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Folk Sneakernet: May 2012

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Thursday, May 31, 2012. Was reading an article about Bitcoin. And came across a wonderful, wonderful quote:. Cypherpunks assume privacy is a good thing and wish there were more of it. Cypherpunks acknowledge that those who want privacy must create it for themselves and not expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant them privacy out of beneficence.
. In her 1911 essay " Marriage and Love. Ms Goldman has the following to say about that most free of feelings:. The law ...

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Folk Sneakernet: A letter to David Lowery at Trichordist, Carbon-Copied to Emily White

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012. A letter to David Lowery at Trichordist, Carbon-Copied to Emily White. Dear Mr. Lowery:. Thank you for your well-thought-out reply. To Ms White’s blog at All Things Considered. It really sucks to be on the “destruction” end of. Which, although they do skim profits off the top, also provide a credit-card processing feature that I don’t have the knowledge myself to emulate) and through attending shows and tipping the band. I’m excited to learn about. As for musicians, we’ve go...

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Folk Sneakernet: Facebook is Not The Network

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012. Facebook is Not The Network. I wanted to tackle one of the more basic issues with the Sneakernet pretty early on: how do I route a message to someone? I mean, normally sending e-mail, I know the persons's e-mail address and host name, so I just send a message to steve@hostname.com, and presto! On the Sneakernet, it's a little more complicated. And because of that, we're going to go old school. Forget Web 2.0- this is more like Web 0.2. Essentially the notation inserts a! Steve s...

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Folk Sneakernet: So You Want to Start a Sneakernet

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Saturday, June 16, 2012. So You Want to Start a Sneakernet. I'm hoping some of you have followed this blog because you actually want to put this whole Sneakernet idea into practice. So what will you need? Well, at a bare minimum, you'll need a USB drive and a friend for a point-to-point network. But let's look in a bit more detail into the two configurations I mentioned in an earlier post. The RING and the STAR. SETTING UP A RING SNEAKERNET (Interval passing). A small group of friends (say 3-6). This for...

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Folk Sneakernet: Levinas and the Face-to-Face Network

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Sunday, June 17, 2012. Levinas and the Face-to-Face Network. To answer a few questions about the rationale for schlepping data from place to place by foot, I'm going to go off in a radically different direction than just talking over tech specs. Part of the philosophical underpinning of the entire programme is rooted in Emmanuel Levinas's notion of the "face-to-face" encounter. The first batch of mp3s I ever received came before I'd ever installed Napster. A friend of mine. Sharing should mean caring, no?

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Folk Sneakernet: Money on the Sneakernet

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Thursday, June 14, 2012. Money on the Sneakernet. It's kind of an ugly word, and it makes me think of those Gordon Gekko. Types sitting around, cigar in mouth and feet up on desk- you know, the ones who greenlight productions like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. And any movie starring Jean-Claude G-d Damn I Can't Act. But let's be real: money really does make the world go 'round. That's not saying I'm an anarchocapitalist. Anymore, but much harder to acquire, say, a Moldovan passport in 48 hours. (...

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Folk Sneakernet: How Networks Are Born

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Thursday, June 14, 2012. How Networks Are Born. 10:30 pm, 29 October 1969. Boelter Hall 3420, UCLA. If there were an " In the beginning. For the Internet, this would be it- or to be more precise the first pair of characters transmitted on ARPAnet. Some of my favorites include the very first one. The first cut at Telnet protocol. And a curious one discussing some undisclosed criticism that the contractor, BBN. Didn't want to publish for fear of embarrassing the researchers involved. But back to lo. And th...

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Folk Sneakernet: 40GB and a "Data Mule"

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Monday, June 18, 2012. 40GB and a "Data Mule". I finally stumbled upon the preferred term for the sort of transfer I'm looking for in this network, and it's not exactly elegant: a " data mule. Coined in an article about underwater environmental research. So I'll take the term if it's already in use. But let's face it: "data mule" carries with it some unpleasant connotations of rubber balloons full of heroin or cocaine jammed in uncomfortable places. The bottom of the ocean. So now we at least have a term...

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Folk Sneakernet: Anarchism vs. Idiocy

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Friday, June 1, 2012. Anarchism vs. Idiocy. Welp, at least this young woman wasn't chewing anyone's face off. Or flinging her own intestines at the police. What she did allegedly do admit to ATF officials that she had made six plus-or-minus one pipe bombs. That she "has a passion for it," and that "detonating them for recreation was her 'hobby.'" (Though to be honest, who doesn't enjoy a good exploding toilet. Remember how we all used to make fun of the AOL script kiddies. I'm not arguing that people bui...