Notices by Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 20
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Aug-2018 09:45:42 EDT 
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@lain A counterpoint to this is that most people don't understand how email works and just think it's something made by Google. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Aug-2018 08:23:33 EDT
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Aug-2018 13:28:54 EDT
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Aug-2018 10:34:07 EDT
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Aug-2018 08:32:59 EDT
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@scarlett I've always said it about the fediverse and also about matrix which has a similar problem. Giant instances create problems: financial, maintenance, security related and social. No admin can meaningfully moderate thousands of users. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Aug-2018 09:12:39 EDT
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 12:34:45 EDT
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https://jpeg.org/downloads/blockchain-whitepaper.pdf
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 09-Aug-2018 17:14:46 EDT
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The web is 25+ years old, but I think its golden era will be in the future. The giant silo systems we have now I expect will turn out to be early failures at producing a habitable information space for the majority of the populace.
In R&D there's a saying: "expect to throw one away". That is, your first prototype will work badly, but hopefully you learn from it and the next iteration is better.
In the future I expect a more mixed network space containing decentralized and distributed systems. Facebook will become like MySpace is now, still in existence but a sideshow. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 06-Aug-2018 17:36:21 EDT
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I still think Pieter Hintjens was right about many of the essentials of FOSS.
Things like trying to focus on production as much as possible. To merge patches as fast as possible and to give people a stake in the project as soon as possible by giving them commit rights or merging their patches promptly even if they are not technically perfect. Also to avoid lengthy mailing list discussions which turn into rival factions and flame wars.
In Culture and Empire he contrasts the cult with the idealized open source project.
In a cult there is a single controlling mind and ideological purity is ruthlessly enforced.
In the idealized open source project there are many independent minds with no single one dominating. There is not necessarily any single ideology other than a minimum consensus over copyright and the chosen method of interaction via chat or mailing lists or irc, etc. In this arrangement a wisdom of the crowd can emerge which is greater than any individual mind, whereas the cult can only be as smart as its single controlling mind. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 06-Aug-2018 17:23:09 EDT
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@maiyannah
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 05-Aug-2018 16:36:33 EDT
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It's totally predictable that in a few years there will be some security scandal involving Speck.
The shadiest letter agency made deliberately weak encryption aimed at low grade IoT or entry level phones.
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 05-Aug-2018 14:20:10 EDT
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What's the betting that some years later all the "Russian" stuff turns out to be NSA? -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Aug-2018 14:42:36 EDT
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I read some of the mailing list drama about Speck. Linus no doubt let this pass because Google will be a major influence in the Linux Foundation, indirectly paying his salary.
https://itsfoss.com/nsas-encryption-algorithm-in-linux-kernel-is-creating-unease-in-the-community
This is the advantage of FOSS. The NSA can bribe engineers, but distro makers or end users can still remove the offending code if they're aware of it. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 14:26:39 EDT
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The Maidsafe guy gets it. He says that if we're creating a decentralized web and we just end up creating decentralized versions of Facebook and Google then we've totally failed.
Building a new web is like starting again, but with prior knowledge of the pitfalls.
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 09:56:08 EDT
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"Giant companies will fall and visionary companies will rise"
But what if I don't want a web which is primarily about companies doing "value capture at the protocol layer"? Companies could exist on it, but not dominating and controlling it like they do now. And what if I just don't want my value captured at all?
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 05:40:58 EDT
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"self-owning systems"
I like self-organised systems, but capitalism itself is a particular type of self-organisation and the idea that humans don't always need to be in the loop leads to problems. It's exactly this kind of "bureucratic machine out of control and orthogonal to real human needs in which everyone is just following orders" aspect of capitalism which is the problem.
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jul-2018 12:38:34 EDT
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@Wolf480pl @Shamar
Is Mozilla going to do anything about the general brokenness of web technologies?
Maybe, maybe not. I'd be inclined to think not though. If they had wanted to they could have integrated p2p technology into the browser years ago, and supported alternatives to the CA system. But they didn't. They could be championing the fediverse and related decentralized technologies, but they're not.
The good thing about this article is that it identifies DNS as a problem. For the internet to advance DNS as we know it needs to be sidelined and replaced by something like keys plus petnames. Subscribe to your favorite list of petnames.
I expect that javascript will decline. Maybe we are at peak javascript now. Even the inventor of nodejs thinks it's a trash fire, so I think this is a language which will decrease in importance in future, even though it seems highly necessary now.
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jul-2018 08:03:00 EDT
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I do quite like #scuttlebutt. The electron app and javascript implementation might not be the greatest, but being able to handle intermittent connectivity and peer discovery in an easy way makes it very suitable for mesh systems.
The main barrier to entry is that it's not web based, so you have to install a separate program and remember to set it to start up on boot. Similar to ZeroNet. It's not a big barrier, but enough to stop many potential users.
Also the Patchwork UI doesn't give the new user any guidance about how to connect to a pub and find other users to follow. It needs some initial setup screen. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jul-2018 04:46:18 EDT
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@Wolf480pl @angristan @octobyte
TL;DR If you can block outgoing packets for telemetry.mozilla.org then do so.
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