Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 43
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 16:59:53 UTC 
Bob Mottram
@verius I'm sure that distributed hash tables will be thoroughly grokked by all concerned :) -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 16:57:46 UTC
Bob Mottram
@mmn @pan Even if the user is a deity who never makes mistakes, trying to shoehorn privacy onto a system which was never designed for it is only likely to result in a bad solution which gives a false sense of security. -
MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 16:33:01 UTC 
MMN-o ✅⃠
@pan My issue with mixing public and private communication inside the same tool is that some day you're going to make a mistake (or as with Facebook, the definition of private gets redefined regularly). Better to use different tools for sensitive communication, those are my two fiddy. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 16:21:58 UTC
Bob Mottram
@arunisaac https://freedombone.net/app_tahoelafs.html -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 16:19:59 UTC
Bob Mottram
@arunisaac I've not used it to any significant extent, but !Freedombone supports Tahoe-LAFS and it's pretty straightforward to set up. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 15:57:08 UTC
Bob Mottram
A while ago I think @xj9 was posting about possible business models for the fediverse. One related to something I posted earlier would be to provide some backup service for instances and an easy way to install it. Make sure backups are client side encrypted so that the service itself can't be forced to compromise anyone's privacy. Just having an off-site location to backup to is quite useful. -
Francisco Gómez (🇲 🇴 🇻 🇪 🇩) (espectalll@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 15:48:43 UTC 
Francisco Gómez (🇲 🇴 🇻 🇪 🇩)
Si no sabes programar y te aburres un poco, sugiero probar !Python 3 + turtle: https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html qttr.at/1s5d -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 15:49:43 UTC
Bob Mottram
@jeffcliff if you only replace one bunch of proprietary stuff with another, no progress has been made towards fixing bug no.1 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 15:48:30 UTC
Bob Mottram
@jeffcliff as far as I know there is no Android phone which ships with only Free Software. If there were I'd be interested to know what it was. The Android phones I've encountered came with a tonne of proprietary stuff and all had proprietary drivers. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 15:38:40 UTC
Bob Mottram
@jeffcliff electrical stores mostly. When I was in Manchester there were various places that sold laptops, new or second hand. Pretty much without exception they were either running Windows or were Macs.
Even if you consider phones and tablets to be the new PCs while Android has the majority share it doesn't fulfill the criteria for solving bug no.1 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 15:25:17 UTC
Bob Mottram
@peter a year or so ago I bought my first laptop with Trisquel preinstalled and where everything just worked. But sadly that wasn't from an ordinary store or any of the mainstream retailers. Only a tiny tiny minority of specialist retailers are making any progress at all on Ubuntu's bug no.1 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 15:12:21 UTC
Bob Mottram
Ubuntu's bug no.1 remains unpatched.
It goes as follows:
Non-free software leaves users at the mercy of the software owner and concentrates control over the technology which powers our society into the hands of a few. Additionally, proprietary software stifles innovation, maintains artificial scarcities, and enables malicious anti-features such as DRM, surveillance, and other monopolistic practices.
This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.
Steps to repeat:
# Visit a local PC store. # Attempt to buy a machine without any proprietary software.
What happens:
Almost always, a majority of PCs for sale have Microsoft Windows pre-installed. In the rare cases that they come with a GNU/Linux operating system or no operating system at all, the drivers and BIOS may be proprietary.
What should happen:
A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software. -
Simon Phipps (webmink@mastodon.cc)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 14:42:58 UTC 
Simon Phipps
Looks like Canonical is about to re-re-re-reinvent itself as Shuttleworth takes back the helm. http://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-ceo-jane-silber-resigns/
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 14:37:18 UTC
Bob Mottram
@schestowitz I don't believe that bug #1 was actually ever fixed -
Internet of Shit Ebooks (internetofshitebooks@gs.archae.me)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 04:15:13 UTC 
Internet of Shit Ebooks
you seem to have an ad blocker installed. Please exit the self-driving vehicle immediately. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 12:46:05 UTC
Bob Mottram
Just in case there are any new Mastodon instance admins out there reading this, the number one thing you need to have in place if you want any sustained presence on the open web is a backup system in place and tested. This was one of the things I found early on with the !Freedombone project. If you don't have backups, or only an untested system, then any database corruption, failed hard drive or whatever can delete your entire user community overnight. I think that happened to at least one gnusocial server after the 2016 Twitter exodus.
Freedombone uses Obnam to do encrypted backups with a gpg key, but there are various other options available. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 12:33:19 UTC
Bob Mottram
@dragnucs I'm not a mastodon user, so I'm not sure about that. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 12:30:30 UTC
Bob Mottram
@schestowitz the rise of Mastodon has been surprising, especially given that it was heavily criticized as being buggy and insular not so long ago. It's definitely encouraging to have that number of instances and it shows that there's real enthusiasm for the open web out there. I expect many of them will disappear, but even if it follows the usual 80/20 rule 20% of that is still a significant presence by historical standards for federated socnets. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 12:23:07 UTC
Bob Mottram
@dragnucs @maiyannah It would be possible to have email, xmpp and gnusocial/postActiv on the same domain. Email and xmpp are on the same default domain on the !Freedombone system, but apart from that I try to ensure that each app is on a separate domain or subdomain to keep things separated. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 10:58:40 UTC
Bob Mottram
Global Capitalism April 2017: As Trump’s Big Economic Plans Fade, where Next? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WafQakqZIc
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