Notices by Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 9
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 18:41:25 EST 
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@DJWalnut @anna The obsessions with Putin and "Russian hackers" are comical. If only I were as powerful as a Russian hacker I could walk through walls and fix obscure XMPP bugs with hardly any effort. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 18:35:17 EST
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@anna @DJWalnut Usually they find some way to pay the astroturfers, even if it isn't directly in cash. Microsoft made it into an art form and I expect governments do the same. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 17:54:47 EST
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@DJWalnut @anna Well if it's a psyop it's not working and whoever is paying for it is not getting much ROI.
The way I look at it is that there always have been and always will be ignorant people on the internet. But at least in the fediverse that type of thing can be effectively contained, whereas similar things on Twitter become a huge problem if Jack takes a liking to them such that they get spammed into millions of timelines. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 16:40:25 EST
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@fosslinux The kinds of stories I heard from various people on various forums and mailing lists was always some variation of:
"I've only ever used Linux on an old laptop. Now my teacher is telling me I must install X and it only runs on Windows. I've tried Wine and other stuff but it doesn't work and I don't have money to buy a Windows machine, which I wouldn't want to use anyway. I tried explaining all this but the teacher worldn't listen and doesn't seem to understand what Linux even is. When I showed them what I was using they got annoyed/angry." -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 16:31:41 EST
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@fosslinux UK -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 16:28:04 EST
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@fosslinux I have no connection with the education system, but over the last ten years or more I've heard various horror stories from students being treated badly by teachers because they used Linux. Often the teachers didn't know what Linux was or assumed it was some kind of illegal pirate operating system which children should be discouraged from using. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 14:09:15 EST
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 13:38:35 EST
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Neptune Limestone Quarry https://simonstalenhag.bandcamp.com/track/neptune-limestone-quarry -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 13:01:57 EST
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@jankoekepan @michelamarie Go talk to some Amazon warehouse workers and then tell me again that Bezos is obeying laws. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 12:58:18 EST
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@jankoekepan @michelamarie Bezos routinely steals from many people at many levels in the economy. He steals from his own workers and the public. I think it's time that some payback was due. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 12:54:48 EST
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@jankoekepan @michelamarie Well either Bezos pays for what he uses, or he's robbing the public. It's pretty simple. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 12:51:45 EST
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@jankoekepan @michelamarie If I had some kind of income and then didn't pay taxes and just said "well, I just pay VAT and duties" somehow I don't think that would fly. Bezos isn't any different. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 12:47:01 EST
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@jankoekepan @michelamarie Well roads and other public infrastructure don't appear from the magic money tree. If Amazon wants to use public infrastructure it either needs to build it or pay to use it. The obligation is pretty clear, otherwise it's just abusing public property. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 12:20:50 EST
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@jankoekepan @michelamarie There is an obligation if you're using the infrastructure and services of a country. Unless Amazon is started deploying its own roads and postal systems now. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 10:16:24 EST
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"Within our social movements, donβt turn political disagreements into personal feuds. Donβt engage in needlessly disruptive behavior β and be wary of those who do so on a regular basis. The government has a long history of using infiltrators to sow strife within left organizations."
https://indypendent.org/2019/02/lessons-from-the-fbis-secret-war-on-activism -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 09:53:06 EST
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Black Power Women of Brixton Walk https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-power-women-of-brixton-walk-10am-tickets-51643017656 -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 09:46:11 EST
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@jk COM-PUTER π€ -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Feb-2019 08:41:29 EST
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@ctrlaltchaos @doenietzomoeilijk possibly might be something to do with ca-certificates in debian buster -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Feb-2019 19:22:47 EST
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Also if your career path leads you into a situation where you're personally helping to increase the fortune of the world's richest man then I think it's time to pause and reflect. Is this where the people who started open source wanted it to go? Even though it was always a business strategy that's far from clear. Did the people who started open source want the web to be centralized around AWS data centers? I don't think they did. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Feb-2019 19:06:34 EST
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I think this is one of the not so good fosdem talks.
https://ftp.fau.de/fosdem/2019/K.1.105/love_everyday.webm
It's a good illustration of how entangled open source became with some of the more regressive elements of capitalism. There's no thought or care for what Google or Amazon might be doing or where they might be taking the web. You just need to make sure you're on the right career path and and focus on community without considering the context in which the software exists.
It may be true that open source won, but the other question is what did it win, and for whom? With free software it's not so clear that there was any big victory and basic stuff like being able to use a phone without proprietary software is still hard.
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