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Notices by Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 10

  1. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 04:09:04 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    • Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    The brexit thing isn't really about xenophobia, although there is always a quotient of that. It's a power struggle between the westminster and brussels governments over who gets to make laws. Who owns the proles on this particular runway strip. The manner in which both of these create laws is opaque and very corrupted by lobbyists.

    The reason why people, especially on birdsite, get so riled up is that they do want genuine control over their lives and communities. But neither westminster nor brussels has the intention of delivering that, and nor can they.

    The current economy consists mostly of scams anf oppressive stuff. We've had a lost decade of austerity and food banks and other really grim stuff. It's not surprising that people want more autonomy, and to dismiss that as xenophobia is to miss the point.
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 04:09:04 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  2. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 13:54:33 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…

    β€œCritics of the big tech companies are often told, β€˜If you don’t like the company, don’t use its products.’ I did this experiment to find out if that is possible, and I found out that it’s notβ€”with the exception of Apple. These companies are unavoidable because they control internet infrastructure, online commerce, and information flows. Many of them specialize in tracking you around the web, whether you use their products or not”

    https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194

    In conversation Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 13:54:33 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell
      from Gizmodo
      Week 6: Blocking them all
  3. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 03-Feb-2019 10:29:20 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    If Marvin Minsky was still around I think he'd scoff at this. Lots of manually entered data used to train weak algorithms isn't much of an AI. It's just statistics rebranded, because who wants to be hired as a statistician? Cyc also tried the same approach decades earlier and it didn't really go anywhere.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAZ9s2Shzxw
    In conversation Sunday, 03-Feb-2019 10:29:20 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. How 'AI Farms' Are At The Forefront Of China's Global Ambitions | TIME
      By TIME from YouTube
  4. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 03-Feb-2019 09:23:04 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    I often feel like I'm living in some combination of 1984 and cyberpunk, crudely duct taped together.
    In conversation Sunday, 03-Feb-2019 09:23:04 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  5. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 03-Feb-2019 07:31:32 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    Welcome to Your Cyberpunk Future http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2018/10/05/podcast-103-welcome-to-your-cyberpunk-future
    In conversation Sunday, 03-Feb-2019 07:31:32 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. File without filename could not get a thumbnail source.
      Podcast #103. Welcome to Your Cyberpunk Future.
      By Rudy from Rudy's Blog
      Podcast #103. Welcome to Your Cyberpunk Future.
  6. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2019 16:24:11 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    • jaff
    @jeff m.s. is getting so large that even though they have at least one paid moderator it will be too be too big to have any meaningful oversight. At some point if it keeps growing then it will become a threat model, because an unmoderatable space will be an easy dwelling for bad hombreys.
    In conversation Monday, 28-Jan-2019 16:24:11 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  7. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2019 15:29:17 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    in reply to
    • jjg
    @jjg Triage your projects. What's essential and what can be shelved.
    In conversation Monday, 28-Jan-2019 15:29:17 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  8. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jan-2019 10:45:39 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    The growing normalization of surveillance by tech companies. Even five years ago being able to do this would have been regarded as a scandal comparable to Snowden. Google dredging payments data out of Gmail, knowing where you live, what places you've visited, etc.

    https://kanoki.org/2019/01/20/thank-you-google-for-sharing-my-data
    In conversation Saturday, 26-Jan-2019 10:45:39 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. File without filename could not get a thumbnail source.
      Thank You Google!! For Sharing my data
      By min2bro from Kanoki
      Thank You Google!! For Sharing my data
  9. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Jan-2019 12:07:32 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    • Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…

    The got zot campaign was some years ago when Redmatrix started. At the time I didn’t realize how big of a deal it was, but now it’s obvious that zot was ahead of its time in anticipating the sorts of issues which became more obvious later.

    In conversation Thursday, 24-Jan-2019 12:07:32 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  10. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jan-2019 17:15:39 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    • Shamar
    • coffe β˜•
    • Billy Blaze πŸ¦„
    @Shamar @coffe @ckeen

    Although I use my real name, in general I don't think its a good idea to enforce that. In some areas of the world using your "real" name in a programming forum can result in death and the imprisonment of your family. This is not an exaggeration.

    Whether you use your real name or not should be the decision of the individual depending on circumstances. It shouldn't be something which an admin enforces.
    In conversation Wednesday, 23-Jan-2019 17:15:39 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  11. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jan-2019 03:47:04 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    Exit option democracy https://medium.com/@natematias/https-medium-com-natematias-quitting-facebook-google-aaf8f4c80fbf
    In conversation Tuesday, 22-Jan-2019 03:47:04 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Quitting Facebook & Google: Why Exit Option Democracy is the Worst Kind of Democracy
      from Medium
      Janet Vertesi spoke at the Center for IT Policy on what it means to have a principled rejection of technology
  12. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 19:00:53 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    • Shamar
    • jmzπŸ¦€α΅›αΆœα΅
    @Shamar @paralithode

    At this point I usually post the obligatory Chairman Fred video.

    Racism is always a division strategy and you can't fight racism with more racism or hate with more hate.
    In conversation Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 19:00:53 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  13. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 18-Jan-2019 12:23:08 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    • Matt Cropp 🌲🌲
    • Ana
    @mattcropp @Ana Yes. The apolitical claim made me laugh. Probably a significant fraction of my posts here are political in some manner. Plus the fediverse as we know it came out of the Quitter anticapitalist/communist/anarchist perspective.
    In conversation Friday, 18-Jan-2019 12:23:08 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  14. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 17:24:10 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    Eben Moglen: The New Consensus and Its Aftermath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEclAV5JjHA
    In conversation Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 17:24:10 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Eben Moglen: β€œThe New Consensus and Its Aftermath” (SFLC Fall 2018)
      By Software Freedom Law Center from YouTube
  15. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 17:13:37 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    In the last couple of days the snafus have been in abundance.

    The server recently died due to running out of disk space. It turned out that there was some kind of possibly recursive Syncthing error going on.

    For now I've removed all the #freedombone downloads to free up space.

    Also, probably as a consequence, pleroma was killing the CPU. The CPU usage was normally about 8-10%, but was going above 300% constantly.

    After stopping the syncthing daemon and removing the tens of gigabytes of files that it had recursively created restarting pleroma fixed the CPU problem.

    So the upshot is that if I'm going to continue using syncthing then there needs to be a hard limit on the amount of drive space it can use.
    In conversation Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 17:13:37 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  16. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 15:02:20 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    • finlaydag33k
    @finlaydag33k The diaspora developers should also get onboard with ActivityPub, even if they don't especially like it. ActivityPub may be less than ideal, but it's the most adopted thing we have so far. The more systems talk the same protocol the better the chances we have against the network effect of Facebook and Twitter.
    In conversation Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 15:02:20 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  17. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 14:41:31 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…

    this_is_freedom.jpg
    In conversation Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 14:41:31 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  18. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 10:02:08 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    in reply to
    • BjΓΆrn Schießle 🌍 πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί
    @bjoern I'd suggest they fund GNU Health http://health.gnu.org/home
    In conversation Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 10:02:08 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  19. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 09:47:58 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    • Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    Had to uninstall unar, iceweasel, icedove and reinstall a bunch of packages. Such is the nature of Arch, and I expect that's due to nonfree things being found and removed.
    In conversation Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 09:47:58 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  20. Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ… (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 09:46:07 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram πŸ”§ β˜• βœ…
    On the road to recovering the laptop. The parabola "complete" image successfully installed. None of the netinstalls worked.
    In conversation Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 09:46:07 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
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