Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 49
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 13:57:14 UTC 
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Hannes (hannes2peer@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 18:56:01 UTC 
Hannes
hacking on qvitter is fun again :) thank you @gargron for all the amazing work you are doing for the fediverse. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 13:44:00 UTC
Bob Mottram
@chris @lambadalambda @adam @johncdvorak There's the old SatusNet UI which gnusocial still comes with. It's functional, but looks rather dated. Then there was Qvitter, which looks a lot more like a good version of the Twitter UI. Qvitter is still pretty decent. More recently there is Pleroma. Pleroma is like a re-engineered version of Qvitter. It's fast and themeable. I'm currently adding customised versions of it to the !Freedombone project. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 13:39:07 UTC
Bob Mottram
@lambadalambda @adam @chris @johncdvorak Mastodon won't die after a month, but it is entirely likely that many of the recent Twitter refugees will return to their silos. It's like the social tide coming in and going out again. Some percentage will hopefully remain though. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 13:28:51 UTC
Bob Mottram
@lambadalambda @adam @chris @johncdvorak This is what amused me when one of the articles said Mastodon was dead in the water. The underlying system has already been going for a decade, which is a pretty good run for any software system. FOSS projects remain alive for as long as they're relevant to the community. -
Constance Variable (lambadalambda@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 13:23:31 UTC 
Constance Variable
@adam @chris @johncdvorak It is a good articles that 'gets' the real difference between a federated system and the walled gardens of twitter / fb, but I wish it didn't also present Mastodon as completely new. The network it is a part of has been running for a decade, just with less media attention. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 12:54:41 UTC
Bob Mottram
@strypey sounds similar to syncthing global directory or tahoeLAFS "introducer nodes" -
Constance Variable (lambadalambda@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 12:12:17 UTC
Constance Variable
@inmysocks @ekaitzzarraga @jason It's good that mastodon.social hit its limit so soon and new users had to spread across the fediverse. If it had scaled better, we'd have one giant instance now that dominated everything. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 12:08:01 UTC
Bob Mottram
There has been some talk of privacy and gnusocial. It's worth thinking about, but I'm inclined to be cautious about trying to retrofit security to it. I think that would be likely to end badly and give users a false sense of security. It's better to say that gnusocial and related systems are fully public and unless the OStatus protocol changes are likely to remain so. Anyone, including all of the spy agencies of all of the nation states, can read what you write here. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 12:04:14 UTC
Bob Mottram
@strypey @mmn in a system with privacy settings something like that could literally be on a slider setting. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 11:54:10 UTC
Bob Mottram
@grmpyoldman @pbielefeldt "We must ensure CWs on every dissident..."
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 11:44:43 UTC
Bob Mottram
@mmn @strypey I'm not familiar with the codebase, but some of the things in Hubzilla are quite clever. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 11:38:26 UTC
Bob Mottram
@grmpyoldman @pbielefeldt Kim Jong-un reviews new Mastodon server warehouse. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 11:33:44 UTC
Bob Mottram
After over a decade of using GNU/Linux full time it's easy to forget what a paradigm shift it is. Probably like most people reading this, I am the local laptop fixer uperer and just fixed another one with a dead hard drive after being dropped. This time I installed Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS. I think it's easier for new users than Debian because it has an app boutique with explanations of each app. The first thing the new user starts doing is "looking for a list of installed programs". "I need to find which ones to remove. You know, the ones I don't want."
I showed them how to use the app boutique to install or remove programs on the system. Apart from that they were already familiar with using LibreOffice and preferred Firefox to Chromium.
Me: "You mean like the crappy spyware stuff that comes on new Windows laptops. This isn't Windows, so you don't get that kind of crap." -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 09:49:04 UTC
Bob Mottram
@schestowitz not if I have anything to do with it.
And javascript is mainly only a problem if its obfuscated and tied up with proprietary stuff or ads. The gnusocial UI I'm testing right now is javascript, but it's all Free Software. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 09:32:32 UTC
Bob Mottram
@strypey @deadsuperhero I pretty much agree with @mike there. I was on Friendica, Redmatrix and then Hubzilla for a long time and so I can appreciate the problems and the amount of effort that he put in. Certain other projects were exceedingly difficult to federate with and there was never any agreement on a privacy model. This means that Hubzilla mostly didn't federate with non-Hubzilla nodes. To do so would just be to break the privacy model in horrible ways, and also the "magic auth" system which remains pretty innovative.
If you've done the amount of work mike has and then someone starts criticising the federation details, given how difficult it has been, I think "send a pull request" is the most appropriate response. -
futureBoyfriend (deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 05:10:17 UTC 
futureBoyfriend
@strypey @mike Mike has a seasoned background in developing and advancing many of the core concepts of federated networking. In that time, he has seen and put up with a lot of bullshit from people.
He is a wellspring of knowledge, but occasionally comes across as abrupt and possibly grumpy. Ultimately, he means well, and if you're patient with him, he'll occasionally drop extremely good insights.
Blocking him would be a mistake.
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 09:13:27 UTC
Bob Mottram
@bes the Mashable article is perhaps the worst one I've seen about Mastodon. Probably written by a clueless tech journalist who did all of five mins of research. -
தோட்டக்காரன்(gardener) (solariiknight@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 05:53:52 UTC 
தோட்டக்காரன்(gardener)
Extremely pleased to note the downward slide of Micro$oft though -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 22:43:06 UTC
Bob Mottram
@delores if your NAS already runs debian stable then you could install Freedombone straight onto it. You can git pull the repo and then sudo make install and freedombone menuconfig. Another alternative is to dd the relevant disk image to the drive, which will overwrite everything.
Note that installing Freedombone on an existing debian install will change quite a few things, including crypto ciphers, and try to lock down all the main files. It will also remove the non-free repo if it exists.
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