Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 4

Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2017 19:51:11 UTC Bob Mottram

"EFF no longer believes that the W3C process is suited to defending the open web. We have resigned from the Consortium, effective today"

https://boingboing.net/2017/09/18/antifeatures-for-all.html
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2017 12:46:46 UTC Bob Mottram

The Bros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gn5kwQaMFQ
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2017 15:30:03 UTC Bob Mottram

It's a shame that Chelsea Manning didn't get to speak at Harvard, but at least this reveals how the CIA gets to gatekeep what ideas get expressed there.

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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2017 09:03:57 UTC Bob Mottram

Elephant in the room
How much https traffic is Cloudflare intercepting?

https://boingboing.net/2017/09/13/weakening-security-for-securit.html

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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Sep-2017 16:22:20 UTC Bob Mottram
- Doug Belshaw 🇪🇺☠️✊
@dajbelshaw In 2006 I worked at a company which was largely FLOSS, both the office systems and the products.

At the last company I worked at on day 0 I was issued with a laptop and the CEO said "You can install any OS you like, except Windows. The only requirement is full disk encryption". As far as I know there was one Windows laptop in the company and everyone else was running mostly Debian.

So I don't think I've worked at any companies which were entirely FLOSS, but I have worked at a couple where the amount of proprietary software was small.

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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2017 21:52:58 UTC Bob Mottram
- MMN-o ✅⃠
- futureBoyfriend
@mmn @deadsuperhero ActivityPub allows for PGP encryption, so it would be possible to do real privacy although where and in what form private keys are stored would be the bigger question. It could be done something like ProtonMail where the user supplies a password which generates the private key on the client side.

I'm still inclined to think though that the best tools for hombre-to-hombre private communications are the ones we already have, with ratchets and so on.

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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2017 08:33:41 UTC Bob Mottram

The Free Phone Nightmare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdwgiJwRyyI
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2017 07:14:30 UTC Bob Mottram
- Annah's got the Shotgun
@maiyannah the real welfare bums are the people who live off of capital income. The rentiers and financier class. The folks whose average income increased substantially after 2008. Riding on living labour, or blatantly stealing from it, without any obligation or humility.

But the ability to perform labour is not personhood. There is at best only a limited salvation in wage slavery and "work ethic" for its own sake. In the modern economy human labour is increasingly not required for capital accumulation.

Here what has happened after 2010 is that people with disabilities or other chronic health issues have been reclassified as "job seekers". This creates "innovative" new opportunities to beg or die. I saw a lot of it in Manchester, and the online version is presumably its digital shadow.

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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2017 19:55:38 UTC Bob Mottram

Stallman interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7r-SWZ5x_M
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2017 18:24:14 UTC Bob Mottram

"I feel like I’m lecturing you, and I am. I unequivocally am lecturing you. You deserve to be lectured right now. You’re a person in a position of power who could effect real change, and instead, you’re creating more noise and fear about a thing that’s never going to happen."

It's funny I had almost this exact conversation with Singularitarians 10+ years ago. Killer robots sell copy, whereas more realistic evaluations of the role of technology in society are much less glamorous and get into issues which powerful people are uncomfortable with discussing.

https://social.freedombone.net/url/41327

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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2017 18:32:19 UTC Bob Mottram
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2017 14:39:40 UTC Bob Mottram

Charlottesville: Race and Terror. Warning: this contains real nazis who aren't hiding their views behind irony and memes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P54sP0Nlngg

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Ghost (ghost@im-in.space)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2017 04:20:20 UTC Ghost

A cool person and long time friend, Tyler Magill opposed the Nazis in Charlottesville, and was attacked while protecting students, and suffered a stroke as a result of that attack.

Tyler is a cool DJ, a great parent, and has been standing up to Nazis for years now, and I hope will again soon.
I think many of you would like Tyler a lot. Currently the instance I'm on doesn't seem to be federating very wide, so if anyone can boost I'd appreciate it, because people should know who Tyler is.

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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2017 21:36:24 UTC Bob Mottram

The problems with encryption on Android https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/11/24/android-n-encryption
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jd Ⓐ★😼🚀🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺 (jd@soc.ialis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2017 14:45:14 UTC jd Ⓐ★😼🚀🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺

#Antifa

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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2017 17:15:59 UTC Bob Mottram

GNU/Maintainers wanted. I didn't know people still used faxes.

http://fossforce.com/2017/08/wanted-gnu-project-maintainers

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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2017 21:22:06 UTC Bob Mottram
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2017 19:49:53 UTC Bob Mottram
@thedod @xj9 @ntk I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you are referring to as "hippie shit" is in fact GNU/hippie shit or GNU + hippie shit.

You are of course completely correct that it's the freedom that matters. Downplaying the freedom aspect with the "open source" rebranding did gain some corporate sponsors which were perhaps important for things like kernel or driver development and maybe certain distros, but in the end emphasizing only supposed improvements to the code leaves users and their concerns out of the conversation. The corporate sponsors of "open source" are happy to have the pragmatic benefits from openness while simultaneously screwing over the users of the resulting software.

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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2017 15:47:46 UTC Bob Mottram
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jul-2017 13:25:12 UTC Bob Mottram
- Untitled Shitpost Game
@elizafox I think it was a few years ago I reached the point where I thought supporting Windows users was no longer a good idea. Windows is high maintenance and has an increasing number of proprietary problems which aren't solvable by a technician, but mainly I just don't want to help maintain the Microsoft hegemony or be linked to that company in any way.

So these days if someone comes to me with a borked Windows laptop in an update boot cycle or overloaded with malware I tell them that I can help get them going again by installing a GNU/Linux distro (something like Ubuntu MATE LTS), but I can't help them with Windows.

The only exception I'd make to that is that if someone is willing to pay a good amount of money then I might consider helping them with Windows, but that rarely happens in practice as money is becoming generally scarce around here.

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