Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 50
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 22:27:13 UTC 
Bob Mottram
@delores I havn't. Is there anything you could recommend? -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 22:24:19 UTC 
Annah's got the Shotgun
We are always going to have growing pains when there's an influx of new people to the fediverse. All we can do is suffer well. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 22:19:47 UTC
Bob Mottram
@xj9 @u2764 https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/3557 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 22:06:50 UTC
Bob Mottram
@deadsuperhero I quite liked Jono when he was working for Canonical and thought he did a pretty good job of being the public face of Ubuntu. The point about them repeatedly going against their user/developer community is true though.
With the end of Unity and the u-phone I think this may possibly be the beginning of the end of Canonical's involvement with Free Software. That is a loss, because I think that company particularly helped to raise the public profile of GNU/Linux considerably. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 21:45:49 UTC
Bob Mottram
Ah, Mr Shuttleworth strikes again. In the old days Jono Bacon would rapidly follow up with a damage limitation blog post. "I used to think that it was a privilege to serve people who also loved the idea of service, but now I think many members of the free software community are just deeply anti-social types who love to hate on whatever is mainstream. When Windows was mainstream they hated on it. Rationally, Windows does many things well and deserves respect for those. And when Canonical went mainstream, it became the focus of irrational hatred too...The very same muppets would write about how terrible it was that IOS/Android had no competition and then how terrible it was that Canonical was investing in (free software!) compositing and convergence. Fk that st."
To understand why Free Software people might not like the mainstream you have to understand its origins. When Stallman started GNU he was going against the mainstream commodification of software which was going on at the time. The mainstream has never liked Stallman or Torvalds. In the last decade there was the battle against Microsoft in which they called us "a cancer" and so on. Free software has really only gotten where it is today by going against the conventional wisdom, as epitomized by Bill Gates' open letter to the homebrew computer club.
At its core Free Software is about software which works for its users the way they want it, and sadly that often isn't very mainstream. The mainstream of commercial software development is to screw the users and make sure the advertisers and share holders are happy. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 21:04:47 UTC
Bob Mottram
A green default theme for Pleroma on gnusocial on !Freedombone https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/15780 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 20:23:13 UTC
Bob Mottram
@maiyannah another one is 1280x1024 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 20:19:24 UTC
Bob Mottram
@maiyannah My current screen resolution is 1920x1080 so that could be one -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 19:54:29 UTC
Bob Mottram
Installing a Mastodon server in 30 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKJpCSyPn8U -
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl (moonman@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 19:31:57 UTC 
Christmas Personified as a Catgirl
>Mastodon is a free, open-source social network.
The network is the Fediverse and it existed for years before Mastodon, I really hate this phrasing. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 18:58:21 UTC
Bob Mottram
@maiyannah I'm currently using an image which is 640x416, but it could be higher. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 18:35:09 UTC
Bob Mottram
@archaeme could be a naive assumption -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 18:24:43 UTC
Bob Mottram
Turris Omnia wifi router https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEscTeRZdg -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 17:54:04 UTC
Bob Mottram
@katiekats @maiyannah no problem. There isn't any hurry. -
PlatinumKats (katiekats@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 17:43:08 UTC 
PlatinumKats
@frankiesaxx
I don't think you've bad intentions with your post here, for the record, I understand not wanting drama, and to an extent I do agree, Mastodon and GNU -should- in an ideal world, work. Not all people on Mastodon are cruel after all.
That said, I can't blame people for having the dislike of Mastodon or it's nodes that they do, and others have to try and recognize that. People joined into federation, into GNU, for what it represents. Then Mastodon shows up later on, a bunch of the users go on witch hunts, Gargron himself tears people down, and the more things have went on, Mastodon nodes are popping up that block instances they hardly know.
A perfect federating world would be great, but when you ask people to accept a place and it's nodes, that have shown before that they like to act as authoritarian bullies, break the principles the fediverse was built upon, and go "our program isn't working with yours, you go fix it" expect resistance. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 17:42:25 UTC
Bob Mottram
Don't know if @maiyannah is around but I'm making some default backgrounds for Pleroma on gnusocial and postActiv on !Freedombone. Is there any preferred background image for postActiv? -
Quad (quad@masto.quad.moe)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 17:35:43 UTC 
Quad
SOON GUYS.
NGINX IS SOON GONNA KILL APACHE. FINALLY.
https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/nginx_reaches_33_3_percent_web_server_market_share_while_apache_falls_below_50_percent
https://masto.quad.moe/media/xn4RWKdofSwmDLbjBz4 -
Anthony Trevelyan (trev@icosahedron.website)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 16:37:17 UTC 
Anthony Trevelyan
On a much more boring technical note, Mastodon's current implementation of ostatus isn't even accurate to the spec. Before the new user explosion, we were running up GNU Social and postActiv server error logs into the tens of gigabytes with malformed message errors, from messages Mastodon servers sent.
I know Gargron isn't on the best of terms with many GS people, but if community volunteers would step up and look at these issues, it'd make all of us better citizens of the Fediverse.
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災̷̡̆害̎̐͊の̴ͩ̅̔̏女̢ͭ̋͑ͨͤ͝王̡̂̔͆̾͘͟ (xj9@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 16:38:28 UTC 
災̷̡̆害̎̐͊の̴ͩ̅̔̏女̢ͭ̋͑ͨͤ͝王̡̂̔͆̾͘͟
@trev i think having "scopes" or "circles" is reasonable, but saying "private" gives people expectations that aren't based in reality. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 16:33:57 UTC
Bob Mottram
@taknamay @takeshitakenji @kitredgrave @animeirl I laughed when I saw rainbowdash was on the blocklist of one of the new mastodon servers.
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