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Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 14

  1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 12:09:52 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/73158
    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 12:09:52 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  2. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 11:15:24 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Anarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5glh58F6dQ
    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 11:15:24 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. "Anarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practice" by Rudolf Rocker, Chapter 1. Anarchism
      By AudibleAnarchist from YouTube
  3. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 10:30:56 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Current status https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/73130
    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 10:30:56 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  4. rowan (rowan@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 10:11:20 EST rowan rowan

    foss alternatives to disqus? willing to set up commenting myself but don't want to write any code to make it happen at the moment. and feel gross about using disqus.

    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 10:11:20 EST from toot.cafe permalink Repeated by bob
  5. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 09:15:13 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • Freedombone Home Server
    It looks like I've run into a show-stopper with the Pleroma backend, and the reason I didn't see this earlier was that I was only testing within a Tor browser. It's dependent on https://placehold.it for avatar images. Since !Freedombone is a self-hosting system there should be no dependencies on other sites. Having dependencies on other sites also introduces potential for spying and even more dubious stuff if the site in question is hostile.

    So for now I'll deprecate the Pleroma backend. Maybe they will replace that with a first-party placeholder image thing eventually. Fortunately, this doesn't affect the frontend, which can still be used with gnusocial or postactiv.
    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 09:15:13 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  6. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 08:02:11 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Science in action.

    "Given some jelly mixed according to standard procedures and a vertical wall, it is not possible to nail the former to the latter and have it stay there for any significant amount of time"

    http://graeme.woaf.net/otherbits/jelly.html
    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 08:02:11 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  7. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 07:34:09 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    A more realistic hacker stock photo, but this is hackaday after all.

    https://hackaday.com/2018/01/10/wifi-alliance-announces-upcoming-fixes-to-wpa2
    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 07:34:09 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. WiFi Alliance Announces Upcoming Fixes to WPA2
      By Brian Benchoff from Hackaday

      Last October, before Intel’s Management Engine was completely broken and the Spectre and Meltdown exploits drove Intel’s security profile further into the ground, we had a problem with wireless networking. WPA2 was cracked with KRACK, the Key Reinstallation Attack. The sky isn’t falling quite yet, but the fact remains that the best WiFi security currently available isn’t very secure at all.

      This week, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the WiFi Alliance announced they would introduce security enhancements in 2018. While it’s not said in the press release if this is a reaction to KRACK, the smart money says yes, this is indeed a reaction to KRACK.

      Four new capabilities are outlined in the upcoming release of WPA3 this year. One feature will be protection for users who do not choose complex passwords. A second feature will simplify the process of configuring security on devices that have no display, ostensibly like that little button on your router that you’ve never pressed. The third feature will ‘strengthen user privacy in open networks’, while the fourth, the one we really care about, will add a 192-bit security suite which will, ‘further protect WiFi networks with higher security requirements’.

      While most devices currently in service should have a patch for KRACK by now, there will always be thousands of unpatched devices, because, really, who is in charge of the router at your local coffee shop? We’re not sure about the timing of the WiFi Alliance’s announcement of upcoming security improvements: coming during CES when the entirety of the tech press is gawking at manned quadcopters and an endless variety of voice assistants. But we have to say better late than never.

  8. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 07:23:10 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    in reply to
    • clacke
    • Dave Morriss
    • Lars Wirzenius
    @clacke @perloid @liw In old skool development methodology - as for the Linux kernel - patches would always be sent to mailing lists and not just privately. But having had some limited involvement with the kernel in my opinion email list based change management is really cumbersome. Unless you're very on top of your email client customizations it can be easy to just be flooded by many random unrelated patch emails and lose track of the status of your particular patch. Something like a Github PR is much easier.
    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 07:23:10 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  9. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 07:09:01 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • Wu-Lee
    @wulee I could take Alexa as an example. An often occurring point in lists of AI/robotics ethics principles is the principle of transparency - that it should be clear what the system is doing. For example:

    "A transparent artificial intelligence system is one in which it is possible to discover how, and why, the system made a decision, or in the case of a robot, acted the way it did."

    From http://www.thefutureworldofwork.org/media/35420/uniethicalai.pdf

    But in the Alexa case there is no transparency, and it's very likely that the replies will be commercially biased and possibly also politically biased too.
    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 07:09:01 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  10. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 06:41:32 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    These committees trying to come out with sets of rules for "ethical AI" or "ethical robotics". I'm not sure that this amounts to much, because in the end it all just resolves down to the fact that anything which conflicts with economic dogma or the interests of powerful people is highly likely to be ignored.

    There's always hand-wavy terminology such as "aligns with human values", as if human values were some kind of context-free monolith.
    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 06:41:32 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  11. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 05:23:11 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • mangeurdenuage
    @mangeurdenuage Looks like it was only a brief outage. I bet they're applying meltdown patches.
    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 05:23:11 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  12. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 05:13:15 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Github melted down
    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 05:13:15 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  13. 🐝zy (beezyal@hex.bz)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 00:40:30 EST 🐝zy 🐝zy

    I'm curious what my fellow anarchist(-adjacent) mastonauts think about Le Guin's anarchism in The Dispossessed. I'm teaching a course on her works later this year, and we'll be focusing on Dispossessed for a good chunk of the semester!

    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 00:40:30 EST from hex.bz permalink Repeated by bob
  14. INACTIVE (deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 23:04:05 EST INACTIVE INACTIVE

    I will always pronounce GUI and gee-you-i. Fight me.

    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 23:04:05 EST from social.nasqueron.org permalink Repeated by bob
  15. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 04:08:57 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • 🦁 Lioness With Mane
    • Irenes (many)
    @lioness @irenes I don't really care about the fate of either Google or that sexist manifesto guy that they fired. This is the great thing about self hosting. I hope that Google wastes a lot of money in a legal fight against its own messed up internal culture.
    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 04:08:57 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  16. The_Gibson {UTC -4} (thegibson@hackers.town)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 23:12:25 EST The_Gibson {UTC -4} The_Gibson {UTC -4}

    In summation.

    Fuck MS.

    Fuck Intel.

    Fuck the Manufacturers.

    I hope they are sued into oblivion.

    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 23:12:25 EST from hackers.town permalink Repeated by bob
  17. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 04:02:23 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • The_Gibson {UTC -4}
    @thegibson Arch/Parabola
    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 04:02:23 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  18. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 03:57:04 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • INACTIVE
    @deadsuperhero I'm glad I was never one of the cool kids
    In conversation Wednesday, 10-Jan-2018 03:57:04 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
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