Peter Saint-Andre

Most-linked posts?

1. Who's Afraid of the Public Domain? (2008)
   2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-02-19
2. /
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-08-10
3. /journal/1384.html
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-26

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1. tristor · 2021-05-27Recommends

   Several of the blogs I enjoy are already linked within this thread, but I recently started reading a coworker's blog after finding out he'd spent more than 20 years consistently writing articles online, mostly about tech and philosophy. The archive has some very interesting articles: https://stpeter.im/journal/ Of those posted, I will +1 daringfireball, jwz, idlewords, filippo, and danluu as people worth reading.

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2. speckx · 2025-09-05

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3. marginalia_nu · 2022-02-02Recommends

   > If you mean anything related to philosophy, sociology or explaining how the world works at large - no. I'm the wrong person to ask for sociological links, but here's a whole flock of actively maintained black swans pertaining to philosophy and other topics: https://lileks.com/ https://stpeter.im/ https://www.philosophizethis.org/ https://antiqueradio.org/ http://attalus.org/

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4. tjaerv · 2013-07-12

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5. ralphm · 2013-05-26

   I should have made the link to the document on XMPP on Mobile Devices more explicit: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0286.html . In short, the use of compression in the TLS layer negates the oft stated verbosity of XMPP. It really isn't the problem you think it is. More info: http://stpeter.im/journal/1384.html . I might be a fanboy, but I do know what I'm talking about.

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6. aseembits93 · 2019-05-09

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7. tjaerv · 2013-08-05

   > Owning and asserting a copyright does not make you a monopolist [...] All property rights are monopolies. Copyright is not a property right, it is exactly a state-granted monopoly privilege, instituted on ostensibly utilitarian grounds. See http://stpeter.im/writings/essays/publicdomain.html Cory Doctorow has elsewhere explained how IP used to be discussed in terms of a "creative monopoly" until the 1970s when the…

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8. Zash · 2016-06-04

   > Related: [comment from 1977 days ago] Yes, people have been bashing XMPP forever. http://stpeter.im/journal/1384.html The XMPP protocol is quite qualified to compete with WhatsApp, considering they are using XMPP (with some custom non-standard compression). XMPP is a fine protocol. Just because a bunch of people has been chanting "XMPP is a just a bad protocol" over and over does not make it true.

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9. dvanduzer · 2015-10-22Recommends

   Satoshi Nakamoto is a case study in how confused everyone is about the concept of identity. Many of the engineers I talk to are at the point where they refuse to even use the term "digital identity" at all. (I think this is mostly what you are saying.) I still trot this link out as a primer whenever the subject comes up: http://stpeter.im/journal/1035.html

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10. dvanduzer · 2013-12-26

    I'm glad you brought that line in the 2011 piece up, because it caught my eye too. I am not sure it's clear whether Kaminsky was talking about peer introduction or content discovery, though. Regardless, this gets down to the crux of the "squared triangle" issue. Getting introduced to the network isn't the only place where centralization helps, and it's probably not even an important one, as you say. A human that wan…

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11. billswift · 2009-08-24

    It's possible that putting things in the public domain is no longer allowed even in the US. Peter Saint-Andre puts all of his work in the public domain, but he wrote an essay with links almost three years ago discussing among other things that it may not be legal https://stpeter.im/index.php/2006/12/30/pd-howto/ . He has a lot of other writings about PD and copyright issues here : https://stpeter.im/index.php/catego…

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12. arto · 2012-02-19

    Indeed. Those who are going to attribute you will attribute you anyway, without needing a gun held to their head about it. Those who won't, won't. Many of these concerns are addressed in Peter Saint-Andre's essay "Who's Afraid of the Public Domain?": http://stpeter.im/writings/essays/publicdomain.html

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13. billswift · 2009-08-10

    HN, OvercomingBias.com, LessWrong.com, Bruce Schneier's blog (schneier.com/blog/), Megan McArdles's blog ( http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/ ), Steve Sailer (isteve.blogspot.com), and I probably spend as much time browsing Amazon and reading reviews there as any one of the others. I spend less time at (only because they write less) Freedom-to-Tinker.com, Armed and Dangerous ( http://esr.ibiblio.org/ ), One Small…

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