Notices by Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 2
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 15-May-2018 14:01:08 UTC 
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@rysiek @xrevan86 This is what #freedombone is about, but also ejabberd and prosody need to ship with a default set of xeps which pass all the Conversations tests. If that happened life would be easier. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 08:10:14 UTC
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Also on the topic of PGP/GPG, keybase will have a significant database of probably crackable private keys, since uploading the private key is the default. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 28-Apr-2018 15:30:18 UTC
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The folks who are obsessed by robot apocalypses are usually without exception people who have never actually done any robotics. Doing robotics is a fantastic way to cut any pretensions or grandiose ideas you might be harboring down to size. Physical reality will often pigheadedly refuse to go along with your schemes, and do its own thing regardless.
Progress in robotics is a bit like progress in mathematics. It requires the sort of militant obsession with details and a refusal to give up in the face of overwhelmingly adverse odds. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 23-Apr-2018 12:43:53 UTC
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Onion based federation is now working with #pleroma on #freedombone. This means that it's now possible to follow users on "onion only" installs.
This type of federation is quite significant, because it means independence from the DNS and CA systems. It means that even if you don't control your local internet router or don't have money to spend on domain names you can still create a social network. It significantly reduces the complexity barrier to entry for running a home server. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 23-Apr-2018 08:02:44 UTC
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@CobaltVelvet @Elizafox I'm also wary that LE is becoming a big single point of failure. If anything were to happen to them there would be a lot of chaos. We should be be trying to get away from the DNS and CA system as much as is possible. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 16:27:37 UTC
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It's now possible to create #freedombone images which can run from an external SSD drive. This can improve the read/write performance a lot.
https://freedombone.net/faq.html#orgeeb7892 -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 13-Apr-2018 15:34:06 UTC
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@matt A better way of putting this is that usually all software is written for the purposes of the author to solve some particular problem which they have. You are the best person to know what your own problems are and so the best software comes from people who are embedded within the problem.
No mater how empathic you are it's genuinely hard to know what other people's problems are at the level of exactitude required to build software. This kind of problem crops up repeatedly in commercial software development, where the developer high-mindedly believes that they know exactly what other people's problems are and sets about to solve them. Except that often the developer is only indulging in hubris.
This is why diversity is important in software development. Without diversity you can't develop for a wider population because you can't bootstrap your own standpoint. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Apr-2018 19:21:21 UTC
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@boneidol @mangeurdenuage I'm sure that US psyops won't be mentioned -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Mar-2018 10:09:17 UTC
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Mar-2018 21:42:48 UTC
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From sudoroom
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Mar-2018 21:29:06 UTC
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Browsing the fediverse
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2018 22:37:59 UTC
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2018 18:35:54 UTC
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For anyone really paying attention to these kinds of things, troll farms are not new. It's very likely that your friendly local administration has some, and they're part of the overall attempt to control and influence opinion for the purposes of propping up powerful institutions or companies.
Microsoft fought a long and dirty troll war against Linux, which ultimately they lost. China has its famous 50 cent party. The US struggled to scale up its troll army and had to resort to "persona management systems". But all these are just the tip of the iceberg and propaganda wars go back a long way to the beginning of the printed word. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2018 17:25:22 UTC
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The Fall - Kurious Oranj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A3cHzFQsqI -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 19:48:39 UTC
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 19:10:32 UTC
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One thing which nobody is paying attention to is that LetsEncrypt - a public benefit corporation based in California and run by eight people - has become a single point of failure. If LetsEncrypt were to suddenly go away for some reason there would be a lot of trouble. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2018 23:13:25 UTC
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So here's a policy proposal for the next US administration: a Grand Repeal Act. Roll back all of the bullshit introduced by the last few administrations. Cancel homeland security and the TSA. Completely defund Gitmo so that they have no option but to close it for good. Demilitarize the police and ban their electricity weapons. No military hardware should be going to the police at all. Defund the NSA and cancel their bulk collection powers. Pull the funding from private jails. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2018 11:52:13 UTC
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@aral @Framasoft Also see https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2018 10:55:16 UTC
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It would be a good idea for #FOSDEM to re-evaluate their association with Google. What do Google stand for? How much of their software is actually open source these days? Is Google just openwashing at these types of conferences by promoting closed stuff and opaque algorithms behind APIs? -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2018 23:37:15 UTC
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"No one really knows how many thousands of people have died as a result of the freefall in government support, but to get just an inkling: between December 2011 and February 2014, the Department of Work and Pensions reported that 2,380 Britons previously on disability support were found dead no more than six weeks after receiving notice that they were having their benefits cut because they had been determined to be 'fit for work.'"
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/despair-fatigue-david-graeber
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