Stefano Zacchiroli @zacchiro@mastodon.xyz

new paper: « Building the Universal Archive of Source Code » https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231366-building-the-universal-archive-of-source-code/fulltext ← our manifesto for software source code preservation at @SWHeritage . On @CACMmag with @rdicosmo & @JFAbramatic

New personal best on half-marathon: 1h49m17s at @SemiParis (avg. pace ~5m10s/km). Very nice run, despite the rainy weather (again!). #running

The Final Version of the EU's Copyright Directive Is the Worst One Yet https://boingboing.net/2019/02/13/the-final-version-of-the-eus.html

#CommonVoice by @mozilla is a pretty great project, aiming at building free/open datasets and #MaichneLearning models for speech recognition. https://voice.mozilla.org/en You can #DonateYourVoice to help (#italian & #french speakers are particularly needed wink wink).

the #Python governance change is a really nice example of self-determination (or, re-determination, in this case) for #FOSS communities: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/777997/35bf4ee1d97a46d8/ via @lwnnet (which you should support for the great journalism they do, btw ☺)

RIP Mario Gerla. I had the pleasure of attend one of his classes back in 2004 on wifi LANs/PANs as a PhD student. Thanks for all the fish! https://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/19_febbraio_10/morto-mario-gerla-informatico-italiano-f9aba960-2d2e-11e9-9137-8c3ab066961d.shtml

« There's No Good Reason to Trust #Blockchain Technology » https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/?mbid=social_twitter_onsiteshare via @WIRED

« [#TheGame] delle élite » https://jacobinitalia.it/il-game-delle-elite/ #Baricco

the Cryptographic Autonomy #License—still in draft, but already an interesting experiment on "maximal" #copyleft—is also available as a Git repo here https://github.com/VanL/cryptographic-autonomy-license cc: @vanlindberg

in aggiunta a quanto riportato nell'articolo, #ANAC sta quindi pure violando la licenza di #GlobaLeaks, avendolo abusivamente distribuito sotto un'altra licenza #waytogo
« Corruzione, #OpenWhistleblowing è stata un’occasione mancata » https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2019/02/04/corruzione-openwhistleblowing-e-stata-unoccasione-mancata/4944067/ via @fattoquotidiano

wi-fi on #Thalys train is shit again. Phew. I was starting to worry.

« How [IT employees of large corporations] Can Help Counter Misinformation and Other Social Harms » https://defusingdis.info/2019/01/24/how-technologists-can-help-counter-misinformation-and-other-social-harms/

« What is #PeerTube » https://peertube.fr/videos/watch/9c9de5e8-0a1e-484a-b099-e80766180a6d — Federated (#ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent and Angular

Tolkien Ecology in Tending the Digital Commons https://iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2018_Spring_Jacobs.php#.XEYeRpGGRQ8.twitter via The Hedgehog Review

The @CNIL restricted committee imposes a financial penalty of 50 Million euros against @google http://www.cnil.fr/en/cnils-restricted-committee-imposes-financial-penalty-50-million-euros-against-google-llc

On my way to #Delft for the kickoff meeting of the #Fasten EU project http://gousios.org/blog/Introducing-Fasten.html

The target versions of #Beancount and #Fava for the next #Debian stable release are now available in debian/testing:
$ sudo apt install beancount fava
If you want to give feedback on the packaging of these great #plaintextaccounting tools, this is the time !

oh the irony ! audiovisual and sport sectors lobbyists are now arguing against #article13 of the #copyrightreform because it will *strengthen* the power of online content sharing platforms https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Audiovisual-and-Sports-on-Value-Gap.pdf welcome to the light side, "friends"

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/ via @lareviewofbooks