Notices by Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 16
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Oct-2018 05:10:40 EDT 
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@Caelyn Good luck. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Oct-2018 05:09:50 EDT
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@Galdrakinn Bonjour. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Oct-2018 03:27:28 EDT
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@senatormeow Satan has all the best math -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Oct-2018 18:32:49 EDT
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Is Google evil? Thoughts on privacy and freedom online https://share.tube/videos/watch/d89860fa-0a56-4d8b-b42f-28c5dd4a38ae -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Oct-2018 18:06:38 EDT
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@vantablack Nap? -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Oct-2018 17:55:04 EDT
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@msk I expect it will improve. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 14-Oct-2018 10:26:56 EDT
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@ShionKeys This is not a good sign, since dns blocking/poisoning is one of the top things which bad governments do to try to keep people in the dark about important events.
In which jurisdiction are you located, if you don't mind my asking? -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 14-Oct-2018 02:29:15 EDT
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@nolan The sad reality is that despite the PR spin Google has probably always been evil. It has just become more overt in recent years. There's also a Wikileaks book along those lines. Microsoft definitely always was, and wasn't very appologetic about it. Gates and Ballmer had a much more "in your face" attitude about their unethical behavior. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 13-Oct-2018 18:13:55 EDT
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We tend to forget how new capitalism actually is. In most places it's a century or less old. When the Russian revolution happened most Russians were peasant farmers, not proletarians. Similar in China until quite recently. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Oct-2018 11:02:57 EDT
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"'Modify source' is the p2p Webβs great power. A Web that can be made and remade by its people can better serve their needs and produce a more diverse & exciting world. The Web should be a truly 'live' society." -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 11-Oct-2018 17:28:44 EDT
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Sigh.
So, "decentralized" identities, where the user is encouraged not to concern themselves about the plumbing and where they just insert a one-liner into their website and then a company handles that boring public key ledger stuff.
This is all fine, except for one teensy-weensy problemette. It ain't decentralized.
You're still beholden to some company for the whole thing to work. And it's worse than that because now some company knows when you log in, and from where and suddenly you've come down with a nasty dose of surveillance capital again. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 14:51:33 EDT
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So Google+ is shutting down over a 10 month period. A security bug provides the excuse to do that, but I expect they were wanting to do that anyway because G+ never went anywhere and never really fit into their business model.
I don't know what sort of demographic the remaining users of Google+ are. Maybe people working at Google and their families? This might be yet another influx into the fediverse.
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 08:41:46 EDT
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* Bus protests against gentrification
* Project Maven
* That sexist manifesto guy
* "Fuck Off Google" campaign in Berlin
* Making a censored search engine for the Chinese government -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 07-Oct-2018 03:29:30 EDT 
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Really enjoying @cat's set of "Are Friends Electric" on the #aNONradio archive of #OpenMic http://anonradio.net/archive/201810070300_openmic.mp3 starting at 10m27s (and going to at least 1h21m02s!) -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Oct-2018 04:04:35 EDT
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I notice that sandstorm.io kicked off its free users and forced them to paid subscriptions. Plus ce change. It's why better self hosted systems are needed. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Oct-2018 16:27:13 EDT
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@cwebber @Technowix Another example I've encountered recently are "smart meters".
Electricity meters are incredibly basic analog electronics which can and does last for decades. The new mandatory digital "smart meters" seem designed for obsolescence and to have a short life cycle with a surveillance capital type of business model. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 01-Oct-2018 13:42:15 EDT
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 01-Oct-2018 13:37:57 EDT
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Sep-2018 03:31:50 EDT
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@bigl0af I'm not really sure about solid. If this new company is backed by venture capital then an exit has already been agreed and the users have been sold before the game begins. Also I've heard a lot of bad stuff about json-LD - that it's maybe impossible to fully specify or validate. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 29-Sep-2018 02:50:07 EDT
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The past was what it was, and out of it we got the internet we have. That is, mostly a compromised corporate surveillance machine. The main question is always what to do with the future.
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