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(bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 11
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Terror-Nullius Returns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqtBFt0UReM
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@sean Good luck
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Will try the "complete" Parabola installs, installable without the internet.
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I guess I could go back to Trisquel on the laptop...
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@Jason_Dodd I can hardly imagine what a job interview for counter-terrorism would be like.
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Arch based distros are usually fine, but on the few occasions when they do go wrong it tends to be in a manner which dispenses with any user friendly warning messages and just goes straight to a kernel panic screen dump on boot.
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It's a sad reflection of the current economy that much of it is about repression and militarism or financial repression in the form of loan sharks.
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Call just now from a recruiter: "do you want to work for the police and counter-terrorism?"
Me: "definitely not"
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@aemon Next on the list.
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@Shamar @noorul In principle there isn't anything stopping anyone from using #freedombone, or other systems like it, for marketing purposes. But marketing usually requires broadcast infrastructure which federation tends to hinder. I could blast out ads from my instance, but other instances would also be free to block me.
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So far non of the Parabola install images I've tried have worked. They all have varying catastropic bugs which halt the install.
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Mythic Sunship: Backyard Ritual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drSTGsWg_c0
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The best antidote to Facebook et al is just to continue building viable communities outside of those systems, using open protocols.
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@Shamar @aral @wolftune @cwebber Right. It's not that the sponsor directly orders this or that to happen. It's that once your event depends critically upon the sponsor then anything critical of them becomes something to be removed, or at least not talked about.
The massive centralization around Google and Facebook and their influence not just on software developers and web standards but the whole of society is something worth discussing and criticizing.
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@cwebber Perhaps syndication is the past and the future of the internet
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@jjg I think it could have dangerous aspects. It depends on who the "first responders" are. Also this same type of system could be used to have "first responders" go after dissidents.
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@espectalll It was one of the big stories of last year, but Commons Clause is not really an open source license. I think they submitted it to OSI and it was rejected.
Also I'm not a copyright lawyer but my interpretation is that with copyleft licenses you can grant extra permissions as an addition to the license but I don't think you can add restrictions which conflict with the four freedoms. Commons clause tries to do that.
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@freedombox After the dot com era of 1997-2001 a consensus emerged that "nobody will pay for web services". It was out of this consensus that the web 2.0 systems like Facebook, Twitter and Gmail were born.
Web 2.0 introduced a critical "moral hazard" in which the user of the web service was no longer the customer. They were merely bait for the real customers who were advertisers. This separation is the source of many of the problems of the current internet.
By making web services something which individuals or communities can run we can bring the interests back into line again and make advertising something not needed or which is peripheral rather than being the main concern.
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@xj9 @geniusmusing @lnxw48a1 I think the future is going to be p2p and that HTTP+DNS will fade, eventually.
DNS is old. It's insecure, despite attempts to shore it up, and it's perhaps the most common way that governments mess with people's access to the internet. It also creates dependency on the US and on ridiculous ceremonies.
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