Re: [Freedombox-discuss] http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Wa rn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act

2011-07-19 Thread Henri Asseily
of the box for Joe Beerbelly. -- Henri Asseily henri.tel On Jul 18, 2011, at 11:30 PM, Ted Smith wrote: I think that the mistake being made most on this mailing list is the tendency to devise solutions to complicated problems. Sadly, this is just not a thing that can be done on a mailing list

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendika

2011-07-15 Thread Henri Asseily
Well it could even be an e-mail with webfinger resolution. IMO webfinger is a horrible overengineered exceedingly complicated pseudo-solution. E-mail addresses aren't under the control of the owner. ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Working Groups and commercial tools

2011-07-15 Thread Henri Asseily
+1 I don't use github, and the FreedomBox project might gain in visibility by having its own git hosting. Projects related to this one would all be in one place, easy to find, rather than spread everywhere. Might be alioth' git hosting, but it requires to have access to it. What about

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Working Groups

2011-07-14 Thread Henri Asseily
Now, the idea of FBox has evolved into something which has mesh networking (even not requiring DNS), has anonymisation as well as serving as a separate 'Internet'. While there is no doubt that these ideas are interesting and useful, there should be a progression of stages through which the

[Freedombox-discuss] Abstracted configuration (was: Re: Friendika)

2011-07-13 Thread Henri Asseily
, the idea of having an abstracted single access point solves many problems, chiefly storing config and or runtime data in the cloud without being subordinated to a 3rd party (i.e. having 0 switching costs), or subordinated to any one protocol. -- Henri Asseily henri.tel