Notices by Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 33

Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Mar-2018 03:40:30 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
in reply to
- ⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️
@pnathan Stallman is definitely eccentric, but on all the main points he was right. Before Snowden many people didn't believe that government surveillance was a problem, or that only "the bad people" would be spied on. The reasons why software needed to be free also didn't become clear until the abuses of the software industry started to become obvious.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 12-Mar-2018 08:40:31 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
in reply to
- Annah
- BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
@maiyannah @HerraBRE There's an old Moxie talk in which he describes the various problems with CAs. At the time his proposal was to use a consensus mechanism instead which was more like a web-of-trust idea.

That never caught on, but I'm pretty sure that what we've had for the last 20+ years isn't the last word in web transport security. Probably better is possible. But of course the browser makers are the ultimate deciders as to what kinds of security mechanisms get deployed.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Mar-2018 13:57:35 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

I think I'm going to adopt a policy of unfollowing anyone who starts routinely posting stuff from Twitter into the fediverse. There's a tradition of having Twitterbots for certain accounts, but that's not what I mean.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Mar-2018 04:52:20 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
- Anne
@eris Has anyone managed to invent a printer which doesn't constantly break down, produce weird error messages or have absurdly expensive cartridges?

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Mar-2018 14:58:47 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

Another #postActiv test
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Mar-2018 12:12:13 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

Testing the #postActiv install on #freedombone. I notice that the repo had moved. The Qvitter UI is used by default, with profile modifications which add icons for common private communication methods. Also it has the Sharings plugin for sharing physical stuff within a community.
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 05-Mar-2018 13:36:39 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
- Eugen
- Kurt Mosiejczuk
@kurtm @Gargron This is another "if only ad revenue actually got delivered to users" thing.

Advertising is toxic for social networks. It leads to Facebook and Twitter with their algorithmic timelines and centralization. Advertising is why Google is as bad as it is. The fediverse doesn't need advertising to be viable, and this is perhaps a bit terrifying to the marketing people and the politicos who just want to be able to directly buy influence.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 05-Mar-2018 11:26:25 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
- lnxw48a1
@lnxw48a1 My scorching hot take on this is just to leave the hiveway instance to it. Block it if you want. Certainly don't buy any "tokens" or whatever because this is probably yet another ICO scam with no serious intention of being viable. It seems unlikely that the proposed business model could work, even if they defederated and became a silo.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Mar-2018 18:11:36 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

I can't say I'm massively enthusiastic about Pleroma adopting Mastodon's advisory privacy system. imho advisory privacy is just a bad idea which could end in tears later on.

A couple of years or more ago when the fediverse was a twee world of Free Software enthusiasts advisory privacy might have been ok, but as the fediverse grows and includes more admins with less than honorable intentions this could become more of a problem.

For example, ignoring the advisory privacy could allow rogue admins to then sell "private" data to other parties or dubious agencies for a requisite handling fee. When you don't have cryptographic controls this type of thing could happen.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Mar-2018 16:00:33 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

So here's the thing.

McAffee can have his Hiveway instances and do whatever he likes with them, but I'm also free to block them.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Mar-2018 15:27:16 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
- made out of flesh or wood
@nightpool A bunch of cryptowallets on a server. What could possibly go wrong?

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Mar-2018 16:29:06 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

Browsing the fediverse
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Mar-2018 05:24:21 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
- Antanicus
@Antanicus Also these right wing memes, like "trickle down", don't operate at the level of data and analytics. They operate at the level of plausible narratives.

To someone who is naive the idea of trickle down sounds kinda plausible. Sure, rich people are bastards, we all know that, but they must also go shopping and so their money must get partly transferred to other workers, blah blah and so on (in Žižek voice). These kinds of narratives have "truthiness" to them, even though they may be mostly untrue and not supported by any economic analysis.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Mar-2018 03:50:13 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
- nigeldgreen
- /dev/urandom
@nigeldgreen @devurandom One of the big hegemonic projects worth taking on is to try to move everyday language out of the consumerist mode. In particular to stop describing everything as a market.

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2018 15:29:11 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

Collect em all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaL615ObQ8I
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2018 17:37:59 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2018 10:05:46 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

One for the Apple fans. I'm not an Apple user, but I know there has been hype in the past about Apple's closed source stuff being supposedly the most secure, with the key stored in a secure enclave on iThings. This story indicates that even if such a key exists it gets duplicated to the iCloud.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insight/apple-moves-to-store-icloud-keys-in-china-raising-human-rights-fears-idUSKCN1G8060
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  Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears
  
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  When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users' iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center at the end of this month to comply with new laws there, Chinese authorities will have far easier access to text messages, email and other data stored in the cloud.
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2018 06:00:44 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2018 10:15:00 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

Google then and now https://blog.freedombone.net/google-then-and-now

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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2018 08:46:20 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
- Danyl Strype
- Nikola Plejić
@nikola @strypey

non-free software has security properties which are not independently verifiable, so there is a non-trivial probability that any security claims made about such software will be false. No matter how much the user twiddles with settings if the closed codebase is evil then they're merely engaging in security theatrics or "feelgood computing".

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