Re: HCI

2019-07-07 Thread Emery Hemingway
On Sunday, July 7, 2019 2:08:12 PM CEST, John Preston wrote: ... The kinds of redevelopment I am talking about are ongoing, there is a whole legacy of people doing research in a similar thread, so now I ask why have we not yet realised such a project, or rather what is needed for further

Re: EU == USSR v2.0 ?

2019-03-28 Thread Emery Hemingway
On Wednesday, March 27, 2019 10:05:16 PM CET, Morlock Elloi wrote: EU is really another attempt at communism. Go home grandpa, you're drunk. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and

Re: The Cryptopticon

2019-01-07 Thread Emery Hemingway
It swings both ways, stricter registration requirements eventually pushes more people underground. For example, immigrants in Germany with temporary visas (fiktionsbescheinigungen) cannot buy SIM cards, but they can hardly complete the administrative process without one. E. On Monday, January

Re: Bridging the Gap between Technology and Progressive Politics in Europe

2018-12-04 Thread Emery Hemingway
On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 8:37:46 AM CET, Geert Lovink wrote: ... what can we still expect from the geek class? Why are social media alternatives never on the agenda of the big hackers' meeting? Why are they solely focused on surveillance and privacy issues that are the quintessential

Re: Interview with Richard Stallman in New Left Review (September-October 2018)

2018-11-01 Thread Emery Hemingway
On Wednesday, October 31, 2018 4:43:20 PM CET, Francis Hunger wrote: Hi everybody, I was a bit disappointed, that this kind of 'weak' Stallman interview was published in the New Left Review. 'Weak' insofar as I can't see much 'leftist' in it. Free Software is barely a political concept as it

Re: Interview with Richard Stallman in New Left Review (September-October 2018)

2018-10-29 Thread Emery Hemingway
A fight for economic rights for software workers is a fight for paid/dual licensing model of open source, and a fight against the entire open source establishment. First against the naive/senile GNU theorists, next the Open Source Initiative, then IBM and Microsoft (they love open source), and