Standards
Internet standards
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The OSI lacks competence to define Open Source AI
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has stepped up the censorship of fellow advocates for the four essential freedoms (to use, study, modify, and share software), moderating, silencing, and threatening permanent community bans to proponents of an Open Source AI definition (OSAID) that fully protects said freedoms by requiring users have access to the “source” of…
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Open Weights or Open Source AI?
Bigger is Better? During his keynote at Meta Connect 2024 — the relevant parts of which I encourage you to watch in 10 minutes or 5 minutes at 2x (I’ve transcribed it to subtitles so you can) — Mark Zuckerberg announced some really exciting developments in AI, both in products (glasses, VR headsets, voice and…
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HTTP2 Expression of Interest
This content is 13 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Here’s my (rather rushed) personal submission to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in response to their Call for Expressions of Interest in new work around HTTP; specifically, a new wire-level…
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RIP Adobe Flash (1996-2011) – now let’s bury the dead
This content is 13 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Adobe kills mobile Flash, giving Steve Jobs the last laugh, reports The Guardian’s Charles Arthur following the late Steve Jobs’ epic Thoughts on Flash rant 18 months ago. It’s been…
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Face it Flash, your days are numbered.
This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.It’s no secret that I’m no fan of Adobe Flash: Why Adobe Flash penetration is more like 50% than 99% Towards a Flash free YouTube killer (was: Adobe Flash…
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NoSQL “movement” roadblocks HTML5 WebDB
This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Today’s rant is coming between me and a day of skiing so I’ll keep it brief. While trying to get to the bottom of why I can’t enjoy offline…
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An open letter to the NoSQL community
This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Following some discussion on Twitter today I posted this thread to the nosql-discussion group. You can see the outcome for yourself (essentially, and unsurprisingly I might add, “please feel…
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Twitter’s down for the count. What are we going to do about it?
This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.What’s wrong with this picture? There’s not a single provider for telephony (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc.) There’s not a single provider for text messaging (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc.) There’s not a…
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“Bare Metal” cloud infrastructure “compute” services arrive
This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Earlier in the year during the formation of the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) working group I described three types of cloud infrastructure “compute” services: Physical Machines (“Bare Metal”)…
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“Twitter” Trademark in Trouble Too
This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Yesterday I apparently struck a nerve in revealing Twitter’s “Tweet” Trademark Torpedoed. The follow up commentary both on this blog and on Twitter itself was interesting and insightful, revealing…