatory filtering, here’s the sort of technology we are talking about in action: ------------------------- THE ORIGINAL STATE OF THE RAT TECHNOLOGY: > Twitter censored my hairless rat again pic.twitter.com/cYsFxw0nCE>
>
> — Amanda Goodcamera (@AmandaLafrenais) June 24, 2018>
Now removed, the original post that triggered this page was from the owner of a mole rat complaining that her photos of her rat were being incorrectly tagged as pornography and consequently her account keptgetting blocked.
------------------------- POLITICAL CONTENT IS SO EASY TO SPOT: > Facebook's political ad verification rules blocked ads about> -beans
> -hair waxing
> -shrubbery
> because they contained the word "Bush."> and ads about
> – baseball
> – theater
> – free food at church for kids > because they were from towns called "Clinton"https://t.co/xreiSt03p3 > pic.twitter.com/l7pEY86g5E>
> — Sarah Frier (@sarahfrier) July 2, 2018>
------------------------- THAT REFERENCE DATABASE IS SPOT ON DEFINING OWNERSHIP: > But don’t worry: automated filters are a good idea.>
> “YouTuber in row over copyright infringement of his own song” > https://t.co/XIopBNyqzG>
> — Neil Brown (@neil_neilzone) July 5, 2018>
------------------------- HISTORY AND CLASSICS ARE NOT ALWAYS PC: > Facebook Algorithm Flags, Removes Declaration of Independence Text > as Hate Speech https://t.co/IKBjawWPbf>
> — AMERICA'S LOUDEST PATRIOT (@TimCushing) July 3, 2018>
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ROOT-CAUSING REGULATORY FAILURE Posted on June 23, 2018 by Simon Phipps The European Parliament’s JURI committee passed on Wednesday a deeply flawed proposed amendment to the copyright directive that could break the Internet for almost everyone. It is just the latest in a stream of misguided legislation responding to the lobbying of special interests trying to triage the effects of the Internet on their expectations of wealth and control. There is still time to contact MEPs to avoid its damage – see https://saveyourinternet.eu/ While the putative targets of much of this bad legislation are US new-wave corporations — especially Google and Facebook — the actual victims are repeatedly the Europeans who are our best hope of countering this US corporate power; citizen-innovators. Far from gutting Google’s guns and foiling Facebook’s finagling, the new rules — notably GDPR and now the new copyright rules — give them and their peers unintended power over European innovators. A root cause of many of the problems with British and European legislation regarding the Internet is a failure to recognise that, in the meshed society it creates, the citizen can play roles previously reserved for the corporation. I can create published works, I can directly fund new ventures, I can build global-scale applications andso on.
Believing these and other capabilities to only be within the scope of corporations, legislation frequently fails to observe the impact of regulations on individuals. Penalties are disproportionate, recourse is onerous or absent, restrictions are asymetric. Consequently, only well-resourced corporations can hope to fully comply — an exclusionary gift to the large and established players and a further smack in the face of European innovators. To make significant progress with any “Digital Charter” of the kind the UK government purports to love, we first need to recognise that the Internet has created a meshed society of opportunity for all and not just a new market for the winners of the previous age to re-sell their old goods and methods. Until the legislators consult open source developers, self-published writers and musicians and other small-but-scaleable innovators, new rules targetting the Internet will only result in reinforced oligarchies.SHARE THIS:
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NEVER GIVE ROBOTS GUNS Posted on April 15, 2017 by Simon Phipps Never give robots guns. Guns are for killing. Robots can’t make analogue decisions and those are the only ones that should ever control the taking of the life of another person. Robots make quantised decisions, not analogue ones. The quanta reflect the programming, and the programming arises from the approximation and modelling of a human view. When a technologist embodies their or their employer’s view of what’s fair into a technology, any potential for the exercise of discretion is turned from a scale to a step and humanity is quantised. That quantisation of discretion always serves the interest of the person forcing the issue. Calls for better robots that make better judgement calls are misguided and pointless. A robot that can successfully make life-or-death decisions is a piece of bad science fiction. Any technology that attempts to perform human judgement quantises discretion and inherently dehumanises culture. That technology should never have aweapon.
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BACKGROUND READING
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http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/194338-here-come-the-autonomous-robot-security-guards-what-could-possibly-go-wrong:
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/halting-problem-proves-that-a-lethal-robot-cannot-correctly-decide-whether-to-kill-a-human-7c014623c13f : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-the-pentagons-skynet-would-automate-war : http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=123651 : http://ctnsp.dodlive.mil/files/2014/09/DTP1061.pdf:
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Filed under: Zeitgeist | Tagged: War | 2 Comments »BLUE LIGHTS
Posted on April 9, 2017 by Simon Phipps Child me lit up for blue lights, wanted to ride them, saw the freedom to break rules and drive fast. Missed that they’re arrest lights – police and cardiac; find fear; lose liberty; run away with life. I don’t want to ride the blue lights any more. Blue is for skies and ribbons, for eyes and summer dresses. The blue lights drain colour from our faces; presage loss; predict shorter life; pin sadness in each flash. I don’t want to ride the blue lights any more and I don’t want you to either._April 9, 2017_
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WILL YOU BECOME A PATRON? Posted on September 17, 2016 by Simon Phipps IS THE ANSWER TO THE “GIG ECONOMY” PATRONAGE? I HOPE TO FIND OUT USING PATREON !THE GIG ECONOMY
We’re moving more and more into what’s called the “gig economy”, where instead of a single, full-time, lifetime-long job, people engage in multiple activities. It’s certainly what I have been doing for the last few years; consulting on open source, serving on the boards of a variety of civil society organisations, arranging and conducting study tours, writing for several publications, writing on my own sites, speaking at events and more. Few of those have been paid work. Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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RESPONDING TO POST TRUTH POLITICS Posted on August 6, 2016 by Simon Phipps In his article Understanding Trump, George
Lakoff offers a master class in the psychology of the Trump phenomenon. It is definitely worth your time to read it. At the end, he outlines a game plan for responsing to Trump which I think is superb. But I think it applies to more than just US politics; it’s a way to respond to post-truth politics anywhere. Here is a quick edit of the final section of Lakoff’s essay that generalises it for use anywhere: Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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Filed under: Links | 2 Comments WHAT IS AN API? THE CLUE IS IN THE NAME… Posted on June 2, 2016 by Simon Phipps At the end of my testimony in the recent Oracle v Google trial in San Francisco, Judge Alsup asked me to explain what an API is. My answer aimed to simplify the answer for a general listener while remaining recognizable to most programmers. Here’s what I said. Continuereading →
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GET A DISCOUNT & HELP ME GET TO OSCON! Posted on April 16, 2016 by Simon Phipps My first OSCON was in 2000 in Monterey, CA. It was the one where Sun released OpenOffice.org as open source (and pledged to hand it over to a Foundation, something they forgot later despite many reminders) and I had only been a Sun employee for a very short time. I have attended most of them since then as a speaker, and have delivered “keynotes” (OSCON has a chat-show format for plenaries so talks are short) several times as well. I’m still on the Program Committee. Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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