Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 69
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2017 06:13:21 UTC 
Bob Mottram
@u2764 users of the instance unite! You have nothing to lose but your code of conduct. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2017 06:09:09 UTC
Bob Mottram
@archaeme @tuxdude is mastodon going into meltdown? -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2017 06:03:01 UTC
Bob Mottram
@hattiecat @6gain Freedom one uses vmdebootstrap to build a minimal Debian, then installs whatever is needed. That keeps the image to a minimal size. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 22:59:21 UTC
Bob Mottram
The demise of UbuntuTouch was expected. There had been rumors to that effect. They tried to make it mainstream for very understandable commercial reasons, supporting Gmail and Facebook and stuff like that, but I think Canonical critically underestimated the Free Software developer community upon which their edifice depended. I would have been much more enthusiastic about UbuntuTouch, and possibly done development for it, if it had supported free software network services instead of proprietary stuff which I either dislike or don't care about. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 22:49:07 UTC
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It's a pity that linuxoutlaws are no longer around. fabsh would be ranting for sure. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 22:47:45 UTC
Bob Mottram
@nds wow. That's huge.
Unusual for Shuttleworth to favour the community over his personal ambitions. The phone thing was expected since that there were already rumors that UbuntuTouch was going to be dropped.
It sounds like Canonical are trying to become RedHat, and mainly focus on enterprise cloud stuff.
The Unity desktop had plenty of detractors and it definitely wasn't my favourite, but it worked for most average users whose needs were modest. The GNOME desktop is however quite similar to Unity. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 22:31:35 UTC
Bob Mottram
@nds Ubuntu is going back to Gnome?? -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 22:16:38 UTC
Bob Mottram
Find the others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrcPOvHW2xs -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 22:09:28 UTC
Bob Mottram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbQ8GTDWEz8 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 21:55:27 UTC
Bob Mottram
@sonya @trev I expect Freud would have something to say about that. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 21:45:35 UTC
Bob Mottram
@kitredgrave @mkosler gnusocialfamous
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 21:44:46 UTC
Bob Mottram
@johnhenry @sonya @jp a conjecture which I often come out with is that many of the problems of social networks, especially of the silos, are actually network topology issues in disguise. Get the physical topology right and I expect that a lot of the moderation issues and fighting which you see on sites like Twitter as groups with highly divergent world views are forced together will go away.
I think the last book which Pieter Hintjens wrote was called Social Architecture. While I don't think he had all the answers I do think we should take the architecture of social organisation seriously. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 21:26:23 UTC
Bob Mottram
@sonya @johnhenry @jp this is a much better article than the last one I read, and makes some good suggestions, but the silo thinking remains evident. "Your identity should not be coupled with the moderation policy of whichever platform you host your social graph on"
Yes it should. This solves the moderation problem which the author talks about. You go to the instance with which you have the greatest affinity. Affinity groups don't usually need to do much internal policing, and it's the extremely arbitrary use of moderation powers which is one of the major problems driving users to leave the silos.
On guarantees of continuation of service on the internet there have never been any such guarantees. In siloland, such as Facebook, you can have your account or group censored on a whim without explanation or any possibility of data recovery. No guarantees of continued service there either. They simply do not care about individual users or sometimes even sizeable groups. Ultimately the only services you can trust are those run by people with whom you have some degree of affinity. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 20:38:57 UTC
Bob Mottram
I doubt that there are any film makers among the latest influx of Twitter refugees. Just in case there are, someone should make a film out of this book. Goldman's autobiography is packed with drama of all kinds imaginable, from personal relationships to the inner workings of the Bolshevik revolution. https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/14132 -
Michael Edwards ✅ (pseudomichael@mastodon.network)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 20:02:34 UTC 
Michael Edwards ✅
@LanceUlanoff You're right. Yeah, Email never really took off due to it being decentralized and people having accounts on different servers. We should all just have let AOL own web pages and email in the 90s.
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 20:06:12 UTC
Bob Mottram
Wright's principle: security does not improve until practical tools for the exploration of the attack surface are made available -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 19:59:56 UTC
Bob Mottram
@stigatle I use a Kensington Orbit trackball and it's great. I liked it so much that I bought two of them and havn't used a mouse since.
https://www.kensington.com/us/us/4493/k72337us/orbit-trackball-with-scroll-ring -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 19:51:29 UTC
Bob Mottram
@sonya @junglestrike it all depends upon the admin. Sometimes people's lives and priorities change and they can no longer run a server. But the fediverse has been going for about a decade and so long as there are folks who want an independent presence on the internet it's likely to remain. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 19:41:19 UTC
Bob Mottram
@elex I'm not the original old school unix hacker generation (Stallman, ESR, etc) but I'm close to the Torvalds generation. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 19:27:56 UTC
Bob Mottram
@shpuld One area for improvement is that I don't think it's possible to set your avatar image, background image or profile description from the UI.
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