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Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2019 20:06:48 JST Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
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Perhaps the most successful GNU/Linux phone so far: the Nokia N900 (2009)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eux9IcB2lfg
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Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2019 03:06:09 JST Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
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Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2019 04:28:40 JST Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
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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.

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Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 10-Aug-2018 06:14:40 JST Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅

The web is 25+ years old, but I think its golden era will be in the future. The giant silo systems we have now I expect will turn out to be early failures at producing a habitable information space for the majority of the populace.

In R&D there's a saying: "expect to throw one away". That is, your first prototype will work badly, but hopefully you learn from it and the next iteration is better.

In the future I expect a more mixed network space containing decentralized and distributed systems. Facebook will become like MySpace is now, still in existence but a sideshow.

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Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jul-2018 18:11:26 JST Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅

Well maybe if Brexit goes badly. But if there's no deal in March they'll just extend the deadline and extend the deadline and extend the deadline, until nobody cares anymore and they can just declare the whole thing void. The whitepaper and departure of some stuffed shirts from the Temple of May is an indicator that they're looking for a deal which is like the status quo but with Brexit branding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsi5xXOEmB0
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Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Jun-2018 00:53:17 JST Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅

Some ideas for FSF campaigns:

Try to persuade more people uploading to YouTube to select a CC license rather than the YouTube Standard license. This will more easily allow non-Youtube sites to copy and host the same content without legal problems.

General promotion of PeerTube.

Promote the fediverse as an alternative to Twitter/Facebook

At events or talks give a fediverse address in preference to a Twitter URL.

Maybe consider moving Savannah to Gitea, or running Gitea in addition.

Advocate for free software projects to not be hosted on Github.

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Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 06:33:55 JST Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅

(sigh)

Ok, so unless Bloomberg are now in the fake news business it's official. Microsoft is buying Github.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github

There is no way that any code I wrote will fall under the dominion of Microsoft.

Therefore in the coming week I'll be moving out of Github. Initially I'll just self-host on Gogs, but I'll also be looking for a secondary host as backup for cases where my own server is down or doesn't have enough bandwidth.

I'm sure that this will be rough for a lot of projects. Many things currently point to Github. Some will side with Microsoft, believing that they are allies of FOSS or just favoring convenience over disruption. When Microsoft is involved this is always a mistake.
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1. Buying GitHub Would Take Microsoft Back to Its Roots
  
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  For Microsoft Corp., acquiring GitHub Inc. would be both a return to the company’s earliest roots and a sharp turnaround from where it was a decade ago.
Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 20:04:28 JST Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅

When mathematicians do graffiti

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Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 19-May-2018 16:58:26 JST Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
@kaniini @dansup @mmn @Gargron I'd just like to interject. It was Qvitter which started the wave of expansion of the fediverse. In the Twitter exodus of Feb 2016 people searched for a Twitter alternative and found Qvitter and the few Quitter sites. For a while my timeline was going crazy and it was at that point I realized that some kind of filtering was needed. Sites like shitposter.club started at that time. About a year later something similar happened with Mastodon.

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