Notices by Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 4
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2019 02:27:18 EDT 
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@alcinnz @lightweight I don't think that systems like Freedombone or FreedomBox can "save democracy", but taking back some ownership and control of your own digital communications, including the network infrastructure, is an aspect of democratization. I think the Facebook problem will become bigger if they go fully encrypted as Zuck recently claimed. They'll be able to say that because they don't have the plaintext they don't have any responsibility for what goes through their servers, and that could allow existing problems to get worse. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2019 01:19:58 EDT
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@MutoShack Right. Don't bother with 2.7. It won't be around much longer. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2019 01:13:24 EDT
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@MutoShack Python is ok and quite fun, but like Lars says it's probably not well suited for large programs. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2019 19:26:11 EDT
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Apparently back in jail, with additional accumulating fines. In the US of A the judicial system doesn't even attempt to be anything other than completely corrupt. It's like a cross between Stalin and the mafia. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2019 14:09:07 EDT
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Not a very glamorous topic, but probably the most important one this century https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzIVIHJ8vj0 -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2019 13:58:50 EDT
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@brennen @cwebber @brainblasted @catonano In the US in the past the free speech battle was mainly from the left in terms of anti-communism and also suppression of protest against the draft during the Vietnam war. Communists, union organizers or even anyone suspected of holding vague left wing sympathies was removed from official positions and from the entertainment industry and anything which looked like left wing talk was removed from newspapers and magazines.
So the ability to speak and organize in public is pretty important, but this is not really what the far right are up to. They know that "free speech" is a weakness, especially in the academic environment where people are very tolerant of unconventional ideas. They know that by using this they can create shock and fear and most importantly shut down any oppositional counterspeech. Once people are in a psychological state of fear they will no longer criticize the regime and be too scared to organize in public, and that's the environment in which right wing authoritarianism thrives. The blueprint is that they always use a combination of scapegoating hate speech combined with shocking acts of violence publicized as widely as possible. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2019 12:23:10 EDT
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@cwebber @nev @brainblasted @catonano The claims on "free speech" by the far right were never honest and for them it's not even a new tactic. They're just reheating the rhetoric of the 1930s and deploying it in a modern context. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 15:23:33 EDT
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3D Printing Long Range WiFi Antennas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga3YlcaoQNo -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 05:06:18 EDT
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The Middle Class Is A Lie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yhsgv-vu8E -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2019 05:51:57 EDT
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While researching something else entirely I ran into the early works of this guy.
Privacy in the Age of the Police State (2014)
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2019 13:40:20 EDT
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@falgn0n The telemetry system does a lot of data gathering on exactly how you're using the browser. It might be that which slows down vanilla Firefox. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2019 18:29:15 EDT
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Duane https://archive.org/details/Duane_201611 -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2019 10:43:42 EDT
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@maiyannah @camoceltic Going down the rabbit hole of "pref flips" leads to a place of creepyness. A lot of what Mozilla does is in the "hidden in plain sight" category.
"What percentage of users do you want in each branch?"
This looks like deliberate manipulation of user behavior with discussions of the legality of what they're doing and "risk matrix" but with whoever is on the team "signing off". The language is often not easy to interpret though, due to jargon.
Whenever I read these Mozilla threads I always come away from it feeling like I've emerged from some disturbing nightmare. It's the cynical way in which they talk about users. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2019 08:17:30 EDT
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It looks like 4 years ago Firefox added a system to centralize the addons and only allow ones pre-authorized by Mozilla. Mozilla then became a central authority determining the legitimacy of an addon.
That pretty much knocks out Freedom Zero with regard to Firefox: the freedom to run the program for any purpose.
https://archive.org/details/e-dv201_cambridge_3_stallman_08-04_002.ogg -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2019 08:08:26 EDT
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Firefox extension signing https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2019 04:23:45 EDT
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@maiyannah @purplehippo Having Mozilla remotely disable working software with no easy way for the user to override that definitely isn't in keeping with the four freedoms. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2019 04:24:47 EDT
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@charlag If they don't like IRC, which admittedly has limitations, then XMPP would make more sense. But Mozilla's decision process often is perplexing. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2019 09:01:39 EDT
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Intentional communities are probably ok if you can make that work. Temporary Autonomous Zones or zones to defend. But so long as it's around capitalism won't leave you in peace to do your gardening. At the behest of megacorps or offshore shell companies guys with guns will show up and declare your commune to be their private property under "corporate law". -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 08:11:17 EDT
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@lohang Telegram might have more than one server but it's logically centralized as a proprietary system. The encryption might also not be very good.
XMPP and Matrix are maybe the best currently. Matrix might be better suited if ISPs are blocking ports. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2019 02:08:49 EDT
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@maiyannah It's the same sort of regulatory capture as happens with the Linux project. Developers often like to think that they're immune from being influenced, but if you splash enough cash then most people can be bought into collaborating with any dubious political project, letter agency front organization or corporate monopoly agenda. It takes a rare kind of stubbornness to resist the temptation.
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