Notices by Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 29
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-May-2018 09:10:24 EDT 
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-May-2018 09:06:41 EDT
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Here come the security nihilists https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/internet-privacy/encrypted-email-and-security-nihilism -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-May-2018 07:19:20 EDT
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Kunfu - Here i come https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSDKGCEcqgY -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-May-2018 07:16:34 EDT
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@boneidol I wouldn't bother listening to the BBC today. It will be garbage. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-May-2018 07:09:14 EDT
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That thing when someone writes some code which is potentially usable, but puts a completely dumb roll-your-own license on it which makes it nonfree. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-May-2018 03:58:26 EDT
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@kaniini @dansup @mmn @Gargron I'd just like to interject. It was Qvitter which started the wave of expansion of the fediverse. In the Twitter exodus of Feb 2016 people searched for a Twitter alternative and found Qvitter and the few Quitter sites. For a while my timeline was going crazy and it was at that point I realized that some kind of filtering was needed. Sites like shitposter.club started at that time. About a year later something similar happened with Mastodon. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-May-2018 16:38:30 EDT
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The software industry is irksome, but I don't completely hate it. It's supremely fashion-driven and also has a lot of other unresolved problems with class/gender/race.
Software development has its pluses and minuses in terms of the specifics, but I've always loved software as a creative medium. As Joseph Weizenbaum once said, software is an infinite universe of possibilities only a tiny corner of which has been explored so far. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-May-2018 13:53:43 EDT
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Added build support for the Lemaker Banana Pro on #freedombone. This is an A20 board in a Raspberry Pi form factor with a SATA socket. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-May-2018 05:10:42 EDT
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"Having spent hours of my life debugging and working around issues with Docker's storage, my current attitude is enough of this complexity, just let me use a directory backed by the local filesystem, dammit."
Wait...Does this mean that Docker is not the scorching hot ubertech it was made out to be and that my stubborn insistence upon bare metal and minimum complexity was right all along?
:thinkingrms:
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-May-2018 16:00:55 EDT
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Telemetry is more insidious than blatant ads in your face. The user doesn't necessarily know its there. There is no visual indication, and users have no awareness how detailed the information gathered in the background can be. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-May-2018 15:05:12 EDT
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I hate to be one of those well-actually people, but...
Well actually I don't think this is FUD. It's not necessary to collect system specifications from every Ubuntu install in order to improve software. Even if Canonical isn't going to fingerprint users and track them it's not a good idea to collect data which can be later maybe sold and abused in that way.
Actually also I think it's Canonical that's "poisoning the well" here. Free Software isn't supposed to be about reporting back to the mothership. Canonical has no natural or other right to collect data about its users, and it shouldn't be behaving like a surveillance capitalist. Instead, it should be setting a better example of respect for users.
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-May-2018 03:36:17 EDT
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@hamishcampbell Although this might seem like a success story I'm wary of the sustainability of giant sites like this. I used to call them megaservers. It would be better to have a federation of smaller sites. This puts less financial and moderation stress on admins and avoids creating a single point of failure. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 15-May-2018 14:01:58 EDT
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PGP NFC https://blog.freedombone.net/pgp-nfc -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 15-May-2018 10:01:08 EDT
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@rysiek @xrevan86 This is what #freedombone is about, but also ejabberd and prosody need to ship with a default set of xeps which pass all the Conversations tests. If that happened life would be easier. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 12:05:45 EDT
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#notallgooglers are ok with assisting in drone assassinations but the dozen resigning employees is a minuscule fraction of the company's 70,000 total. This means that nearly all Googlers have no ethical problems with the military use of drones or the president having a personal kill list. Maybe they could even add some AI to help with collating and sorting that list, for maximum efficiency.
https://gizmodo.com/google-employees-resign-in-protest-against-pentagon-con-1825729300 -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 08:09:58 EDT
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@maiyannah @rysiek It might not be possible to break the crypto but the human system is a lot more fragile and susceptible to scare campaigns. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 08:00:38 EDT
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@karasu @mulander Some debrief on this might be useful. Even if there were a significant bug in PGP there's a calculation to be made as to how likely it is to be exploited in the wild versus the security advantages. Telling people to turn off or uninstall encryption is really bad advice, which indicates to me that even people at EFF don't have much of a sense of threat models. It took a lot of effort to get anyone to encrypt their email, so throwing that all away based upon an insubstantial claim is quite awful. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 06:51:16 EDT
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@rysiek
"Our advice, which mirrors that of the researchers, is to immediately disable and/or uninstall tools that automatically decrypt PGP-encrypted email."
I think this was actually an irresponsible statement, and there's some meta-analysis to be done on how this case was handled. I expect that EFF was given exaggerated/alarmist information. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 05:54:54 EDT
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But I gues that none of this applies if you're just doing it for attention. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 05:53:26 EDT
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In the world of infosec I guess there's a debate to be had around what constitutes responsible disclosure. If I knew of some show stopping PGP bug the first person I'd try to contact would be the GnuPG maintainer, not EFF.
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