From: bernie Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 11:13:01 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Edit page about X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba32e2cead935499b882d92b38f479f3ef76939a;p=wiki.git Edit page about --- diff --git a/about b/about index 17c38d4..8798872 100644 --- a/about +++ b/about @@ -13,21 +13,20 @@ login as **Anonymous****Coward** with empty password. This web site is powered by my own minimalistic wiki engine called [[GeekiGeeki]]. -Why would someone host my own wiki, blog and photo sharing when there are dozens of +Why would someone self-host a wiki, blog and photo sharing when there are dozens of free-beer alternatives online? -It's a matter of remaining [[http://autonomo.us/about/ | autonomous]] from online services as -much as possible. Call me a fundamentalist, but I find it very disturbing to give up my -online identity to services whose conditions are established and changed unilaterally. +It's a matter of being reasonably [[http://autonomo.us/about/ | autonomous]] from online services. +Relying on services whose terms of use are changed unilaterally makes me uncomfortable. The [[http://opendefinition.org/ | definition of open knowledge]] is still a subject of -discussion. At this time, I tend to boycot those online web services that make it -intentionally hard bulk access to data created collaboratively by their users. +debate. At this time, I avoid web services that disallow +bulk access to data created collaboratively by their users. Examples of such badly behaving sites are [[http://www.imdb.com | IMDB]] and -[[http://flickr.com | Flickr]]: both have been created by us, but try downloading -substantial portions of their data, if you can. On the other end of the spectrum, -the [[http://wikipedia.org | Wikipedia]] provides an interface to dump the -entire database, including the history of edits. This is what we should demand +[[http://flickr.com | Flickr]]: both have been created by us users, but try downloading +substantial portions of their data... On the other end of the spectrum, +[[http://wikipedia.org | Wikipedia]] provides an interface to dump the +entire database, including the edit history. This is what we should demand from any online resource built collaboratively. My current personal policy is to use those non-reciprocal services in read-only