Introductions

holo are a pretty nasty corporate group with demonstrably dead end, vendor lock in technology.

Thanks for the pointer. Actually, still am trying to figure out what's already "out there" in terms of approaches, companies, actors dealing with such issues. Got to take a deeper dive into holo, then; so far it didn't really appear on my radar. This is one of the reasons I'm here for, I guess. ;)

Read your blob post. I am very surprised you didn't mention https://holo.host/ and holochain

Hi, I'm Kristian. Invited here by Strypey on mastodon, thought I'd just join in to see what happens here. Studied computer science in the 1990s, been working in systems administration earlier and software development later ever since. Working as technical lead for a mid-sized company now. Been into GNU/Linux and Software Libre ever since I read the GNU manifesto for the first time during my studies; been using both excessively on professional systems (servers) as well as my working and personal computers. At some point however I started wondering whether we run into issues claiming that we actually want Software Libre, software and services that are free-as-in-free-speech, while at the same time accept that most of these services end up being free-as-free-beer as well. At the very least in days in which we see massively advertisement- and tracking-funded "gratis" infrastructure out there, we might need different ideas how to solve these problems. Plus, with all distrust in large services such as Google, Amazon AWS, ..., I also see they do have quite some advantages in terms of ecology and sustainability - make sure infrastructure is operated and managed in a professional, optimized manner rather than having a load of small teams burdened with keeping infrastructure of their own running, keeping them from doing what they actually want to do. My idea to solve this, a while ago, was a scribble I titled "LibreSaaS" (see https://dm.zimmer428.net/2018/11/libresaas-revisited/); I have no idea whether this is smart or even remotely doable. However, I wonder which ideas to solve these problems might be around here. :)

I see some new people mentioning blockchains in their requests for membership. Might be interesting to learn what you have in mind for blockchains and ecosystems of open apps...

Ill dig out the actual whitepaper for @ in the next few days

they werent trying to hide it, we just didnt realise how much it was needed

No prob. No hurry. When it happens.

so the CPU control tool is based here: github.com/jaydayzee/at

The data stuff I am negotiating next week with a team to open the project. They are up for it, but we have a bunch of p's and q's to cross with the people their funding came from. They are in Canada. I can try and get some documents, but the entire project should be open within the next month. They are working on community projects, but this tool was created as an underlying support for their products. Having been to Open COOP, its become clear that a need for this stuff is a huge need of the industry, and they werent trying to hide it, we just didnt realise how much it was needed

Anything I can look at? Code, demo, more details?

Thank you Bob.

So... there are two parts to our infrastructure. One stems from deep data requirements, producing the minimum possible storage infrastructure in order to implement what everyone seems to be saying that they want - this is based on a mixture of hashchains and dynamic data filters, its also designed to support a complex ecosystem of services whilst being completely GDPR compliant up to the highest level of compliance requirements (the NHS, for example).

The second tool is about interacting with a runtime machine. How best to interact with a CPU, from the perspective of a human being. At the moment, programming and development tools are developed from the perspective of making it easier to control the CPU. Our tools are built from a completely different perspective, and should help to address both the very large gap between community designers, and systems developers, and also provide much more human languages than "English" [ or any other written or audio language ] to communicate about complex ideas, or between large numbers of people.