I started with an S2 and now own a couple of S3s.
When the bikes work, they are great and fun to ride. Electronic buttons, motor power boost to 500W and automatic gear changes are really innovative and make for a well-balanced product.
The sad part with VanMoof is that they never got their quality issues under control. Given the quality issues, support could not cope, and I guess the frequent required repairs were a bit too much in terms of cost.
I hope they pull through because their bikes are great.
WebID provides a "single signon" but based on a decentralised way of managing user ids.
With WebID it is in principle possible to host your own identity provider (identified via a HTTP URI), which takes care of authentication. So you can control yourself what login to use.
If somebody wants to give you access to a resource, they add your WebID (the HTTP URI) to the access control list of the resource, which takes care of authorisation.
A pity that WebID+TLS, with which you can easily set up WebID via your web server, is not well supported with the current tools. IIRC they had to switch to an OpenID/OAuth2-based approach to support delegation.
The goal is to separate data from applications and to provide a decentralised way for authentication. Users can store and manage their data in so-called pods (personal online datastores).
Pods are essentially souped-up HTTP servers (based on Linked Data Platform containers) that allow the management of graph-structured data (RDF) via HTTP. Authentication for accessing and manipulating data is done via WebID, which builds on OpenID and OAuth.
Overall, the technologies (unsurprisingly) fit well into web architecture and are simpler and more developer-friendly than the previous technologies around the Semantic Web. With a focus on running code and practical applications, I see that his effort is gaining traction. I hope he succeeds, it is time to get alternatives to the centralised cloud systems run by big companies.
Intercepted phone call (video w. English subs) re. how Russian politicians are orchestrating the May 11 "referendum" in Donestk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In Crimea vote they might have been more subtle but there still were armed "pro-Russia" forces (in contact w. Russia) inciting and carrying out Crimea vote. When you hear text like this re. Donetsk (in the link above):
"write something like 99% [voting "yes"] down - are you going to [actually] walk around and collect [vote] papers? are you fucking insane?"
What is that place at Jauniela 19/1? Office, cafe,
Debug is human, de-fix divine.