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[Freedombox-discuss] WebID, was: chat over websockets

2013-01-04 Thread Henry Story
The whole point of WebID is to use the data at the WebID Profile to improve the UI and not to stick to the plain URI ( see http://webid.info/spec for the meaning of those terms. ) For a good example is to be found at http://my-profile.eu/ It's been about 3 years that I tell Melvin that the

[Freedombox-discuss] Java

2011-12-11 Thread Henry Story
Hi, I would like to test out some very lightweight servers on the freedom box written in Java and see how much of an issue the JVM really is. Java is GPL so I suppose it works fine on the Freedom Box right? Is this something I can install easily? Henry Social Web Architect

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Java

2011-12-11 Thread Henry Story
On 11 Dec 2011, at 13:03, Helmut Pozimski wrote: Am 11.12.2011 11:09, schrieb Henry Story: I would like to test out some very lightweight servers on the freedom box written in Java and see how much of an issue the JVM really is. Java is GPL so I suppose it works fine on the Freedom

[Freedombox-discuss] a new anti centralised social network video

2011-11-02 Thread Henry Story
The following link by unthink http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxMqSdgB-uA explains the issue of centralised networks in a very street aware fashion. Not sure what unthink is about. Not sure where to find an ogg version either. Not sure who these people are, but the message is crystal clear -

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] CCC Meeting Notes

2011-08-17 Thread Henry Story
On 17 Aug 2011, at 13:29, ya knygar wrote: The advantage of having WebIDs here is that people don't have to give out their e-mail addresses, btw. Needing to reveal those only when necessary. But that still requires building the infrastructure. yeah, but BrowserID as another example is also

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] CCC Meeting Notes

2011-08-16 Thread Henry Story
, All the best, Henry Story PS. I am still in Berlin until the end of the week take care, Isaac Wilder Directer, The Free Network Foundation www.thefnf.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] CCC Meeting Notes

2011-08-16 Thread Henry Story
On 16 Aug 2011, at 14:50, Jaromil wrote: re all, On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Samuel Rose wrote: Hi Isaac. Great stuff below! A few short replies follow: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Isaac Wilder is...@freenetworkmovement.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Debian as though cryptographic authentication mattered Questions

2011-08-09 Thread Henry Story
On 9 Aug 2011, at 09:16, John Walsh wrote: Hi Melvin, In general it would be fair to say WebiD has a dependency on DNS but so does email email. In both systems there are cases where you can work without DNS. You can self sign web server certs. This is what I do. Will WebID

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendika

2011-07-15 Thread Henry Story
On 14 Jul 2011, at 20:50, Boaz wrote: [snip] Personally, I think that people overstate the advantages of WebID over password authentication for this use case by emphasizing that WebID frees people from thinking of and remembering passwords. It only does that by having the browser think of

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendika

2011-07-14 Thread Henry Story
On 14 Jul 2011, at 21:25, Boaz wrote: Henry, if you're interested in developing this, drop me a line on the list or individually so we can talk more about it. Unfortunately, as I've been warning at the very beginning of every post lately, I don't yet have the know-how to give you some help

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Friendika

2011-07-13 Thread Henry Story
On 13 Jul 2011, at 20:50, Boaz wrote: You dont need to give your key on a slip of paper (you can if you want of course), it's on your home page. Hopefully your freedom box also hosts a web server too, preferably with https Okay, so you have a home page, and on this home page is your key.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-05 Thread Henry Story
On 4 Jul 2011, at 15:50, Melvin Carvalho wrote: You dont need AX (attribute exchane), just use the HTML5 data layer, which should be fine if freedom box is hosting a web server. I looked at WebID a year ago and thought the idea was simple and brillant. However, at the time, I thought

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Network effect

2011-03-24 Thread Henry Story
On 24 Mar 2011, at 18:51, i...@churchkey.org wrote: On 03/21/2011 04:41 PM, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote: The challenge is to make it grand-mother proof, and more than that, actually attractive to a grand-mother. Just to pull one of these mentions out at random (sorry for picking on you

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Network effect

2011-03-21 Thread Henry Story
The relation between the Network Effect and the Social Web is one of the main themes of my presentation Philosophy and the Social Web available with audio in a number of formats here http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/ for pdf only I recommend

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] human-meaningful names and zooko's triangle [was: Re: FOAF developers taking FreedomBox into their equation]

2011-03-16 Thread Henry Story
This topic also falls under the WebID ISSUE-42: Describe the abstract WebId architecture (aka the meaningOfLife issue). Here's my summary of this for that issue. On 16 Mar 2011, at 16:31, Adam Zimmerman wrote: On 11-03-16 03:14 AM, Henry Story wrote: I came across Zooko's triangle in a few

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FOAF developers taking FreedomBox into their equation

2011-03-11 Thread Henry Story
be to DNS. If you can trust DNS there is then no infinite recursion. Which is where your next point fits in (b) some other certificate verification method, which Henry Story points out is the standard X.509 cartel today, and may move to DANE-style DNSSEC-backed key publication. But you

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FOAF developers taking FreedomBox into their equation

2011-03-10 Thread Henry Story
On 10 Mar 2011, at 15:11, Clint Adams wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:51:48PM +0100, Henry Story wrote: This is the equivalent in PGP land of loosing control of your private key. What do you do then? I think it is more the equivalent of losing control over a uid. In PGP-land I would