@Matter @daeh same, although I'm considering spinning up a freedombox for comparison...
Notices by Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org), page 28
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Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 18:43:43 EDT 
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Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 18:38:44 EDT
Gwmngilfen
@kelbot yeah I agree. I have Plex, OpenHab, Nextcloud but all are pretty much only for me. I *really* want to get into Mycroft but haven't had the time yet... Seems like a no brainer to give it access to openhab for lights/heating control
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Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 18:33:13 EDT
Gwmngilfen
@northernjamie post-event munchies can hit pretty hard... ;)
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Jamie Whyte (northernjamie@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 18:23:54 EDT 
Jamie Whyte
No, YOU'VE eaten a six pack of mini cheddars
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Yale Privacy Lab (privacylab@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 13:32:50 EDT 
Yale Privacy Lab
WED SEP 26, 2PM ET: Diving Into The Dark Web https://frama.link/ypl-2018-09-26 @torproject @freedomboxfndn
Graphic CC BY-SA 4.0 Sean O'Brien
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Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 18:18:44 EDT
Gwmngilfen
How is it that every time I'm studying something, XKCD is right on the money in sending it up?
(To be clear, I've *literally* been reading the Linear Regression chapter in ISLR this week...)
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Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 09:34:31 EDT
Gwmngilfen
@kensanata welcome! I hope you have better weather this coming week than we've had in the past few days :D
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Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 03:23:53 EDT
Gwmngilfen
@1792coins Casablanca. There's a *lot* of ties for 2nd place though...
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Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Sep-2018 02:33:04 EDT 
Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺
John Hancock, one of the largest North American life insurers, will sell only policies to people who agree to track fitness and health data through wearable devices and smartphones https://www.reuters.com/article/us-manulife-financi-john-hancock-lifeins/strap-on-the-fitbit-john-hancock-to-sell-only-interactive-life-insurance-idUSKCN1LZ1WL
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Sep-2018 08:37:41 EDT 
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Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Sep-2018 16:37:30 EDT
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@fitheach @kensanata @sajith oh yes, for sure - I'll be protecting ssh too, I mean, why not if you're setting up fail2ban anyway? The key-access comment was by way of explanation that I'm not totally irresponsible on security... ;)
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Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Sep-2018 16:03:36 EDT
Gwmngilfen
@kensanata @fitheach @sajith I do need to set up fail2ban. I use key-only ssh access, so I'm not worried about that service, but the web services on those boxes could use the protection...
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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin (microsff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Sep-2018 08:44:39 EDT 
Micro SF/F stories by O Westin
"Take me to your leader," the alien said.
"I have none," said the cat.
"Are you the leader?"
"Nah. Go bother some humans instead."
"But your kind is a higher life form than them!"
"So what makes you think you have the right to impose on me?" the cat said, and sauntered off.
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Tutanota (tutanota@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Sep-2018 09:02:38 EDT 
Tutanota
Fun fact: We took inspiration for Tutanota's new, Google-free push notification when @Gargron 's @Mastodon used SSE for push (they now use another push system). 👍 👏 It's exciting to build open source alternatives to liberate people from using data mining services. #foss #opensource Head over to @fdroidorg to read details on our new push implementation 👉 https://f-droid.org/en/2018/09/03/replacing-gcm-in-tutanota.html
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Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Sep-2018 03:14:28 EDT
Gwmngilfen
@ben0_o I was done with it after about 20mins, because I couldn't figure out how to import my existing key... ;)
Anyway, with #autocrypt becoming a thing for mail, and e2ee chat clients all over the place, it's not so critical now.
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Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Sep-2018 12:46:27 EDT
Gwmngilfen
@Danielle oh how I want to play Gloomhaven, but my gaming time is currently occupied with Charterstone ;)
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Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Sep-2018 04:31:57 EDT
Gwmngilfen
@ben0_o oof, rough. I can only offer platitudes about how it should get better. But I feel you, I've had days where I felt unsafe to drive due to tiredness too. Sympathy.
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Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Sep-2018 04:20:31 EDT
Gwmngilfen
@matt @diegovicente if you are going to do the road to the isles (which is a great tip!) then also add to the list:
* Stirling castle, better than Edinburgh IMO, tons happened around Stirling
* Kilchurn castle, for excellent castle/lake photo ops
* Glen Coe, nuff said
* Glenfinnan viaductIt's all on that route, especially if coming from Edinburgh
Orkney is also amazing if you love prehistory/archaeology/scenery but it's quite a trip to get there!
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marxistpenguinist (marxistpenguinist@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 17-Sep-2018 02:08:22 EDT 
marxistpenguinist
Stop saying RSS is dead people. I'm literally using it to read your shitty article about how it's dead
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Sep-2018 18:49:07 EDT
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
That Free Software includes some non-copyleft licenses isn't that much of a problem in practice.
The war between "open source" and Free Software is mostly wasted energy.
It's easy to get riled up about licenses and "open source". It's a common pattern for developers to focus on that and believe that the licenses are all-powerful. But the biggest problems we have now aren't that there are not enough copyleft projects.
Some big hurdles I see in the near future are:
- Hardware lockdown. I expect more advanced versions of Intel ME are coming, building DRM into the hardware. We need more free/open hardware designs.
- Patents are still a problem. afaik software patents havn't been entirely invalidated.
- The web is heading for a cliff edge. The remaining silos may start locking the web down with EME and there may be not much we can do to stop that other than to work around it.
- We need to ensure that governments don't legislate the remaining independent web away. Things like article 13.
- We need to make sure that "strong" and e2e encryption remains legal. If we lose that then we are truly fucked.
- We need more education and agitation in the places that matter. Any public organization should be using Free Software by default and we also need to overcome the Microsoft monopoly in education establishments.
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