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Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)

  1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2018 10:26:34 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    in reply to
    • Hallå Kitteh
    @clacke Some years ago I wrote a C library for genetic programming, called libgpr. I also use it in an art program called Paintatron.

    https://github.com/bashrc/libgpr
    In conversation Friday, 19-Jan-2018 10:26:34 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  2. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2018 10:43:18 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    in reply to
    • Andrew (bookseller era)
    @ajroach42 It's sometimes said that what goes onto the internet stays there forever, but in its current form internet content is very ephemeral. Unless you save it on local storage or put it on archive.org there's a high chance that information will disappear within a few years.
    In conversation Tuesday, 16-Jan-2018 10:43:18 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  3. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2018 19:25:08 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Dire Straits - Communique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK1cBMgpTEE
    In conversation Sunday, 14-Jan-2018 19:25:08 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink

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    1. Communique Dire Straits
      By AGALLAGHER-KNOPFLERGIRL from YouTube
  4. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2018 15:32:52 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • Léo
    @technowix So I see. Maybe 2018 is the year to get serious about getting off of Github. Perhaps git-ssb could be the way to do it in a manner which scales.
    In conversation Thursday, 11-Jan-2018 15:32:52 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  5. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 23:50:33 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    A note on the passing of Tony Baldwin. Before 2016 the fediverse was a small world of familiar faces, and Tony was one of those. Tony was characteristic of the pioneers of federated social networks in that he was multi-talented. In addition to hacking on miscellaneous social network stuff he was a father, runner, painter, photographer, multilingual translator and anarchist. Like a lot of us he was also a precariat, living on uncertain income in a hostile world and struggling with all of the usual things, and some not so usual ones.

    One thing I should point out which he would probably find funny. I never much liked his Shakespearean insult bot. It was amusing at first, but the joke soon got irritating.

    One of Tony's PHP scripts lives on in an adapted form in the Freedombone project. It's purpose is to clear out old posts so that the database size doesn't grow indefinitely. When you're running on small ARM boards without much storage, and want to keep the performance reasonable, this is quite a good thing to have.
    In conversation Monday, 08-Jan-2018 23:50:33 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  6. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2018 11:18:26 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Another recruiter trying to persuade me to work on military submarines. Possibly the work might be technically fascinating, but I don't want anything to do with military companies or "cyberwar" or a military chain of command. It would be working against the kind of world I'd like to inhabit, and I expect that soon enough I'd be stuck in a Chelsea Manning, Snowden or even David Kelly type of situation.
    In conversation Friday, 05-Jan-2018 11:18:26 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  7. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 08:41:39 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • Máirín Ní Dhufaigh
    @mairin So I see. Resurrected by a vpn company.
    In conversation Tuesday, 02-Jan-2018 08:41:39 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  8. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2017 10:36:17 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    A little success story. Installing 32bit Debian 9 onto a 7 year old netbook and then editing in emacs is really fast. CPU use is about 5% or less.
    In conversation Tuesday, 26-Dec-2017 10:36:17 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  9. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 08:46:04 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    in reply to
    • rowan
    @rowan Hosting your own stuff can be quite addictive.
    In conversation Sunday, 24-Dec-2017 08:46:04 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  10. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 19:45:21 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • 9428493
    @cosine Often the Free Software people I've met were also involved with other types of activism and apart from the pragmatic aspects it was part of their overall goal to lead a better kind of life which meant that they needed to make fewer compromises and be less reliant on corporations.
    In conversation Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 19:45:21 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  11. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 11:59:34 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • solidarity with ppl in rojava
    @paulfree14 I don't know how that particular system works, but I can imagine that some really bad economics would develop.

    For example, if the poster gets "payed" in cryptocurrency for every reply they get then that would incentivize people posting on the site to make the most inflammatory statements possible so that outraged readers will reply.

    If the admin of the site gets payed and not the people posting to it then this encourages the admin to have the maximum number of posts, which means bots, nazis, spam and other random junk. There could also be a whole ecosystem of badness in which people get tricked into posting to the site.
    In conversation Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 11:59:34 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  12. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2017 14:45:27 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Codes of conduct are always a toxic topic. On one side there are people who think they're essential and that every last possible abuse must be expressly forbidden in an authoritative document, and on the other side there are are people who think it's another pointless piece of bureaucracy which almost nobody will read and certainly nobody will act upon.

    A code of conduct might be one part of making a good community, but merely having one isn't enough and it still requires additional work to avoid pitfalls. It's a bit like the universal declaration of human rights. It exists and a lot of countries signed up to it. But it seems to me that it's routinely ignored and all sorts of abuses continue in flagrant violation.
    In conversation Monday, 18-Dec-2017 14:45:27 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  13. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 16:29:35 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • Annah
    • Marsxyz
    @maiyannah @marsxyz

    "It is currently unclear what user-privacy considerations Mozilla management made before deciding to auto-install the Mr. Robot plugin into Firefox."

    In conversation Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 16:29:35 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  14. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 15:54:57 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • Annah
    @maiyannah I read that too, and thought:

    WTF?

    In conversation Saturday, 16-Dec-2017 15:54:57 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  15. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 21:59:52 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    "Today, Motherboard and VICE Media are committing to be part of the change we’d like to see. We will build a community network based at our Brooklyn headquarters that will provide internet connections for our neighborhood. We will also connect to the broader NYC Mesh network in order to strengthen a community network that has already decided the status quo isn’t good enough."

    https://social.freedombone.net/url/65578
    In conversation Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 21:59:52 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Motherboard & VICE Are Building a Community Internet Network
      from Motherboard
      To protect net neutrality, we need internet infrastructure that isn't owned by big telecom.
  16. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 21:06:52 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Organize. Reclaim the network. Free the software. Bypass the middle-men and the bridge trolls. Don't complain about the internet, be the internet.
    In conversation Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 21:06:52 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  17. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 17:59:54 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/65172
    In conversation Wednesday, 13-Dec-2017 17:59:54 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink

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    1. https://social.freedombone.net/file/3b603b05321c8846dd3ec98ae6e943e4ae38ca2ff3e4f19e96dea7fe3ccc9cc8.jpg
  18. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2017 13:17:58 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Even a cursory investigation confirms that it's pretty hard to sell out of Bitcoin and convert it back into Regime Currency. This makes me very suspicious about the claimed high values of the currency.
    In conversation Sunday, 03-Dec-2017 13:17:58 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink
  19. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2017 14:48:48 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Facebook's latest unethical user study https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM13/paper/viewFile/6093/6350
    In conversation Saturday, 02-Dec-2017 14:48:48 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink

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  20. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2017 13:16:51 UTC Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Schestowitz versus The Mastodon https://blog.freedombone.net/schestowitz-versus-the-mastodon
    In conversation Sunday, 26-Nov-2017 13:16:51 UTC from social.freedombone.net permalink

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