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Notices by Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)

  1. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2019 11:23:49 CEST Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    Some thoughts on this:

    - Make sure that RAM, wifi card, battery and HDD/SSD are all replaceable, not soldered to the board.

    - Try to get a common model so that spares will be available for a while

    - Also you might pre-emptively buy spares for the things which usually fail. Especially battery.

    - Preferably run Free Software and do as much computing as possible locally on it. Avoid SaaS whose system requirements will increase over time.


    I refurbished a netbook the other day, so it is possible to still run decade old technology and for it still to be useful. The netbook runs faster and takes less RAM today than originally when it was new, due to the software advances in Linux and window managers.
    In conversation Thursday, 30-May-2019 11:23:49 CEST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  2. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2019 09:50:32 CEST Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    • Aral Balkan
    I notice @aral pointing out more unethical ethics conferences. I think the sad reality is that many of those conferences are places for Facebook and people like Peter Thiel to ethicswash their agendas. This works especially well if they can get selfies alongside speakers who have genuinely done good work.
    In conversation Monday, 27-May-2019 09:50:32 CEST from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  3. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2019 19:06:09 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅

    homeserver.jpg
    In conversation Thursday, 28-Mar-2019 19:06:09 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink

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  4. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2019 07:27:22 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    in reply to
    • Don't IRC my wife
    @radicalrobit This is a mistake from the 1990s. Nobody actually needs "rich interactivity" in their emails. Such stuff is really just a guise to get malware onto your system and do more spying/advertising via off-site links.
    In conversation Wednesday, 27-Mar-2019 07:27:22 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  5. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2019 11:16:36 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅

    tm_way_out.jpg
    In conversation Monday, 25-Mar-2019 11:16:36 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink

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    1. https://6-28.mastodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/005/930/728/original/744c5ffc1659cc7c.jpeg
  6. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2019 20:28:40 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    This might be a piece of news I missed, because I havn't been a Gmail user for a long time.

    It looks like Google is now claiming that Thunderbird is an "insecure app" and turning off IMAP support - with predictably dire consequences for non-techy Gmail users who use Thunderbird as a client.

    So it seems that Google is doing similar monopolistic lock-in stuff that Microsoft pioneered. Thunderbird of course doesn't display ads and so this is why Google want Gmail users using the web interface or some official Google email client which does show the ads.
    In conversation Wednesday, 20-Mar-2019 20:28:40 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  7. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 23:40:55 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    • Aral Balkan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy9gNOnoR8M

    There's an obvious parallel with the leftist idea of ownership of the means of production. What is the means of production in the digital era? Its the computers, the networks, the devices and the software that runs on them.

    Also @aral makes a good point about changing the success criteria. Success in a decentralized system means something different from success in the Silicon Valley startup frame.
    In conversation Monday, 18-Mar-2019 23:40:55 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink

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    1. Dijital haklar aktivisti Aral Balkan: Teknoloji şirketleri, insanoğlunun varlığını tehdit ediyor
      By euronews (Türkçe) from YouTube
  8. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Feb-2019 14:33:13 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅

    monsters.jpg
    In conversation Sunday, 24-Feb-2019 14:33:13 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink

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  9. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 08-Feb-2019 23:14:16 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅

    shutdown_google.jpg
    In conversation Friday, 08-Feb-2019 23:14:16 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink

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  10. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 13:16:26 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    The trouble with CloudFlare https://write.lain.haus/thufie/dont-trust-cloudflare
    In conversation Thursday, 07-Feb-2019 13:16:26 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink

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    1. Don't Trust CloudFlare
      from thufie
      Whether on matrix, the fediverse, or wherever else you know me, you've probably seen me ranting about CloudFlare for one reason or anothe...
  11. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Feb-2019 10:09:00 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    Degoogling https://defn.io/2019/02/04/bye-bye-google
    In conversation Monday, 04-Feb-2019 10:09:00 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink

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    1. No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.
      Bye, Bye, Google
      I spent this past weekend de-Google-ifying my life and, despite my expectations, it wasn’t too hard to do. I started by moving all of my websites off of Google App Engine and onto a dedicated box that I had already owned. That was straightforward enough. Next, I removed any Google Analytics snippets from each of them and replaced those with my own analytics server that I had built a while back (it doesn’t store any PII, only aggregate information (and very little of that, too)).
  12. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jan-2019 16:45:39 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    The growing normalization of surveillance by tech companies. Even five years ago being able to do this would have been regarded as a scandal comparable to Snowden. Google dredging payments data out of Gmail, knowing where you live, what places you've visited, etc.

