Peter Murray @dltj@code4lib.social

🔖 Community, not Code, is the True Heart of Open Source | Index Data blog https://www.indexdata.com/true-heart-of-open-source/

🔖 Cable’s Last Laugh https://stratechery.com/2022/cables-last-laugh/ 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://stratechery.com/2022/cables-last-laugh/

🔖 Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: you can check-out any time you like … not | Eiko Fried blog https://eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-hotel-elsevier-you-can-check-out-any-time-you-like-not/

🔖 Europe’s CSAM scanning plan unpicked | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/11/eu-csam-detection-plan/

🔖 Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2022 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2022/

🔖 Universal design for work? | Information Wants To Be Free https://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2022/05/12/universal-design-for-work/

I worry about things like Google Workspace sometimes. Am I paying enough for the product to cover the cost of supplying the product to me, or is Google having to raise additional revenue to cover the cost of serving me? Is Google raising additional revenue even though they don't have to in order to cover my cost?

🔖 About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8

🔖 Bolt Built $11 Billion Payment Business on Inflated Metrics and Eager Investors https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/business/bolt-start-up-ryan-breslow-investors.html 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/business/bolt-start-up-ryan-breslow-investors.html

🔖 Google and Meta’s underwater cables up the stakes on internet control | Rest of World https://restofworld.org/2022/google-meta-underwater-cables/

So as my pinned Mastodon posts describe, I've got some tech that automatically posts my bookmarks and annotations here in Mastodon (as well as Twitter). Since Mastodon has both a larger character limit and a delete-and-re-edit button, I find I'm deleting the automated posts and editing to add more context and shout-outs to people who point out good resources.

I think this is a good thing.

🔖 What a DAO Can — and Can’t — Do https://hbr.org/2022/05/what-a-dao-can-and-cant-do?ab=seriesnav-bigidea 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://hbr.org/2022/05/what-a-dao-can-and-cant-do?ab=seriesnav-bigidea

🔖 Cautionary Tales from Cryptoland (Harvard Business Review) https://hbr.org/2022/05/cautionary-tales-from-cryptoland 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://hbr.org/2022/05/cautionary-tales-from-cryptoland

This is part of a series of articles in the Harvard Business Review about "Web3" stuff.

Originally found via @dsalo at https://digipres.club/@dsalo/108285250662751709. Thanks for the link!

🔖 How Politics Poisoned the Evangelical Church https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/06/evangelical-church-pastors-political-radicalization/629631/ 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/06/evangelical-church-pastors-political-radicalization/629631/

🔖 Slides from "Lessons From the Fifty-Year Quest to Turn Programmers into Software Engineers" by Adam Barr, Software Consultant, Crosslake Technologies https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UWNCd_XWs6U-CAFtGUMn_PrqB2Jwe7cD/view

@tdotrob I don’t know if it is working…it is too early for me to have noticed any change in my feed. In the annotations, though, I talk about how this is an interesting, nuanced approach to improving community engagement. Nextdoor may never tell us if it is effective, but I find the concepts useful to consider more broadly. See https://code4lib.social/@dltj/108279817853366069

Found this via @dsalo, if I recall correctly. Based on a directed graph of phone and text interactions, a person’s activity can be re-identified.

🔖 How AI can identify people even in anonymized datasets https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-identify-anonymous-data-phone-neural-network 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-identify-anonymous-data-phone-neural-network

This comes from Nextdoor’s engineering blog about their machine model for improving conversations.

🔖 Using predictive technology to foster constructive conversations https://engblog.nextdoor.com/using-predictive-technology-to-foster-constructive-conversations-4af437942bd4 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://engblog.nextdoor.com/using-predictive-technology-to-foster-constructive-conversations-4af437942bd4

This is an interesting article because it ends with a quote from the chief product officer about prioritizing quality comments over engagement, and admits that recent changes have increased quality at the expense of engagement.

🔖 Nextdoor will remind users to keep conversations 'constructive' and 'empathetic' | Engadget https://www.engadget.com/nextdoor-constructive-conversations-103055779.html 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.engadget.com/nextdoor-constructive-conversations-103055779.html