Notices by Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 8
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 07:09:23 EDT 
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"Everything was very blurry. There must have been about two minutes during which I assumed that I was killed. And that too was interesting β I mean it is interesting to know what your thoughts would be at such a time. My first thought, conventionally enough, was for my wife. My second was a violent resentment at having to leave this world which, when all is said and done, suits me so well. I had time to feel this very vividly. The stupid mischance infuriated me. The meaninglessness of it! To be bumped off, not even in battle, but in this stale comer of the trenches, thanks to a momentβs carelessness!"
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 06:15:58 EDT
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@dick_turpin A possible reason to upgrade might be kernel version, since most phones can't run mainline due to the less than ideal way in which actually-existing-android happens and get stuck on a particular version indefinitely.
But two years is new. My phone is a lot older than that, and it still runs the latest apps well. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 04:28:12 EDT
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@Hamishcampbell Unfortunately I'm in the outback in the north of England. If you're trying it out I'd recommend using the onion amd64 image running from a usb drive. Then you don't need to forward any ports or set up dynamic dns. If you're making a production system then you can copy to an SSD and use that as the laptop's main drive, which then gives a lot of I/O bandwidth. For servers the disk access speed is more important than cpu speed. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 04:17:37 EDT
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@alexcleac I had a hard time distinguishing the difference between those two images, but looking at the link they're using light grey on white for comments which isn't very readable. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 04:04:28 EDT
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@paulfree14 @lynnesbian The expectation is that removal of analog audio sockets will result in DRM'd digital audio. i.e. inability to record from an audio output. However, even DRM'd audio has to get converted to analog somewhere. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2019 19:06:03 EDT
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"Inside the hotel, among the heterogeneous mob who for the most part had not dared to put their noses out of doors, a horrible atmosphere of suspicion had grown up. Various people were infected with spy mania and were creeping round whispering that everyone else was a spy of the Communists, or the Trotskyists, or the Anarchists, or what-not. The fat Russian agent was cornering all the foreign refugees in turn and explaining plausibly that this whole affair was an Anarchist plot. I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies β unless one counts journalists."
-- George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2019 13:37:08 EDT
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In Osona Sud, Catalonia the distribution of Guifinet nodes is superdense. It's like the William Gibson saying that the future is here but not evenly distributed. Some areas of the world are already living in the future of decentralized user-owned network infrastructure.
If anyone says that mesh networks are impractical or don't scale to a municipal level then Catalonia is a good showcase of it working. Obviously not all of these thousands of nodes are highly tech-savvy anarcho-hackers, so this is something which can work "for the people".
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 18:48:30 EDT
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The recent thing in NZ is really the first time I've actually appreciated having the CW feature. In the last 24 hours I've avoided reading silo posts because at a glance I can see that people are completely transfixed and obsessing over this in the way that always happens and isn't constructive.
I don't have much motivation to read about the details. There have been many similar things in the past. Often there's a lot of calls that "the government must do something" followed by bad laws rushed through which only create more authoritarianism and take away freedoms. Often the shooter gets turned into a celebrity and every aspect of their life, or their BS manifesto, gets analyzed in excruciating detail. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2019 14:05:29 EDT
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Four degrees and beyond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17aE91SBMoY -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2019 12:28:40 EDT
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Solidarity with the young people protesting today. Climate change is a really difficult problem, because it's not just a matter of replacing politician A with politician B. To do anything about global warming will require a change in the entire system of globalized economics and how people relate to nature.
In the past there have been ideas like "cap and trade" and highly personalized obsessions with managing your "carbon footprint", but none of that worked because it didn't address the underlying issues.
No amount of celebrity photo opportunities or sucking up to old rich people will fix this. The people with the money have already decided that all is lost and have been planning for a doomsday scenario for a long time. They'd rather end it all than end capitalism.
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2019 05:23:53 EDT
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As I got older I found that nobody is really all that great and that the best way to get along is to try to create systems in which nobody can do too much damage on their own. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2019 18:37:17 EST
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Toβchangeβeverything, startβanywhere. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2019 17:52:24 EST
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They seem to be going after Chelsea Manning again, for unknown reasons.
https://www.sparrowmedia.net/2019/03/chelsea-manning-grand-jury
Secret courts have nothing to do with justice and everything to do with arbitrary power. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Feb-2019 19:02:14 EST
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Designing Posters With Free Software https://raghukamath.com/journal/designing-posters-with-free-software -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Feb-2019 08:33:13 EST
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Feb-2019 06:59:58 EST
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How Brexit could create a crisis at the Irish border https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0xGHf8o-9k -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Feb-2019 17:15:03 EST
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@Elizafox One of the problems driving that trend is the amount of corruption within academic institutions. Lack of interest in trying to reproduce results, corporate/military sponsors, etc. There is scientific method in theory and then there is actually existing science as a social process. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 17-Feb-2019 07:28:16 EST
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@angristan Whether you do it with React or anything else, getting out from sites like Medium is a good idea. I find that keeping the blog technology as simple as possible reduces maintenance to a minimum, so avoid complicated nodejs things or anything which has hundreds of dependencies. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 19:06:27 EST
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@DJWalnut @anna Lots of things are possible, and they'll try a bit of everything. I expect it will be mainly FUD, plus legislative lobbying. The legislative angle is something we can't easily counter, whereas Silicon Valley people can buy whatever political support they want. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 18:51:30 EST
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@DJWalnut @anna Yes. General lack of familiarity with how technology works, both in young and old, is a big factor which politicians can exploit. This is also something which might be used against the fediverse if it really begins to dent the profit margins of Silicon Valley companies.
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