11.25.19
Gemini version available ♊︎Everyday We’re Shuffling
Summary: To better cope with emergent threats and trends we’re modifying the structure of Daily Links, interrupting a pattern that is over a decade old
Shuffling of the categories in Daily Links isn’t just inevitable. It’s very much necessary. And why? Because the market and the society change over time. Brands change, threats change, and even topics of priority come and go. Over the past week or two many of the search results (for news) about “Linux” were negative articles portraying GNU/Linux as a major security threat. That’s owing to a bunch of trolls and liars, notably those in the CBS tabloids and provocation sites. When it comes to search results (for news) about “open source” it’s mostly openwashing, i.e. proprietary software and proprietary services disguised as “open” for marketing purposes. We’re therefore restructuring or refactoring Daily Links. Category-wise, we considered headings such as:
- Security
- Proprietary
- FUD/Fear-Mongering/Dramatisation
- Linux Foundation
- Pseudo-Open Source
- Openwashing
- Confidentiality
- Privacy/Surveillance
- Integrity/Availability
Many of the above are connected in various ways (one way or another), so we’ve been discussing (details in the IRC channels/logs) how to better organise news to catalogue and occasionally tackle falsehoods.
One hierarchal proposition was as follows:
Integrity/Availability Proprietary Pseudo-Open Source Openwashing Privatisation/Privateering Linux Foundation Entrapment (Microsoft/GitHub) Security FUD/Fear-Mongering/Dramatisation Privacy/Surveillance Confidentiality FSF FSFE GNU Projects Licensing/Legal Devices/Embedded Open Hardware/Modding Programming/Development Perl Python Bash
This is still work in progress and it will likely change/evolve over time. █
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