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Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 15

  1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 19:01:57 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    in reply to
    • mallaidh (dork aspect)
    @mallaidh At the last company I was at they used IRC, but at the time I joined it was SaaS supplied as some contracted out thing. Occasionally there would be some server snafu and the IRC would stop working, throwing all the things into chaos. There would be fraught support calls to the SaaS provider and sometimes the system was unreliable for multiple days at a time.

    My comment when I realized this was going on was something like: Come on, we're all hackers of one flavor or another. How hard would it be to set up a local IRC server on the company LAN and run it ourselves? Then at least if there's a problem it can be fixed much more quickly. I estimated that it would take me a couple of hours at the outmost, based upon the setup I already ran at home.

    They did eventually do that, although I don't know whether my complaints were causal in the process.
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 19:01:57 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  2. mallaidh (dork aspect) (mallaidh@witches.town)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 17:13:41 EST mallaidh (dork aspect) mallaidh (dork aspect)

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108912
    this hackernews thread about a slack downtime is both a riot and aggravating because of how helpless almost everyone acts in response to centralized services failing. there's just no conceivable way that management could change over to internal IRC, or that any alternative to slack exists. only one person suggests using talk(1) to solve the problem, while others make claims such as ircd setup requiring "rare expertise"

    just cracks me up that the vaunted capitalist enterprises and venture capital "hackers" are so terrified of setting up an irc daemon for a local network

    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 17:13:41 EST from witches.town permalink Repeated by bob
  3. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 18:10:00 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • worst girl 🏴‍☠️
    • dtluna 🏴
    @xj9 @dtluna This sounds like a job for Bertrand Russell. #principiamathematica
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 18:10:00 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  4. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 16:26:03 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Broadcast - Tunnel View https://soundcloud.com/james-broadcast/broadcast-fire-song-demo
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 16:26:03 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Invalid filename.
      Broadcast - Tunnel View (Demo)
      from SoundCloud
      Listen to Broadcast - Tunnel View (Demo) by James Broadcast #np on #SoundCloud
  5. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 16:08:53 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Eric Vann - Space Face https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uy6cOUwWAo
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 16:08:53 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Eric Vann - Space Face
      By Brite Rory from YouTube
  6. 💾 sophia_park.dmg (sophia@cybre.space)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 15:16:54 EST 💾 sophia_park.dmg 💾 sophia_park.dmg

    Picard woke up on the bridge. “How long?”
    “25 minutes, sir.”
    “...extraordinary.” And he told them of the lifetime he lived on bulletin board systems, how real it seemed. They found only one thing on the probe: a Commodore 64.

    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 15:16:54 EST from cybre.space permalink Repeated by bob
  7. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 14:20:00 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Super 386 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0N-jgtNrEU
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 14:20:00 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Chips & Technologies Super 386
      By HighTreason610 from YouTube
  8. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 11:32:19 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • Lars Wirzenius
    @liw gogs and gitea also have PRs, and arguably look even more similar to Github.

    I generally prefer PRs because email isn't a reliable communication system for me and some small percentage of the time my address gets blocked.
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 11:32:19 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  9. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 10:29:08 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Sneekylinux does a Debian Net Install https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E32wqgARFIo
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 10:29:08 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Sneekylinux Live Stream....Debian Net Install
      By sneekylinux from YouTube
  10. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 09:17:50 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • PennyForTheGuy
    @therealpennyfortheguy That was quite cringeworthy. It's going to take more than tears and some hand-wringing to deal with the divide-and-rule tactics of the police state.
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 09:17:50 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  11. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 08:54:18 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • clacke
    • Mark Shane Hayden
    • Aaron Brady
    • JordiGH
    @insom @clacke @msh @jordigh In the 90s, and maybe up to the mid 2000s, it was reasonable to assume one computer per household as the typical situation. The problem which webmail solved was dealing with multiple computers while maintaining a single identity.
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 08:54:18 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  12. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 08:19:59 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    • PennyForTheGuy
    @therealpennyfortheguy I liked Lessig when he was doing creative commons stuff. Building out the digital commons is a counter-hegemonic project. But trying to become president isn't. Presidents, kings and other such people are more of the same. Concentrated power always creates evil outcomes of the unchecked ego. Changing the future isn't as easy as appointing a new king.
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 08:19:59 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  13. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 07:44:43 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    "It was bitterly ironic that at the very moment the state mounted a comprehensive attack on working-class power, identity politics was parsing the working class into ever more fragmented subgroups. Though identities obviously matter very much, they cannot combine into a new politics because their essence is their separateness. Something else is needed to bring them together in a broader, more integrated, and more coherent politics, something beyond the particularistic concerns of both identities and unions. That 'something' is class."

    https://jacobinmag.com/2014/06/unmaking-global-capitalism
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 07:44:43 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Unmaking Global Capitalism
      Nine things to know about organizing in the belly of the beast.
  14. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 07:17:59 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Rodney Spence - Fallout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLT03svZb3o
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 07:17:59 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Rodney Spence - Fallout (Extended Version) | world's most atmospheric dark music ever
      By Premium Music HQ from YouTube
  15. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 06:10:51 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    Voytek Pavlik - Burning Sky https://voytekpavlik.bandcamp.com/track/burning-sky
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 06:10:51 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Burning Sky, by Voytek Pavlik
      from Voytek Pavlik
      from the album Post Apocalyptic Soundtracks
  16. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 02:56:39 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    in reply to
    • JordiGH
    @jordigh The way I think big companies might try to disrupt the fediverse would be to run their own instance and then provide some tangible reason for users to join - such as paying them to have ads appended to their posts or implementing something like a basic income for all users supported by ads in the stream. Once they gained critical mass they could then embrace and extinguish the protocol, as they did with xmpp.
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 02:56:39 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  17. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 02:48:45 EST Bob Mottram Bob Mottram
    in reply to
    • clacke
    • Mark Shane Hayden
    • JordiGH
    @clacke @msh @jordigh I used gmail for five or more years, even though my previous mail client had more features. The advantage was that when using multiple machines I didn't need to transfer the data. Once I was running my own mail server though this was no longer a problem, but being blocked by dubious blocklists remains an issue.
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 02:48:45 EST from social.freedombone.net permalink
  18. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 00:50:07 EST clacke clacke
    • Mark Shane Hayden
    • JordiGH
    @msh @jordigh gab and minds and what-have-you are just trying to be Another Twitter (even though Minds is free software), but Mastodon adds real value because it puts an accessible face on the Fediverse instead of trying to be another silo.

    I'm really glad to see there are hundreds of instances, showing that even if non-siloed networking may be confusing to newcomers, and even though the Mastodon name as used in the official messaging confuses the software, the network, and the flagship instance, the community gets it.

    But e-mail absolutely provides a warning about the dangers of federation. You mention hotmail and rocketmail, but that was already the first wave of centralization. In the early 90s we got our mail accounts from our ISPs.

    The wave happened because of webmail. It was so convenient to use, even though a real IMAP desktop client had better functionality. I am an old grumpy man, but I mainly use webmail, and the one from Big No Evil at that.
    In conversation Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 00:50:07 EST from social.heldscal.la permalink Repeated by bob
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