Notices by Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 22
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 10:17:18 EDT 
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@h @aral
ssb uses an append only list. I think SKS keyservers do something similar. Not the same as a blockchain.
There might be uses of blockchains which are ok, I'm just not aware of any. Mostly it just seems to be a way to generate scarcity and support scams in which one guy gets a lot of money and then is never heard from again. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 09:58:41 EDT
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Hazy Sea -
Nothing's Done Until It's Over https://hazysea.bandcamp.com/track/nothings-done-until-its-over -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 09:01:10 EDT
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It might be a clever way of forcing them to show their hand. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 08:59:58 EDT
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But maybe this is "literally a tactic". If the BBC conspicuously blacklists you then maybe you can use that as an example to show how certain kinds of views are excluded from the mainstream discourse. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 08:44:40 EDT
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Declaring yourself to be "literally a communist" on the BBC will get you ratings, but might not get you invited back onto any of their political shows again.
If you know anything about the history of the BBC you'll know that they blacklisted all kinds of leftists and trade unionists for decades. The secret service was involved in vetting TV presenters for any hint of leftist sympathy. Conservatives sometimes claim that the BBC has left wing bias, but there's very little evidence for that.
And sure, they may have the occasional left wing MP or trade unionist on a show, but their views will always be declared to be "unsustainable" by the scowling host. Like all the mainstream media they totally hated Corbyn and would only invite commentators onto political shows if they were prepared to denounce him.
literallyacommunist.jpg -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 08:21:56 EDT
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@maiyannah
Did I miss some drama? -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 07:43:31 EDT
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@strypey
Slight correction:
"... exaggerated cyber threats now pose a bigger danger to world security than terrorism and nuclear weapons." -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jul-2018 07:10:02 EDT
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@saxnot @emaree
Maybe there doesn't need to be a market. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Jul-2018 06:33:00 EDT
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Arch is ok, but upgrades are a bit like playing Russian roulette with your OS. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jul-2018 07:04:44 EDT
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Any ideas how well the fediverse does with screen readers? What's the blind user experience like? -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jul-2018 03:02:29 EDT
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@jerry @uranther In the early 1990s me and some friends by accident ran into a US spy station protest while searching for a pub. The protesters told us about how the US was listening to all telephone calls, and that the purpose of the place was primarily economic espionage and not detecting Soviet aircraft as claimed. At the time I didn't believe them and thought it was just a conspiracy theory. The Snowden documents much later confirmed what the protesters had said. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 13-Jul-2018 12:05:08 EDT
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@techbolt @OutOnTheMoors @brainblasted
It's a tricky use case because assuming that you can run an instance on a mobile phone and have enough battery to ride through mains power cuts there's still the problem that if wifi is uncommon and you can't control a router then you can't forward ports and have a clearnet domain. Mobile data is (I guess) going to try to block these types of use cases also. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 13-Jul-2018 05:11:08 EDT
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With the Mastodon recommended followers system I notice that there's a built in blocklist under the control of whoever wrote that system. The same recommendations system is also being used in Pleroma.
If this system becomes common (it might) then there will be one person with the ability to decide who is or is not a legitimate fediverse user. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jul-2018 11:25:11 EDT
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Capitalism is a failure.
It's not that cronies took over, it's that capitalism has been returning to baseline after the mid 20th century period of Keynesianism during which some of its worst excesses were contained.
Capitalism is about brutalization and subjugation of populations. Expropriation by wars or land theft. The rule of a few rich people. It never did have anything to do with democracy. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jul-2018 10:46:27 EDT
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@offby1 The other side to this is that when people are expected to work on open source for money then priorities change to those of whoever is paying, and many developers will be excluded because they just won't be hired.
We do need better ways of funding public software production though. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jul-2018 14:25:41 EDT
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Design for self-governance https://blog.freedombone.net/design-for-self-governance -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jul-2018 09:11:41 EDT
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Ok so Facebook is getting fined by the UK privacy regulator (I didn't know there was one).
Facebook's quarterly net income is about $500 million, so that's about $2000 million per year.
The fine is Β£500,000 or $663279 at current exchange rate.
So they're being fined 0.03% of their yearly income. This will clearly be a major deterrent to Facebook committing privacy violations (sarcasm). -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 14:59:14 EDT
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@lnxw48a1 @bobjonkman afaik the Purism phone always planned to use Riot and be a Matrix phone. I don't know what the funding situation is with them but there was something recently about the French government using Matrix.
https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed-as-the-basis-for-frances-secure-instant-messenger-app -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 13:20:33 EDT
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@maiyannah
I guess if you make no commits there's no chance of introducing bugs.
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 11:59:31 EDT
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@strypey Yes. If Canonical was bought by Microsoft it would be embarrassing for some of the staff who were there in the early years but it wouldn't be disastrous for GNU/Linux as a whole. I'm not sure about Elementary, but Trisquel and Mint are based on Ubuntu. I think it would be entirely feasible for them to switch to a Debian base if Ubuntu no longer existed or became filled with Microsoft patents.
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