periodic reminder that the concept of the "tragedy of the commons" (where people having unfettered access to a resource supposedly inevitably leads to its degradation and destruction) was popularized by Garrett Hardin, a white nationalist eugenicist who was using it to argue for global population controls
whenever I hear this (about once a year on the Fediverse), I'm reminded that I never got taught the tragedy of the commons in its original form, because in my life it's always been a parable about how a commons needs its participants to get engage in some form of social dynamic with one another outside of their private use of resources (e.g. a village council, networks of trust / obligation) as a means to check bad actors from damaging the commons for others.
it was very popular with certain professors at uni who were using it to argue that we'd inevitably destroy the planet if left unchecked. still, this is placing the blame on the actions of individuals rather than looking at the effect of systems (capitalism)
Hardin's original piece attempts to argue that only by privatizing everything can breakdown be avoided. This is through some stupid-ass game theory malarkey about how only an owner has an interest in the continued prosperity of the object in question.
This is obviously disproven by any look at how profit-oriented owners manage resources.
Game theory is like that. Full of "logical" conclusions that are disproven by even the slightest bit of empiricism.
Let's not forget or fail to give credit to the great Elinor Ostrom, first woman to be awarded Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics. Elinor's life work on commons taught us all that Hardin's story of the tragedy was wrong. Your understanding of it as a parable teaching importance of governance is due to Elinor. Oh, and Elinor did it with both an incredible body of empirical work and game theory.
A very important figure in debunking the myth of the “tragedy of the commons”, was political scientist and political economist, Elinor Ostrom. She was the first woman to win the Nobel prize in economics.
A very important figure in debunking the myth of the “tragedy of the commons”, was political scientist and political economist, Elinor Ostrom. She was the first woman to win the Nobel prize in economics.
Die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung ist das Mitbestimmungs-, Forschungs- und Studienförderungswerk des DGB. Sie ist in allen ihren Aufgabenfeldern der Mitbestimmung als Gestaltungsprinzip einer demokratischen Gesellschaft verpflichtet.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Amazon Mechanical Turk, launched on November 2, 2005, to pioneer “artificial artificial intelligence” — using 500,000 underpaid and misclassified workers to annotate, review, and sometimes even imitate AI. What a difference 20 years makes! Today, they are still underpaid and misclassified, but there are tens of millions of them.
* MovieFlix: a movie diary for cinephile for tracking every movie and TV show you watch 🛡️ * PrivacyStats: checks your Android device’s privacy level based on installed packages 🛡️ * Lockscreen Widgets: brings back the functionality of widgets on your lockscreen 🛡️
Cookies can give businesses insight into their users’ online activity. Unforunately they are subject to both the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, making compliance difficult.
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Between insanity from yesterday and today, Sonic Synergy made the unfortunate decision to cancel today's show. They sincerely apologize, but will be back next week.
Při své #degoogle jsem narazil na problém Waze. Používal jsem ho ještě za krále Klacka, nějaký cesty jsem se tam taky nakreslil, tak to byla srdcovka. Dlouho jsem hledal, aktuálně zkouším Magic Earth. Privacy oriented, založené na #osm, ukazuje to hustotu provozu a trasy super. #ios i #android
On est rentré chez nous d'un bon concert à St.-Aurélie. Je recommande fortement, y a deux orgues maintenant et l'église est très agréable avec une ambiance très amicale. #Strasbourg
We wanted to provide an update on the abrupt loss of Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funding that occurred in April, which represents 90% of the Braille and Talking Book Library’s operating budget.
Taking this moment to slow clap for all the idiot blind people who voted for Trump a second time. This is what you gave us. So much winning! I hope you're happy.
Über die letzten Sonntage habe ich mal einen kleinen #Kopfhörer #Test gemacht.
Zum Vergleich hörte ich immer wieder #Infidels. Das ist für mich eine der schönsten Platten von Bob #Dylan.
Musikalisch gefällt mir das darin zu hörende (wohl?) elektronische Schlagzeug, aber auch manche Gittarrenakkorde.
