"the MP3 technology became patent-free in the United States on 16 April 2017 when U.S. Patent 6,009,399, ...administered by Technicolor, expired"
Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 5
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2017 22:05:59 UTC 
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I think this might be worth some sort of mini-celebration. I never thought I'd live to see the day. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2017 19:58:32 UTC
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#introductions
For the newbies. Ugh, well, what to say? I'm a Free Software hacker. I use a mechanical keyboard and trackball and I am an Arch/Parabola user. In a former incarnation I mostly did industrial robotics and computer vision, but now I'm mostly interested in self-hosting and things pertaining to running communications systems.
I've always been interested in self-organizing systems and emergent processes. Systems which try to survive. This is the commonality across the various things I've done.
Likes:- cheese
- GNU/Linux
- crypto
- C
- bash
- robots
- cats
- freedom
- apes
- vanilla chai
- Celebs pushing fake/bad infosec
- Highly centralized systems
- Buzz words
- Bureaucracy
- Nazis / spooks
- Microsoft/Google/Facebook/Twitter
- Aristocrats, politicians, authoritarians
- Silicon valley ideology
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2017 17:25:13 UTC
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(cringe) This is what I'd call technologically illiterate journalism. It's not quite as bad as complaining about the name of the project (insert crying baby gif), but it's not far elevated above that level.
https://medium.com/dark-mountain/fatal-flaw-with-mastodon-1ef0cb1965ed
He mentions that the system is distributed, but obviously hasn't grokked what that actually means.
Servers have user accounts. I know, shocking, isn't it? Same applies for email, xmpp, forums and just about any other service located on a server. They're not all magically synchronized by some universally agreed protocol. Nor would it be reasonable for them to be.
If you want a pre-internet analogy, there could be Bob living in Manchester and Bob living in Glasgow, and they might be different Bobs!
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 12:46:05 UTC
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Just in case there are any new Mastodon instance admins out there reading this, the number one thing you need to have in place if you want any sustained presence on the open web is a backup system in place and tested. This was one of the things I found early on with the !Freedombone project. If you don't have backups, or only an untested system, then any database corruption, failed hard drive or whatever can delete your entire user community overnight. I think that happened to at least one gnusocial server after the 2016 Twitter exodus.
Freedombone uses Obnam to do encrypted backups with a gpg key, but there are various other options available. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 21:04:47 UTC
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A green default theme for Pleroma on gnusocial on !Freedombone https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/15780 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 09:36:20 UTC
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@pettter @sim Indeed, and this is why it's a good idea to pull no punches when it comes to speaking openly about of authoritarian schemes. The surveillance state with its deluded capitalistic hangers-on and scapegoating apologists should come under withering and sustained criticism. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 18:16:33 UTC
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@schestowitz welcome to the free world -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2017 20:25:34 UTC
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How to run a GNU Social server https://blog.freedombone.net/how-to-run-a-gnu-social-server -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 11:44:58 UTC
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Added ability to change the expiry period for gnusocial posts on !Freedombone https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/14025 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2017 07:23:35 UTC
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@twryst @sonya @johnhenry if people have software requirements currently unmet by FOSS then they should join communities and become active within them. Even if you are not a software engineer there are always other ways to help. Liberation will not arrive by passively waiting for someone to hand it to you. You have to become part of it. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2017 18:51:56 UTC
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@kitredgrave @ttuegel with scaling up there will be increased costs and then it's a question of how to cover those costs. Maybe a Patreon would cover it, or maybe it won't. And then there's always the temptation to start selling user data, inserting ads, etc, etc. Before you know it, you're Twitter 2.0. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Apr-2017 12:59:48 UTC
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Trump signs executive order, officially ending Capitalism
In Washington DC today president Donald J Trump added his signature to an executive order officially announcing the end of Capitalism in the US. "It had a good run", Mr Trump remarked cheerfully as he set pen to paper, "and as a nation we gave it our best shot, but it's now clear that Capitalism can no longer deliver the jobs our people so urgently need".
In a formal gathering of state officials representing a rare consensus of opinion across partisan divides, the president delivered a speech announcing the transition plan for his administration.
"I've called you here today to announce what my administration intends to do and to set out a plan for transition to a new economic system fit for our times. Before this decade is out all US companies will transition to becoming worker owned cooperatives and all assets or shares will be distributed among the new owners. Wall street and The Fed will be liquidated and any assets they possessed by them will be used to help smooth over the transition period. Just as the Soviet Union eventually came to an end after a long period of stagnation so too must we recognize that one chapter of history is over and another is about to begin. At last we will drain the swamp and the destiny of America will be taken back where it first began and where it always truly belonged - with the we the people." -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Apr-2017 08:57:25 UTC
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@verius https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/012088.html -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Apr-2017 08:50:30 UTC
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@verius is that an April fools? Rewriting security things in Rust might make some kind of sense though and it would be nice to have onion routing built into Redox at a fundamental level. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2017 20:53:08 UTC
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@lambadalambda @takeshitakenji the social network? -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2017 10:57:45 UTC
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@strypey just replace the "crony" capitalism with "real" capitalism [yawn]. Big governments are to blame [yawn]. Hyperinflation! [snooze] Fiat! [doze] Founding fathers! [snore] Immorality everywhere! [yawn]
This sounds like the familiar criticisms from the right. That there are good and bad capitalists, and that the bad ones took over. The good capitalists should be "rewarded with profits" and the bad ones should be banished. Don't mention whose profits or where they came from.
I don't doubt that governments are evil, but there are all kinds of problems with the narrative of the right. Why is gold some kind of fetish. They say creating money is bad, but all money is created somehow by someone. Are people with savings more virtuous than those without? If money is just a proxy for labour power isn't holding other people's labour to ransom immoral? All this obsession with "founding fathers" seems ridiculous. Even cursory historical analysis shows they were no saints. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2017 10:28:12 UTC
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@strypey They're talking about the death of empire as if that was a bad thing -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2017 22:07:13 UTC
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@lambadalambda @mona it's a bit like saying computers are just a bunch of switches. True, but doesn't really explain much. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2017 21:54:34 UTC
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@lambadalambda Thing is, the state backs up with violence a lot of the supposedly "free trade" and "free contract" stuff which the Capitalists like to go on about. Without a state doing their dirty work the rich would have a much harder time living on their unearned income. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2017 21:20:15 UTC
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@lambadalambda probably best to leave the ancaps to stew in their own contradictions
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