@6loss some sort of role play for common community disintegration scenarios might be useful for some groups. One would be the unverifiable sex scandal, another would be enter the dragon-troll and another would be where did the donations go.
@6loss pentesting for communities. I'm not sure that would work well though. Probably the only good defense is the presumption of innocence until there is clear evidence.
Bob Mottram (bob@primatemind.info)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2016 14:20:48 UTC
Bob MottramRead another alleged eyewitness refutation of one of the stories from the ioerror hit site. Difficult to know how credible it is. I'm not much interested in sex scandals, but this years Tor project machinations are a very clear illustration that it may be technically difficult to break a cryptosystem like Tor but it's relatively easy to break a community by making claims which are difficult to either prove or refute.
@arunisaac hubzilla came from Friendica, and Friendica interoperates with a lot of things. What was found was that the price for interoperability was a broken privacy model.
What's missing for all of these things is an open standard protocol for private and public communications. I think that was suggested at the very beginning of the Diaspora project (define a protocol first, then build something around it), but that's not the way they went.
@gunvolt @strypey From having done it for the last few years I know that self-hosted email is not easy, and that's because of the numerous block lists out there which the user has no influence over. So although my email mostly gets through, occasionally it's blocked because it's not coming from an "approved" IP address or with a $bigcorp domain name. Anything independent is sometimes automatically considered suspicious. Even so, I think that's a small price to pay for having independence.
@clacke It's the name of the current development branch of #Freedombone, and it's named after the original Stockholm rewrite of Noble Ape (June 2001 - January 2003). What I'm doing with this is re-organising things so that it's easier to add or remove applications or to write new scripts for applications. I'm not currently in Stockholm.
"Writing portable code is like not dating crazy people. It sounds boring and pragmatic. A little insanity is fun, no? Well, no. Pain may be educational, if you can learn to step out of the experience. Yet if you aren't careful, it will damage you."
@postblue People often used to say that the future was not what was promised. "Where's my jetpack" and all that. But that was the future of the baby boomers. I grew up in the 1980s, and the future back then was Mad Max, Judge Dredd and Neuromancer. I think that prediction was a lot more accurate. Corporations run everything, and are the puppetmasters of governments. Everything is under mass surveillance. Political corruption is the normal state of affairs. Gated communities and militarized police. Amazing technology and appalling poverty sit side by side.
@se7en @clacke the idle rich with their oppulent dining habits are problematic. They make claims upon resources far in excess of their real needs or rights, and often while whinging about the morals of others. Really there should be a classless society in which resources are allocated in a democratically decided manner.
@clacke my guess is that either there's some prohibition on FSF, or there's some technical error which causes transactions to fail. If it were the latter though surely other people would be failing to subscribe/renew and there would be a bigger problem for FSF.