Notices by Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2019 10:28:58 UTC 
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2019 22:34:07 UTC
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2019 19:26:38 UTC
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PINE64 Hardware for 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9NPTE2xEL8 -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2019 10:20:49 UTC
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2019 09:59:51 UTC
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"The people suffer. With the childlike faith, with the good humour of the masses who believe in their leaders, they think that 'yonder,' in the House, in the Town Hall, in the Committee of Public Safety, their welfare is being considered. But 'yonder' they are discussing everything under the sun except the welfare of the people."
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2019 19:56:04 UTC
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Fuck Donald Trump -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2019 18:59:59 UTC
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Even though this is written by Samsung it's not bad.
https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/ethical-web-principles
In particular:
* We will prioritise potential benefits for users over potential benefits to web developers
* build web technologies and platforms that respect individuals' rights and provide features to empower them against dangers like [doxing, harassment, etc]
* We must make our websites accessible for people with disabilities
* We must build for users on low bandwidth networks and low specification equipment
* This principle must be balanced with respect for other human rights, and does not imply that individual services on the web must therefore support all speech. (For example: hate speech, harassment or abuse may reasonably be denied a platform).
* We will create web technologies and platforms that can't manipulate our users, complicate isolation or encourage addictive behaviors
* We will consider power consumption when we introduce new technologies to the web -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2019 16:20:53 UTC
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The changing face of FOSS project hosting https://blog.freedombone.net/the-changing-face-of-foss-project-hosting -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2019 12:38:24 UTC
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Unite!
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2019 10:56:57 UTC
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@Gina I recently added community networks to Freedombone. The large ones are Guifinet in Spain and Freifunk in Germany. I don't have any experience of using them, but being able to set up networks like those would be a good way for the internet to go, because they're neither controlled by the government nor by large companies. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 09:06:18 UTC
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The Middle Class Is A Lie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yhsgv-vu8E -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2019 08:38:28 UTC
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Keyboards with programmable E-ink caps? It looks fun, although I'm not likely to use one myself. I'll stick with mechanical springs. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2019 07:32:24 UTC
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I'm seeing this Firefox thing happening in Tor browser. Someone at Mozilla has fucked up bigtime and is exposing a lot of users to security problems. The fact that this is so centralized is also an architectural weakness. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2019 14:00:27 UTC
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@Gargron This organization sounds super-shady. What's your involvement with it? -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2019 07:47:15 UTC
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I don't think Google having an AI ethics board will actually solve anything. No matter how many times they rejuggle the members. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2019 20:42:24 UTC
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Lesson learned: Don't try to get clever and format the microSD card as shared storage. I just lost a bunch of apps by doing that. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2019 13:12:41 UTC
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VMware suit concludes with voluntary compliance https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/apr/02/vmware-no-appeal -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2019 22:13:42 UTC
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"Facebook is asking some new users to provide the password to their email account...The social network also appears to be accessing these users' contacts without asking for permission."
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2019 21:08:00 UTC
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2019 22:37:53 UTC
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There's a narrative about conventional corporations being driven by a legal mandate to maximize shareholder returns. In general this narrative is true.
However, in the specific case of "Big Tech" it appears not to be. The founders of the respective megacorps all appear to have majority voting rights in accordance with their stock ownership.
The upshot of all this is that the decisions of "Big Tech" aren't really coming from some unknown hazily-defined share holders in "The Market" [does obligatory hand-wave]. They're coming primarily from the personal preferences of the founders. So they can't claim that the share holders made them do things against their better judgement. It's on them, personally.
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