Notices by Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net), page 10
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-May-2018 15:25:24 UTC 
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 18:29:15 UTC
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The list of clients tested for #efail. It would have been better for EFF to have said this is the list of clients and if yours isn't green/white then turn off html rendering in the settings. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 07:29:22 UTC
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Noticing some people trying to use Stallman's old jokes as a reason to dismiss Free Software or claim that only sexists support it. They do something similar occasionally with Torvalds. Neither of these personalities are beyond criticism, so it's an easy lever to yank on. They seem to overlook that proprietary software discriminates against people in very arbitrary ways and is exclusionary by nature. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 06-May-2018 16:19:07 UTC
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-May-2018 16:40:50 UTC
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Have been playing around with Firefox with the aim of finding out whether I can remove the telemetry entirely. The answer is not easily. It would be a more involved project.
Firefox sends telemetry to 52.88.27.118 unencrypted so that third parties will also be able to see what's going on. Since this is opt out it must be a major data exfiltration route.
I've blocked that IP address within #freedombone just to be on the safe side, although it's not expected that anyone will have Firefox installed on a server. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 04-May-2018 11:33:13 UTC
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As I understand it Microsoft is now shipping a Linux kernel which they'll be maintaining themselves. I don't think this is really much to worry about, especially if it's a server only thing. Desktop is where their monopoly is, and where they could do more damage if they embraced Linux, then extended and extinguished.
Really this is just Microsoft being dragged backwards by the shirt collar into the 21st century. Probably they don't like Linux much and the GPL even less (Gates said as much on various occasions). But the contemporary reality on servers is either embrace Linux (the kernel, at a minimum) or just be irrelevant. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 29-Apr-2018 10:28:57 UTC
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 23-Apr-2018 12:44:40 UTC
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Onion based federation is now working with #pleroma on #freedombone. This means that it's now possible to follow users on "onion only" installs.
This type of federation is quite significant, because it means independence from the DNS and CA systems. It means that even if you don't control your local internet router or don't have money to spend on domain names you can still create a social network. It significantly reduces the complexity barrier to entry for running a home server. -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 16:27:37 UTC
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It's now possible to create #freedombone images which can run from an external SSD drive. This can improve the read/write performance a lot.
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 19-Apr-2018 20:48:31 UTC
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Mar-2018 15:00:11 UTC
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"This new world of work stands in contrast to the jobs of UK university staff. When I started my job nine years ago, only a few of my colleagues were in our trade union, because most saw little need for it. It is hard to imagine our jobs being offshored due to a planetary labour market (not yet, at least, although attempts are underway). Most of us felt that we were on good terms with our employer, and that we were able to periodically negotiate for better working conditions. The situation was not unlike that of many other white collar jobs, where workers ask themselves what use a trade union could serve.
But, in the higher education sector, the severe cuts to our pensions, the increased corporatisation, and high levels of precarity for junior academics have changed all of that." -
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2018 11:00:22 UTC
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