Notices by Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 24
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jul-2018 05:55:27 EDT 
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Commit b64ace13173f9b778f77761664d923c46c03e596
Sets default_settings_disable_analytics to True for f-droid installs. Spying was still on by default for non f-droid users. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jul-2018 05:23:38 EDT
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@paulfree14 You'd think that given that Matrix/Riot is quite modern - mostly written in the last couple of years - that they wouldn't use Google analytics because we now understand the full horrors of Google.
Sure enough, the Riot android app uses Google analytics.
I'll need to check into this more to see what it's actually doing and whether it's turned off. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jun-2018 13:42:13 EDT
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 29-Jun-2018 15:00:21 EDT
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This article is unbelievably awful, but fun because of how wrong it is.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-tech-avengers-1530285064
TL;DR Industry insiders aren't going to save anyone from anything. Tweaking around with "screen time" or interface design or adding extra "street cred" from a younger generation doesn't address any of the real problems with Sillicon Valley.
If any of these rich morons were actually sincere they would have to abandon their business models and start again with federated and distributed systems with no data concentration. But of course they're not going to do that. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 29-Jun-2018 12:40:25 EDT
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On people who claim to believe in software freedom organising their projects with proprietary platforms:
The struggle is real.
I know. I only just got out of Github. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 29-Jun-2018 08:17:27 EDT
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Jun-2018 05:24:31 EDT
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"Ideally you'd have an RFC specifying a subset of HTML and CSS that is allowed within HTML mails. This would have to be a whitelist approach, because the rapidly changing nature of HTML makes it almost impossible to catch up. However no such RFC exists." -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Jun-2018 05:20:00 EDT
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The problem with HTML emails
https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/894-Efail-HTML-Mails-have-no-Security-Concept-and-are-to-blame.html -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Jun-2018 16:21:11 EDT
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"In order to make any meaningful progress, we must at least agree that the Googles and the Facebooks of the world are not forces for good. On the contrary, they are threats to our human rights and democracy. We must at least agree that they are not our partners, sponsors, and friends, but our adversaries. Even today, we are not at this point. Even today, institutions that purport to advocate for human rights and democracy feature Google and Facebook as partners and sponsors."
A really good example of that was the Personal Democracy Forum earlier in the year, sponsored by those companies and promanently fearuring Google and Facebook speakers. It's hard to discuss what democracy means, or should become, in the internet era if Facebook is dominating the narrative. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Jun-2018 15:56:08 EDT
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"Tim Berners-Lee wanted a decentralised web but he designed a centralised web. The centralised aspect of the web is inherent in its client/server architecture where many clients connect to a relatively small number of servers"
At the time when TBL was creating the web in the early 1990s what were called "fat clients" were still quite new. Before then it was mostly just dumb terminals connected to a single computer. Servers powerful enough to host platforms the size of Facebook didn't exist until the 2000s.
So the hardware limitations did to some extent constrain the type of architecture which as possible during that decade there was a growing but mostly decentralized web, with some exceptions like Compuserve. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Jun-2018 16:13:02 EDT
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Why limit yourself to Amazon? I realize its strategic importance, but why not a global tech workers strike on some chosen day of the year? -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Jun-2018 04:47:16 EDT
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@luka As expected, I can't view any of the videos on share.tube. It's using proprietary codecs. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Jun-2018 12:10:47 EDT
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My First Line of Code: Linus Torvalds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5S9LIT-hdc -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Jun-2018 19:13:40 EDT
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@paulfree14 Of course they could now monetize content ID as a service -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Jun-2018 17:54:20 EDT
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@resist_berlin Same happened to me. It indicates that Riot is not ready for e2ee. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Jun-2018 10:30:32 EDT
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 19:02:58 EDT
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@maiyannah Yes. It's better than the alternative. Turn your anguish into creative energy if you can. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 17:56:12 EDT
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"We take the existence of borders for granted simply because weβve always been told they are real, and the borders with our neighbors have remained unchanged during our lifetimes.
In reality, they are not real. In fact, while I can say with all certainty this will not happen in the foreseeable future, it is entirely possible that all of the borders dividing all of the countries all over this world could be erased in a single day.
In a sense, we are hostages of the countries in which we are born, held captive by artificial borders. We are not asked if we would like to be a citizen of the nation in which weβre born."
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 14:34:30 EDT
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This is "the new Microsoft" they keep insisting upon.
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 04:55:09 EDT
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Reading @aral's blog. We should be trying to move away from centralized systems in a time frame faster than 25 years. What I think we're experiencing now is the end of the second wave of the web (web 2.0) in which silos were considered to be the universal solution to digital service access. The problems of centralization and extractive economics are now becoming much clearer, including to people who are not normally obsessed with these kinds of topics before.
I'm pretty confident that whatever web 3.0 is, it's going to be a lot more decentralized, most likely with a mixture of client/server and mesh. It won't be merely a return to Web 1.0 because we've learned a lot in the intervening time.
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