    https://kanoki.org/2019/01/20/thank-you-google-for-sharing-my-data
    In conversation Saturday, 26-Jan-2019 16:45:39 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  13. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 12:21:21 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    in reply to
    • Aral Balkan
    • Tlacaelel (thenameless) 7.7
    @aral @Tlacaelel Right. And maybe I should also make this clearer in the documentation. Freedombone is designed for a threat model where the server is located at your place of residence. If it's run within a data center then this could be quite risky, and isn't recommended.
    In conversation Monday, 21-Jan-2019 12:21:21 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  14. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 15:05:53 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    in reply to
    • Aral Balkan
    • Tlacaelel (thenameless) 7.7
    @aral @Tlacaelel Unless the server itself is decentralized and something you can control.
    In conversation Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 15:05:53 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  15. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jan-2019 11:15:16 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    • Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    Scaling Layer 2 Mesh Protocols 1000 nodes and beyond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE8uE-0tMuM
    In conversation Wednesday, 16-Jan-2019 11:15:16 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink

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    1. Scaling Layer 2 Mesh Protocols 1000 nodes and beyond
      By Adjy Leak from YouTube
  16. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jan-2019 17:16:36 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    in reply to
    • Aral Balkan
    • Mathieu [bochecha]
    • Chris
    • Neon Cipher
    @aral @mathieu @neoncipher @brainblasted One of the many tasks to be done is to shift the Overton window around the big tech companies and their domination of conferences. So I think some folks need to be attending these and then to give talks in which they publicly criticize the sponsors and bring into question whether their presence is desirable, even if they don't get invited back. Especially the influence of the tech companies on paid for advisory boards should be examined and shouldn't be opaque as it currently is.
    In conversation Thursday, 10-Jan-2019 17:16:36 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  17. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 07:41:52 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    It turns out that there are many companies doing things similar to Cambridge Analytica https://datapolitics.transparencytoolkit.org
    In conversation Wednesday, 09-Jan-2019 07:41:52 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink

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  18. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jan-2019 10:32:14 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    in reply to
    • Aral Balkan
    • Björn Schießle ? ??
    @aral @bjoern As far as I remember Facebook was originally created so that Zuck could stalk his college contemporaries in a voyeuristic manner. So it originates from a place of creepyness.
    In conversation Thursday, 03-Jan-2019 10:32:14 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  19. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jan-2019 12:31:58 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    in reply to
    • Aral Balkan
    @aral

    1. Fund entities whose sole purpose is profit
    2. Claim you're doing "Tech for Good"
    3. Implement dark patterns
    4. Insert ads and trackers
    5. "Innovate" the algorithmic timeline
    6. Make public statements about privacy, then implement detailed telemetry system because you need to know all about user behavior
    7. Set headquarters to be a shell company in a tax haven
    8. Claim that diversity is important, but only recruit men with CS degrees from ivy league universities
    9. Burn out of VC cash
    10. Issue ICO
    11. Be bought by Google or Facebook
    12. Retire to a gated community
    In conversation Wednesday, 02-Jan-2019 12:31:58 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink
  20. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2018 12:08:45 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
    Police doing facial scanning of Christmas shoppers from an unmarked van in Leicester square, London. The thing on the tripod is probably a radio antenna and the front black sensor looks like a depth camera with pattern projectors.

    I notice the van is jacked up, and I expect that's because if you have the engine running that would otherwise start oscillations in the scan which might make it hard to obtain small 3D structure of faces.
    facial_scanner.jpg
    facial_scanner2.jpg
    In conversation Tuesday, 18-Dec-2018 12:08:45 CET from soc.freedombone.net permalink
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    Free Software hacker and maintainer of the Freedombone project. He/Him. Email/XMPP: bob@freedombone.net XMPP only works with OMEMO. Freedombone *official* account: https://soc.freedombone.net/freedombone Matrix: @bob:matrix.freedombone.net Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/freedombone

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