A meme from the depths
Notices by Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 32
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θΆ Ocean (ocean22@niu.moe)'s status on Friday, 20-Apr-2018 14:27:13 EDT 
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 20-Apr-2018 14:28:33 EDT 
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@shel I've lived through numerous climate change deadlines and none of them succeeded in moving the needle on CO2 increase even slightly. A different strategy for motivating change is needed than the issuance of deadlines. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 20-Apr-2018 13:44:31 EDT
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 20-Apr-2018 13:33:11 EDT
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Tripswitch - Strange Parallels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBGidh-hy08 -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 20-Apr-2018 13:01:46 EDT
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Distant system - Equidistant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pi1aRD16Xw -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 13-Apr-2018 11:34:06 EDT
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@matt A better way of putting this is that usually all software is written for the purposes of the author to solve some particular problem which they have. You are the best person to know what your own problems are and so the best software comes from people who are embedded within the problem.
No mater how empathic you are it's genuinely hard to know what other people's problems are at the level of exactitude required to build software. This kind of problem crops up repeatedly in commercial software development, where the developer high-mindedly believes that they know exactly what other people's problems are and sets about to solve them. Except that often the developer is only indulging in hubris.
This is why diversity is important in software development. Without diversity you can't develop for a wider population because you can't bootstrap your own standpoint. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Apr-2018 07:29:53 EDT
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@kaniini @Laurelai After years of having a Twitter presence I am kinda done with outrage culture. So if someone is twisting your melon just put them on the blocklist and that's all she wrote. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Apr-2018 09:14:19 EDT
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@gamehawk A lot of this is commonsense to me, but it might not be for younger generations who grew up on Facebook. I still remember a time when "don't share personally identifying information with random people on the internet" was the standard advice. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Apr-2018 07:06:23 EDT
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@kaniini @viomi
I think the name-calling between Mastodon, Pleroma and GNU Social/postActiv is unhelpful but expected. You see similar with XMPP projects. The much bigger problem is that the fediverse is still small compared to the proprietary silos which most of the internet-using world is stuck in. So it's more important to be promoting the fediverse overall than bikeshedding over particular instance implementation details or the policies of individual admins. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 17:03:18 EDT
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About three years ago there was some debate about what to call the web outside of the walled garden systems. The traditional term was the indyweb of independent "home pages" and blogs. The main preferred terms were "open web" and "free web".
Both open and free are still quite ambiguous. "Libre web" never got much traction. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Mar-2018 16:11:20 EDT
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@sina If you read their last financial statement it all makes sense. They sell user behavior data to search engines.
The problem with many of the well known FOSS projects is that they often have questionable funding sources, such as the Open Technology Fund. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Mar-2018 11:03:01 EDT
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Beware of any kind of legislation which is claiming to "harmonize" -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Mar-2018 09:33:52 EDT
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@Liberapay With so many other options I don't know why Medium seems to be favored for blogging. But perhaps I am missing something. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Mar-2018 05:43:55 EDT
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Happy LibrePlanet -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 16:33:38 EDT
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Feuding between the various instance types, who is better or worse, I don't take all that seriously. To me people having other options than being stuck in Google or Facebook or Twitter is a win no matter which type of instance they go to. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Mar-2018 15:37:04 EDT
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@Mainebot @Siphonay @jeffcliff I admit that I would be more enthusiastic about cryptocurrency if I could buy cheeseburgers with it. I have zero interest in currency speculation. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Mar-2018 11:08:12 EDT
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@generica Since access was SQL based it's probably not too difficult to transition to modern SQL databases.
Some of my early memories of bad programming was trying to fix the mess which people made when using Access wizards to create business databases. To err is human but to really create an unmaintainable hairball of software requires wizards. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Mar-2018 06:09:17 EDT
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Mar-2018 14:53:05 EDT
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@kaniini Do you mean the advisory privacy system? That's an accident waiting to happen. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 15-Mar-2018 10:31:23 EDT
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Beware of becoming dependent upon things made by Microsoft.
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