Und besonders sprechen mich bei Dylan natürlich so Zeilen an, wie
"Standing on the waters casting your bread" oder "Take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot" und und und...
Aber, ja, Kopfhörer 😉 AKG K 530 LTD: Verwaschener diffuser Klang, das Schlagzeug kommt überhaupt nicht akzentuiert.
#JBL 650 BT: Nicht schlecht, aber ich fühle mich etwas eingesperrt.
#Beyerdynamic DT 770 M: Habe ich jahrelang beruflich in Studios benutzt, empfinde seinen Klang jetzt aber regelrecht hohl wie in einer kleinen Kammer. Wahrscheinlich umsomehr, weil ich unmittelbar vorher diesen probierte:
Die absolute Überraschung! Der wohl 30 Jahre alte
#AKG 240 Durchsichtig, akzentuiert, nicht nur gute Stereobreite sondern irgendwie ausgewogen rundum lokalisierbare Klänge, Welten entfernt von DT 770. Klar ein wenig Bass muss man per EQ dazugeben.
Natürlich ist das immer subjektiv. Und seit ich schwer erkrankt war, traue ich nicht mehr wirklich dem, was ich meine zu hören. Es kann von so vielen Faktoren abhängen, wie man akustisch wahrnimmt.
Aber es war für mich eine Überraschung, mit dem ältesten Kopfhörer, den ich hier zu Verfügung habe, ein so frisches Klangbild erleben zu können. Wahrscheinlich hat er damals so um die 240 D-Mark gekostet...inzwischen sind die Alu-Sticker mit der Typbezeichnung abgefallen... aber der Klang 👌 #Audio #Musik #ZurFeierDesSonntags #WhoKnowsTheJokerman?
Time to introduce my last new project for this year:
«Zeroform» ... is a tool for generating minimalistic, self-hostable forms, with a twist: It can generate both static (html/css/js) and/or dynamic (php augmented) online forms.
My main motivation for zeroform is to create tooling that helps me gather more precise feedback while designing and developing (especially) #faircamp and #hyper8, and to do this in a way that reflects the values of those projects: Independence, simplicity, minimalism, freedom from maintenance, absence of tracking, etc.
Basically you start with a thought, put it down as a plaintext blueprint of the form/questionnaire/doodle/survey you have in mind, zeroform turns it into finished code and design, you can upload it, use it as long as its useful/needed, and then you can just delete it.
Think of it as your own google forms, without bigtech, without dependence on any infrastructure besides the cheapest of hosting plans, commissioned and decommisioned in a mere minute.
I'm now one week into the project, since today I'm developing in the open at codeberg.org/simonrepp/zerofor…, and I will put it to use in the next days already! I have roughly one more week reserved until the end of the year for making this usable for the general public - I'll announce when it's ready. ʕ◜0ᴥ0ʔ
Spotify's CEO, Daniel EK, supports Donald Trump, has invested in Helsing, a German firm that is developing AI warfare technology, and Spotify has been running ICE recruitment ads. I can't support any of this, and so I've removed my music from this platform. It will be gone in about a week. #CancelSpotify #NoFascism
Back to Windows 10 we go, Windows 11, you're getting to unrulely. Argh. I'm cleaning my RAM every 1 to 2 hours just because closing apps won't return it to baseline, my SSD gets chewed through like a mouse chewing through a bag on the Hungarian farm. 1 GB every 2 hours? Seriously Windows 11 what the fuck are you logging? Worse yet, unlike in Windows 10, I noticed this tied to my ram cleaning , on Win11 I think something gets written to disk when caches are perged like that. I don't know. A lot of problems I'm facing, ot to mention I'd have a way less leaky search box on Windows 10. So, Windows 10, here I come again. You're the better option, Windows 11 is like the Windows Vista to the Windows Xp of the 10. Ha. Almost. It starts up just as fast as Windows 10, I'll give it that, but it sure doesn't clean RAM and not over time spiral it up way faster than Windows 10 ever could.
