Notices by Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 23

Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 10:47:45 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
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- Sam Schlinkert
@schlink I approve of Purism's decision there.

Walled garden systems with a single centralized server run by some guy are something we should reject.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 09:55:54 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

Ethical consumerism is ok, but it has limits. If you had the time to do supply chain research on the things you use, the services you interact with and the clothes you wear you'll find all sorts of frighteningly unethical practices.

https://live.ar.al/2018/07/06/whither-ethics-new-scientist

This is the nature of capitalism. The branding tells you it's about free exchange in a market of participants having equal rights to buy and sell. But if you investigate beyond the gloss you'll find...something else entirely. It's the same something else that Rosa Luxemberg wrote about in Accumulation of Capital.

One thing we should try to avoid is having Facebook and Google sponsor all tech conferences. This seems to be a notable part of their current strategy.
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  Whither ethics, New Scientist?
  
  New Scientist: what's science sans ethics? I’m on a flight from Cork to London to speak at Nesta’s FutureFest this weekend and I’m reading New Scientist. A full-spread ad for their conference in September, New Scientist Live catches my eye. Hmm, might be interesting. And then I see the list of sponsors. Wow. When attempting to explain why a privacy or human rights conference having Google (Alphabet, Inc.
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 09:17:46 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 09:13:20 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

The organizations profiting from kids in cages

https://readsludge.com/2018/07/06/who-is-making-money-from-ice-in-your-state
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  Who Is Making Money from ICE in Your State?
  
  By Alex Kotch from Sludge
  
  Hundreds of for-profit and nonprofit corporations have pulled in billions of dollars worth of ICE contracts in recent years.
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 07:02:33 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
- Chris
@RyuKurisu Canonical has been manoevring for sale, or to "go public". Plus they have a cosy relationship with Microsoft. Bug zero has been forgotten.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jul-2018 06:40:28 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

XMPP notifications https://blog.freedombone.net/xmpp-notifications

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 05:00:34 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

A nice answer on the FreedomBox mailing list to the question of whether Debian could be bought by Microsoft (like Github was).

"There is no entity that Microsoft can acquire that would give them control over Debian"

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 04:46:04 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
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- fridaysforfuture, but everyday
- inso
@paulfree14 @inso

It's not that W3C is broken exactly, it's just that it's not the kind of organisation which most people think it is (i.e. an impartial standards making group for the benefit of the internet).

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jul-2018 17:36:26 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

A better idea than UBI is Universal Basic Services. Making many things gratis, or close to it, mitigates against the effect of UBI being immediately cancelled out by corresponding price rises. It's also adjacent to the question of what should be publicly managed as a commons.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jul-2018 06:19:25 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

European Parliament has voted 318-278 against Article13 and Article11.

But the pattern is that they always regroup and try to come back with similar BS later. Freedom is a constant struggle.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jul-2018 13:42:04 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

Indeed Github now blocks Tor. It didn't take long for Microsoft to get going on the evilness.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jul-2018 11:26:40 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

The German CCC raid sounds not that remarkable. Things like this happen from time to time, and not just in Germany. It doesn't matter that their reasoning makes no sense. This is the old skool tactic of disrupting dissidents or anyone who isn't completely onboard with the authoritarian BS of the state.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 16:02:29 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
- D Dino
- BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
@garbados @HerraBRE

I think "the decentralization movement", for want of a better term, should stick to legal methods wherever possible. Free Software is a legal tactic and has been quite successful so far.

Moving into legally murky territory gets you not just Aaron Swartz but also the p2p wars of the 2000s. I seem to remember a lot of innocent people getting hammered with that, and one thing to keep in mind that in the years which followed they made those laws even worse.

In the UK in 2010 they passed the Digital Economy Act, one of the conditions of which was that copyright infringers would have their internet connection cut off. As far as I know that law has not been used, but it's there in place waiting for the opportune moment to arrive.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 12:45:55 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

The mythical perfect XMPP setup https://www.meetup.com/Berlin-XMPP-Meetup/events/252394276
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  Let's talk about the perfect server setup
  
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  Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 6:00 PM: This time, we'll start with a short XMPP introduction for newcomers. Then we'll go into the details of setting up an XMPP server for use with modern chat clients. If there's
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 04:53:46 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

"Getting sites to agree to our own personal terms and policies is not a stretch, because that’s exactly what we have in the way we deal with each other in the physical world."

https://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/2018/06/23/matters
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  Why personal agency matters more than personal data
  
  By Doc Searls from ProjectVRM
  
  Lately a lot of thought, work and advocacy has been going into valuing personal data as a fungible commodity: one that can be made scarce, bought, sold, traded and so on. That’s all fine, bu…
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 02-Jul-2018 16:39:47 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

#freedombone now has BabyBuddy onboard, for all your baby monitoring requirements.

This is certainly the type of data you might want to keep private if you have a new child or a babysitting assignment.

I'm no expert on baby apps, but just knowing the software industry I expect that there's an entire ecosystem of propriatery badness around surveillance of parenting-related data so that companies can sell as much junk that you don't really need as possible.

https://github.com/cdubz/babybuddy
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  cdubz/babybuddy
  
  from GitHub
  
  babybuddy - A :baby: buddy to help caregivers track sleep, feedings, diaper changes, and tummy time to learn about and predict baby's needs without (as much) guess work.
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jul-2018 17:56:46 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

Chatting on xmpp. The crypto all seems to work. All free software and no big tech companies in the middle.

I think this is the future.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jul-2018 16:24:43 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

"As projects get older, they tend to move away from the benevolent dictatorship model and toward more openly democratic systems. This is not necessarily out of dissatisfaction with a particular BD. It's simply that group-based governance is more "evolutionarily stable", to borrow a biological metaphor. Whenever a benevolent dictator steps down, or attempts to spread decision-making responsibility more evenly, it is an opportunity for the group to settle on a new, non-dictatorial system — establish a constitution, as it were. The group may not take this opportunity the first time, or the second, but eventually they will; once they do, the decision is unlikely ever to be reversed. Common sense explains why: if a group of N people were to vest one person with special power, it would mean that N - 1 people were each agreeing to decrease their individual influence. People usually don't want to do that. Even if they did, the resulting dictatorship would still be conditional: the group anointed the BD, clearly the group could depose the BD. Therefore, once a project has moved from leadership by a charismatic individual to a more formal, group-based system, it rarely moves back."

https://producingoss.com/en/consensus-democracy.html

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jul-2018 16:01:21 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
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@paulfree14 @stephen @lichen

Proprietary systems are by definition exclusionary.

- On a cost basis
- On a privacy basis (suppose you want to use the system and not give away your data)
- They exclude people from understanding or improving the system
- They usually exclude sharing of the software
- They exclude anyone but the proprietors from making decisions about how the system operates

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jul-2018 06:14:55 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

After cursory investigation there are quite a lot of Google references in the Riot android app. It looks like analytics is not much of a problem, especially if you installed from f-droid. It's either off by default or you can turn it off from settings.

The main Google integration is GCM and that only applies if you installed from Google Play.

So basic opsec with the Riot app is to only install it from f-droid and prefer xmpp when possible.

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