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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2019 13:49:18 CEST 
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@iMartyn @dtluna Also in their terms:
"Without limitation, you may not transfer the Software or Service without U.S. government permission to anyone on U.S. government exclusion lists"
And at that point the cypherpunks would just drop the mic and walk off stage. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2019 12:38:54 CEST
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Mastodon + Keybase. Can we not reproduce the antipatterns of centralization around particular sites? Keybase is hardly decentralized, and you don't need it to do encrypted chat. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 19:09:01 CEST
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@Wewereseeds I've seen a lot of guillotine iconography in the last few years and I think I understand where that comes from but it's not something I like. For me it's too reminiscent of ISIS. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2019 12:07:16 CEST
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2019 13:49:45 CEST
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Blocked the cloudflare fediverse account -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2019 15:47:18 CEST
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Even in Russia I doubt that they will be able to entirely shut off the internet from outside influences. Community networks are usually not entirely wireless. You can just run cable from one place to another without a government official being involved, and Russia is big with a lot of border length.
I, for one, do not embrace the newfound love of government regulating everything internetted. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2019 21:56:24 CEST
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If anyone is being inconvenienced by the current matrix.org outage then this may be a good time to look for other homeservers to migrate to or to set one up yourself. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2019 20:29:58 CEST
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The true cost of capitalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDM8mIKvlQ -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2019 13:09:21 CEST
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"Fighting digital colonialism is important not only from the perspective of privacy and individual user rights. At a time where the global divide is threatening the environment and with it, our very survival, we cannot afford to further concentrate wealth and power. We must ensure that technology will serve the world's people, not the interests of the one percent." -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2019 23:42:53 CEST
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Official EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content
https://blog.archive.org/2019/04/10/official-eu-agencies-falsely-report-more-than-550-archive-org-urls-as-terrorist-content -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2019 11:24:45 CEST
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If you think cybersecurity is not very important then that says a lot about who you are and what kind of advantages you have.
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/cyberinsecurity.pdf -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2019 16:49:18 CEST
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On the insidious role of surveillance capitalism I think most, but not all, evils flow from the simple fact that the end user is not the customer.
There were of course plenty of preceding evils. During the Microsoft era the user was the customer but there were still plenty of problems with the industry - especially its close relationship with the military and spy agencies, and generally monopolistic practices. The US has managed to maintain a sort of hegemony over digital technologies since the 1960s. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2019 15:38:51 CEST
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The planned "online harms" regulation in the UK could be another SESTA. With companies being legally liable for vaguely defined "online harms" this could mean that they block all but the most twee content. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2019 08:21:44 CEST
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@anna I've been living it since 2006. It's been a long year. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2019 22:03:57 CEST
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Watching a review of 19.04 and I notice they still have the initial online accounts setup. For this I'd like to see the Google and Microsoft options replaced by systems which are genuinely FOSS. So they could have options for fediverse, matrix and xmpp. Maybe there could be some kind of pixelfed integration for publishing photos.
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Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2019 15:05:43 CEST
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@mxsiege Yes it's about being your own cop.
Hiring inspectors or cops is expensive and they know they can't hire enough for effective enforcement especially with austerity and all that. Therefore you're supposed to interiorise your inner cop and be in fear that anyone you see could be secret police. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2019 14:58:53 CEST
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Interiorise your clienthood, citizen! -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2019 11:10:38 CEST
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Cringing at the idea that having the government decide what appears on the internet will be some improvement over Facebook and Google doing that.
I don't think it will and you can already see with things such as Article 13 in the EU that this isn't going to work very well.
Neither the government nor the Zuckmeister will defend the interests of the average internet user. They'll defend their own narrow class interests. They both have interests in maintaining their own wealth at the expense of the rest of the population. Government dark patterns won't be better than Facebook ones.
What government can perhaps do is break up the monopolies. Some people then say, but how will Facebook remain viable since its profits depend on massive scaling? I don't want Facebook to remain viable. It shouldn't remain viable.
One idea which is intermediary between what we have now and full p2p or self-hosting would be to run data centers in the public interest on a non-profit basis. Everyone gets their own VPS and can run whatever federated system they want on it. Nobody owns the overall system. This would be less than ideal but better than what exists now. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2019 16:04:25 CEST
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@maiyannah Whoever is doing this #Eunomia stuff, please desist at once. We should not be having dossiers compiled on fediverse "influencers" (whoever they are) and sold to quasi-military organizations. -
Bob Mottram π§ β β (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2019 16:00:27 CEST
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@Gargron This organization sounds super-shady. What's your involvement with it?
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