The Cadence Tablet. Jess and I are likely to get some, the company got back to us and we're really sold on it. Right now 1 each, but we plan to do the 2 units thing if we really like them and connect it together. Downside appears to be that you don't get a full perkins keyboard with just a single one. However, this is really the one that sells us, it can last a week on a charge. It's wild. They have their own patented solenoid tech that is only driving the cells when it's refreshing by the battery and to keep them up there's no power to the cells. Wow.
@jpellis2008 a multiline tablet :) 4 lines of 12 cells, so one of the smaller ones, but you can connect two of them together on the sides to create one 24-by-4 line unit.
Wow! I look forward to reading your thoughts. Even if I can't afford one, it's good to keep up with the latest developments, and I really like what this company is doing with their modular design and other innovations.
Another year of spending nothing on commercial office suites. So time for my yearly donation to Libreoffice as a thank you for the excellent Libre alternative @libreoffice #floss #libreoffice
Hay una cosa que me encanta de @delta y es que te permita usar tu propia clave GPG de cifrado, o exportar la que te crea si no le proporcionas una propia.
Creo que XMPP debería implantar algo así, me parece vital tener el control de la claves y además mejoraría la "sincronización" entre dispositivos
While exporting private keys is supported, importing private keys is not supported because our security audits don't cover all kinds of key material, but the modern algorithms we chose in collaboration with experts. We only want to support a *subset* of OpenPGP to be able to give similar assurances as Signal about cryptographic security outcomes.
Verbose, rich live regions are a sign an author has not tested with browsers, screen readers, and users. This post has an example that I see too often in the wild.
Yep, this unfortunately is true. The Live Region spec seems to promise much on the surface but often fails in complex real-life situations. A developer who is not familiar with the accessibility domain obviously cannot know all the intricacies. And so we get what we get... I find the proposed advice is more often the better approach than I would like to admit! Especially that it allows the developers to control the screen reader output .
@vick21 Yeah, the ARIA spec is really for user agents. I’d link to think years of WHATWG HTML being wrong about browser support (and it’s driven by browsers) would have taught authors a lesson, but definitely not.
I agree. @delta did a great job with this UX. Built upon the email protocol (with e2ee encryption added) they are just as decentralized and federated as email, or for that matter Mastodon. They are a great deal MORE decentralized than Signal or say, BlueSky now. But their UX did an excellent job "hiding" the complexity. Others decentralized/federated platforms should learn from this example! #deltachat chaos.social/@delta/1154793927…
Si sois colaboradores de OpenStretMap @openstreetmap existe una herramienta web (con webapp para Android) para poder crear y colaborar en mapas temáticaos. Se llama @MapComplete y tiene bastante buena pinta. Hay ya mapas para ciclistas, de bares y restaurantes, etimología, recogida de residuos, deportes e incluso desfibriladores.
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Hardin's original piece attempts to argue that only by privatizing everything can breakdown be avoided. This is through some stupid-ass game theory malarkey about how only an owner has an interest in the continued prosperity of the object in question.
This is obviously disproven by any look at how profit-oriented owners manage resources.
Game theory is like that. Full of "logical" conclusions that are disproven by even the slightest bit of empiricism.
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in reply to Androcat • • •Elinor's life work on commons taught us all that Hardin's story of the tragedy was wrong. Your understanding of it as a parable teaching importance of governance is due to Elinor.
Oh, and Elinor did it with both an incredible body of empirical work and game theory.
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in reply to Kit Rhett Aultman • • •5. Elinor Ostrom & 8 rules for managing the Commons | Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung | Tunisia - Tunis
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in reply to Stephen Dioxide • • •Great post, @Steve ! #Commons, #SharingEconomy and #BuildingCommunity are so important for a #Sustainable future!
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#SolarPunkSunday
5. Elinor Ostrom & 8 rules for managing the Commons | Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung | Tunisia - Tunis
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