Notices by Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 6
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2019 07:49:18 EDT 
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@iMartyn @dtluna Also in their terms:
"Without limitation, you may not transfer the Software or Service without U.S. government permission to anyone on U.S. government exclusion lists"
And at that point the cypherpunks would just drop the mic and walk off stage. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2019 07:41:13 EDT
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@iMartyn @dtluna Well we've only had the web of trust of, like, a couple of decades. But I'm certainly not claiming that its infrastructure is ideal by any stretch of imagination.
Even if Keybase isn't directly run by a letter agency it's terms are sufficiently lax that it could sell the entire database of crypto users to anyone who might be interested. I hear on the grape vine that certain agencies have adequate budgets. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2019 07:15:43 EDT
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@dtluna Perhaps. This does look like some kind of official integration. It's regrettable that as a community we don't learn the bitter lessons from web 2.0.
It's not really clear from their site, but I assume that Keybase is a company, presumably in the usual location. Is it run by anyone we can trust? I'll just float that one out there as a concept.
Also a cursory glance at their terms reveals things like:
"including but not limited to the Registration Data and any other personal identification information that you provide, you hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable (in whole or in part), fully-paid and *sublicensable* right, subject to the Privacy Policy, to use, reproduce, modify, transmit, display and distribute Your Content in *any media known now or developed in the future*, in connection with our provision of the Service"
Is this what the fediverse wants? Really? -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 13:09:01 EDT
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@Wewereseeds I've seen a lot of guillotine iconography in the last few years and I think I understand where that comes from but it's not something I like. For me it's too reminiscent of ISIS. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 10:07:57 EDT
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@dtluna @xj9 I'm sympathetic towards the anti-copyright WTFPL type views, but as a more realistic tactic I think using AGPL is a good idea even if the software doesn't primarily run on a server. Google won't touch AGPL and so there's not much chance of things under that license showing up within silo systems. It at least puts an obstacle in their path. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 03:19:30 EDT
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The idea of having a general personal data store and then apps which interact with that via an api isn't necessarily a bad one. That kind of separation might be easier to defend from a security perspective, especially if the api can be fully tested or have formal proofs done on it. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2019 06:07:16 EDT
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2019 10:09:14 EDT
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matrix.org down, apparently. A problem with the matrix project is that they should have focused more effort on getting people to host servers earlier on, so that the load wasn't highly concentrated on one domain.
One easy way to do this would be to make the choosing of a server more obvious during the setup of Riot, rather than just defaulting to matrix.org. In 99.9% of cases users will just go with whatever the default is. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2019 05:50:55 EDT
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@loke It's a paper which is full of obvious problems, and was presumably written in the classic detached academic environment where everyone trusts everyone. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2019 05:10:38 EDT
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Cringing at the idea that having the government decide what appears on the internet will be some improvement over Facebook and Google doing that.
I don't think it will and you can already see with things such as Article 13 in the EU that this isn't going to work very well.
Neither the government nor the Zuckmeister will defend the interests of the average internet user. They'll defend their own narrow class interests. They both have interests in maintaining their own wealth at the expense of the rest of the population. Government dark patterns won't be better than Facebook ones.
What government can perhaps do is break up the monopolies. Some people then say, but how will Facebook remain viable since its profits depend on massive scaling? I don't want Facebook to remain viable. It shouldn't remain viable.
One idea which is intermediary between what we have now and full p2p or self-hosting would be to run data centers in the public interest on a non-profit basis. Everyone gets their own VPS and can run whatever federated system they want on it. Nobody owns the overall system. This would be less than ideal but better than what exists now. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2019 10:04:25 EDT
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@maiyannah Whoever is doing this #Eunomia stuff, please desist at once. We should not be having dossiers compiled on fediverse "influencers" (whoever they are) and sold to quasi-military organizations. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2019 05:22:17 EDT
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2600 on the closing of Google+ and related problems of data longevity. http://download.2600.com/mediadownload/www.2600.com/offthehook/mp3files/2019/off_the_hook__20190403-128.mp3
It was problems like this which originally motivated me to start running a server in 2010. I had accounts in many proprietary silos and the Great Recession was hitting and I thought that some of those gratis systems are either going to close or go subscription only. Indeed many of them did a few years later. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2019 05:45:31 EDT
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When people are in small affinity groups they tend to thrive. When they're in large groups they tend to be diminished and overwhelmed by noise.
Seeking ever greater scale of membership isn't necessarily always a good plan. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2019 06:41:45 EDT
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The golden rule is that all internet freedom conferences are sponsored by Google and/or Facebook. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2019 08:38:31 EDT
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@LibertyPaulM FOSS fundamentalist here. I don't want Mozilla to block this or that. I can do that myself. What I do want them to do is to stop tracking Firefox users with telemetry by default and without informed consent. Most Firefox users are entirely unaware that their behavior data is being sent back to the mothership.
I don't use Chrome and don't advise it. There are variants of Firefox which are better and don't include the spying by default.
Security and privacy isn't a dichotomy. You can have both. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2019 19:55:13 EDT
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Zuck wants to remake the internet by his rules https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-the-internet-needs-new-rules-lets-start-in-these-four-areas/2019/03/29/9e6f0504-521a-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html
Neither Zuckerberg nor governments should be deciding what happens on the internet. This is a very top-down style of thinking.
He probably by now knows, as the article indicates, that he can't solve the moderation problem without breaking the business model. So he's trying to find ways to externalize that to governments and make it somebody else's problem/cost. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2019 05:04:05 EDT
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@Wolf480pl @alexcleac All problems eventually resolve to key management -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2019 14:06:09 EDT
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2019 05:47:39 EDT
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"People must sell their time and energy to the owning class in order to buy back a fraction of what they produce. This is a deeply rooted system that shapes our values and relationships and defies most attempts to abolish it. The socialist revolutions in the USSR and China did not go deep enough: as they never fully abolished capitalism, it reemerged, stronger than before."
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2019 15:16:54 EDT
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@lnxw48a1 @erroruser@example.com @moonman That's good news, although the mere fact that they had that feature doesn't give me any confidence in the decision making of whoever is running that site.
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