{"id":11288,"date":"2026-07-09T04:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/?p=11288"},"modified":"2026-07-09T04:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:16:07","slug":"matt-code-for-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/?p=11288","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Code for the People"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lights! Camera! Action!<\/p>\n

Todd Spangler at Variety writes: Automattic\u2019s \u2018Code for the People\u2019 Documentary Is a Rallying Cry for Users to Fight for the Open Internet<\/a>, from the NYC premiere last week.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking forward to the San Francisco premiere of the documentary<\/a>, and then tomorrow everyone can stream it for free on codeforthepeople.com<\/a>! Appearances by Anne McCarthy<\/a>, Beau Lebens<\/a>, Eric Binnion<\/a>, Ian Stewart<\/a>, Marjorie Asturias<\/a>, Mary Hubbard<\/a>, Mat\u00edas Ventura<\/a>, Matthew Miller, Paolo Belcastro<\/a>, and Paul Maiorana<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We need to tell the story of Open Source in as many ways and places as possible. It\u2019s never been more critical. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Film is new to us, and it\u2019s funny how quickly things change: There\u2019s a segment with a few \u201cOpenAI not open\u201d sound bites, but to their credit, they have been releasing open-weight models (Safeguard is particularly interesting)<\/a>. That said, the top open-weight models are all from China<\/a>, save for Nvidia\u2019s Nemotron<\/a>, in ~12th place. <\/p>\n

When I went to the first WordCamps in Beijing<\/a> and Shanghai<\/a> in 2009, it was a very different time. They were the biggest in the world at the time! I don\u2019t think you could take photos in Tiananmen Square as freely as I did then<\/a>; now to visit I think you need an appointment, ID checks, and security checks. <\/p>\n

Even during WordCamp, it felt like the freedom of Open Source was in high demand, but it also created a lot of fear. I found out later that one of the student volunteers who helped their professor organize everything had been taken in for hours of questioning following the event.<\/p>\n

On that trip, I saw how fine-grained the Great Firewall could be when individual posts (IIRC, about bad milk from a factory harming babies) wouldn\u2019t load, but the rest of the site would. WordPress.com had been totally blocked, taking about a quarter of our traffic at the time<\/a>, but behind the Firewall, Open Source continued to thrive and grow, and now the frontier open models are being driven by China in a way I never would have predicted!<\/p>\n

Once you\u2019ve had a taste of freedom, it\u2019s hard to go back.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lights! Camera! Action! Todd Spangler at Variety writes: Automattic\u2019s \u2018Code for the People\u2019 Documentary Is a Rallying Cry for Users to Fight for the Open Internet, from the NYC premiere last week. I\u2019m looking forward to the San Francisco premiere of the documentary, and then tomorrow everyone can stream it for free on codeforthepeople.com! Appearances […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cftp-matt-xH7kQu-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"full":["https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cftp-matt-xH7kQu.jpg",604,326,false]},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Uncategorized","link":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/?cat=1"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cftp-matt-xH7kQu-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"cvmm-medium":["https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cftp-matt-xH7kQu-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"cvmm-medium-plus":["https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cftp-matt-xH7kQu-305x207.jpg",305,207,true],"cvmm-portrait":["https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cftp-matt-xH7kQu-400x326.jpg",400,326,true],"cvmm-medium-square":["https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cftp-matt-xH7kQu-600x326.jpg",600,326,true],"cvmm-large":["https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cftp-matt-xH7kQu.jpg",604,326,false],"cvmm-small":["https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cftp-matt-xH7kQu-130x95.jpg",130,95,true],"full":["https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cftp-matt-xH7kQu.jpg",604,326,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4ksamachar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}