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Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 52
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Sargoth (sargoth@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 10:23:00 UTC 
Sargoth
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 10:28:00 UTC 
Bob Mottram
@fl0wn @maiyannah @stopgap As a libre distro user I might be considered a purist, but for new users something like Mint or Ubuntu is ok. I recently put a new user onto Debian with the KDE desktop, which I thought is the most similar to the Windows paradigm. Sticking to LTS releases is also a good idea. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 10:22:25 UTC
Bob Mottram
@pettter @sim in the federated context this is the role of the admin. To decide who gets an account or doesn't and to kick disruptive elements out. If nodes gain too many users then the admin has too much power and arbitrary censorship or CoCs can become a problem. In extremis, this is exactly what Twitter or Facebook is. The situation is easier with P2P, or where the number of users on a server is one as may often be the case with a FreedomBox. In that case you can just use the available controls to follow or block whoever you wish. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 10:09:59 UTC
Bob Mottram
@maiyannah @stopgap Running desktop Windows as a server? I saw it tried in the past and it didn't end well. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 09:55:34 UTC
Bob Mottram
The homing pigeons of WW1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2A3GORFCPg -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 09:50:36 UTC
Bob Mottram
@maiyannah @stopgap there's also a description here: https://blog.freedombone.net/how-to-run-a-gnu-social-server
Just select postActiv on the menu instead of gnusocial. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 09:48:09 UTC
Bob Mottram
@maiyannah @deoxxa proper tweets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_post -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 09:43:12 UTC
Bob Mottram
@pettter @sim If I have an influence upon the wider world at all I hope it may be to trigger people to run their own internet services, to be more independent and to have more freedom. Even just pausing to reflect upon what freedom you have can be the beginning of a journey. -
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅ (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 09:37:10 UTC 
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ✅
Tiny Core 8.0 has just been released http://www.tinycorelinux.net/ #tinycore #gnu #linux
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 09:36:20 UTC
Bob Mottram
@pettter @sim Indeed, and this is why it's a good idea to pull no punches when it comes to speaking openly about of authoritarian schemes. The surveillance state with its deluded capitalistic hangers-on and scapegoating apologists should come under withering and sustained criticism. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 09:29:55 UTC
Bob Mottram
@pettter @sim Which goes back to my earlier point. One should not hide behind tags. To live life with integrity the real social relations must be visible. Then we can have honest discussions, and not engage in evasiveness. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 09:20:43 UTC
Bob Mottram
@sim @pettter in the #NSFW case that's for images and it's a long established convention. So far it hasn't proliferated into subcategories. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 09:15:59 UTC
Bob Mottram
@pettter @sim people tagging their posts is actually ok. When it can become a problem is when tags cause text to be concealed and people are pressured to conform to a tag ontology. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 09:09:02 UTC 
Annah's got the Shotgun
Reminder: If you cannot audit the complete codebase of something, it should be assumed to be 100% insecure. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 09:07:58 UTC
Bob Mottram
@pettter @sim I could have used the word "insane", or maybe just "foobarred". "Fucked up" or "messed up" would also be common ways of describing it. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 09:02:43 UTC
Bob Mottram
@sim @pettter exactly. Their magic has no power here. Authoritarians can run their own servers and mandate each other as much as they want, and that's fine. Thing is though that they always seek to undermine or obtain leverage over others. We ought to actively reject that out of hand. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 09:00:17 UTC
Bob Mottram
@maiyannah @6gain I have a D70. Despite being old its picture quality is way better than my mobile phone. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 08:53:15 UTC
Bob Mottram
@sim @pettter but the good news is that this isn't Twitter and bad conventions can't simply be foisted onto the fediverse. On some servers the admin may want to define a formalised interaction ontology, but this doesn't have to apply universally. The power to wield CWs will be limited by network topology. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 08:29:46 UTC
Bob Mottram
@pettter revolution requires inconvenience. It urges us to put aside our masks and confront the real social relations with honesty. Only then can transformation occur. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 08:24:46 UTC
Bob Mottram
@sim @maiyannah it's an old game in which a few seek to control the dominant narratives. For example, who would decide the tag ontology? Who would educate new users on its appropriate use? It soon becomes the dominion of a priestly class, and old social relations are reproduced.
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