Notices by Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 21
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jul-2018 04:39:33 EDT 
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@Wolf480pl @octobyte @angristan Lets just say that if you conduct due dilligence then the PR from Mozilla doesn't exactly match up with what's going on with their business model. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jul-2018 04:35:14 EDT
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@Wolf480pl @angristan @octobyte
I'm not really sure about what role the foundation plays, but the corporation employs 1000+ people and you have to then ask where their salaries come from. If you follow the money and start reading the source code and forums it becomes quite a rabbit hole.
Bottom line is that there is currently no browser panacea. All the main browsers which most people use are ethically compromised in one way or another. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jul-2018 18:44:51 EDT
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I think I disagree with all of the points made in this article.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/07/rss-is-undead
RSS doesn't need more machine learning. It doesn't need "algorithms". It doesn't need a business model. It doesn't need to be friendly towards tracking and monitoring user behavior. It absolutely shouldn't care about branding.
Really RSS should just be about reading, and nothing else. The client can do fancy processing of feeds, but the protocol doesn't need to care about that. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jul-2018 04:35:33 EDT
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@Angle Capitalism still contains some elements from feudalism. Companies, unless they're coops, are just smaller feudal domains. "Don't toil for the Lord, be your own Lord" would be the catchphrase for early capitalism. So it may be that whatever comes after capitalism - some sort of cooperative commons based society based on peer production - also contains some elements of the previous paradigm. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jul-2018 03:20:35 EDT
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As a general observation, people chasing numbers to the exclusion of all else is what produces many of the bad effects in society. Whether it's the stock market, or performance targets in government departments or social media statistics intended to maximize engagement. Chasing numbers is also what many "bullshit jobs" are about.
This is related to what I called in the past "the fallacy of metrics". The engineering approach works well when designing an engine, but when the same methods are applied to social relations there can be a lot of bad consequences. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 20-Jul-2018 16:18:19 EDT
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There's now a whole new post-web2.0 generation who have only ever lived in megacorp information silos. To teenagers today even the concepts of how email works might be quite foreign, because email became highly concentrated as Gmail. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 20-Jul-2018 09:40:35 EDT
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The ideal Facebook clone based on ActivityPub would look like Hubzilla.
No wait...just install Hubzilla.
Hubzilla has solved problems which ActivityPub hasn't even started to solve yet. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 20-Jul-2018 07:50:32 EDT
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@jz Well it's nice to see the rest of the internet catching up. For a while I seemed to be the only Signal complainer, and that's because not long after it was first released I wanted to try running it myself (including the server side) and then encountered the problems you've listed. There was also a hostile reaction towards LibreSignal.
On the upside, Signal probably is better than WhatsApp or Telegram.
My original complaints: https://freedombone.net/faq.html#sec-18 -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 16:22:49 EDT
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Some messing with a LibreCMC wifi router earlier.
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 15:42:20 EDT
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@Elizafox
I posted a link to that interview yesterday, and that was one of the surprising comments. His view was that although he's Jewish and finds it abhorrent, holocaust denial should still be acceptable on Facebook because "people should be allowed to be wrong on the internet".
Actually I don't think that flag will fly in the EU - despite recent political trends - and he is likely to encounter more trouble if he continues with this policy.
This is revealing of a weakness of Facebook which could be its eventual undoing. Facebook presently doesn't know how to do community based moderation. Zuckerberg thinks he can do it by hiring a few more censors and relying upon AI, but I don't think that's going to work out. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 15:14:44 EDT
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@resist_berlin It's the old 300M which ThinkPenguin no longer sell. This one: https://gogs.librecmc.org/libreCMC/libreCMC/src/v1.4/docs/TPE_NWIFIROUTER2.md -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 15:12:10 EDT
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Or even re-flashing. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 15:11:14 EDT
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LibreCMC wireless router recovered. At first I though it was totally bricked, but RTing the FM I found another way to upload the firmware.
Probably the lighning strike had corrupted something, and re-slashing fixed it. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 14:25:01 EDT
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Also one of the rollers broke on my fancy CJ chair.
I didn't get where I am today by having rollers disintegrating beneath me. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 14:23:16 EDT
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Calamity abounds, but I think I'm making progress. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 12:44:56 EDT
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Soldering on headers: the struggle is real -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 12:12:43 EDT
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The soldering iron is making an appearance... -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 12:04:39 EDT
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After some diagnostics I think the lighning strike a couple of days ago might have fried my libreCMC wifi router. It's at least in a bricked condition and not recoverable via ethernet. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 10:44:47 EDT
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@ckeen @aral @h
If each item in the list is a single transaction then surely by definition this is not a block.
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 10:42:03 EDT
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@ckeen @aral @h
But surely a cryptographically linked list doesn't necessarily contain a block of multiple transactions or have a consensus mechanism.
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