05 01 2012 » hack |
"it satisfies the security syllogism: “something must be done, I am doing something, something has been done."
Cory Doctorow
29 11 2011 » hack |
"Si entendemos cómo funcionan nuestros medios digitales, sabremos qué podemos esperar de ellos, y si conocemos estas posibilidades, tenemos la opción de ponerlas en prácticas y hacer de este mundo un lugar un poco mejor. Se mire como se mire, la magia digital no permite hacer esto. Por chispeante que sea, no deja de ser una ilusión. Con magia jamás cambiaremos el mundo, porque el mundo sólo se mueve al son del conocimiento. El conocimiento de las tecnologías digitales y sus posibilidades pueden ser decisivos de cara al empoderamiento de las sociedades, permitiendo a los ciudadanos tomar las riendas de sus asuntos civiles y adquiriendo horizontes inimaginables para los que hoy están arriba, limpios de toda mancha tecnológica."
Tinta-E: Magia y empoderamiento de los medios digitales
02 10 2011 » hack |
"In an earlier posting I claimed that technologies don’t go extinct. By that I mean that no species, no specific invention, has been eliminated from the world at a global level. Somewhere, someone is still making that technology brand new today. Anything I could think of."

The Technium: Technologies Don’t Go Extinct

Para los que les da miedo que los libros de papel desaparezcan o algo así.

20 09 2011 » hack |
"Resilient individuals don’t just survive, they thrive. They do well during good times and bad. It doesn’t matter what life throws at them. Becoming resilient should be the goal of any sane person in this increasingly crazy world. Unfortunately, it isn’t easy. Resilience isn’t found in a location. It isn’t contained in a product or package that you can buy. It’s a state of mind. A way of thinking only achieved through hard work. It’s something you assemble one step at a time. Steps like getting trained in a new skill. Mastering a body of knowledge. Attaining a level of physical fitness. Completing an ambitious do-it-yourself project. Bonding with other people that are on their own quest for resilience. Starting a new venture or company. Making the choice to become resilient is the first step."
ON BECOMING A RESILIENT INDIVIDUAL - Global Guerrillas
25 08 2011 » internet | pasta | hack |
"You know how everything has seemed free for the past few years? It wasn’t. It’s just that no one told you that instead of using money, you were paying with your personal information."
Data Mining: How Companies Know Your Personal Information - TIME
26 06 2011 » hack |
"Joan Subirats dice que hay una generación que se cree que internet es un martillo, que es una herramienta, y le quiere poner impuestos a la herramienta, modificar su diseño… replantearse el martillo. Pero no es un martillo, es Alemania, es un país que tiene lengua propia, modalidades propias… es otro rollo, otro país."
“La Cultura de la Transición es el pasado” :: Periódico Diagonal. Entrevista a Guillem Martínez
30 04 2011 » hack | poder |
"Outside observers have tried to designate a leader for the Egyptian revolts since their inception: maybe it’s Mohamed ElBaradei, maybe Google’s head of marketing, Wael Ghonim. They fear that the Muslim Brotherhood or some other body will take control of events. What they don’t understand is that the multitude is able to organise itself without a centre – that the imposition of a leader or being co-opted by a traditional organisation would undermine its power. The prevalence in the revolts of social network tools, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, are symptoms, not causes, of this organisational structure."
Arabs are democracy’s new pioneers | Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri | Comment is free | The Guardian
14 04 2011 » hack |
ekathimerini.com | Volunteers tend to ancient cemetery

In the absence of Ministry of Culture funds to have the site cleared of old buildings and debris, several local organizations, volunteer groups, cultural associations and individual residents and businesspeople in Kerameikos and nearby Metaxourgeio got together to remedy the situation.
10 03 2011 » hack |
"Cuando el movimiento por el Software libre empezó a funcionar no se preocuparon lo más mínimo, nunca, jamás, porque el acceso al software privativo fuera garantizado. Es más, advertían de que Microsoft favorecía la piratería de su Software para crear dependencias tecnológicas. Recuerdo a mis amigos hackers que me decían que no me iban a arreglar el windows, que me instalara Software libre. Establecieron una frontera muy clara y desarrollaron otro sistema. Ahora, si el software privativo se abre un poco (o un mucho) o intenta alcanzar la potencia del Software libre es un problema menor, colateral. El movimiento se ha preocupado principalmente de tener su propia autonomía… Esto no sucede en el resto del movimiento."
Libro de Notas: Contra el cinismo y el Hype: Entrevistamos a Elena Garmendi.
04 03 2011 » poder | hack |
"- companies now use “persona management software”, which multiplies the efforts of the astroturfers working for them, creating the impression that there’s major support for what a corporation or government is trying to do.
- this software creates all the online furniture a real person would possess: a name, email accounts, web pages and social media. In other words, it automatically generates what look like authentic profiles, making it hard to tell the difference between a virtual robot and a real commentator."
Robot Wars | George Monbiot
22 01 2011 » poder | hack |
"This digitally driven leaderless revolution has demonstrated a prototype which has been watched by peoples everywhere in the world"

Tunisia: A Digitally-Driven, Leaderless Revolution

Palabra clave: LEADERLESS. No se puede enfatizar lo suficiente.

05 01 2011 » hack | poder |
"People are waking up to realize that – contrary to the libertarians fantasies of the 1990s and even today — the Internet does not trump national sovereignty. Nation-states can and do control most of what will be transmitted over the Internet. We see this reality in China, Russia Saudi Arabia, and yes, in various nations that are nominally committed to democracy and the rule of law. So what is to be done?"
The Macro-Economic Challenges of Building a New Commons-Based Economy | David Bollier
16 12 2010 » hack |
"The real nightmare scenarios to avoid are not better placed dog food ads. They have to do with varying price or service depending on undisclosed and long-collected behavior cues. Imagine if your wait for a customer service agent — and level of flexibility in making a return on a regrettable product purchase — depended on your overall purchasing (and product return) history across multiple merchants. Or if the price you were quoted (or coupons offered) at Amazon were a function of how quickly you click to purchase something at Etsy? (Those with known itchy trigger fingers don’t get the discount, of course.) Or if your life insurance rates were grounded not just in openly collected facts like a medical checkup, but unexplained variances in what Web sites you elected to visit (backpacked across Europe, did you?)."
Blog The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It
10 12 2010 » hack | poder |

Lo bueno de los proyectos libres es que siempre puedes corregir sus fallos haciendo un fork.

05 12 2010 » hack | poder |
"Campaigners against tax avoidance by big business forced Topshop’s flagship store to close temporarily as they took action in 21 towns and cities."

BBC News - Topshop’s flagship London store hit by tax protest

¡Eh! ¡Mirad lo que hacen!