Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@gnusocial.freedombone.net)
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Bob Mottram (bob@gnusocial.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2016 18:05:37 UTC 
Bob Mottram
@kzimmermann more likely than censoring is de-funding. I think the Tor project is still mostly reliant upon Open Technology Fund money which comes from the US government. Trump & co, or any president for that matter, could easily decide that this is something they no longer want to fund. -
Bob Mottram (bob@gnusocial.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2016 17:58:55 UTC
Bob Mottram
@xj9 with a standard like that I'd like to see privacy controls built in from the start. So some way of indicating which individuals or groups have permissions to view messages. Think of an operating system but for interpersonal communications. -
Bob Mottram (bob@gnusocial.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2016 12:55:30 UTC
Bob Mottram
"Punk was never, never meant to be nostalgic - and you can't learn how to be one at a Museum or London workshop" -
Bob Mottram (bob@gnusocial.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2016 10:34:40 UTC
Bob Mottram
Might be of interest to anyone thinking of redesigning the underlying communications of gnusocial https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk -
Bob Mottram (bob@gnusocial.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2016 09:58:40 UTC
Bob Mottram
On the problems with Tor. It's not a perfect solution. It will make logging web sites visited harder rather than impossible. Tor wasn't really designed for a total surveillance scenario and so by running enough nodes governments can probably dox a certain percentage of users some of the time.
But anything which screws with Theresa May's plans and makes the lives of the securocrats harder is a kind of victory. It means they can't know all of the things all of the time and that some things will slip under their radar. -
Bob Mottram (bob@gnusocial.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2016 18:23:20 UTC
Bob Mottram
The thing about RiseUp is that any system containing the email accounts of a significant number of activists is bound to become a target. This is why if you want better security it's a good idea to run your own stuff, or get someone you trust to do that. #Freedombone now includes Mailpile, which makes encrypted email quite easy although has the down side that it doesn't handle multiple users on one server.
https://gnusocial.freedombone.net/url/2099 -
Bob Mottram (bob@gnusocial.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Nov-2016 20:13:46 UTC
Bob Mottram
@rozzin @steve One thing to remember. Hitler is usually portrayed as a monster. The Other, or The Shadow in Jungian terms. But Hitler was really just a man. A man who sometimes made telephone calls. Mostly an office worker and bureaucrat in a suit. The potential to do Hitler-like things exists everywhere and at all times. Hatred and rage, and the desire to look for simple answers in a complex world are omnipresent. Hitler also existed within a narrative which animated others, without which he would have been just some insane war veteran. Stopping present or future Hitlers is as much about stopping the narrative as it is about stopping some banal fellow. -
Bob Mottram (bob@gnusocial.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2016 10:11:18 UTC
Bob Mottram
@maiyannah @clacke @lnxw48 @steve @alpacaherder heh -
Bob Mottram (bob@gnusocial.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2016 17:16:04 UTC
Bob Mottram
I don't think I'll bother with the "alt-right" re-branding. I'll just call them fascists or Nazis. -
Bob Mottram (bob@gnusocial.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2016 10:50:42 UTC
Bob Mottram
@katiekats @gargron The very emotional reactions were a surprise to me. I didn't even bother enough to vote in the EU referendum. To me it was just a choice between one giant bureaucracy and another. Mothra versus Hedorah. I didn't want either of them. -
Bob Mottram (bob@gnusocial.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2016 09:49:53 UTC
Bob Mottram
Nice to see @aral in the fediverse. I've mentioned it before at meetups in Manchester, but it would be good if FSF or other similar organisations ran a campaign to get more folks from the open source world actually using open source communication systems, rather than Slack, G+, Facebook, Google Hangouts (or whatever it's now called), etc.
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