Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 3
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Sep-2017 16:21:11 UTC 
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2017 15:30:16 UTC
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James Vasile once said about FreedomBox "by the time it's ready you'll know why you need it".
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2017 14:26:58 UTC
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I hate to be one of those "third way" people, but I don't think nationalizing Google would achieve a lot. Whether a centralized information titan is run by a corporation or by a nation state with the State Capitalism model it's a similar kind of deal.
Really we need a better model for public ownership of infrastructure which doesn't have too few people wielding too much power. Something like a commons based model. What would YouTube be like if it was run as a coop of video producers?
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2017 18:24:14 UTC
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It's funny I had almost this exact conversation with Singularitarians 10+ years ago. Killer robots sell copy, whereas more realistic evaluations of the role of technology in society are much less glamorous and get into issues which powerful people are uncomfortable with discussing."I feel like I’m lecturing you, and I am. I unequivocally am lecturing you. You deserve to be lectured right now. You’re a person in a position of power who could effect real change, and instead, you’re creating more noise and fear about a thing that’s never going to happen."
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2017 13:30:17 UTC
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Cloudflare is such a crock. It's so easy to predict that at some point there's going to be a CFpocalypse. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Aug-2017 14:30:22 UTC
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So just as there was a hacky solution for gnusocial I'll probably need to hack something together to keep the data storage for Matrix to a sensible level. At present the database size is growing without limit, and eventually that will cause problems. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2017 12:59:54 UTC
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@rysiek it's amazing that discussion is even being had, and it shows how little some users understand TOR.
Just like you can't have end-to-end encryption for everyone except the bad people you also can't have a routing system which only works for non-nazis. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2017 08:27:09 UTC
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If domain registrars are blocking organisations because they call for violence then that doesn't just apply to neo-nazis. Governments often call for violence. Trump has done it many times.
The problem of violence in society is wider than just some idiot far right people. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2017 06:59:18 UTC
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@natecull @h If the semantic web is ever to work then creating an ontology and linking it to web functionality needs to be easy. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2017 06:55:04 UTC
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@h @natecull The semantic web idea has been around for a long time, but never took off. The markup was way too complex and of limited usefulness. Also the semantic web would have reduced a lot of fricton for the user, whereas most web companies want to introduce friction and then monetize it. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2017 17:15:59 UTC
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GNU/Maintainers wanted. I didn't know people still used faxes.
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2017 14:34:36 UTC
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@paulfree14 neo-nazis are indeed a threat to free speech. They may claim that they like it, but when they show up on the street they're more interested in getting into a brawl or calling for people to be killed or deported.
Neo-nazis and their totalitarian ambitions are only one of the threats to free speech in the foreseeable future. The bigger threat as I see it is from pervasive corporate surveillance combined with government data retention. My guess is that schemes like "prevent" in the UK will grow to include a wider range of political speech as the predicament of capitalism gets ever more precarious and the remaining neoliberals seek to stabilize business as usual by rooting out the more obvious critics of a system which benefits fewer and fewer. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2017 18:17:36 UTC
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@nee yes. Even though the talk compares GNU Taler to cryptocurrencies it's really much more like an alternative paypal. That includes the same failure modes which paypal has. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2017 16:53:02 UTC
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Watching the GNU Taler talk and thinking "this looks terrible". - Depends on existing banking system for the creation of money. Doesn't disintermediate banksters
- The exchange part looks totally open to fraud or disruption
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2017 13:25:12 UTC
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@elizafox I think it was a few years ago I reached the point where I thought supporting Windows users was no longer a good idea. Windows is high maintenance and has an increasing number of proprietary problems which aren't solvable by a technician, but mainly I just don't want to help maintain the Microsoft hegemony or be linked to that company in any way.
So these days if someone comes to me with a borked Windows laptop in an update boot cycle or overloaded with malware I tell them that I can help get them going again by installing a GNU/Linux distro (something like Ubuntu MATE LTS), but I can't help them with Windows.
The only exception I'd make to that is that if someone is willing to pay a good amount of money then I might consider helping them with Windows, but that rarely happens in practice as money is becoming generally scarce around here. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2017 10:18:56 UTC
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So it's not ultra-clear, but the FairCoin thing sounds pretty crude.
Some folks get issued with USB boards which contain keys and maybe also store the blockchain. Being issued with the USB board by a centralized organization becomes a "license to create blocks on the chain".
If my understanding of it is correct then this really isn't any better than a conventional banking system. These types of system are trivial to take down by disrupting the central component. They're also open to abuse by whoever is the central administrator. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2017 22:19:33 UTC
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"It is not necessary to fight the tyrant. Neither is it necessary to defend oneself against him. The tyrant will eventually defeat himself. People only need to stop accepting servitude. They do not need to take anything away from the tyrant, they must only stop giving to him. Nor need they change themselves, they need only stop hindering their own development. ... When the tyrant does not receive and is no longer obeyed, he ends up naked, without force and without power. He ends up being nothing. He shares the fate of a root that is left without water and nourishment: it turns into a dry, dead piece of wood."
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2017 14:32:29 UTC
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2017 14:36:05 UTC
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@simonv3 @jd @antanicus The amount of damage which North Korea could do is small though. They might have a few nukes, but the US and Russia still have thousands. Enough megatons to render the planet uninhabitable to any land animal larger than a cockroach. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2017 17:26:39 UTC
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