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(bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 14
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@b3yond
"We believe this extortion attempt is a hoax, and we have seen zero evidence to suggest otherwise. Not a single claim made is true and many of the claims are unsound from a technical standpoint."
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@b3yond On Twitter
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Protonmail denies it was hacked. Says it's a hoax.
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Dataline - Absent https://dataline.bandcamp.com/track/absent
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I just needed to alter the http_security in the new settings.
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It looks as if the new header management is causing problems for pleroma on onion domains, by assuming https.
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@ckeen The alt-right did succeed in causing a certain amount of disruption at HOPE and they might try something similar at CCC.
So be careful about who gets into the security teams and maybe prefer old-timers who are known to the community rather than brand new volunteers who show up out of nowhere.
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@aral @doina
Aral was right.
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Chatting by Telephone https://blog.freedombone.net/chatting-by-telephone
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@jason There was a change recently with how headers are handled. You might want to check that nginx isn't crashing.
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@strypey If you consider Hubzilla or Zap to be a FB-a-like then there's the one time cost of hardware to run it on and then the electricity cost which won't be much. I bet the electricity cost is less than $5 per month.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNCAcfna2W4
I think it's worth being careful about this kind of stuff and especially appearing too certain about knowing exactly what the future holds.
The biased/fake news line can easily be used by reactionaries to then go on a purge against anything which is outside of a narrow window of normativity.
Any of us old enough know that all news is biased and that it's really just a question of being what was once known as "media savvy". You may notice that right wingers are quick to write off things like academic media studies precisely for this reason, because critical analysis of stories works against their interests.
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@puffinux @jeffcliff As if TBL hadn't already lost enough credibility.
This isn't going to help anyone who needs help. Dissidents will still be persecuted. Companies will still conduct surveillance on their users in unethical and non-consenting ways. They will also continue to ignore data protection rules and construct search engines designed to enable government censorship and spying.
Also companies like Cloudflare are a joke and they have zero credibility with anyone who knows how the internet works.
After decades of trying to improve rights in the digital space we know what kinds of things work. Licenses, if properly vetted by copyright lawyers, are known to work. Encryption, if appropriately implemented and audited, works. Systems designed to be "offline first" and go under the radar of most other things are known to provide some level of protections to people who need it.
Vague pledges have never worked. Companies and governments routinely break their promises and think nothing of it.
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Just from searching the YouTubes I can see that "decentralization" is pretty much a buzzword now, but it's exclusively about cryptocurrencies and blockchain-implemented contracts. The blockheads have well and truly colonized the term as their own.
This is disappointing, because "ICO then some guy makes off with a bunch of cash" or "very expensive distributed database" isn't my idea of decentralization.
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@dick_turpin A lot of these people who have a lot of money are what I call Gump Billionaires. They didn't do anything particularly original. They were not visionaries. They had no intrinsic talent to speak of. They just happened to be in the right place at the right time and with enough of a middle class cushion under them so that they weren't insta-rejected by existing elites. The rest was accidental.
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Heh, just reading the old intro blurb for the Gogs app on #freedombone:"Github is ok, but it's proprietary and funded by venture capital. If you been around on the internet for long enough then you know howβ¦
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The cyber visionaries of the late 20th century - people like Norbert Wiener and Stafford Beer - imagined that a society run by computer could be rational, make life easier for the average citizen and allow them to provide the proper real-time feedback to benevolent bosses and managers of the economy. The idea was that ultimately this would "make the system work" and end the "business cycle".
Beer considered the problem of organizational hierarchy to be an information management one - what he called "variety attenuation" - and that this would be achievable via computer mediated civic feedback. He condensed the ideas in a short book called "designing freedom".
But now we can see that these ideas were much too naive and that civic feedback does not result in the kinds of equilibrium solutions which the cyberneticists imagined. Instead of being factored out by feedback the fundamental social divisions remain and become even more entrenched.
It turns out that the critics of Stafford Beer who feared totalitarianism via the central computer system were right all along. You can't solve the problems of society merely by real-time data analytics and enough machine learning.
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The cyber visionaries of the late 20th century - people like Norbert Wiener and Stafford Beer - imagined that a society run by computer could be rational, make life easier for the average citizen and allow β¦
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@Wolf480pl @fosdem @aral @wodan @danielinux @Shamar
It's complicated. Fosdem has been sponsored by Google for a long time afaik. There is probably some non-trivial overlap between FOSS developers and Googlers. And also many people are within the trance of the mainstream media and so unaware of the things it misrepresents or just leaves out entirely.
I think we should get companies like Google out of conferences, but boycotting them isn't necessarily the best way to do it unless there's an alternative one to attend. Otherwise you're merely helping the silo companies by breaking up community events for the few developers who could meaningfully oppose them.
A better way to do it might be to ensure that the organizers don't have a complacent attitude. To give companies like Google a limited platform (if any) in terms of speakers and to ensure that there is critical evaluation of what they say or do. Don't give them an easy ride like they got in the past. Just encouraging more attendees to adopt a critical attitude towards the software they're using, rather than the Sillycon Valley attitude of breathless enthusiasm for any new BS being pushed by a $bigcorp, would do a lot of good.
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Perhaps "natural hierarchies of competence" might sound truthy to some folks, but if you actually meet anyone near the top of said hierarchy you'll rapidly be disabused of any such belief.
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