Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 16
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nds (nds@dent.smithfam.info)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 15:19:14 UTC 
nds
I guess it was more like 4 years ago. Definitely before August 2013, according to this: http://notapodcast.co.uk/post/57337280889/9-the-prince-of-aberystwyth -
GnuSocialShell (gnusocialshell@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 14:16:09 UTC 
GnuSocialShell
GnuSocialShell v1.2.0 is out!! Get it!
https://gnusocialshell.eu/index.php/GnuSocialShell_1.2.0 https://quitter.se/attachment/3614773 -
nds (nds@dent.smithfam.info)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 15:08:22 UTC
nds
xmpp: so hot right now, unless you want to actually talk to anyone -
Ginny McQueen π» (ginnymcqueen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 14:06:07 UTC 
Ginny McQueen π»
when a few thousand dollars is between you and getting access to potentially life-saving shit you kind of want to watch the whole world burn
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 14:07:50 UTC 
Bob Mottram
#GE2017 http://novaramedia.com/2017/04/21/ge2017 -
Old account (internetturtle@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 13:59:20 UTC 
Old account
More XMPP -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 12:26:48 UTC
Bob Mottram
@dredmorbius that's wonderful, but not an argument against home servers. Nearly all of those routers would have been running proprietary software complete with the entourage of badness which goes along with that. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 12:14:05 UTC
Bob Mottram
@dredmorbius yes those things are often insecure, but that doesn't mean a home server has to be the same. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 12:08:30 UTC
Bob Mottram
A People's History of The Russian Revolution https://social.freedombone.net/url/19944 -
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (η½δΌ) β (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 11:53:44 UTC 
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (η½δΌ) β
#Libreboot Is Now Considering Whether To Re-Join The #GNU http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Libreboot-Reconsiders-GNU good idea. Go for it, Leah. All forgiven. #freedom #freesw
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 11:52:58 UTC
Bob Mottram
The advantage of building the operating system from scratch: You have full control over everything
The disadvantage of building the operating system from scratch: You have full responsibility for everything
For projects like Freedombone I think it's better to try to leverage the community of a reliable distro rather than to try to go it completely alone. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 11:43:37 UTC
Bob Mottram
@dredmorbius do 5-8% of the general population have internet routers or a smartphone? It's not much more complicated than that. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 11:39:39 UTC
Bob Mottram
@peter I was only thinking in the context of possibly using something like Ubuntu Core for the Freedombone project. Really I want to keep any proprietary stuff out, so although the approach being taken in Ubuntu Core might be a good one I don't know if it would be usable. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 11:35:41 UTC
Bob Mottram
@dredmorbius The amount of maintenance skill needed on Freedombone is not very large. - Add/remove user
- Back up data
- Restore data (with individual apps selectable)
- Blocking controls
- Add/remove a GPG key
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 11:30:37 UTC
Bob Mottram
Another possible option for future Freedombone versions would be to build the operating system from scratch. That might sound crazy, but I was doing that type of thing in my last job. There are build systems such as buildroot and Yocto. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 11:26:19 UTC
Bob Mottram
I do somewhat trust the Debian project to have a commitment to Free Software. Given recent statements I don't really trust Mark Shuttleworth to have a similar commitment. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 11:22:17 UTC
Bob Mottram
@dredmorbius The hardware cost isn't a big factor. I expect hardware costs for SBCs to remain similar or not fall by much. At the same time they will probably get more CPU cores and better energy performance.
Security and maintenance aren't big costs. Debian can patch itself and the system can be easily administered from the control panel. The amount of time I spend on administration is very small.
Full P2P is possible with current technology (see https://freedombone.net/mesh.html) but moving away from client/server will be like trying to steer the Titanic. I don't expect things to change quickly. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 11:15:47 UTC
Bob Mottram
@masoud My only concern with Ubuntu would be blobs. I don't particularly trust Canonical not to include proprietary stuff which can't easily be extracted. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 11:04:14 UTC
Bob Mottram
@masoud it might be a possibility to consider. The images would need to be kept separate from the data/keys, so it would be similar to running from a USB drive. Freedombone already uses btrfs, which I think is suited to that type of image update. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2017 10:31:28 UTC
Bob Mottram
One down https://blog.freedombone.net/one-down
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