"Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate"Could mean literally anything. It's like the obsession with the term "reasonable" in English law. It gives very wide latitude for interpretation by an authoritarian figure.
Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 60
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 16:41:14 UTC 
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Vague CoCs are a problem. For instance, freedesktop's: -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 16:25:06 UTC
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@bodil @staltz really only P2P scales well, so longer term it's likely systems similar to ZeroNet/ZeroMe or qTox which become the primary way of communicating. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 16:16:21 UTC
Bob Mottram
@u2764 That's really down to the size of the fediverse. In the years I've been here it has been a small world of familiar faces, and you generally were not on it unless you were running your own server or knew someone who did. That narrows down the scope to mostly people who care a whole lot about having technological independence, so they talk mostly about the tech. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 16:06:06 UTC
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Another slice-o-life https://social.freedombone.net/url/15003 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 15:52:10 UTC
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@strypey right. I run !Parabola on desktop and laptop machines. afaik the only blobs on my systems are drivers within LineageOS on my phone. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 15:30:11 UTC
Bob Mottram
@strypey a keylogger which then sends everything to some other domain is a scarily easy kernel module to write. You can find things like that on Github. So yes it is possible that blobs could do things like that. -
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (η½δΌ) β (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 15:10:32 UTC 
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (η½δΌ) β
#FlightGear 2017.1.3 β Released April 4, 2017 http://www.flightgear.org/ #games
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 15:14:25 UTC
Bob Mottram
I generally dislike HN, but this is my favourite quote from it about Mastodon: "Mastodon is packed with LGBTQ+ people and furries. This appeals to me in a way other platforms do not."
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 15:12:11 UTC
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@strypey a useful HN thread? A rare beast indeed. -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 15:06:35 UTC 
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OMG a HackerNews thread that is mostly useful Q&A and almost no vague bile-belching! Trigger warning: about #Mastodon
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 15:04:04 UTC
Bob Mottram
@strypey in the current kernel a lot of drivers are built in. For example my ChaosKey hardware random number generator "just works" with kernels above some version number because the code is built in. If it was a microkernel design the ChaosKey driver would be a separate app and the kernel would then be something very minimal doing things like allocating memory to apps and scheduling when they can run. From a security point of view it would make the kernel way easier to audit. For example I think the microkernel of RedoxOS is only a few thousand lines of code, compared to the 15+ million of Linux. Having drivers in userland might also mean better permissions control, whereas in Linux all loaded drivers have root and can do anything. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 14:55:48 UTC
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@strypey could be. Most people thought microkernels were a failed technology, but perhaps they'll make a comeback. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 14:35:36 UTC
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@nds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompletelyFairScheduler -
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (η½δΌ) β (schestowitz@mastodon.technology)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 14:20:48 UTC
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (η½δΌ) β
The Linux Foundation... "VMware is a gold member of that joke foundation..." https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/63ah2e/the_linux_foundation_not_a_friend_of_desktop/
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 14:08:53 UTC
Bob Mottram
Linux (the kernel) has some functions for dealing with concurrent threads and their sequencing, but it grew up during the one-CPU-per-child era and so these methods are not necessarily highly efficient when we're getting to 16+ CPUs. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 14:03:12 UTC
Bob Mottram
@strypey I think there is, and I think it has been around for a while. What seems to be the main issue with microkernels is overcoming latency/coordination issues and also getting developers interested in writing drivers (which are in userspace in the microkernel model, and treated like any other software package). In a monolithic kernel coordination of memory and resources is easier to handle because it's on a centralized schedule, but as more and more CPUs are added to modern processors the monolithic model may not be able to take the strain. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 13:52:59 UTC
Bob Mottram
@strypey given the length of time which HURD has been in development, apparently without much progress, other microkernels might get more traction. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 13:50:21 UTC
Bob Mottram
@bodil @nolan @pierre @luisbg don't sweat the small stuff. gnusocial is a different kind of horse in a different sort of race. Their magic has no effect here, and the fediverse has been around for a long time. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 13:46:51 UTC
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@strypey other unix-like systems -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 13:30:11 UTC
Bob Mottram
@neimzr4luzerz @strypey it's more likely that other microkernels might be adopted. There's one in RedoxOS. Google is allegedly developing another.
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