Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 61
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 13:16:43 UTC 
Bob Mottram
@bodil besides federation bugs in the past there have been a lot of complaints about the culture on mastodon.social. I run my own server so I don't have to deal with it, but the word is many mastodonians are obsessed with controlling and policing other people with silly content warnings as one of the mechanisms for doing that. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 13:01:02 UTC
Bob Mottram
In the early 20th century many people believed that a revolutionary transition could only occur after a continent scale general strike. Perhaps they were right, but the timing was out. Certainly today there is more opportunity for coordination between the wealth producers on a global scale. https://media.blubrry.com/belabored/p/dissentmagazine.org/mp3/125Belabored.mp3 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 12:19:40 UTC
Bob Mottram
@strypey @neimzr4luzerz If Linus had more backbone, then yes. He is in a position where he can significantly decide whether the kernel is free or not. He could decide to banish the blobs. There would be a lot of support for that, but it would piss off some companies which probably include the ones paying his salary. Linus' logic is probably quite simple and straightforward: do anything which allows me to continue what I'm doing. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 12:09:38 UTC
Bob Mottram
Uncertain futures https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2017-04-05T195132-07_00 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 11:44:48 UTC
Bob Mottram
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Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 11:19:10 UTC 
Danyl Strype
@neimzr4luzerz I'm not saying corporations using or contributing to Linux is bad. I'm saying Linus allowing binary blobs in #Linux is bad -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 11:31:09 UTC
Bob Mottram
@strypey @neimzr4luzerz I read the Torvalds biography long ago, called Just for Fun, and based upon that it sounds like he sold out pretty early on. It explains a lot about his current "meh" attitude towards blobs and such. That said, I don't think Linus is a bad person, even though the tech media have tried to snag him repeatedly. He's just a human, and many of us in that kind of situation would be tempted to do the same thing. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 11:24:48 UTC
Bob Mottram
@schestowitz sounds hideous. I'll stick with keepassxc. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 11:16:52 UTC
Bob Mottram
@mmn @grimsdottir Once the current exodus is over and the trendy kids have departed to chase the latest buzzword I hope a few will remain. If source code gets contributed or improved as a result then that's an even bigger bonus. -
MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 10:59:15 UTC 
MMN-o ✅⃠
@grimsdottir Mostly I think because there's been PR work done with writing articles for various popular tech sites. Also most of the stuff written is more of a "this is how awesome it is" rather than sluggishly walking along thinking "meh, we think it should do its job and we're not trying to take over the world".
Plus of course using all the hip languages and buzzwords, making the UI look fancypants while hiding the ugly underwear. There's been a tremendous amount of work done in a short time, making it look really neat and nice - while that of course also means that several things are overlooked and need to be worked on now that the rush has come. Hopefully the high won't go down before all the people have left .) -
Constance Variable (lambadalambda@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 10:22:47 UTC 
Constance Variable
@detectivehyde https://medium.com/@realramnit/using-gnusocial-with-twidere-on-android-9b90c6e7bec -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 10:23:38 UTC
Bob Mottram
Someone should make one of those Mastodon error graphics, but with a gnu. -
Sonya Mann ✅ (sonya@maly.io)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 09:20:11 UTC 
Sonya Mann ✅
@SexyCyborg on a happier note, @adafruit showed up!
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 10:06:30 UTC
Bob Mottram
@sonya @sexycyborg @adafruit oh that's great. I've been toying with one of tha Adafruit Feather boards. Very minimalistic, but it does support mDNS and so can be accessed via wifi on the LAN. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 09:29:17 UTC
Bob Mottram
@deadsuperhero I made a C API for gnusocial, and might make a utility which allows you to export your follows and maybe import them on another account. https://github.com/bashrc/libgnusocial -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 09:24:19 UTC
Bob Mottram
https://social.freedombone.net/url/14886
The whole approach of "nudge", or its second generation is completely flawed. It takes a very condescending attitude that the government knows best, that it's rules are rational but that they're too complex for poor people to understand, and so on. It assumes that individuals are at fault and that the economic system is working just fine."experience of deprivation creates a mindset that makes it harder to process information, pay attention, make good decisions, plan for the future, and resist temptations"
That's true for starvation, but other than that experience of deprivation is enlightening if you've never encountered it before. It shows you where the cards really fall and that common demonizing narratives are just empty prejudice. The irrational beliefs of the middle classes become a lot more obvious. -
futureBoyfriend (deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 08:02:17 UTC 
futureBoyfriend
@1iceloops123 @yoz @sonya @rustyk5 You're right, but the funny thing is that federation will just continue to work right around those roadblocks, just as it always has.
Those who want islands get their own contained spaces. Those who don't can federate right around those pockets of isolation and not even notice those people.
The real issue is that someone better work on a good migration tool.
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 08:10:16 UTC
Bob Mottram
@deadsuperhero @1iceloops123 @yoz @sonya @rustyk5 a migration tool might not be all that difficult to write, but the ideal would be something like Hubzilla's nomadic identity. That is, accounts on separate servers which act as a single identity. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 08:04:49 UTC
Bob Mottram
@strypey yes I read that one too. Mashable seems pretty awful, but then this kind of simple-minded "genius invents widget out of nowhere in flash of inspiration" narrative is common in msm articles about technology. It fits their biases. -
futureBoyfriend (deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org)'s status on Saturday, 08-Apr-2017 07:42:06 UTC
futureBoyfriend
@strypey @mjd The remarkable thing about this, though, is that the federation has to some level been able to sufficiently self-organize over the years.
The addition of a new app that can federate with a good chunk of it actually is a testament to federation itself, and validates that it not only works, but can work well enough to make the model more appealing.
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